The acclaimed space game took its development team on a rough ride. This candid diary-style postmortem takes you from before its conception up through its completion and release. ...
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Johnny Kilhefner on topics ranging from the financial expectations of going indie to the critical reception of Battlefield Hardline. ...
In this classic feature, Gamasutra takes an in-depth look at racing game track design, comparing two arcade titles (Initial D and Maximum Tune) while contrasting them against the Gran Turismo series. ...
Square Enix has expanded its Collective development crowdfunding platform to mobile and digital games, and the company itself is now willing to directly fund some developers -- up to $250k. ...
"Servers are another tool in our tool-set; we can mount a server for big data storage and use external server for real-time. Let's explore the kind of servers you can choose nowadays." ...
The Independent Games Festival China - which takes place in October alongside GDC China in Shanghai - is accepting indie game entries from the pan-Pacific area from now through July 20th. ...
"There is a part of game feel that is amusing to work on, and that yields great results as soon as your core gameplay is rock solid. This is what, since the rise of casual gaming, we call game juice." ...
How to keep your community in the loop -- automatically. "It consists of four things: Public to-do list, automated progress tracker, nightly build server, and in-game crash logger + remote server listener." ...
From Street Fighter's fake character to Irem's fake console, Gamasutra looks back at classic April Fool's Day hoaxes in the game industry that made us laugh, groan, or simply shake our heads. ...
"We found that the old adage 'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand' is true for game tutorials too." ...