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Video: Great design lessons and bugs from the making of Loop HeroVideo: Great design lessons and bugs from the making of Loop Hero

Watch two of the developers of Loop Hero discuss the development of their hit new roguelike game.

Mar 24, 2021

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Video: Narrative nuances in mobile game design Video: Narrative nuances in mobile game design

Mar 24, 2021

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Considerations and reflections on today’s games Considerations and reflections on today’s games

byFabio Ferrara

Mar 22, 2021

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Lets make music together Lets make music together

Mar 22, 2021

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How and why to write low spoiler hints for adventure games.How and why to write low spoiler hints for adventure games.

byMeghann O\'Neill

Mar 22, 2021

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Game Dev Digest Issue #86 - Awesome Effects Game Dev Digest Issue #86 - Awesome Effects

Mar 19, 2021

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Three key lessons from the history of tools programming

Three key lessons from the history of tools programming

byBryant Francis

Get a job: Join the Insomniac Games team as a Narrative System Designer

Get a job: Join the Insomniac Games team as a Narrative System Designer

The differences between writing Pillars of Eternity and The Outer Worlds

The differences between writing Pillars of Eternity and The Outer Worlds

byBryant Francis

How XCOM 2's environmental storytelling overlapped its combat system

How XCOM 2's environmental storytelling overlapped its combat system

byBryant Francis

The PS5's storage system is helping Sucker Punch change how it makes games

The PS5's storage system is helping Sucker Punch change how it makes games

byBryant Francis

The problem of the graphics

The problem of the graphics

Get a job: Demiurge Studios seeks a UI/UX Director

Get a job: Demiurge Studios seeks a UI/UX Director

High immersive shooter

High immersive shooter

byGame Developer

Q&A: Exploring the triumphant level design of Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Q&A: Exploring the triumphant level design of Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Why Gamification Fails: A Parable

Why Gamification Fails: A Parable

byEdward Castronova

Game Dev Digest Issue #85 - Platforms, Performance, and Tutorials

Game Dev Digest Issue #85 - Platforms, Performance, and Tutorials

Revisit two essential Classic Game Postmortems at GDC Showcase

Revisit two essential Classic Game Postmortems at GDC Showcase

How to speed up your hyper-casual game's launch at every step of the publishing process

How to speed up your hyper-casual game's launch at every step of the publishing process

Join a free talk + Q&A on data-driven game design with Evan Losi

Join a free talk + Q&A on data-driven game design with Evan Losi

In the beginning

In the beginning

Get a job: Join the Insomniac Games team as a Senior Designer

Get a job: Join the Insomniac Games team as a Senior Designer

HTC launches Vive Facial Tracker and third-generation Vive Tracker

HTC launches Vive Facial Tracker and third-generation Vive Tracker

Present and future of clan mechanics

Present and future of clan mechanics

byGame Developer

Opinion: When choice becomes a metric, narrative design suffers

Opinion: When choice becomes a metric, narrative design suffers

byGame Developer

Fifteen Lessons I learned from Bioshock Infinite

Fifteen Lessons I learned from Bioshock Infinite

Game Design in For Sparta: Improving the arena art while not distracting the player

Game Design in For Sparta: Improving the arena art while not distracting the player

Hostile Mars Devlog #04: More Mars Plants, Shock Turrets, and Further Improvements on DOTS IK

Hostile Mars Devlog #04: More Mars Plants, Shock Turrets, and Further Improvements on DOTS IK

byJacob Jameson

Ori and the Will of the Wisps: Destroying Hope

Ori and the Will of the Wisps: Destroying Hope

Adding Strategy to your Tactics

Adding Strategy to your Tactics

Game Dev Digest Issue #84 - Learning, Tips, and Free Courses

Game Dev Digest Issue #84 - Learning, Tips, and Free Courses

How We Used Airtable to Organize our In-game Events

How We Used Airtable to Organize our In-game Events

Walk through the history of game development tools at GDC Showcase

Walk through the history of game development tools at GDC Showcase

Leading a game writer's room

Leading a game writer's room

byGabriel Padinha

6 Game UI You Should Study

6 Game UI You Should Study

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