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An evolutionary algorithm in action: Darwin's Nightmare 1
by Gamasutra Community [04.22.14]
"In this game, all enemy craft designs are obtained by varying a unique genotype: whenever a new ship appears on the screen, digital DNA is recombined to create a new type."
Console/PC, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Design
Book review: OpenGL Development Cookbook  
by Gamasutra Community [04.21.14]
We have very advanced books like GPU Pro, and books for beginners like OpenGL SuperBible. It is great to see a book that is something between those two extremes.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Serious, Programming
Video: Breaking down the seven-year development of Antichamber 3
by Staff [04.18.14]
Indie developer Alexander Bruce shares what his development philosophy and what he learned in a postmortem discussion of the development of Antichamber given at GDC 2014.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault, GDC
'What's the best game dev educational resource you've ever used?' Exclusive 2
by Staff [04.18.14]
There's a lot of great educational resources out there that can help you refine your game development skills -- the trouble is knowing where to look.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Serious, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, Exclusive
Blog: How DevOps can impact the experience of free-to-play games  
by Gamasutra Community [04.18.14]
"There are a host of technical issues that can -- and will -- undermine the player experience, even in the best-designed games."
Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Programming, Production, Business/Marketing
If Steam is too crowded, can we create an algorithm for discovering hidden gems? 22
by Gamasutra Community [04.18.14]
"My twitter friends are constantly giving visibility for 'hidden gems' and I think we should keep doing that. At the same time, I think we can supplement those efforts with some mathematical tools."
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Business/Marketing
Reminder: GDC Europe 2014 call for talks ends Monday  
by GDC Staff [04.18.14]
Don't miss the April 21 deadline to submit proposals for talks, roundtables and panel sessions at GDC Europe 2014, which will be held in Cologne, Germany August 11-13.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Serious, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, GDC Europe
Glitchspace is a first-person programming game Exclusive 1
by Mike Rose [04.17.14]
I've played pretty much every first-person puzzler under the sun, so it's rare to find a game that really throws me a curveball. Glitchspace is very much that curveball.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design, Business/Marketing, Exclusive, Video
Getting your Unity game on Vita with Unity for PSM 10
by Gamasutra Community [04.17.14]
You can now publish Unity games directly to Sony's PlayStation Mobile -- which means publishing on Vita. But... how do you do it? This post explains.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Production
Procedural, dynamic room generation 7
by Gamasutra Community [04.17.14]
On making a game that evolves as the player plays: "The maps generated with this new technique were much more interesting to navigate, as well as connecting much more fluidly."
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design
Let there be shadow: Programming vertex shaders in Unity 10
by Gamasutra Community [04.17.14]
Want your own vertex/fragment shader shadows in Unity? "Luckily, Unity provides you the means to get this working! The catch? Documentation on this is lacking or even non-existent."
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming
School of Dragons postmortem: Juggling PC and mobile dev on an MMO  
by Gamasutra Community [04.16.14]
An in-depth look back at the development of School of Dragons, with an eye toward production process and live services -- and challenges hit when the game changed platforms during development.
Programming, Design, Production
GDC Europe 2014 opens registration, continues call for papers  
by GDC Staff [04.16.14]
You can now register early at a discounted rate to attend this year's GDC Europe, which will be held in Cologne, Germany August 11-13. Also, you still have time to submit talk proposals for the show.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, GDC, GDC Europe
Blog - Building it big: Hundreds of billions of worlds 2
by Gamasutra Community [04.14.14]
"I decided it would be an MMO, I'd work on it alone, and we would have the entire Milky Way modeled in the game, as closely as we could."
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design
Crafting To Leave, an autobiographical indie game from Ecuador Exclusive 2
by Alex Wawro [04.14.14]
Upcoming indie puzzle-platformer To Leave was built a team of student developers, and purports to be the first PSN game based on original IP to ever come out of Ecuador.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, Exclusive, Video
Postmortem: Touchscreen ninja action game Shadow Blade 9
by Gamasutra Community [04.14.14]
"The main design goal for Shadow Blade was to create a platformer for mobile devices that would embrace touch controls as much as possible."
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Production, Business/Marketing
But is it hot? Design challenges for sex in games Exclusive 28
by Leigh Alexander [04.14.14]
A panel at Different Games convened designers working on expressing intimacy, sexuality and diversity in games to talk about ways to confront common design challenges, and evolve the role sex plays in games.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Design, Exclusive
Blog: OpenFL & Haxe, a bumpy start 16
by Gamasutra Community [04.11.14]
OpenFL is cool. Haxe is cool. Open source is cool. My impression with Haxe is that, the road is going to be bumpy, but it's still a good technology for developing for both Windows and Flash.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming
Get a job: Linden Lab is looking to hire a Lead Engineer  
by Staff [04.10.14]
Second Life developer Linden Lab seeks a lead engineer to join the team in San Francisco working on the company's mobile game Blocksworld.
Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Programming, Production, Recruitment
For CCP, virtual reality is EVE's next frontier 1
by Christian Nutt [04.10.14]
CCP's goal is "to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life," and by working closely with Oculus and Sony to shape the future of VR, says exec David Reid, it can get there.
Console/PC, Programming, Business/Marketing