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Museum accepts collection of artifacts from Oregon Trail dev MECC
New York's Strong Museum of Play has accepted a collection of software, photographs, documents and other artifacts documenting the life and death of the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation.
June 23, 2016
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Classic vs. Modern Horror
The horror medium has changed dramatically over the last two decades, and today's post looks at what the Game Industry has learned (and can still learn) from the Horror genre.
June 23, 2016
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How much people, time and money should QA take? Part2
Project planning is one of the most crucial and difficult steps of a videogame development project. In this Part 2, we’ll look into the main internal factor technique we use: the “Puzzle technique”.
June 23, 2016
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E3 2016 VR: The Industry Goes All-In, But Are Audiences Ready?
E3 2016 marked the industry’s near unanimous embrace of VR. As companies invest, Red Fox Insights analyzes how VR is shaping the future and what challenges it must overcome.
June 23, 2016
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Demons with Shotguns Postmortem - Don't Quit Your Day Job
Yet another postmortem of a solo indie game developer who developed a game completely part time and released on Steam. The TL;DR? Don't quit your day job.
June 23, 2016
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The Influences and Differences of Team Fortress 2 Classes and Overwatch Heroes
An analysis of how Team Fortress 2 classes and Overwatch heroes relate to each other.
June 23, 2016
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How Jonathan Blow found the roots of The Witness inside Braid
Speaking with Time Magazine, Jonathan Blow offers some insights on how he arrived at the central puzzles of The Witness, and how the game connects back to his earlier title Braid.
June 22, 2016
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What The Last Guardian developers learned about long game dev cycles
The Last Guardian's Fumito Ueda explains to Kotaku how he remained motivated and focused after nine years of game development.
June 22, 2016
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Defender dev Eugene Jarvis on the bright future of arcade games
“Whenever I talk to people about arcade games, they’re shocked to know the business still exists,” Eugene Jarvis says. “I, too, am amazed. We should have packed it up in the last millennium.”
June 22, 2016
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Video: How to get the funding your game needs
Game industry veteran and Execution Labs cofounder Jason Della Rocca gives an indie financing reality check and shares advice on getting the funding your game needs in this GDC Europe 2015 talk.
June 22, 2016
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Learn to make your game run better on mobile devices at GDC Europe
Intel's Antoine Cohade will lead a session at GDC Europe this summer about how to efficiently reduce your games' power consumption and optimize it for better performance on today's mobile hardware.
June 22, 2016
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Check out the results of GameCareerGuide's latest Game Design Challenge!
Gamasutra's education-focused sister site GameCareerGuide offers info for game industry students and beginners -- and every 3 weeks, it also hosts a Game Design Challenge that anyone can take part in.
June 22, 2016