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Our ideal candidate would relish the technical challenges inherent in cross-platform engineering, rendering, multi-threading, systems architecture, and optimization.
Oculus and Unity have teamed up to launch the 'Design, Develop, and Deploy for VR' program, aiming to give game developers the building blocks needed to start their first virtual reality projects.
In this classic feature, Edmund McMillen discusses how he added religion toZelda, mixed it with a roguelike, and came out with a surprise hit.
In this 2018 GDC session, Techland's Bartosz Kulon shares the colorful story of how movement, running, and climbing was implemented in Dying Light.
Tencent’s online game revenue is up 11 percent year-over-year for the quarter ending September 30, coming in at RMB 28.6 billion or just over $4 billion for the three-month period.
"We always start with nailing the key user-journey and then proceed with releasing extra features. YouTube started with 'watch video'. For Stadia it's 'Play the Game on your biggest screen.'"
This time out, I thought it would be interesting to look - incredibly specifically - at Steam search suggestions. That is, the games that pop up when you start typing in things in Steam search.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says that even remakes of classic titles should bring something new and fresh to the table.
The NetherRealm team imbued Mortal Kombat 11's characters with remarkably lifelike details, and at GDC 2020 you'll have a unique opportunity to learn the tricks and techniques used to pull it off!
This is an excerpt chapter from the book Level Up: A JRPG Creator's Handbook, available in the current Storybundle, about using non-transitive character and monster powers to design interesting encounters.
Prey and Rune developer Human Head Studios has shut down, only to be almost immediately revived by Fallout and The Elder Scrolls publisher Bethesda Softworks.
French mobile game maker Voodoo has cut the ribbon on a new studio in Montreal, Canada, with a view to expanding beyond the hypercasual market.
In this thorough Deep Dive, Nauticrawl dev Andrea Interguglielmi walks through his process of designing this atmospheric puzzle game to evoke feelings of genuine mystery and wonder.
Evening Star is looking for a talented Gameplay Programmer to join the team in Los Angeles, California
"We can't just abandon that feature that isn't working! We've already sunk too much time and effort into it!" That natural human response can be the undoing of game studios, as these stories attest.
Epic Games has filed a statement of claim in the Quebec Superior court against former Keywords employee Lucas Johnston that accuses him of leaking Fortnites recently launched new map ahead of its official reveal.
In this 2019 GDC session, ClutchPlay Games' Amy Dallas explores different ways to structure contract projects for game devs in the world of freelance.
Ahead of his GDC 2020 talk on character diversity in Apex Legends, Respawn's Mohammad Alivi sits down to chat about how he got into games, and why it's so vital for game dev to be inclusive & diverse.
Legendary video game composer and sound designer Nobuyuki Ohnogi has passed away at the age of 63.
Cerberus Interactive, the mobile studio behind location-based title Atlas Empires, has purchased marketplace platform Tastebud for an undisclosed fee.
The Swedish company has a variety of products designed to help game and movie makers create photorealistic 3D content including Megascans, a massive library of 2D and 3D photogrammetry assets.
Composer Winifred Phillips shares her creative process in composing the iconic main theme for one of her most recent projects, The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes.
We speak with more8bit's Luis Jimenez about his excellent minimalistic Soulslike Bleak Sword.
"Whether it’s veterans [playing games]...with their families or to keep in touch with their fellow comrades, it’s something that we really want to be on board with," says VA therapist Colleen Virzi.
The team at California-based Insomniac Games are looking for a Lighting Artist responsible for lighting game levels using proprietary lighting tools. Could it be you?
This time out, I thought it would be interesting to look - incredibly specifically - at Steam search...
This is an excerpt chapter from the book Level Up: A JRPG Creator's Handbook, available in the...
We all had to struggle to make something out of life. It was not a comfortable journey, but I am...
You've optimized all of the low-hanging fruits of your game. Except that you didn't. You missed a...
Composer Winifred Phillips shares her creative process in composing the iconic main theme for one of...
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Unlock Audio's Elliot Callighan outlines many functions that audio can serve in game design, giving you additional methods of guiding and immersing your players.
Fery Tomi reflects on the five-year development of The Painscreek Killings, highlighting the difficulties his team faced when crafting a mystery-themed adventure game.
Can you design a non-sports game starring a professional athlete? Test your skills in November's Game Design Challenge!
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We are a 40-people game art production studio based in China, we've been serving the global game dev industry for more than 10 years, providing 2D Concepts, Illustrations, UI graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Animation (Key-frame & Spine).
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