Game Thinking book trains product designers to think like game developers
In her first career, Amy Jo Kim made hit games like The Sims, Ultima Online, Rock Band, and Covet Fashion. And in her second...
Graveyard Keeper is a medieval Stardew Valley with skeletons and sorcery
Graveyard Keeper is like Stardew Valley … but with 100 percent more skeletons. It’s a farming-slash-mortuary simulator where players must run a cemetery while...
How Total War’s developer pushes its games forward — and fans can push back
Creative Assembly has survived for nearly 31 years because it has listened to its fans — and pushed them in a direction they didn’t...
Street Fighter V is still terribly broken after 2 years — here’s how to fix it
I’m trying to reduce my chance of having a heart attack this year — seriously — so I’m working through the list of things...
The Secret History of Mac Gaming: How SimCity led to Seaman
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, “Simulated.” In 1985, at the suggestion of a neighbor from...
Firewall: Zero Hour wants to be VR’s next great shooter
When developers first started theorizing the modern era of virtual reality headsets, I’d wager that shooters were a big part of the design discussions....
Casual Connect Indie Prize goes to Super Gravity Ball
Casual Connect Europe’s best-in-show audience prize went to Super Gravity Ball by American developer Upside Down Bird. The Indie Prize is an international scholarship program...
MixCast 2.0 ditches green screens for VR livestreams
Today Blueprint Reality is announcing the release of MixCast 2.0, which is now available for download. The biggest barrier to more people recording and streaming...
How Square Enix Montreal is making the leap to free-to-play mobile games
Square Enix has a lot of important game franchises, including Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider. But not all of those franchises are available on...
How Small Giant Games scored big with a single mobile game
Small Giant Games raised $41 million in February, making it one of the rare mobile game studios to be able to raise a large...