Game devs Chris Avellone, Obsidian's Carrie Patel, and Guerrilla's Dan Calvert chat with Gamasutra about how they and their teams write and design characters -- from start to finish. ...

The folks behind PAX 10 have revealed the 10 games set to be featured in the annual showcase at PAX West this fall. ...

In this chapter of "Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling" author Toiya Kristen Finley, Phd unpacks the narrative design process for games built for mobile devices. ...

This week's highlights include a rounded look at Octopath Traveler, the dev making a DOS game in 2018, and the evolution of the PlayStation 1-style demake as a genre. ...

Inkle Studios announces its first ever ink jam, a game jam running for games written using its open source scripting language ink. ...

"I don't want to be the tree that fell in the forest that nobody heard," the ex-id Software chief says in this chat about why, after years away from games, he's joined Texan indie Nerve Software. ...

In this GDC 2018 session, KO_OP's Saleem Dabbous discusses the reasons behind the structure of KO_OP, going over how the structure lays out a different vision for game development. ...

The nightmares of the '90s are alive in the work of devs like Toni Kortelahti (aka 98DEMAKE), who chats with Gamasutra about using historical techniques to make his PS1 demake game OK/NORMAL. ...

"Crunching in our company is actually something that all of the workers think that they need to do right now, because they want to have their work look better, you know?" ...

Speaking during an investor Q& A, Nintendo leadership explained why the company strives to create an indie-friendly environment, and how indies 'invigorate' the Nintendo Switch. ...