"Being both the composer and game developer helped a lot. Music wasn't an afterthought; I was able to take it into account from the very beginning of development." ...

How Blue Brain Games is building game mechanics around da Vinci's most iconcic inventions. "We wanted the puzzles to be connected and for the player to work his way systematically through the house." ...

Steve Cooke just wrapped up his 1000 Game Makers Thread project, linking to the work of a thousand indie devs that caught his fancy. We got reactions from over 40 creators whose work was singled out. ...

This week's longform article/video highlights include the complex history of Cuphead, Billy Mitchell ten years on from King Of Kong, and behind the scenes on the making of Thumper. ...

Freelance game dev Kevan Davis has published Wikipedia: The Text Adventure, a browser-based game that pulls assets directly from Wikipedia and presents them to the player in the guise of vintage IF. ...

It's every dev's nightmare scenario: What if another studio is working on the same concept I am? We examine a (near-miss) example of how different teams can come up with very similar ideas. ...

Caveblazers mixes up the procgen platformer style of games like Spelunky by adding intelligent AI behaviors to enemies, and to NPCs that can become potential allies. ...

How StudioMDHR created Cuphead's hand-drawn animation, and how that art style ultimately impacted the rest of the game's development. ...

Glixel spoke with a number of developers and publishers that still bring games to Sony's neglected handheld, seeking to explore how the Vita has become a haven for indie games. ...

"Monolith contains thousands of room layouts, of which you will see about 100 or so in a given run," says Taylor Miller, lead programmer for the game. ...