"Idol Minds is looking for a highly motivated Interface Artist with traditional 2D illustration expertise and UI visual design experience."
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Cameron Kunzelman on topics including the "death" of Final Fantasy and solving problems the Nintendo way.
OMGPop, first acquired by Zynga in March 2012, was summarily closed back in June 2013. Now, Zynga has announced the closure of OMGPop.com, as well as the withdrawal of OMGPop's titles from Facebook.
The wait is over. Canadian developers can now start directly building projects with popular crowdfunding venue Kickstarter, with the first projects going live September 9th.
A new lawsuit from an Activision shareholder contends the company's recent buyback from Vivendi is designed to benefit only Activision's 11-person board of directors.
Longtime Epic Games dev-turned-indie Lee Perry argues that one reason we see so many ideas repeated from game to game is that communicating truly original ideas to a team is just too tough.
Last week marked our first themed week, and we covered something we feel is important to much of our readership: funding your video game using alternative means. Here are some highlights.
With only 7 days to build a realtime strategy game, Ferdinand Joseph Fernandez had to make some quick decisions. Here, he explores his methodology for programming an RTS in Unity.
Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts have been adjusting for an online world for years now. Here's how their efforts size up to one another.
Chinese mobile game publisher Yodo1 today revealed its full plans to expand its operations outside of China, with a publishing platform in place with which it will publish third-party mobile games on a global scale.
A step-by-step explanation of how Kerbal Space Program artist Artyom Zuev built the game's main environment -- covering modeling, textures, and integration with Unity.
San Francisco Rush, City of Heroes... with a background like that, Cameron Petty should have found it easy to ship his first indie game, right? Wrong. He tells his five-year tale.
We need to respect game characters as much as we respect collision detection, says game designer and academic Lee Sheldon in his book, Character Development And Storytelling For Games.
Gamasutra speaks to creative director Craig Hubbard and executive producer Larry Paolicelli about why now is the time to break from Monolith and go indie.
Following big success on mobile platforms, Czech Republic-based Shadowgun developer Madfinger has released a version of its latest game on Facebook.
Attorney Dan Rogers explains why EA lost its NCAA Football case -- and how that relates to previous cases of real, human likenesses in video games.
You can make a puzzle game with infinite levels -- if you make them in code. This blog post explains how Perfection.'s system works to create new, viable levels.
Ubisoft, EA, Activision and Take-Two are rooted in physical retail -- but they've all been working to capitalize on digital game sales. Here's how the big four are managing the digital shift.
Alyce Myatt, director for Media Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts, explains what she looks for in video game applicants, and why only one game received a grant in the last round.
Sony Online Entertainment pulled the veil back on the previously-announced MMO EverQuest Next, and also made a surprise game announcement.
Governmental agencies give grants for research or business innovation -- often for serious game projects which don't aim to entertain but instead to educate. Learn more about getting this money.
Last year's 7-Day FPS (7DFPS) game jam challenged developers to explore innovation in the tired old first-person shooter genre. Now the initiative is back...
Digital Capital's funding model offers project-based funding, with a concentration on digitally-distributed video games. Co-founder Todd Tribell explains.
The National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities offers funding to developers and scholars of interactive media. Is this funding right for you?
The Xbox Live Arcade charts are out, and July's game lineup was weak, Ryan Langley says. But did Xbox's PlayStation Plus-like free Games for Gold promotion have an effect on sales?
The Last of Us is a wonderful testament to the power of storytelling in games, but its highly...
Escape Goat was a critical and fan success on XBLIG. If it had made more money, I would be bringing...
A snark-free suggestion for dealing with spiraling AAA dev costs.
When we lament the existence of clones and "rip-offs" of other games, we sometimes miss the reason...
This week on TSP: a tool that transforms simple sketches into detailed world and level designs. The...
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The phone interview is your first and best chance to make a strong personal impression. Jason Bay explains how you should think of a phone interview as a movie trailer tailored for your career.
Game Developer magazine talks to Aditya Vijayakumar of Carnegie Mellon, who is one-fourth of the student design team behind the eye movement-controlled game Aquario.
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