At GDC 2016's Level Design Workshop, trained architect and game maker Claire Hosking gave a great talk about how architectural design principles can help level designers achieve their goals. ...

We developed 20XX over the course of 4 years, most of which ended up being public via Early Access. We talk about the game's timeline, lessons learned, and how competition affected our development. ...

The team behind last year's episodic hit-'em-up Hitman have confirmed they've cut a deal with Fox 21 and Hulu to produce a television series based on the game. ...

The AbleGamers Foundation is partnering up with Train Jam to help three game developers with disabilities attend both the mobile game jam event and, following the trip, GDC. ...

"I think the way to avoid ludo-narrative dissonance is to make it so that your story is your gameplay." ...

13 years ago, The Behemoth's classic run and gun title received its first commercial release.To honor this indie game milestone, we present this postmortem that ran in Game Developer magazine in 2005. ...

This weeks articles & videos of the week include how E.T. for Atari 2600 was reviewed on its release, a new Solitaire standout, a video on Hob's design, and multiple Mario / Odyssey pieces. ...

This new award is interesting because it prominently highlights how important the care and feeding of live games has become in contemporary game dev, especially for big-budget studios. ...

Gamasutra takes a look back on what this intensely personal game about a youthful online romance has to say about the bonds that we form with one another via technology. ...

At GDC 2018, Hinterland Games founder Raphael van Lierop will examine how it's possible to successfully marry a linear, authored narrative experience to an open-world sandbox. ...