"A developer you have to keep going deeper, examining and analyzing... The sum of all this over time can result in experiencing a certain level of uneasiness, scary thoughts, nightmares, etc." ...

Thatgamecompany's Sunni Pavlovic has a truckload of experience finding and retaining top game dev talent, and she's coming to GDC 2015 to explain how she does it -- and how you can do it too. ...

The perennially popular Experimental Gameplay Workshop returns to GDC in 2015, and the event's organizers have issued a call for submissions of new "experimental" video game prototypes. ...

The perennially popular Experimental Gameplay Workshop returns to GDC in 2015, and the event's organizers have issued a call for submissions of new "experimental" video games and prototypes. ...

It's too dangerous to not test your game with players. "Being stuck back in the denial stages of believing self-testing is possible means pushing out work that is ready to blow up or be dead-on-arrival." ...

A quick and simple guide. "I'm no expert on the subject, but I hope this helps someone or puts him on track on what to do to keep yourself and your team sane enough when managing it." ...

"Giving the designers the ability to iterate on AI behavior by themselves allowed for updates to be made on an order of magnitude faster than our previous system." ...

"Here's how I went about implementing a deterministic replay solution in Unity version 4.2 and 4.3, requiring only recording and replaying the player's inputs." ...

When the schedule is shot and a game needs to ship, programmers may employ some dirty coding tricks to get it out the door. This classic Game Developer feature reveals nine real-life examples. ...

On a CAD$45,000 ask, they got $178,986. "If you're reading this hoping to understand our strategy, here it is: we tried to convince our fans it was worth their time and energy to tell their friends, family, and the world." ...