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This should be someone who'll lead the Level Design team in the operation of designing, developing, and polishing game levels including level geometry, enemy encounters, puzzles, and unique gameplay.
Two major online games announced new features for cross-console play this week, continuing console games’ slow march toward a more cross compatible future.
Cursed! is a game of competitive magic potion making, with players battling for the spellbook and cauldron in order to cure themselves of some nasty afflictions.
GDC is happening next month in San Francisco, and today organizers want to quickly update you on what enhanced on-site measures are being taken to ensure everyone has a safe and successful event!
In this 2018 GDC talk, Square Enix's Youichiro Miyake offers up a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of Final Fantasy XV's three primary AI systems!
This year's nominees include a handful of recent video game releases alongside nominations for novels, tabletop systems, and short stories.
Kitfox's Victoria Tran will be at GDC 2020 to show you how to build kinder communities around your games! Here she chats a bit about why you should go, and how studying prisons shaped her perspective.
Excellence in Visual Art-nominated Stone Story RPG takes players to a bleak world of ASCII art, tasking them with guiding a hero they cannot directly control.
Game Developers Conference organizers are excited to announce that GDC 2020 attendees will have the opportunity to learn, firsthand, how Nintendo designed Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Switch!
There have been around 20 layoffs at mobile developer Kixeye following its acquisition by Stillfront Group last year.Â
Scottish studio Tag Games has relocated to a new office in its home city of Dundee so it can expand its workforce by 50 percent in 2020.
UK developer Ultimatum Games has shut down after four years. The news was shared on Twitter by founder and managing director Shahid Ahmad.
In this article, I will try to describe the design process and the various challenges we faced along the way of making Children of Morta.
We are looking for a team player with excellent project management and communication skills, someone who is passionate to lead a group of experts at Remedy in the creation of our next projects.
Grand Theft Auto IV’s exit from Steam wasn’t a permanent one; the game is headed back to the platform, but must sacrifice its multiplayer to do so.
Milk! That! Cow! is a ridiculous cow-milking showdown where players need to pull udders to tap buttons, filling up a bucket which another player must collect the milk in.Â
A review of the design iteration and process that led to Specter Knight's unique mobility in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment.
In this 2008 GDC talk, Valve's Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw expound upon the topic of integrating narrative into the game design of 2007's smash hit Portal.
The Space Between explores the distance that still exists even when we wish to deeply connect with another, and the struggle of what that impossible distance means.
The folks at Wizards of the Coast are responsible for shepherding D&D (now in its 5th edition) towards a more immersive, inclusive design, and at GDC next month you'll see how they did it!
Sony Interactive Entertainment has made the call to back out of PAX East, pulling both PlayStation's own presence and SIE-owned studios like Naughty Dog from the show a week before the event’s start.
Join Baba is You lead developer Arvi Teikari for a chat about the game's design and development on the GDC Twitch channel at 3PM EST.
The much-loved Mild Rumpus is back again with a freshly-designed space open to all GDC 2020 passholders, so stop by to relax for a bit and check out some cool games while you're at the show!Â
Koch Media has agreed to acquire French music game developer Voxler for an undisclosed fee.Â
THQ Nordic has approved its proposed Gothic remake after receiving "unambiguous feedback" from those who played its recently released prototype.
Finding the "soul" for Othercide's art direction was a thrilling journey. Born from our own traumas,...
2020 marked my 12th year making games in Indonesia. In my years working in the game-making business...
As workers in the video game industry, we have a huge responsibility to participate in the training...
In this article, I will try to describe the design process and the various challenges we faced along...
Tangible and expected rewards loosely linked to performance were, among other kinds of extrinsic...
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Randen Banuelos examines the narrative structure of five popular games, comparing and contrasting their unique approaches to interactive storytelling.
Squeaky Wheel CEO Ryan Sumo outlines the qualities developers should look for in a publishing partner when drafting contracts and negotiating revenue splits.
Kevin McVay discusses the development of Snow Fighters with its student creators from Hokkaido Information University.
Motion Logic Studios is a Los Angeles based company dedicated to providing high-end Art and Animation services to the video game industry.
Art Bully Productions was founded in 2008 by 3d art professionals who have years of experience in the video game industry. We pride ourselves on delivering AAA quality work at very competitive rates to developers of all sizes.
