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Programming games for the Pebble smart watch  
by Gamasutra Community [12.06.13]
A dungeon crawler on your wrist? David Drake has been developing MazeCrawler for the Pebble smart watch, and shares the secrets of creating games for this new type of device.
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Design
Tearaway is the weirdest 'hardware showcase' piece ever Exclusive 6
by Leigh Alexander [12.06.13]
Leigh Alexander gets her fingers into Tearaway -- as Media Molecule tries to show off what the Vita can do with its touchpads and cameras, the result is unexpectedly (and brilliantly) unsettling.
Console/PC, Programming, Art, Design, Exclusive
Techniques for working with voxels 2
by Gamasutra Community [12.05.13]
Post-Minecraft voxels have become an important tool in the game production box. This post explains what they are, how they work, and how you can make them work in your game.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming
Sony, Tencent, Blizzard, Ubisoft to speak at this week's GDC Taipei Summit  
by GDC Staff [12.04.13]
The second annual GDC Taipei Summit begins December 5th, 9 a.m. UTC, with onsite registration available starting opening day at the Taipei International Convention Center.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing
Blog: Generating solvable Cut the Rope levels  
by Gamasutra Community [12.03.13]
Automatically generating levels is useless if they can't be completed by players. Researcher Michael Cook writes about a system that makes sure CPU-designed Cut the Rope levels work.
Console/PC, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Design
Get a Job: Treyarch is looking for a technical animator  
by Staff [12.02.13]
"We are seeking an experienced Technical Animator to join our team. The Technical Animator will produce animation assets and also be the Animation Department’s facilitator."
Console/PC, Social/Online, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Recruitment
Optimizing multiplayer 3D game synchronization over the web 3
by Gamasutra Community [12.02.13]
Alessandro Alinone has adapted high-speed web technology originally developed for the financial markets for online games -- and takes you on a tour of his ideas about fast HTML online tech.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming
The science behind Kinect 7
by Gamasutra Community [12.02.13]
PhD 3D image sensor researcher Daniel Lau explains the difference between Kinect 1.0 and the Xbox One's Kinect 2.0, and how the 3D sensing tech in the devices work.
Console/PC, Programming
Blog: How latency creates divergent strategies in competitive online gaming 5
by Gamasutra Community [11.29.13]
Competitive Tekken player Aris Bakhtanians started playing online -- and quickly discovered that lag had a big impact on his game. This blog explores its effect on competitive play.
Console/PC, Programming, Design
C# memory management for Unity developers, part 3 12
by Gamasutra Community [11.28.13]
In the last of his series, Wendelin Reich tackles deallocations -- so that while your game is running, the garbage collector (GC) doesn't create ugly drops in frames per second.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming
GDC 2014 passes donated to IGDA student scholarship 1
by GDC Staff [11.27.13]
Game Developers Conference has once again donated 25 All-Access Conference passes for students to attend GDC 2014 via the IGDA scholarship program.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Serious, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing
Postmortem: Walking Dead game jam finalist The Narrow Path  
by Gamasutra Community [11.27.13]
A mutant dog and a motorhome. An RTS and a roguelike. This post on Walking Dead game jam finalist The Narrow Path explores how two weeks of work resulted in one strange zombie game.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design, Production
Yu Suzuki revisits Shenmue in GDC 2014 Classic Game Postmortem 2
by GDC Staff [11.26.13]
For March's Game Developers Conference 2014, we're announcing one of the most exciting Classic Game Postmortems yet, featuring Yu Suzuki.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Serious, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, GDC
Blog: What happens when you bite off more than you can chew in mobile dev 8
by Gamasutra Community [11.26.13]
How familiar is this story? "We'll work in a popular genre and make a simple mobile game -- no problem!" Read the tale of a developer hitting the brick walls of "production problems" and "publisher disinterest."
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Design, Business/Marketing
Three normal mapping techniques explained, for the mathematically uninclined 3
by Gamasutra Community [11.25.13]
Robert Basler boils down what he calls a "very confusing topic" into a concise and readable post full of code samples and helpful descriptions.
Console/PC, Programming, Art
John Carmack officially leaves id Software 21
by Kris Graft [11.22.13]
For decades, John Carmack and id Software have gone hand in hand. Today, the studio confirmed that the game industry luminary is leaving id completely.
Programming
Video: 'Swery' takes control of Xbox One's Kinect  
by Staff [11.22.13]
"The key to replicating sensory experiences is turning actions into symbols," states Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro, director of the upcoming Xbox One Kinect-controlled D4, in this GDC Next 10 special session.
Console/PC, Programming, Design, Video
Blog: Lessons learned running a game dev summer camp for kids 4
by Gamasutra Community [11.22.13]
Alan Flores taught kids to create new versions of classic games -- and in this post, he recaps how the seven-week program went, and how it evolved.
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Design, Production, Business/Marketing
Not-so-random 'randomness' in game design and programming 14
by Gamasutra Community [11.22.13]
True randomness means players might never get the rewards they're hoping for. This post simply and quickly explains a system for making sure rewards feel random and happen at the right interval.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Design
Blog: A look at two new scripting languages for game devs  
by Gamasutra Community [11.22.13]
Michael Cook takes a look at A Video Game Description Language for Model-based or Interactive Learning (aka PyVGDL) and PuzzleScript (focused on grid-based, turn-based puzzle games).
Console/PC, Indie, Programming