Like Darkest Dungeon, Torchbearer is a love-letter to the 1st Edition D& D dungeon crawl. But each goes a step further in emphasizing scarcity, and the grittier aspects of dungeon-delving. ...
Submit your talks for next year's GDC Game Narrative Summit, which addresses interactive narrative in all its forms, from AAA blockbusters to indie games to mobile/social projects. ...
"Using StarCraft as an emotional target, what we did is we took the genre, we boiled it down to its components, and we rebuilt it," dev Andy Schatz tells Gamasutra in a chat about Tooth & Tail. ...
At GDC 2016, writer and narrative designer Meg Jayanth (80 Days, Samsara) shares some best practices for writing three-dimensional, engaging NPCs that breathe life into your game narratives. ...
Now four years out from release, take a look back at this postmortem from Machine for Pigs co-designer Peter Howell to find out what went right and wrong when developing the Amnesia sequel. ...
"We've sold more copies of Wonder Boy on the Switch than the three other platforms we released it on combined." ...
This week's long form article/video highlights include the depths of the Secret World role-playing community, a unique new Final Fantasy-themed TV show, and lots more. ...
"It's all about the natural interaction with the slopes," saysChristian Whitehead. "You have a build-up of tension...then you have the release of the player running up high-speed slopes & loops." ...
At GDC 2017 Robert Zubek and Matthew Viglione tackled the question through the lens of their time running their own indie studio: Project Highrise and 1849 developer SomaSim. ...
There was grumbling from some quarters about the lack of big AAA game announcements AT Gamescom 2017. But there was more than enough on display from the independent developer community to make the show worthwhile. ...