How do survival horror games like The Evil Within work on our brains? Neuroscientist M. Tajerian unpacks the mechanism behind the scares in Amnesia, Dead Space and Silent Hill in this classic feature. ...
"We could have relied on traditional, text-based tutorials, but most players would have just ignored them to then have a hard time playing the game like it's supposed to be played." ...
GDC Next 2014 featuring ADC descends upon the Los Angeles Convention Center next Monday. Here's what you need to know about where to go and what to see while you're there. ...
"When the player walks off the side, they're teleported to a corresponding point on the adjacent side and rotated ninety degrees. The result is suitably disorienting: walk long enough in a straight line and you'll make figure-eights." ...
Last year, developer Dan Marshall cancelled The Swindle, a game he had been working on for two years. Now the dev has resurrected the game with a new direction -- and it's all thanks to Spelunky. ...
I reckon the team behind Screencheat must have been dirty rotten cheaters in the days of local multiplayer. Originally dreamt up during the Global Game Jam earlier this year, Screencheat is an experience entirely centered around looking at what everyone else is doing. ...
"Greenlight could have worked but it's missing one important feature: a recommendation system based on the recent activity of a user on Steam." ...
"If you take a critical eye to modern games and see what they've done well and what they haven't, you can apply these to your own games. With a bit of thought and some testing, you can make your game a much nicer experience for everyone." ...
The Academy Interactive Arts & Sciences has opened the submission process for its annual D.I.C.E. Summit awards ceremony, and adds two new categories designed to recognize innovation. ...
Adam Telfer is a product lead at Wooga who had failed on at least seven projects when he spoke at GDC Europe 2014 earlier this year about Wooga's "hit filter" approach to game design and killing your darlings. ...