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In this 2017 GDC session, veteran voice director Khris Brown discusses how to approach to improving fight mechanic audio design while the player is in the heat of battle.
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How going "old-school" with game saves -- they're manual! -- created a sorely-needed sense of tension in Creative Assembly's first-person horror-shooter Alien: Isolation.
Soren Johnson, founder of Mohawk Games and designer on Civilization III and IV, curates his top 5 videos from the GDC YouTube archive in this new series of articles.
Veteran programmer Niklas Gray shows how we can add an index to bulk data to accelerate queries.
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The Russian company Mail.ru is expanding its My.Games video game business through the worldwide launch of a digital game storefront on PC.
Here are some reflections on translating the continuing series of Ancient Greek punishment games into the Bitsy game engine.
GDC's Simon Carless zeroes in on one particular part of game discoverability: one particular hidden gem of a statistic - Steam's follower counts.
The team at Cold Iron seek an experienced producer to join the team working on an Aliens game for consoles and PC out of their San Jose, CA office!
Klang has now raised a total of $37.42 million for Seed's development.
A detailed write up how the new Enemy AI works in my game, Dicey Dungeons! I tried to write it in a "popular science" style that's hopefully of interest to everyone, not just programmers.
In this 2017 GDC talk, Twitch's Mario Izquierdo exposes the math behind standardized ranking systems like Elo and TrueSkill to help you develop your own ranking system.
Cloud save support appeared on the Epic Games Store last month, but Epic has now expanded the list of games with the feature and explained why support is only trickling out.
AR/VR creators, take note: Your skills can make a meaningful difference in the world when you apply them to creating great teaching tools and safety systems; find out how at XRDC this October!
"We want to help enable a few more properly independent studios exist in the world," says the team. "Weird but smart money to weird but smart developers."
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The makers of Pathologic 2 reinvented questlogs and codexes so that all aspects of the game were relevant to the story. Here's how.
Epic has opened a new studio In Cologne, Germany, that'll be led by the founders of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Turrican developer Factor 5.
Bloodborne and Mass Effect 3 composer Cris Velasco has founded a new "full-service audio production company" called The Audio Hive.
Unity has officially launched a pair of new classroom tools called Create with Code and Unity Teach to help teach game design and computer science.
While it is absolutely impossible to describe all technical decisions made in the project in the scope of a single article, we’ll try to outline a generic approach that you could possibly use.
Grant Shonkwiler is a rising star of video game production, having worked on games including Doom, Wolfenstein: The New Order, and Fortnite. He recently joined Gamasutra editor-in-chief Kris Graft and news editor Alissa McAloon on the newly-minted GDC Podcast.
How to better set up your (game) communities for kinder user experiences.
Shows how we can add an index to bulk data to accelerate queries.
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Amir Fassihi explains how one of more members of your game development team can serve a coaching role while fulfilling their own project obligations.
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Louis McTague discusses the value of defining specific elements in level design, citing successful approaches he has taken in past projects.
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