This week's longform articles & videos of the week include the making of the Castlevania Netflix series, hardcore Pokemon Go players, and an in-depth Arms interview. ...

At GDC 2017, indie dev Adriaan de Jongh shares all the "evil data" he gathered in 6 years of playtesting 8 games and offers practical advice for playtesting your game effectively. ...

Nathalie Lawhead's indie title Everything is going to be OK explores dark, horrible life events through a lens of relentless optimism and humor, facing down soul-crushing horror with absurd cheer. ...

"Candy is completely engineered to entice you to pick it up," says Gigantic lead concept artist Vinod Rams in a recent livestreamed chat about the game's design, development, and alluring art style. ...

"Candy is completely engineered to entice you to pick it up," says Gigantic lead concept artist Vinod Rams in a recent livestreamed chat about the game's design, development, and alluring art style. ...

The organizers behind the Penny Arcade Expo's Seattle chapter have named the colorful cast of indie games set to be featured in this year's PAX 10 showcase. ...

"Any bug that's in my game, unless it's in the sound middleware, will be my mistake, where I've fucked up," Positech Games' Cliff Harris says in a new Eurogamer feature about why bugs happen, and how devs deal with them. ...

At GDC 2017 indie dev Jenn Sandercock breaks down how, just like a game jam theme, a set of constraints can help guide your overall career as an indie developer in the direction you want to go. ...

Heads up game devs: GDC 2018 officials have opened the Call for Papers, running until August 17th! ...

Game dev Jarred "Farbs" Woods has debuted DungeonScript, a new spin on open-source HTML 5 puzzle game engine PuzzleScript that's designed to let devs easily create first-person dungeon crawl games. ...