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A New Approach to Games Testing A New Approach to Games Testing

Many video game studios tend to have inefficient and outdated QA practices. I want to encourage a new approach to Quality Assurance in video games.

byMichael Hart, Blogger

Apr 11, 2016

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Reminder: Even Nintendo ships games with jury-rigged features Reminder: Even Nintendo ships games with jury-rigged features

Apr 11, 2016

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How 1979 Revolution: Black Friday drops players into a real crisis How 1979 Revolution: Black Friday drops players into a real crisis

byGame Developer

Apr 11, 2016

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Digital Games in the Real World : The Design of the Game World of Jason Rohrer Digital Games in the Real World : The Design of the Game World of Jason Rohrer

Apr 8, 2016

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Opinion: So you want to write a trans character Opinion: So you want to write a trans character

byKatherine Cross

Apr 8, 2016

1 Min Read

The making of Wadjet Eye's dystopian adventure ShardlightThe making of Wadjet Eye's dystopian adventure Shardlight

Apr 8, 2016

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How Hyper Light Drifter balances difficulty with fairness

How Hyper Light Drifter balances difficulty with fairness

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Get a job: Be a Senior Game Developer at Glu Mobile

Get a job: Be a Senior Game Developer at Glu Mobile

Video: Finding inspiration in the lost game designs of the TRS-80

Video: Finding inspiration in the lost game designs of the TRS-80

Her Story and Rapture clean up at 2016 BAFTA awards

Her Story and Rapture clean up at 2016 BAFTA awards

byChristian Nutt, Contributor

Resurrecting the RTS with Ashes of the Singularity

Resurrecting the RTS with Ashes of the Singularity

byChristian Nutt, Contributor

Accessibility in VR game design: The Fantastic Contraption approach

Accessibility in VR game design: The Fantastic Contraption approach

byAlex Wawro, Contributor

Teaching Game Mechanics: A Hierarchy of Learning

Teaching Game Mechanics: A Hierarchy of Learning

byJosh Bycer, Blogger

Working with puzzle design through state space visualization

Working with puzzle design through state space visualization

byRune Skovbo Johansen, Blogger

Objects in Space and me, or: How to build a spaceship in 3-100 easy steps

Objects in Space and me, or: How to build a spaceship in 3-100 easy steps

byJennifer Scheurle, Blogger

How Learning League of Legends Helps Me Understand Game Design

How Learning League of Legends Helps Me Understand Game Design

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

How Paradox plunders history for great gameplay mechanics

How Paradox plunders history for great gameplay mechanics

byChris Baker, Blogger

Guide to Learning ChoiceScript

Guide to Learning ChoiceScript

byLynnea Glasser, Blogger

7 examples of game AI that every developer should study

7 examples of game AI that every developer should study

byGame Developer, Staff

Let's Talk About... Epistory: Typing Chronicles

Let's Talk About... Epistory: Typing Chronicles

byLena LeRay, Blogger

Romance in Video Games

Romance in Video Games

byNathan Savant, Blogger

Need to make a great trailer for your VR game? Consider a green screen

Need to make a great trailer for your VR game? Consider a green screen

byAlex Wawro, Contributor

Latest STEM Video Game Challenge opens with a new sponsor: Nat Geo

Latest STEM Video Game Challenge opens with a new sponsor: Nat Geo

byAlex Wawro, Contributor

Play Testing And Beta Testing – Will It Explode?

Play Testing And Beta Testing – Will It Explode?

byShane O\'Reilly, Blogger

Not Going To Tell You a Secret

Not Going To Tell You a Secret

byUrbain Bruno, Blogger

Video: How Klei found success with an anti-social game: Don't Starve

Video: How Klei found success with an anti-social game: Don't Starve

Rez's Mizuguchi: His quest 'to make the player happy' changed his games

Rez's Mizuguchi: His quest 'to make the player happy' changed his games

byChristian Nutt, Contributor

Maybe it's time to kill your game and move on: Supercell on cutting its losses

Maybe it's time to kill your game and move on: Supercell on cutting its losses

byKris Graft, Contributor

EVE Online's big battle proves players are the content in a sandbox MMO

EVE Online's big battle proves players are the content in a sandbox MMO

byChristian Nutt, Contributor

Devs Answer: What are the best ways to trick players?

Devs Answer: What are the best ways to trick players?

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Interactivity in "walking sims"; too little, too much or just right?

Interactivity in "walking sims"; too little, too much or just right?

byEske Knudsen, Blogger

Get a job: Tripwire Interactive is hiring a Lead Designer

Get a job: Tripwire Interactive is hiring a Lead Designer

Dwarf Fortress: Figuring out how to simulate the universe, one step at a time

Dwarf Fortress: Figuring out how to simulate the universe, one step at a time

byChristian Nutt, Contributor

Mable & The Wood: Expanding a prototype & wrestling with difficulty

Mable & The Wood: Expanding a prototype & wrestling with difficulty

byLena LeRay, Blogger

Open sourcing 80 Days' narrative scripting language: ink

Open sourcing 80 Days' narrative scripting language: ink

byJoseph Humfrey, Blogger

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