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Video: Psychosis and the making of Hellblade
by Staff [09.24.18]
In this GDC 2018 talk, Ninja Theory's Dominic Matthews and Tameem Antoniades discuss the delivery of the mental health themes in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Console/PC, Design, Video
Archiving Will Wright's early design notes for The Sims  
by Emma Kidwell [09.24.18]
The Strong Museum of Play spoke with Game Informer recently about obtaining the design documents and sketches from The Sims creator Will Wright.
Console/PC, Design
Destiny 2 devs explain the evolution of Gambit's combo PvP and PvE play  
by Alissa McAloon [09.24.18]
Gambit aims to merge the mostly-separate player-vs-player and player-vs-everything sides of Destiny 2, but its creation didn't come without its fair share of struggles.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Design
Don't Miss: The value of taking a narrative approach to level design 1
by Staff [09.24.18]
Game designer Jolie Menzel shared some advice on how storytelling techniques can be applied to level design, drawing on her experience making games at Ubisoft and, before that, Telltale.
Console/PC, Design
XRDC speaker Q&A: Charles Yust on the potential of interactive AR exhibits  
by Bryant Francis [09.24.18]
Charles Yust, principal design technologist at frog, gives a preview of his upcoming XRDC talk about the power of interactive AR exhibits in museums.
VR, Console/PC, Design
Meet the pioneering Japanese indie behind La-Mulana  
by Alex Wiltshire [09.24.18]
"We’ve created this with the belief that while times and trends may change, there are always going to be players who want games with real challenge to them," says La-Mulana 2 director Takumi Naramura.
Indie, Design
Video Game Deep Cuts: The Unavowed Ninja's Red (Dead) Redemption 1
by Gamasutra Staff [09.24.18]
This week's highlights include analysis of adventure title Unavowed, a cover story on Fortnite streamer Ninja, & detailed impressions of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2.
VR, Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing
Video: Designing Titans, the 'moving' levels in God of War III
by Staff [09.21.18]
In this classic GDC 2012 talk, Sony Santa Monica's Chris O'Neill and Bruno Velazquez share the development story of making God of War III's Titans from elevator pitch to completion.
Console/PC, Design, Video
Don't Miss: Exploring the rise and appeal of Roguelikes 25
by Staff [09.21.18]
In this 2014 feature, Gamasutra speaks to a number of game devs to explore the appeal of Roguelikes, both for players and developers.
Indie, Design
Blog: The interplay between order and chaos in games  
by Gamasutra Community [09.21.18]
Game designer and engineer John Nelson Rose takes a look at games from the dual processes of bringing order and wreaking chaos.
Design, Production
Blog: How Ragna Cycle turned into All-Star Troopers  
by Gamasutra Community [09.21.18]
A look into how Norsfell's latest mobile game, All-Star Troopers, started out as a very different project called Ragna Cycle.
Design, Production
Inside the Awesomenauts matchmaking algorithm 10
by Gamasutra Community [09.21.18]
Joost van Dongen, lead programmer and co-founder at Ronimo Games, addresses the question at the core of online matchmaking: who should play with whom?
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design
Blog: A tale of two bugs 2
by Gamasutra Community [09.21.18]
Games industry veteran Niklas Grey gives a detailed account of hunting down two bugs in The Machinery alpha.
Programming, Design, Production
Video: Game design lessons worth learning from collectible card games  
by Staff [09.20.18]
At GDC 2011 game designer Skaff Elias (who worked on a number of Magic card sets) offers insight on how you might apply the best practices of CCG design to your own games, be they physical or digital.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video
Don't Miss: 7 combat systems that every game designer should study 32
by Staff [09.20.18]
We reached out to several designers for their take on the games that introduced truly memorable innovations to hand-to-hand combat systems.
Console/PC, Design
Political extremism and gunplay meet in The Church in the Darkness 2
by Katherine Cross [09.20.18]
Columnist Katherine Cross examines the upcoming The Church in the Darkness, a game that confronts the complicated themes surrounding political extremism.
Console/PC, Indie, Design
Blog: Realism and legibility in open-world level design  
by Gamasutra Community [09.20.18]
The design underpinning Breath of the Wild's open world come from what may be a surprising source: urban planning. This article examines how these principles lend Hyrule a high degree of legibility.
Design
How Exapunks dev Zachtronics finds the fun in hacking 2
by Richard Moss [09.20.18]
"I'm kind of uninterested in the kind of hacking games where you just connect to stuff," says Zachtronics' Zach Barth. "I kind of think that hacking, maybe, is just like entirely about being cool."
Indie, Design
Video: Lessons learned from trying to gamify death  
by Staff [09.19.18]
At GDC 2012, game dev Margaret Robertson explains how UK studio Hide&Seek was asked to make a documentary game about the discovery of a corpse in a busy London block of flats -- and what they learned.
Console/PC, Indie, Serious, Design, Video, Vault
Don't Miss: Larian's lessons learned making Divinity: Original Sin 3
by Staff [09.19.18]
Studio founder Swen Vencke speaks to Larian's experience of becoming an independent, self-publishing company after 15 years of working with publishers in this Divinity: Original Sin postmortem.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Production, Business/Marketing