Create your own cardboard controllers with free 'gambi_abo' blueprints The brainchild of Enric Llagostera, gambi_abo is a free collection of do-it-yourself instructions for cardboard game controllers designed with accessibility in mind. 

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  Australian High Court orders Valve to pay $2.4M fine over misleading refund policy "This important precedent confirms the view that overseas-based companies selling to Australian consumers must abide by our laws."

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  Blog: Breaking the convention commandments In trying to tease our next game, The Deep End Games decided to try something different. Here, Director Bill Gardner discusses his goals and how it all went in this mini postmortem.

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  Game Design Deep Dive: Dandara's unique jump-only movement mechanic "By designing natively for different input methods, you can bring life to a completely new game design," writes Dandara dev João Brant in this Deep Dive into the game's unique movement system.

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1 Video: Alternative ways to approach concept art In this 2015 GDC session, One Pixel Brush's Shaddy Safadi explains how AAA games need not only concept artists, but concept designers.

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10 Thanks to a cosmetic change, Epic accidentally rebalanced Fortnite's shotguns Epic Games decided to change the rarity ranking of Fortnite's in-game shotguns, and the result was an unprecedented change in how each weapon was used.

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  Oculus overhauls privacy policy and terms of service Ahead of the EU's GDPR, Oculus implements a new privacy policy and terms of service which will affect global users.

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  Get a job: Shiny Shoe is hiring a Project Manager Shiny Shoe is seeking a software project manager that is highly detail oriented and can manage multiple simultaneous projects.

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5 Blog: What happens when you lose your entire test-suite? What happens when your QA team loses its entire test-suite? Well, read on as I explore how we lost our test-suite, the reaction, and how ultimately realised it was a blessing in disguise.

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1 Don't Miss: Game design and mind control in Superhot At GDC 2016, game director Piotr Iwanicki detailed Superhot's design process and how its developers ultimately leaned into the "mind control" elements of the game's narrative to build a better game.

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  TheWaveVR secures $6M for its social VR platform The virtual reality startup TheWaveVR has raised a grand total of $6 million for its social music and visual arts platform of the same name.

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  Blog: A postmortem of the Anime Matsuri Expo This postmortem is a way for me to share with other indie developers my personal experience as a first time indie game exhibition, the Anime Matsuri Expo.

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5 Loot boxes with real-world value deemed unlawful in The Netherlands The Netherlands Gaming Authority (NGA) had been investigating loot box usage in 10 unnamed titles after concerns were raised by players, parents, and those working in addiction care.

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  Blog: Designing countermoves in PvP games As game designers, how do we encourage players to play better and longer in our games? One effective way is to design countermoves -- emergent solution to specific problems.

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  Crossfire developer Smilegate closes Berlin studio The South Korean company began branching out into Europe back in December 2016, and opened its Berlin office in February 2017.

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  Q&A: Being OK with being lost in Capy's Below We speak with Kris Piotrowski, game director on Capy's Below, to talk about the joy of exploration, having faith in players' brains, and, of course, beautiful 4K grass.

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2 How the West was fun: Have a look at West of Loathing's design doc It's a well-written and cheeky example of a game design doc, as well as perhaps the only example of a public design doc for a comedy RPG set in a Wild West populated entirely by stick figures.

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  Into the Breach's designers explain how to follow up from a hit game The makers of FTL and Into the Breach dropped by to discuss their design process and their thoughts about following up on a smash hit game.

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  How to market a game with minimal budget No More Robots' Mike Rose shares how he got press, streamers, YouTubers, deals, and sales for the procedurally generated biking game Descenders.

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  How psychological experiments influenced the design of Vault 11 in Fallout: New Vegas Former Obsidian Entertainment designer Eric Fenstermaker discusses how Vault 11 was designed in Fallout: New Vegas.

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1 Twitch reportedly affected by IP address bans in Russia IP addresses owned by Amazon and Google have reportedly been blocked in Russia, with Twitch being one of the web sites affected.

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  Weekly Jobs Roundup: Monomi Park, Visual Concepts, and more are hiring now! Gamasutra's Job Board is the most diverse, most active, and most established board of its kind in the video game industry, serving companies of all sizes, from indie to triple-A.

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  Fortnite mobile nabbed $25M in revenue during its first month Epic Games’ mobile release of its popular free-to-play battle royale title grossed $25 million worldwide during its first 30 days out.

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8 Don't Miss: What is your game actually about? In this reprint from the February 2010 issue of GD Mag, Civilization IV lead Soren Johnson talks about the difference between a game's "theme" and its "meaning."

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  Life is Strange dev Dontnod headed toward an IPO The French development studio has filed the paperwork necessary to list on the Euronext Growth stock exchange.

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