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In this deep dive, Wilmot's Warehouse designer and artist Richard Hogg serves up a meandering and delightfully insightful look at how the emergent puzzler came to be.Â
As a World Architect or Environment Artist, you will work directly with the game directors and discipline leads to help define breathtaking AAA scenery.
The VR startup Sandbox VR has raised an additional $11 million to fund its location-based VR experiences, an investment that includes contributions for a number of notable musicians and actors.
In this 2019 GDC session, CheckPoint's Jennifer Hazel discusses different models of workplace psychology and how understanding them can help game devs build healthier, more effective working habits.
Outer Wilds is a game whose universe makes you feel small - like a cog in a gargantuan wind-up clock. It's a universe that's ambivalent to your existence; one that shrugs at your presence and absence alike.
In this monthly series we invite brilliant people from the game industry to curate their top 5 videos from the GDC YouTube archive. This month: Mike Rose of Hypnospace Outlaw publisher No More Robots.
The Children's Commissioner for England has said urgent action needs to be taken to better regulate online games, and claims some aspects of game design are starting to "look more like gambling."
U-Play Online says its management sim Youtubers Life has brought in over $12 million in revenue since the game first launched into early access back in 2016.
For this multi-part piece, we're going to be talking about how to improve playability in games, starting with quality of life features and improvements.
Syberia publisher Anuman Interactive is changing its name to Microids, and has opened a new office in Japan.
Through interviews with developers behind commercial titles including Borderlands, Porta, and Tomb Raider, this post explores how such games are designed to exercise certain skills in players.
Simon Flesser of Simogo outlines how his team kept controls simple, and resisted the temptation of over-complication, when designing the controls of the gorgeous action game Sayonara Wild Hearts.
Based on the findings of a recent study, Oxford researchers say they "do not believe sufficient evidence exists to warrant thinking about gaming as a clinical disorder in its own right."
Zynga’s former chief marketing officer Doug Scott has joined the executive team over at Twitch.
Bit Fry Game Studios is looking for a Gameplay Engineer to join its team in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
In this classic 2010 GDC talk, Bungie's Jaime Griesemer discusses the decision to change the reload of Halo 3's sniper rifle from .5 to .7 seconds -- and its surprising ramifications.
Gamasutra checks in with some devs from around the industry to highlight some key games in the genre that all developers should study, in an effort to understand the strengths of the immersive sim.
Valve has launched its Steam Remote Play Together feature into beta, a program that aims to make local multiplayer games playable through an online connection.
MadBox, the Paris-based game studio behind Dash Valley and a suite of other casual games, has raised $16.5 million to continue to tackle development, publishing, and promotion of its games.
Keith Boesky, the former president of Tomb Raider and Deus Ex publisher Eidos, has passed away after struggling with cancer.
Austrian publisher THQ Nordic has expanded into Japan with the official incorporation of THQ Nordic Japan KK.
Here's how morality, reliability, and "choices per second" influenced the design of The Church in the Darkness.
This week's highlights include the end (and resurrection) of Fortnite, an early look at Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, plus games from Manifold Garden to Killer Queen Black & Disco Elysium.
Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now on the Gamasutra Job Board.
United States senators and representatives have penned a letter to Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, condemning Blizzard's decision to punish a Hearthstone player's pro-Hong Kong comments.
Sydney Hunter was released on the Switch and Steam, and our first game released for modern platforms...
For this multi-part piece, we're going to be talking about how to improve playability in games,...
Through interviews with developers behind commercial titles including Borderlands, Portal and Lara...
This week's highlights include the end (and resurrection) of Fortnite, an early look at Star Wars...
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Game Career Guide's readers craft games based on local mysteries and urban legends in these winning entries for October's Game Design Challenge!
Damien Yoccoz breaks down the basic elements of successful game storefront descriptions, offering hints for standing out in crowded digital marketplaces.
Narek Aghekyan compiles a list of essential reading for game designers, showcasing books aimed at both beginners and experienced developers.
Streamline specializes in tech art and creative execution for video games through its integrated 2D, 3D and Animation services.
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.
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).
