A mobile art how-to: "We created five frames of build-up animations for around 40 buildings -- we made them in a cheap way, taking a few days. It takes little budget, but the quality is not compromised." ...

The Independent Games Festival Student Competition took in over 350 student-developed games. Here are the eight that made the cut. ...

"Games are not only for fun," says Michal Drozdowski, design director of This War of Mine developer 11 Bit studio. "They're an immersive experience." ...

Insomniac takes us behind the scenes of Sunset Overdrive's character creator, a CounterSpy artist shares lessons learned at Pixar and a Ubisoft artist dives into interior design at GDC 2015. ...

Following Vic Davis' recently announced departure from making digital games, we catch up with him to talk about what lead to the decision, as well as looking back on over seven years of development. ...

Supergiant launched its atmospheric action game Transistor last year. Here, developer Amir Rao explains the inspiration and design of the game's deceptively simple Function ability system. ...

Young Horses' Kevin Geisler shares tongue-in-cheek "tips" for game developers about things you probably shouldn't do -- but that totally worked out during development of Octodad: Dadliest Catch. ...

L.A.-based indie studio Robotoki will cease operations and place all development on hiatus, according to studio founder Robert Bowling. ...

With just over a day left until early registration for GDC 2015 ends on January 21, conference organizers are encouraging anyone interested in attending to register now at the discounted rate. ...

GDC officials highlight a pair of great GDC 2015 talks from the developers of 80 Days and Kitty Powers' Matchmaker in advance of the deadline for discounted early registration for the show. ...