At GDC 2017 Transformice co-creator Melanie Christin walks attendees through the 6-year journey of scaling an indie game prototype (done in 3 weeks) into a 70M-player MMO game. ...
Nintendo consoles haven't always been the most indie-friendly platforms on the market, but the company is hard at work to make the Nintendo Switch a strong home for indie games and developers alike. ...
"The writing kept me floating from one section of the station to the next. If Fullbright excels at anything, it's at setting. Mood, character, expression, tricks of the light, are all there in spades." ...
The team behind the now Switch-bound game Owlboy explains how they used art and animation to express character and theme in the game. ...
This week's highlights include the story depths of Subsurface Circular, teaching players in Kingdoms & Castles, and the motivations behind Destiny 2's creation. ...
Acid Wizard Studio would rather see players pick its survival-horror game Darkwood up for free than see them support key resellers. ...
"You can't wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club," said Wright, reciting a famous quote from author Jack London in his lost to the Internet (until now!) 2001 GDC design keynote. ...
This "Cosmopolitan Planar Fantasy Roleplaying Game" focuses on how a city with hidden doorways to every imaginable universe would produce a variety of cultures, ideologies, religions, and attitudes. ...
What the developers of Way of the Passive Fist learned from collaborating with Clint "Halfcoordinated" Lexa, a speedrunner who plays many games one-handed, helped to ensure maximum accessibility. ...
"Finally the healing came out of you reaching in and holding Quill," Moss dev Chris Alderson tells Develop. "You could do it in the middle of combat and it just felt right." ...