"I think characters actually touching each other, hugging, lifting, slapping, [and] poking is important for emotional impact," Greg Johnson explains in designing for emotional connectivity in Doki-Doki Universe.
Mojang's phenomenal game hit a few big sales milestones this morning, and there's a big sale on skins and texture packs for the Xbox 360 version.
Players often feel nauseated in VR games. This post explains the prevailing theories on why, and how you can minimize that through the design and implementation of 2D UI elements.
Positech founder Cliff Harris recently made his first splash into video game publishing with Redshirt. In this one month after postmortem, he discusses what it was like being an indie publisher for another indie.
It's quick and easy to implement AdMob in a Unity project, writes Tony Yotes -- who offers this guide, with benefits explained and suggestions for what plugin to use.
Computer processing manufacturer ARM today announced that it has acquired lighting technology company Geomerics, best known for creating the lighting you see in games such as Battlefield 4 and Eve Online.
The PlayStation 4 is now available to purchase in 48 countries worldwide from today, with launches in regions such as Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, and South Africa.
The brain must take in input, as well as issue output, to be creative. Roger Paffrath blogs on the importance of playing games to round out your creative process.
Oculus VR, the company behind the upcoming Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, has raised a whopping $75 million in a new round of funding, on top of the $16 millilon it already received earlier this year.
The Player-Authors Project, a study to found out what players do with user generated content and why, has concluded. Here, one of the study's authors shares the results.
Vice's Motherboard blog posted a great video documenting the event and the rivalry between two of the Donkey Kong competitive scene's fiercest competitors: Hank Chen and Vincent Lemay.
Year-over-year, players have been enticed to spend more on PC/console add-on content and mobile game, says research firm SuperData, at the expense of MMOs.
PSN and PC developer DrinkBox Studios on Guacamelee!, EA Mobile's Loeb on player retention, and Immersyve's Scott Rigby and Troy Skinner on player autonomy are the newest highlights for GDC 2014.
Wayward Manor developers The Odd Gentlemen are expanding, and they're looking to hire a great game designer to work alongside them in Los Angeles on PC/console development.
Attorney Mona Ibrahim analyzes the past week's Let's Play takedown controversy on YouTube, unpacking the "tricky" legal issues surrounding whether the videos are protected.
Revenue from mobile game sales has been particularly robust, due in part to rapid proliferation of smartphones in Japan and the ease of paying for games and other apps on the Google Play Store.
What do players come to games for? "High quality gameplay" isn't a hook, because every developer says they have it whether or not they do, argues Shay Pierce.
Gamasutra's UK editor Mike Rose continues Gamasutra's annual year-end roundups series by looking back at the biggest events that defined 2013.
Russian strategy game company Nival has raised $6 million in a new round of funding, with the aim to expand its audience reach to a global scale.
Educator and developer Michael Eilers takes free-to-play developers to task for the mechanics they put in their games -- including many you find in most F2P RPGs and strategy games.
While some developers believe that HTML5 will provide the future for browser games, Firefox company Mozilla has plans to bridge the gap between existing technologies and the web.
Impostor syndrome -- the sense that you aren't capable of what you've actually accomplished -- is a real problem. Kimberly Voll writes about making a game to conquer that fear, yet finishing unfulfilled.
A pair of independent developers has resurrected a forgotten Sonic 2 level as part of game's iOS and Android remastered release, with brand new enemies, obstacles, and a boss battle.
Nominations are now open for the 14th Game Developers Choice Awards, with winners to be announced during the annual ceremony on the evening of March 19th at GDC 2014 in San Francisco.
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Alan Williamson on topics including more on 'procedural death labyrinths' and the marketing legacy of games.
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University of Copenhagen graduate and Nordic Game Jam organizer Anchel Labena explains how students can kickstart a career in the games industry by participating in indie-led game jams.
Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy Master's student A.J. Walker reflects on the development of Pitch Jumper, a student-created rhythm game for iOS and Android.
Self Made Miracle designer Rick van Ginkel offers his perspective and advice for incoming game design students, reflecting on his university experience in this detailed feature.
