"Movies, books, and other narrative artworks have a well-established critical lexicon. But what are the ways a game can manifest aesthetic flaws, and how does this relate to classical art forms?" ...
"It is a game about cooperatively building crazy Swedish modular furniture without instructions. It has been played over 20,000 times. In a week, its trailer has been viewed over 100,000 times on YouTube." ...
"Playing translated games, and translating them, also gave me some insight on the issues that arise when we try to adapt games to other languages. How about we start with the most common problem?" ...
The Indie MEGABOOTH Showcase is coming to GDC 2015 with a lineup of 15 interesting indie games that all conference attendees can play, including Extreme Exorcism and That Dragon, Cancer. ...
"The heartbeat of Sunless Sea is departure from, and return to, Fallen London -- a sunken city at the edge of an underground ocean. I wanted to encourage an emotional response in the player around their return home." ...
A group of award-winning students launched an indie studio and built the successful Octodad: Dadliest Catch -- and here's the story of how they did it, with work process and stats revealed. ...
"Games make us all fascists and communists; anarchists and tycoons; kleptocrats and ascetics, so we better hope that games are not as powerful as we once dreamed they might be." ...
A very quick tutorial on getting your Unity project set up so that it has the right view for creating traditional 2D, side-view games (such as platformers). ...
A look back at Global Game Jam from a practical perspective: "We certainly encountered all of these problems, but in an incredibly short space of time," the author writes, offering "what I wish we had known beforehand." ...
Want to create eye-catching sprites for your 2D game? In this classic feature, two talented animators who've worked on some remarkably vibrant 2D games offer five tips for stepping up your sprites. ...