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Top iPhone Game Apps: Cover Orange Leads Free Charts
Top iPhone Game Apps: Cover Orange Leads Free Charts
Gamasutra rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Angry Birds and Cover Orange to Crime City and more.
Aug. 15, 2011
Release This: El Shaddai Arrives Stateside, Xenoblade Hits the UK
Release This: El Shaddai Arrives Stateside, Xenoblade Hits the UK
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings El Shaddai and No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise stateside, while the UK gets Xenoblade Chronicles and Arcana Heart 3.
Aug. 15, 2011
GDC Europe: Design Your Game Around A Message, Not Features - Santiago
GDC Europe: Design Your Game Around A Message, Not Features - Santiago
At a Gamasutra-attended GDC Europe lecture today, Kellee Santiago of thatgamecompany discussed how developers can forge new audiences for their games, and how to "Begin with the intent of your content and make it your guide."
Aug. 15, 2011
GDC Europe: Wooga CEO Begemann On Social Gaming's Appeal
GDC Europe: Wooga CEO Begemann On Social Gaming's Appeal
In a GDC Europe keynote presentation, wooga CEO Jens Begemann highlights the differences between social games and traditional games, and why the segment is attracting so many new players.
Aug. 15, 2011
Opinion: Designing Animation For Speed
Opinion: Designing Animation For Speed
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, 5th Cell's Tim Borelli explains how he learned everything he needed to know about animation from Looney Tunes, specifically from Acme's best customer Wile E. Coyote.
Aug. 15, 2011
Opinion: Encounter-led Game Development
Opinion: Encounter-led Game Development
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Relic Entertainment's senior AI programmer Jesse Cluff shares some advice on encounter design, and warns that failing to plan encounters ahead of time can ruin a gam
Aug. 15, 2011
Zoo World Sequel Climbing Most Popular Facebook Games
Zoo World Sequel Climbing Most Popular Facebook Games
Our bi-weekly look at which popular Facebook games are losing or attracting players examines the rise of RockYou's Zoo World series, which was boosted by the recent release of a sequel for the sim.
Aug. 15, 2011
GDC Europe: Gomez Urges Survival Horror Developers To Break Core Game Design Rules
GDC Europe: Gomez Urges Survival Horror Developers To Break Core Game Design Rules
At GDC Europe, Brian Gomez, design director on the forthcoming Silent Hill: Downpour, explains how survival horror makers must employ a different set of rules to designers of other types of video game.
Aug. 15, 2011
GDC Europe: Time Is Right For Online, Mobile M&A
GDC Europe: Time Is Right For Online, Mobile M&A
Tim Merel with investment bank Digi-Capital told GDC Europe attendees on Monday, "In terms of mergers and acquisitions, the market doesn't get much better than it is right now."
Aug. 15, 2011
GDC Europe: 'Culture More Important Than Skills' - Castlevania: LoS' Alvarez
GDC Europe: 'Culture More Important Than Skills' - Castlevania: LoS' Alvarez
At GDC Europe, Enric Alvarez, founder of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow dev Mercury Steam, said, "culture is more important than the skills of individuals. It's an essential quality, which very often comes across in the final product."
Aug. 15, 2011
GDC Europe 2011 Day One: What You Missed
GDC Europe 2011 Day One: What You Missed
Gamasutra wraps up its on-the-scenes coverage of the first day of the 2011 GDC Europe conference, with talks and insight from industry alums and independent developers alike.
Aug. 15, 2011
GDC Europe: The Art Of Public Funding For Indie Games
GDC Europe: The Art Of Public Funding For Indie Games
At an Independent Games Summit talk on the Monday of GDC Europe, German independents Yacine Salmi (Swimming Under Clouds) and Alexander Zacherl (Astroslugs) discussed the possibilities of public funding for games.
Aug. 15, 2011