A group of indie developers have launched a new game dev forum, where they hope to encourage fellow creators to get feedback, share their work, and take part in "pageants," all in a harassment-free environment. ...
"A few weeks ago, four friends and I hopped in a van and drove off to Boston for our very first PAX East. Our 1000 mile journey was certainly one of experience, connections, and a whole lot of fun." ...
"An in-depth look at the Steam Greenlight process, from the a project that has been there since day one, had a successful Kickstarter, currently has almost a 90% approval rating, but hasn't yet been Greenlit." ...
Lessons learned: "The process of porting a game's controls over to a controller can be a fairly big task in itself, and doing so while retaining the speed and accuracy of a game like this was incredibly challenging." ...
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Lana Polansky on topics ranging from the abandoned cities of World of Warcraft to locating an Irish identity in games. ...
"I will first go through some of the main stages of a project developed using prototyping, followed by some pitfalls that you should avoid when moving into actual production." ...
A discussion of "two problems that can appear in fast-paced platform games: placing platforms and placing pick-ups," with "the solutions gave the best empirical results" explained. ...
"By aligning multiple devices next to each other, the playfield expands with the boundaries of each device as a way to add replayability to the game by encouraging people to experiment with different setups." ...
Wolfire Games' David Rosen shares tips and techniques for building procedural animation systems in order to more efficiently develop well-animated indie games during GDC 2014. ...
"It's our first game, not as a studio, but ever. We jumped into making a 3D mobile game without any experience, and our past selves would have benefitted greatly if we had known half of what we know today." ...