Gamasutra is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.


Gamasutra: The Art & Business of Making Gamesspacer
SEARCH
GO
GAME JOBS
updates Blogs contractors newsletter Game Career Guide
SEARCH
GO

arrow
PROGRAMMING
spacer
ART
spacer
AUDIO
arrow
DESIGN
arrow
PRODUCTION
arrow
BIZ/MARKETING

arrowLatest Jobs
View All     RSS
August 25, 2019
arrowLatest Blogs
View All     Post     RSS
August 25, 2019
arrowPress Releases
August 25, 2019
Games Press
View All     RSS
arrowAbout
Contact Gamasutra
Report a Problem
Submit News
Comment Guidelines
Blogging Guidelines
How We Work
Download Media Kit
Sponsor
arrowGama Network
If you enjoy reading this site, you might also want to check out these UBM Tech sites:
Game Career Guide
Indie Games

arrowUpdates
Updates » IGF
Road to the IGF: Ghost Town Games' Overcooked 1
by Chris Kerr [02.10.17]
Ghost Town Games co-founder Phil Duncan reveals how the studio created a frantic, co-op first experience in Overcooked, which is up for two awards at this year's Independent Games Festival.
Console/PC, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Tobias Zarges' Close  
by Joel Couture [02.09.17]
IGF finalist Tobias Zarges talks about opportunities for introspection in his game Close, as well as what draws the player into open places filled with moments of quiet thought.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Broken Rules' Old Man's Journey  
by Joel Couture [02.08.17]
Old Man's Journeyfollows a senior citizen on his travels across green hills, seaside towns, and sun-drenched shores, with the player guiding him through puzzling environments as he seeks a long lost home.
Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Carl Burton's Islands: Non-Places  
by Joel Couture [02.07.17]
Carl Burton takes the player to ordinary places, showing them offices, parking lots, and hotel lobbies through a surreal lens in Islands: Non-Places.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, IGF
Road to IGF: Ink Stories' 1979 Revolution: Black Friday  
by Joel Couture [02.06.17]
"I have always been interested with those moments in time where we have seen the greatest kindness in humanity combined with the most atrocious acts of hatred. How can I capture that in a game?"
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: TeamCrew's Frog Climbers  
by Joel Couture [02.03.17]
Four players must climb a mountain in Frog Climbers, each scrambling for handholds on the rocks and vines (and each other) as they rush to the top.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, IGF
Road to the IGF: Kinmoku's One Night Stand  
by Chris Kerr [02.02.17]
One Night Stand's humanistic approach to storytelling earned developer Lucy Bundell an IGF nomination for Excellent in Narrative. Here's how it was made.
Console/PC, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Florian Veltman's Lieve Oma  
by Joel Couture [02.01.17]
Lieve Oma takes players on a quiet journey through the forest, steering around a child strolling with their aging grandmother as they gather mushrooms together.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Variable State's Virginia  
by Chris Kerr [01.31.17]
Variable State's game was nominated for several Independent Games Festival awards, including Best Audio, Excellence in Narrative, Excellence in Visual Art and The Nuovo Award for innovation. 
Console/PC, Programming, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Jumpsuit Entertainment's She Remembered Caterpillars  
by Joel Couture [01.30.17]
She Remembered Caterpillars fills a woodland with tiny, colorful creatures that can only advance if they're the correct color. Combining these creatures (and creating new colors) helps them pass.
Console/PC, Art, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Clever Endeavour Games' Ultimate Chicken Horse  
by Joel Couture [01.27.17]
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a multiplayer racing game. It doesn't just ask players to race, but to build the track, giving them an array of platforms and traps to lay out.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Titouan Millet's Mu Cartographer 1
by Joel Couture [01.26.17]
A vast landscape is open for the player to explore, shape, and document in Mu Cartographer, a game where players manipulate an alien device to look over and alter the lands they see.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: David O'Reilly's Everything  
by Joel Couture [01.25.17]
In Everything, you can become a car, driving idly around a city. You can stop and become one of the buildings you pass by, ot its cinder blocks or pylons. If you can see it, you can become it.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Osmotic Studios' Orwell 1
by Joel Couture [01.24.17]
Orwell, nominated for Excellence in Narrative in the IGF, is a game of suspicion and guilt, giving players access to the texts, social media, bank accounts, and personal files of strangers.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF 2017: Get to know the finalists and their games!  
by Staff [01.23.17]
Our annual series of Road to the IGF Q&As is back to introduce you to the finalists of the Independent Games Festival and their games, from Heart Machine's Hyper Light Drifter to Ocelot Society's Event[0].
Indie, IGF
Cast your votes for the 2017 IGF and Game Developers Choice Audience Awards!  
by Staff [01.23.17]
Cast your votes now for both the Game Developers Choice Audience Award and the Independent Games Festival Audience Award -- you have until voting closes next Tuesday, January 31st at 11:59 PM PT!
Console/PC, Indie, GDC, IGF
Road to the IGF: Sokpop Collective's Bamboo Heart  
by Joel Couture [01.23.17]
A swordsman loses his heart. Fearing that this will turn him into a cold blooded killer, he takes to the forest and kills everyone in his way to find the missing organ.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Raw Fury's GoNNER  
by Joel Couture [01.20.17]
GoNNER is a challenging sidescrolling roguelike shooter that emits whistles, pops, clicks, and other silly noises as the player moves along. It's been nominated for IGF Excellence in Audio award.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Michael Brough's Imbroglio  
by Chris Baker [01.20.17]
Gamasutra catches up with indie game developer Michael Brough to chew the game design fat and chat about his IGF-nominated roguelike, Imbroglio.
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, IGF
Road to the IGF: Heart Machine's Hyper Light Drifter  
by Alex Wawro [01.19.17]
Gamasutra catches up with Heart Machine's Alex Preston to chat about the state of indie games and the design of Hyper Light Drifter, Heart Machine's debut game that's up for 3 IGF awards this year.
Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Production, IGF