"Adding a new member to a team can result in conflict. Changing the group dynamic so dramatically, and without the team's input, conflicts with Agile development's tenets of personal choice and team autonomy." ...
Organizers have tallied over 1,000 entries submitted to the 17th annual Independent Games Festival, with entrant records now broken across the board and Student Competition entries now available for everyone to view. ...
Tickets for the second annual Train Jam, which will once again take place across 52 hours on a train from Chicago to San Francisco in advance of GDC 2015, are expected to go on sale today. ...
"Once the gameplay became looser, the level of tuning required to make the game feel good changed, and it diluted the fundamental requirements for making jump and shoot gameplay as pristine as possible." ...
"Almost all game developers have less time, less money, less people than they need to complete what they want to achieve. They have to be smart about how the do things." ...
"The Unity Camera class has a culling mask such that each camera can be set to only display a subset of the available layers. However, I wanted to be able to change the visible layers during runtime in response to a player's actions." ...
"I have tried to compile a number of lessons here, from both the perspective of a long time viewer of development videos/streams and that of a new game development streamer." ...
"Sometimes, members who leave will have an important perspective on your project. Even if it hurts to hear that criticism, it will make your team stronger in the end." ...
"Every active player (and many a past player returning) was compelled to pledge. Not because they wanted to support the game, but because the rewards were irresistible for a player." ...
"Whichever way an artist chooses she/he will have to ask themselves a question: 'How do I make the eyes look good from the side?'" ...