At GDC 2017 The Molasses Flood's Gwen Frey, sole animator on The Flame in The Flood, discusses how to rapidly generate triple-A quadruped locomotion as an indie dev. ...
Today we'll be welcoming Bloober's Rafal Basaj onto the Gamasutra Twitch channel at 3 PM Eastern (12 PM Pacific) to chat a bit about the game's development as we play through it. ...
Which games offer a masterclass in how to design a well-shaped learning curve? Corey Davis of Psyonix, Chris Bourassa of Red Hook, and Global Game Jame co-founder Ian Schreiber weigh in. ...
The Independent Games Festival -- the longest-running and largest showcase for independent developers -- welcomes nearly 600 entries for its 20th annual competition! ...
"It's never 'do we want to make a $20 game or a $60 game?' We always make the best game we can. But there's something magic about the twenty-dollar price tag." ...
"We measure personal failure personally," Finji CEO Rebekah Saltsman explained in a chat with fellow indie devs about failure. "Financial failure is completely divorced from our own self worth." ...
Toys for Bob cofounders Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III announced this week that they've begun working (in their personal time) on a sequel to the 1992 space adventure game Star Control II. ...
At GDC 2017, indie game designer Robin Arnott dug into the value of trance states, and offered fellow devs insight into how to induce such experiences by studying the many causes and types of trance. ...
I feel there's nothing new and challenging being made in Japan. I got the feeling that only games with strong existing IP and characters were being shown. ...
At GDC 2017, remote dev Jon Jones details what skills and disciplines are necessary to transition from a full-time office worker into someone that works from home, a coffee shop, or the road. ...