"I really want to encourage you to see that community management isn't another 'job', it's a function that connects to so many parts of a studio." ...

As part of the GDC 2014 Independent Games Summit, Badland co-creator Johannes Vuorinen shares what he learned developing, launching and maintaining an award-winning mobile game. ...

The Double Fine senior gameplay programmer and experienced public speaker explains her inspiration for pitching an indie-focused talk about dialog system design at GDC Europe 2014. ...

A new Polygon feature about Towerfall developer Matt Thorson sheds light on the game's origins and Thorson's unique development situation as a resident of the Canadian "Indie House." ...

"I wouldn't expect much from a female character that was added just for the sake of adding her... I want to see more games with female characters, but I want those characters to mean something more." ...

How establishing a good workflow and a few design tenets can result in quick execution of a game design -- and take a game jam idea to a finished game. ...

"Digital distribution was key in revitalizing the PC game industry and a major change in how we buy and sell video games. This post goes through the variety of digital store options." ...

UK indie studio Remode shut down earlier this year, but now the original founders have formed a new studio, with the aim to focus solely on developing its own IP. ...

Leigh Alexander visits The Chinese Room to see Everybody's Gone to the Rapture -- a uniquel melancholy and distinctly English apocalypse, created by a team with a refreshing attitude to sustainability. ...

Today, HEVGA launched -- run by top educators from schools such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, backed by the ESA, and with a mission of improving game education. ...