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A deep dive on why and how Yacht Club Games designed a new feature in Shovel Knight: King of Cards -- secret exits in levels.
This week's roundup includes the PlayStation's 25th anniversary, multiple new 2019 'best of' game lists, and great articles on Katana Zero, Shovel Knight, Knights Of The Old Republic modders & more.
Whether you're just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what's out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.
Adobe has picked up Facebook's Oculus-focused sculpting program Medium for an undisclosed sum, a move the Medium team says brings the tool out of strictly video games and to a wider creative audience.
"We also understand that posting photos of our voice actors beside characters of color without acknowledgment of the systemic problem of representation in the industry was insensate and poorly communicated"
One source speaking to the publication says that the $2,300 Magic Leap One Creator Edition reportedly sold around 6,000 individual units in the first six months following its August 2018 release.
In this 2012 GDC Europe Talk, Martin Hollis shares how his team created GoldenEye 007, the biggest Nintendo 64 release that wasn't a Mario game.Â
Arvi Teikari, aka Hempuli, the creator behind the brilliant IGF Award-winning Baba is You, tells us about the process of designing a game that puts rule-making in the hands of players.
Mobile game company Wildlife Studios has secured $60 million in Series A funding to bolster its dev team, continue supporting existing titles, and kickstart new projects.
Author and design historian Tim Lapetino will be at GDC 2020 to deliver a fresh look at how Disney's '82 classic Tron influenced the zeitgeist across video games, pop culture, and beyond.
Starbreeze has successfully completed reconstruction, a process that took around a year altogether and saw the company refocus much of its business in the interest of staying above water.
Pokemon Go developer Niantic has partnered up with chipmaker Qualcomm to create a new pair of augmented reality glasses.
Epic has tweaked its Epic Games Store policy to let developers and publishers choose their own purchase and payment services for in-game purchases.
The Outer Wilds' precise blend of genre seems impossible to talk about without spoilers, but it can be done: in this trailer analysis video (with transcript)!
Gamasutra speaks with studio members of Red Thread Games, Crows Crows Crows, Flamebait Games, and Valiant Game Studio about their approaches to surviving -- and hopefully thriving -- amid tumultuous times.
Romero Games is looking for a Senior 3D Environment Artist to join our team and help us bring new video game worlds to life.Â
The 20-year-old review aggregator site GameRankings will cease to be on December 9, and instead redirect to sister site Metacritic following that shutdown.
Riot Games' new publishing label Riot Forge aims to pave the way for smaller studios that want to take a stab at making a game using Riot’s rapidly expanding League of Legends universe.
Sandwiched between ASMR and K-pop clips, YouTube’s 2019 Rewind roundup shares a peek at the most popular video games featured in videos on the platform.
In this 2018 GDC talk, CCP Games' David Einarsson discusses the handling of an impactful exploit in EVE Online and the many challenges entailed therein.
Superliminal lead designer Albert Shih dropped by the GDC Twitch channel to discuss the design and development of this unique perspective-driven puzzler.
Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams agreed to answer some of our questions about the development of what is still, despite the presence of a number of imitators, an entirely unique game.
Console support is on the chopping block, partially for fear CD Projekt wouldn’t be able to tackle feature parity on mobile, PC, and console with so many different versions of Gwent in the mix.
The latest update to hit Rocket League wipes out the game’s loot box system entirely, replacing it with a premium storefront and a new blueprint system.
U.S. publisher and game portal Kongregate has acquired top-down battle royale shooter Surviv.io for an undisclosed fee.
This week's roundup includes excellent pieces on the PlayStation's 25th anniversary, multiple new...
My latest #procjam entry was an exercise in generating complex artifacts out of a single Energy...
A high-level introduction to how game engines implement projectile logic.
A deep dive on why and how we designed a new feature in Shovel Knight: King of Cards- secret exits...
Outer Wilds' precise blend of genre seems impossible to talk about without spoilers, but it can be...
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Dark Roast Entertainment co-founder James Margaris discusses the intersection of theme and mechanics, explaining how game designers can avoid tonal inconsistency.
Can you design a game with snow-themed play mechanics? Test your skills in December's Game Design Challenge!
Game Career Guide's readers put sports stars in unlikely gaming roles in these winning entries for November's Game Design Challenge!
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