We talk to Zach Barth about how making educational games has made him a better game designer, and why it's so hard to make educational games in the first place. ...

"Reports are indicating that the depiction of Deen in her game may be a potential copyright infringement. The caricature of Deen is a little too close to artist Jerrod Maruyama's drawing of her." ...

As part of the GDC 2015 Independent Games Summit, 80 Days writer Meg Jayanth spoke about how stories in games are uniquely able to engage, surprise, delight and discomfit players. ...

In this classic feature, PhD researcher and game designer Lucas Blair uses academic research to formulate tips and best practices for designing your in-game achievements. ...

"After I have become skilled enough, built a name for myself and the team, had built games that lots of people played and enjoyed -- then I'll be able to monetize." ...

"If you can represent something in that format, you can design and implement a game out of it. And if you can represent anything in that format, you can make a game out of anything." ...

From character modeling to dealing with deploying on multiple platforms, this exhaustive technical postmortem gives you a look at what it took to make Dadliest Catch. ...

"As long as the initial starting positions of all the parts were the same then the contraption should always run exactly the same. This is where the floating point problem came into play." ...

"The way to conceive and plan the design of a free-to-play game is quite different than for other game models. We'd like to offer the following tips on how to make your games attractive so you can monetize them." ...

"Whether you call them guidelines, pillars, objectives, or mantra, it is the long-term vision, the global idea of what you want to do with your project. You should keep it to the essential." ...