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Good Pizza, Great Pizza would not exist if not for Costco Good Pizza, Great Pizza would not exist if not for Costco

The creators of this pizza-making title explain how real-life experience from a novice developer shaped the game's design.

Jun 5, 2024

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Key art for Fruitbus, showing animal characters in line for a colorful food truck

Deep Dive: Cooking up a palatable food prep experience in Fruitbus Deep Dive: Cooking up a palatable food prep experience in Fruitbus

Jun 4, 2024

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Key art from Against the Storm. A Beaver person and a lizard person look up at an ominous face in the clouds.

Strategy games like Against the Storm let us think about the bigger picture of cooking Strategy games like Against the Storm let us think about the bigger picture of cooking

byBryant Francis

Jun 3, 2024

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Porting Pixel Gun 3D to PC: A Behind-the-Scenes Look Porting Pixel Gun 3D to PC: A Behind-the-Scenes Look

byDmitry Amroyan

Jun 3, 2024

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Why Arctic Eggs are a dish best served cold Why Arctic Eggs are a dish best served cold

Jun 3, 2024

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Welcome to Cooking Week!Welcome to Cooking Week!

Jun 3, 2024

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Deep Dive: How the animation of Little Kitty, Big City rejects realism to achieve authenticity

Deep Dive: How the animation of Little Kitty, Big City rejects realism to achieve authenticity

byMicah Breitweiser

The main character of Dead Space, posing in front of dangers

The good within: Designing a memorable horror game protagonist

The good within: Designing a memorable horror game protagonist

byMichel Sabbagh

Postmortem: SOUL COVENANT – Development Insights and Lessons Learned from #1 Hit on PlayStation VR2 in Asia Markets

Postmortem: SOUL COVENANT – Development Insights and Lessons Learned from #1 Hit on PlayStation VR2 in Asia Markets

byMasaru Ohnogi

Balancing Level Design and Performance in a Family-Friendly VR Game: A Deeper Look Into Sugar Mess

Balancing Level Design and Performance in a Family-Friendly VR Game: A Deeper Look Into Sugar Mess

'Yar's Rising' and Reimagining Classics for Game Development with James Montagna

'Yar's Rising' and Reimagining Classics for Game Development with James Montagna

A collage of artwork spotlighting the 2024 Games for Change Awards finalists

Exclusive: Here are your 2024 Games for Change Awards finalists

Exclusive: Here are your 2024 Games for Change Awards finalists

Deep Dive: Harnessing the power of player feedback with Dying Light 2

Deep Dive: Harnessing the power of player feedback with Dying Light 2

byTymon Smektała

Frog characters among a friendly landscape

Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge hopes to inspire a love for the wetlands

Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge hopes to inspire a love for the wetlands

Book Excerpt: Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game

Book Excerpt: Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game

byCarly Kocurek, Matthew Thomas Payne

What it means to direct a game that was someone else's creative vision

What it means to direct a game that was someone else's creative vision

byBryant Francis

Spider-Man and other Midnight Suns heroes look at the camera.

Marvel's Midnight Suns director worries the card-based combat kept players away

Marvel's Midnight Suns director worries the card-based combat kept players away

byBryant Francis

Sharing laughs and swapping save files in Athenian Rhapsody

Sharing laughs and swapping save files in Athenian Rhapsody

Narration Avenues in Multiverse Games

Narration Avenues in Multiverse Games

The frightening Cryptmaster, and the word "sniff"

How Cryptmaster turned 'a dictionary's worth' of words into a fun dungeon crawler

How Cryptmaster turned 'a dictionary's worth' of words into a fun dungeon crawler

byDanielle Riendeau

A screenshot from Pacific Drive showing off the car's sci-fi dashboard.

Did you know the car in Pacific Drive has a 'soul?'

Did you know the car in Pacific Drive has a 'soul?'

byBryant Francis

a wall of wanted posters

Is Strategy design due for a shakeup?

Is Strategy design due for a shakeup?

Did I Make My Game Myself (and does it matter)?

Did I Make My Game Myself (and does it matter)?

Screenshot of a herd of cats in Mewgenics.

Watch what happens when devs turn their games up to 1,000

Watch what happens when devs turn their games up to 1,000

byJustin Carter

Book Excerpt: Tabletop Game Accessibility: Meeple Centred Design

Book Excerpt: Tabletop Game Accessibility: Meeple Centred Design

Building game worlds with creative lifehacks from the field of writing

Building game worlds with creative lifehacks from the field of writing

bySophie Solomonova

Exploiting Fear to Create Good Horror Games

Exploiting Fear to Create Good Horror Games

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bySteve Kirby, Jade Jacsonand 1 more

Procedural Rhetoric at practice: Echo and Application across a 2Dgame project

Procedural Rhetoric at practice: Echo and Application across a 2Dgame project

Toward a definition for Design (part one)

Toward a definition for Design (part one)

byPablo José Gorigoitía-Castro

Deep Dive: Console cross-play and how we made it work in Insurgency

Deep Dive: Console cross-play and how we made it work in Insurgency

byDenys Slipchuk, Yurii Dudnik

A stylized mech on a dark background

Mobile PvP-shooter from the technical POV: a 10-year evolution of War Robots

Mobile PvP-shooter from the technical POV: a 10-year evolution of War Robots

Thoughts To Live By

Thoughts To Live By

byWarren Spector

George enters a curious store in Broken Sword–Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

How the Broken Sword remaster smooths out the point-and-click difficulty curve

How the Broken Sword remaster smooths out the point-and-click difficulty curve

Satisfying frustration: How to make compelling games that encourage moral reflection

Satisfying frustration: How to make compelling games that encourage moral reflection

byKolja Bopp, Kira Wanjek

key art from Slave Zero X with a bright red character

Creativity from constraints: developing new games from old IP

Creativity from constraints: developing new games from old IP

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