Design mini games for a car racing game -- that was essentially your game design challenge, though what made it truly challenging were all the additional restrictions. Three fabulous submissions are featured here, along with three honorable mentions. Read on to find out what made the winning ideas stand out to James Portnow, a professional game designer.
In this week's Game Design Challenge, you're tasked with breathing new life into a World War II shooter game. The only problem is, management still wants something pretty straight and narrow, and on a cinched budget.
To understand the current climate of physics in video games, one must understand a brief history of pivotal games physics technologies and how they have influenced other game developers. Jacob Karsemeyer and Calen Henry take a trip down memory lane to look at how video game physics have changed over the years, and peer into the future by examining some new technologies, too.
One 13-year old reader asks whether it's worthwhile to make ‘just the rough paperwork' of a game, rather than build a full video game. If you're young and inexperienced or just tight on resources, we have advice about how you can start practicing your game design skills -- no money down!
Study 3D Animation and prepare for a career in animation, game development, or visual effects. Our curriculum combines traditional skills like storytelling and character development with leading software used by filmmakers, animators and game designers.
A game design competition in the east of England is asking students to imagine what video games might look like in the next generation (or two) of hardware.
The May 2008 issue of Game Developer magazine is now available to subscribers, revealing an exclusive postmortem of Harmonix's Rock Band, a third-party game engine showdown, articles on the state of hiring in the game biz, and much more - details within.
The department of computer science and engineering at the University of North Texas will be adding a game programming certificate beginning in fall 2008.
