We catch up with Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei to talk about Plug & Play, their unashamedly surrealist interactive animation, nominated for a Nuovo award in this year's IGF. ...
QA experts from Blizzard, Riot, Microsoft, Sony and more share lessons learned and offer advice on doing QA on everything from eSports to Early Access games at GDC 2014. ...
A big reason you go to GDC is to meet people, but how do you actually meet people? Past attendee Stephen Froeber shares the tips he's gleaned. ...
A whirlwind tour of Git boiled down into useful lessons. "And through this trial by fire of learning the lessons, I feel comfortable enough to start using Git as a source control for my future projects." ...
"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. ...