How do you take a game that "played super-nice already in its prototype form" to execution? This post outlines one developer's journey there. ...

A rocky launch, with a good chance it might not hit the goal. What went wrong? Tristan Moore offers a candid, thoughtful postmortem of a Kickstarter in progress. ...

Veteran triple-A producer Harvard Bonin (God of War: Ascension) shares insights into scrum methodologies from the real world: Their advantages and their drawbacks. ...

Subscribers can now download the new version from GitHub, including both the stable build and "bleeding edge," untested new code. ...

"There are a lot of resources online that talk about game concepts and game design documents. So instead of retreading used ground, I wrote a game concept for us to examine together." ...

What are the tastes, backgrounds and experience of some of the biggest decision-makers at major console companies? Developer and senior contributor Brandon Sheffield talks to ID@Xbox's Chris Charla. ...

Josh Larson exhorted fellow developers to think of games as a form of communication between themselves and their players in a talk given today at the 12th annual Games for Change festival. ...

Rob Jagnow writes on how scientist Jane Van Susteren became a character in Extrasolar: "her transition from biology consultant to in-game character wasn't the intent from the start." ...

Mike Bithell (Thomas Was Alone) describes how he's emulated the smart input optimization you see in triple-A games in his upcoming Volume -- in a quick and simple way. ...

"Hex Heroes didn't take off on Kickstarter as we anticipated. This campaign was in the works for over four months. Why wasn't Hex Heroes funded in its first three weeks?" ...