Gamasutra: The Art & Business of Making Gamesspacer
SEARCH
GO
GAME JOBS
updates Blogs contractors newsletter store
SEARCH
GO

arrow
PROGRAMMING
spacer
ART
spacer
AUDIO
arrow
DESIGN
arrow
PRODUCTION
arrow
BIZ/MARKETING

arrowLatest Jobs
View All     RSS
February 19, 2019
arrowLatest Blogs
View All     Post     RSS
February 19, 2019
arrowPress Releases
February 19, 2019
Games Press
View All     RSS
arrowAbout
Contact Gamasutra
Report a Problem
Submit News
Comment Guidelines
Blogging Guidelines
How We Work
Download Media Kit
Sponsor
arrowGama Network
If you enjoy reading this site, you might also want to check out these UBM Tech sites:
Game Career Guide
Indie Games

arrowUpdates
Updates » Indie
IGF 2019 Inspirations: 2016 Excellence in Audio award winner Mini Metro!  
by Staff [09.04.18]
Remember, entries for all IGF award categories are being accepted through October 1! To inspire you we've started a profile series of past IGF winners, continuing today with Mini Metro!
Indie, Audio, Design, IGF
Book Excerpt: Understanding video games as culture  
by Daniel Muriel and Garry Crawford [09.04.18]
This excerpt from "Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society" examines how games can help players access other experiences and realities.
Console/PC, Indie
Video Game Deep Cuts: That Donut Exapunks Mooncrash  
by Gamasutra Staff [09.02.18]
This week's highlights include analyses or interviews on Donut County, Exapunks, Prey: Mooncrash & many more.
VR, Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing
Video: thatgamecompany shares how devs can build cohesive teams  
by Staff [08.31.18]
thatgamecompany's Sunni Pavlovic offers insight on how to hire well for your game dev studio, explaining how you can retain top talent to build the kind of cohesive teams that make great games.
Indie, Production, Business/Marketing, Video
IGF 2019 Inspirations: 2018 Grand Prize winner Night In The Woods  
by Staff [08.31.18]
Hey game makers, entries for all IGF award categories are being accepted through October 1! To inspire you we've started a profile series of past IGF winners, starting with Night in the Woods!
Indie, Business/Marketing, IGF
GDC 2019 welcomes a wonderful group of new Summit advisors!  
by Staff [08.31.18]
GDC 2019 welcomes Emily Short, Grace Carroll, Miguel Sicart, Tanya X. Short, Steve Swink, and Katrina Wolfe as advisory board members for the GDC 2019 Summits!
VR, Console/PC, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, GDC
Tuning Dead Cells to appeal to players both fast and slow  
by Carli Velocci [08.31.18]
“It took one year -- a little bit less than one year -- and we switched it from a totally different [game] to this action platformer," says designer Sébastien Bénard in this Dead Cells dev rumination.
Indie, Design, Business/Marketing
How Mulaka reflects a culturally respectful development process  
by emma kidwell [08.30.18]
The Mulaka developers discuss how communicating with members of the Tarahumara community, whose folk lore inspired the game, helped portray an accurate representation of their culture.
Indie, Design
Don't Miss: Punishing difficulty conveys a personal story in The End is Nigh 1
by Staff [08.30.18]
"As The End is Nigh unfolded, it became a story about my personal struggle with game development, my obsession with my work, and how it affects my family."
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Production
Submissions for GDC 2019 Summits are now open!  
by Staff [08.30.18]
The wait is over: the call for submissions is now open for GDC 2019’s Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), GDC Summits, & Game Career Seminar through October 5th at 11:59 pm Pacific Time!
VR, Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, GDC
Skipping Steam: Why Jason Rohrer independently distributes One Hour, One Life 1
by Richard Moss [08.30.18]
Veteran indie dev Jason Rohrer opens up about why he chose to self-distribute his civilization-building MMO game One Hour, One Life, complete with his own user reviews system and more.
Social/Online, Indie, Business/Marketing
Don't Miss: Spelunky and why it's okay for game designers to be mean 13
by Staff [08.29.18]
"Spelunky may be another example of why imminently-attainable and generous rewards aren't always the ideal recipe for design success."
Console/PC, Indie, Design
Game Marketing 101: How to make games and stay afloat  
by Gamasutra Community [08.29.18]
11 bit's Patryk Grzeszczuk offers an unvarnished look at the odds when you ship a game in 2018, as well as basic tips for ensuring you and your studio stay afloat long enough to make your next game.
Indie, Business/Marketing
Battle Chef Brigade dev warns against putting work first  
by Emma Kidwell [08.28.18]
Battle Chef Brigade developer discusses how indie devs shouldn't put their lives on hold in order to prioritize work.
Indie, Production
Why Donut County changed halfway through development  
by Emma Kidwell [08.28.18]
Donut County was finally released today after six years in development-- but it was originally supposed to be an entirely different game.
Indie, Design, Production, Video
Get a job: Velan Studios is hiring an Online Programmer  
by Alissa McAloon [08.28.18]
Velan Studios is looking for an Online Programmer to aid it in building a competitive online multiplayer game with novel mechanics, a shiny new client-side engine, and backend network services.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Indie, Programming, Recruitment
Don't Miss: Creating the 30 different control schemes of Edith Finch 1
by Staff [08.28.18]
How the indie game company Giant Sparrow created 30 richly varied control schemes for What Remains of Edith Finch using only the analog sticks and one trigger button.
Console/PC, Indie, Design
Nintendo rolls out indie-focused Switch news channel  
by Alissa McAloon [08.28.18]
The new channel was announced during Nintendo’s Nindies Summer Showcase today and injects announcements, Q&As, developer interviews and more into the Switch’s built-in newsfeed.
Console/PC, Indie
New game, classic hardware: Developing Tanglewood on a Sega devkit 2
by Jack Yarwood [08.28.18]
“Making a game for Mega Drive is something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid,” says Tanglewood dev Matt Phillips, who bought a Sega Mega CD devkit to do it. "Like an itch I couldn’t scratch.”
Console/PC, Indie, Design
Day of the Devs submissions are now open to all game makers  
by Emma Kidwell [08.27.18]
It's that time of year again-- the annual indie game showcase Day of the Devs is back, and organizers Double Fine and iam8bit are calling for developers to submit their projects.
Indie, Business/Marketing