In this classic Game Developer magazine column, industry veteran Noah Falstein examines when it's appropriate to invest your time in telling a good story, and when it's better to leave well enough alone.
Lars Doucet (Defender's Quest) takes a look at how different games have implemented fleeing mechanics over the years -- and how a new indie game changes that concept into gameplay.
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id's seminal space shooter is two decades old; celebrate by taking a look back at the making of Doom postmortem given by John Romero and Tom Hall at GDC 2011.
Confident there are entirely better ways to simulate character behavior, Luis Guimaraes -- armed with some reading -- has developed a new framework for AI for his horror game, which he explains here.
GDC's inaugural Classic Studio Postmortem features a panel of Lucasfilm Games alums talking and swapping stories about what it was like to work under George Lucas on something other than Star Wars.
Since the PlayStation 4 launched last month, around 10 percent of all video game streaming content on Twitch has come from PS4 systems, claims Sony.
"Somehow, I felt that Minecraft was maybe my chance to create a Valve, rather than work at Valve." - Minecraft creator Markus Persson recalls the job offer he received from Valve back in 2010.
Mobile game studio Storm8 is looking to share its 50 million monthly active users with third-party developers, with the announcement today that it has opened a publishing arm.
"Don't just buy a new video game - make one" - U.S. President Barack Obama helps kick off Computer Science Education Week 2013.
Building on Jesse Schell's work in The Art of Game Design, Toni Sala explains the concept of The Flow Channel, and how he used it in his own game.
Nintendo today launched Nintendo Network ID functionality for its 3DS handheld, allowing owners of both a 3DS and a Wii U to link the two devices with a single account for the first time.
Adobe is revamping Flash's ability to generate HTML5 versions of projects, and this post takes a look at how the functionality works in a pre-release build.
In 2012, Sweden studio Image & Form received a short and to-the-point rejection letter from Valve. A year later, and with a different game under its belt, the company this time received immediate approval from the Steam overlords.
Harmonix, the Massachusetts video game studio best known for Rock Band and Dance Central, laid off a number of employees today.
Paper and Lego prototyping saves development time and money, explains Wayward Manor developer Matt Korba. Its abstract nature also makes it easy to appeal to those outside the game industry.
Evaluate the best games of the year alongside Gamasutra's editors -- by contributing a blog post that tackles the game or games you consider most significant in 2013.
Polytron Corporation announced this morning that Fez has sold over 1 million copies across all platforms, including Xbox Live, PSN, and Mac/PC.
Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews takes a look at what UK software sales portend for the fortunes of the big three hardware providers -- and sees Nintendo in hot water.
Some of the most notable people in game development will be evaluating IGF 2014's standout entries. Today IGF announces members of some of the discipline-specific jury panels.
The state of Facebook games has never been so diverse, the company says, highlighting a wide range of independent, European and Middle Eastern devs among its annual Games of the Year list.
The ups and downs of developing an indie game for the PS3 and PC -- how the project went, how it sold, and what the self-publishing experience was like.
IndieGames.com's editor-in-chief John Polson takes a look back at the Independent Games Festival, and the impact the event had on the lives of its early participants.
To test their framework and rapidly prototype promising ideas, Gamelogic made 30 games across 30 days. This post explains what went into that, both good and bad.
Skullgirls developer Lab Zero Games and co-publisher Autumn Games have terminated their business relationship with Konami -- and it would appear that Konami was not completely onboard with this train of thought.
An overview of the process of turning my game Rotation Station into an Android/iOS game from its...
Is the indie bubble really going to pop? Not only is the answer no, but the concept of an indie...
Part 3 of the series covers Pitching and Pitch Structure. Read this for helpful tips before your...
This is the second part of an article that explores what social impact games might teach us about...
Reflections on shipping my first game and exactly how it didn't feel--a case study on impostor...
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