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Video: Understanding why your game 'feels' bad (and how to fix it)
At GDC Europe 2015, indie developer Nicolae Berbece breaks down what we mean when we say a game "feels great" and rebuilds a bad-feeling death animation live, on stage, into one that feels satisfying.
Aug. 25, 2015
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Video: Tips on making believable VR games from a Project Morpheus dev
At GDC Europe 2015, Sony London (The Getaway, The London Heist) dev John Foster shared some of the studio's big takeaways from trying to create immersive VR experiences for Project Morpheus.
Aug. 24, 2015
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Get a job: Double Fine is looking to hire a Senior Programmer
The studio responsible for games like Broken Age, Massive Chalice and Costume Quest is looking for an experienced programmer to take a senior role at Double Fine's San Francisco HQ.
Aug. 24, 2015
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Video: Why you shouldn't rely on emergent behavior in your game AI
At GDC 2013, video game AI designer Ben Sunshine-Hill makes a case for why, in game development, prioritizing emergent behavior in AI design means you are not doing your job.
Aug. 21, 2015
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Get a job: Insomniac is hiring an Environment Artist
The folks responsible for Sunset Overdrive & Ratchet & Clank are looking to hire an artist to work on modeling, texturing and laying out in-game environments at their studio in Durham, North Carolina.
Aug. 21, 2015
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Darkest Dungeon dev lets players disable unwanted features
Darkest Dungeon developer Red Hook has responded to fan complaints by giving them the ability to disable unwanted gameplay features.
Aug. 21, 2015
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How Digital Eclipse aims to preserve classic games for future generations
In a chat with USGamer, Other Ocean's Frank Cifaldi shares some of the technical challenges Digital Eclipse has faced in recompiling classic Mega Man games for its cross-platform Eclipse engine.
Aug. 21, 2015
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Sympathy for the dragon drives Kamiya's development of Scalebound
Gamasutra chats with PlatinumGames' Hideki Kamiya to learn a bit more about what passions influence his design of Scalebound, and how his long career in the game industry has shaped its development.
Aug. 21, 2015
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Second Life dev hopes to democratize VR with new project
Second Life creator Linden Lab is hard at work creating its next virtual world, "Project Sansar" - a virtual reality platform that aims to "democratize VR as a creative medium".
Aug. 21, 2015
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Philosophy, God, and robots: Writing The Talos Principle: Road To Gehenna
Tom Jubert, a writer on indie projects like FTL, Penumbra, and The Swapper, describes what it was like to co-create the world of The Talos Principle and its followup DLC The Road to Gehenna
Aug. 21, 2015
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'Toxic' League of Legends players won't get rewards from Riot
Jeffrey Lin, the company's lead designer of social systems, outline's the company's policy -- which enjoins badly behaved players from getting what everybody else is.
Aug. 21, 2015
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Making the move from spare time to full time game development
We talk to Heat Signature's Tom Francis about making the move from developing in his spare time to making it his full-time job.
Aug. 20, 2015