Game industry vets Anthony Palma and Cade Peterson chat with Gamasutra about Jump, their new indie game subscription service that aims to give passed-over games their time in the sun. ...

This week's longform game article/video highlights include GDC's Indie Summit Failure Workshop, an oral history of NBA Jam, and lots more. ...

Compulsion Games' Whitney Clayton speaks at GDC 2017 about research, world building, and production challenges on We Happy Few, a game set in a procedurally-generated '60 dystopian drug paradise. ...

"The basic sword is pretty boring - you just hack and slash. But then, the next iteration of that sword might be, if you've got less than fifty percent health, then it does critical hits at all times." ...

The studio that brought us premium AAA games like Spec Ops: The Line explains how they adapted to the different requirements and demands of free-to-play for their combat flight simulator Dreadnought. ...

Game developers Adriaan de Jongh, Michael Molinari and Tim Rogers run through the mistakes made and lessons learned from creating games that would eventually flop in some way. ...

"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. ...