"If I've learnt one thing from making this game, it's that people love picking up shiny things," Richard Boeser shares 10 things he and Roland IJzermans learned in making the award-winning ibb & obb.
In this personal blog post, Ted Brown talks about traveling to the IGDA's Captivate conference as his Steam Greenlight page unexpectedly went live -- and dealing with the fallout.
If there's a commandment for game development, it's this, argues Ben Serviss: Honor thy player's time. He offers suggestions on what to watch, and what to cut.
"I keep changing my mind about how to monetize my upcoming iOS game," writes Edward Brown. In this post, he explores his struggle to find a scheme that works for him.
If there's one thing players usually don't show in a combat-focused game, it's restraint. This post covers how Shuyan the Kung Fu Princess's design teaches them to.
Gamasutra's Mike Rose launches an experimental new video interview series where he talks to a developer while playing their game -- starting with the anticipated Nuclear Throne.
What started as a hashtag about late night office dinners for the team behind Xbox One game Ryse: Son of Rome soon snowballed into dozens of developers sounding off about development crunch.
The Belgian indie duo discusses inspiration, collaboration, and freedom -- letting creativity and collaboration rule game development while leaving behind the ties to the past.
In this reprint from the November 2011 issue of Game Developer magazine, Jesse Harlin speaks with voice directors from LucasArts and Telltale for some industry insights.
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics including status of GTA V as failed satire and the strange world of Salty Bet.
With GungHo and parent company Softbank acquiring a majority stake in mobile developer Supercell, Gamasutra reached out to Supercell to learn a bit more about the nature of the partnership.
'The shift to game-services is a complete rethink of what it means to make a game.' Ahead of GDC Next, GDC spoke with Signia Venture's Dan Fiden about the future of games.
Double Fine has announced that Spacebase DF-9, a sci-fi bilding roguelike, is heading into alpha release with the help of funding from some big names in the independent game development community.
Former Rovio and Supercell staffer Michail Katkoff analyses PopCap's latest big release, and argues that its design means that, as an F2P game, it won't make it into the Top Grossing charts.
New talks for the ADC in November will include Trulia's case study on a Google Glass real estate app, and Mirada special projects head Andrew Merkin on dissecting transmedia business models.
With two of its major upcoming titles -- Watch Dogs and The Crew -- pushed back to at least April 2014, Ubisoft announced today that it is adjusting its sales projections for the current fiscal year.
Gearing up for next year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, one organizer has come up with an inspired vision: Train Jam, a 52 hour game jam held aboard a moving train.
A Unity tool for analyzing and predicting player behavior patterns in stealth games? It exists, and the understanding it brings could change the way this genre is designed.
This video from Errant Signal breaks down the "keep your politics out of my games" mentality of some players in a well-organized, easy-to-digest manner, and is well worth watching.
Pokemon X & Y, the latest pair of releases in the popular Nintendo RPG series, have sold more than 4 million units since they launches worldwide last week.
Though UK software was trending toward a down year, the release of Grand Theft Auto V has breathed life back into it -- and there may, in fact, be growth in 2013.
The developers behind the lauded indie game talk about creative tension/collaboration, and standing out from the PAX noise and finding a receptive audience.
Mobile game giants Supercell and GungHo Online Entertainment teamed up earlier this year with large-scale cross-promotions in their games. GungGo parent Softbank has now purchased a 51 percent stake in Supercell.
Quantic Dream's latest game once again has a strong emphasis on storytelling, but experienced game designer Adrian Chmielarz argues how the game lacks what he calls "player-protagonist sync."
Chasing Aurora dev Broken Rules discusses the downsides of releasing a launch day indie game for the Wii U in this GDC Europe 2013 talk.
A brief glimpse into the stress, joy, disappointment, and glory that goes hand in hand with indie...
Gamasutra editor Mike Rose talks to Rami Ismail of Vlambeer about his new game, Nuclear Throne.
Being grateful for the player's investment in your game can be key to making the player care about...
This is part four of a series in which I'll blog about the Making of Shuyan the Kung Fu Princes -...
A postmortem of our successfully funded Kickstarter campaign for Tetrapulse, a 2-4 player co-op game...
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Full Sail University students Josh Contreras, Ben Casey, Alex Wagner, Russ Ball, and David Swift present the story behind Triplay, a controller designed with accessibility in mind.
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