Tatiana Vilela dos Santos is an indie game designer and digital artist making games with special interfaces. She gave in March 2018 a 60 minutes talk at the GDC titled Game Design Beyond Screens and Joysticks. This article discusses details of this talk.
Grouping objects for repeat use is a way to manage them remotely as well as letting others work on the same scene together. If you've never heard of Prefabs or want to know how to make them more powerful, give this a look!
People can sustain relationships with ~150 people. If your mobile or online game exposes your users to the whole universe of players, you are doing them a disservice.
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This week's highlights include lots of E3 news, a Grim Fandango reading to remember, and a stellar analysis of Another World/Out Of This World.
In this article, game designer Sande Chen delves into the connection between a person's identity, emotions, and behavior change.
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In this seminar, Dr Michael Heron and Pauline Belford of Meeple Like Us discuss the topic of board game accessibility and why support for people with disabilities within the tabletop gaming community is important for all of us.
Atmosphere can elevate an already attractive environment to new heights when elegantly conceived and conveyed. Its ethereal nature, however, means it's not clear-cut from a development standpoint. Bethesda alum Michel Sabbagh analyzes the ambient effect.
Narrative design as a role within game development is still growing and changing, and understanding what we mean when we use the term goes a long way to helping us discuss it in the future. Here are a few distinct types of 'narrative designer'.
This article describes a method for creating a realistic first person camera attached to a body to simulate realistic movements and animations in Unreal Engine 4
Reprinted from the author's blog, this is the first of a (at the time of writing) three-part beginners tutorial series on making a character in Unreal Engine 4. A link to Part II sends the reader to the blog to finish the job. More parts may come later!
Development Director at Snap Finger Click, Martijn van der Meulen, discusses their latest release Awkward. This adult party title was made for multiplayer and optimised for broadcasting using the team's years of experience in making social games.
