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FOX engine brings Kojima Productions one step closer to photo-reality
At GDC 2013, Kojima Productions revealed Metal Gear Solid 5, showed off its photorealistic FOX engine, and confirmed a brand-new game development office in Los Angeles.
March 27, 2013
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How can game music feel as meaningful as a live experience?
Games can do more with musical elements to prevent loss of intimacy that happens with looping tracks, argues Rich "Disasterpeace" Vreeland, who'd like more of live music's unpreditability in games.
March 27, 2013
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Project Anarchy: Free mobile development tools from Havok
Intel-owned middleware company Havok today revealed a new and complete end-to-end mobile 3D game production engine at the Game Developers Conference, coming for free later this spring.
March 26, 2013
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GDC 2013 Day 1: Indies speak out
Highlights from the first day of GDC 2013 include Double Fine's Kipnis on the game jam inspired by @petermolydeux, Terry Cavanagh calling for indies to curate their own games, and Giant Sparrow on The Unfinished's Swan's journey to PSN.
March 26, 2013
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Kongregate's 6 habits for keeping F2P players playing (and paying!)
Kongregate COO and co-founder Emily Greer has built her company on maintaining players for the long haul. At a GDC session she described the six pillars her company has identified for keeping players happy (and keeping the revenues flowing).
March 26, 2013
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Designing without a pitch - An FTL postmortem
FTL: Faster Than Light developers Matthew Davis and Justin Ma didn't bother with a design document -- after all, they expected it to be a three-month side project. But when development got serious, they had to adjust.
March 26, 2013
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How to use live events to promote your game
For all the talent that small, independent game developers may possess, they're not typically so skilled in the art of marketing and self-promotion. Antichamber dev Alexander Bruce and Double Fine's Greg Rice offer some tips.
March 26, 2013
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How Plague, Inc topped the mobile market
Ndemic Creations CEO James Vaughan outlines some of the business decisions that made mobile disease simulation game Plague, Inc one of the most successful and top-grossing mobile games of 2012.
March 26, 2013
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The five reasons freemium sucks (according to QWOP's developer)
The free-to-play business model has five big problems, says Bennett Foddy -- but being creative about solving them can result in a more meaningful application of free-to-play games.
March 26, 2013
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Triple Town devs on finding the fun in free-to-play game design
Rapid iteration, early releases, and a broad design space are key to building original successful free-to-play games, say Spry Fox (Triple Town) devs during a session at GDC's free-to-play summit.
March 25, 2013
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How a parody Twitter account inspired a global game jam
Double Fine's Anna Kipnis gives a postmortem of "What Would Molydeux," last year's event that offered a unique spin on the concept of a game jam by basing prototypes on the tweets of Twitter parody account @petermolydeux.
March 25, 2013
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Mark of the Ninja creator: Innovation no excuse for crunch
Jamie Cheng, founder of Klei Entertainment, creator of the XBLA games Shank and Mark of the Ninja had strong words for any game maker who might claim that working extensive overtime is an intrinsic part of making 'art'.
March 25, 2013