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Devs without programming knowledge soon could create dynamic AI
The GDC X OLL podcast crew spoke with Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris about the work she's doing to make artificial intelligence more accessible to game creators without programming expertise.
March 7, 2017
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One Life Left x GDC podcast: blood, wine, and how to pitch a game
It’s the last day for GDC X One Life Left presented by Gamasutra 2017 and we are all very sad, but luckily we have a sofa full of guests to cheer us up.
March 7, 2017
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Lessons learned by an 'art-house indie' who joined a F2P game studio
"At the end of the day, the work is the work," said game designer Margaret Robertson in her talk at GDC today about what she's learned in closing her indie game studio and joining Dots dev Playdots.
March 3, 2017
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One Life Left x GDC podcast: the cracks begin to show
Another day, another podcast---the One Life Left and Gamasutra crews team up for another day of great interviews.
March 2, 2017
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Nvidia has a new tool on the way to help measure and analyze VR performance
FCAT VR will capture and visualize performance data for virtual reality games and headsets, effectively making it easier for devs to test and identify performance problems in their VR games.
March 2, 2017
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It's not all about Touch: Oculus' Jason Rubin sees a future for gamepad VR games
"Right now it kind of seems like that's old-school, but it's old-school with 40 years of evolution to get the perfect gamepad...And I believe that over the long run, people will go back to that."
March 2, 2017
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How Prompto's AI-driven selfie system in Final Fantasy XV was built
Prasert "Sun" Prasertvithyakarn served as lead designer on Final Fantasy XV's buddy system and AI; at GDC this week he took the stage to talk about how the AI-driven snapshot system was built.
March 2, 2017
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Warren Spector traces Deus Ex's development back to a game of D&D
"Let me tell you where it began -- this is going to get a little embarrassing," said Spector. "It all began with Dungeons and Dragons."
March 2, 2017
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Heaven's Vault: Inkle's game about a nebula-riding archaeologist
"We started from the idea of an interactive graphic novel and how that would work, bringing together an adventure game sensibility with Inkle's text flow style."
March 2, 2017
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Seaman designer Yoot Saito implores game devs to 'swim against the stream'
Game-makers should eschew making sequels to their hits and instead do their best to do something different, says Seaman creator Yoot Saito.
March 2, 2017
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Reinventing a classic series through Resident Evil VII: Biohazard
"The Resident Evil series can be thought of as a series of trilogies," said RE7 director Koshi Nakanishi. "That meant that, with this the seventh game, we could choose to take a new direction."
March 2, 2017
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Becoming a Nintendo Switch indie dev will be tough early on
Game developers who want to get their games on the soon-to-launch Nintendo Switch should be prepared for a strict submission process, at least here in the console�s early days.
March 2, 2017