F84 Games’ Sean McNamara on why teamwork matters, where passion can take you and how he ended up pitching to comic book legend Stan Lee
Read More »The Witcher 3 quest designers talk balancing story with gameplay and declaring war on ‘fetch quests’
‘Some characters are so important that they need whole stories to be told about them, otherwise it’s better to remove them completely’
Read More »‘We should analyse games as we do cinema and literature’: EU awards €2m to outline game design theories
Researcher Espen Aarseth to lead five-year study into game analysis, which he also hopes will combat stereotypes about addiction and violence
Read More »Nintendo and library unite to teach game design to kids using Super Mario Maker
‘We want them to learn the basics of level design, and start to think about the strategy and creativity that goes into creating games’
Read More »The Art and Soul of Visual Design
Campo Santo’s Jane Ng, Phosfiend Systems’ Richard Flanagan and Necrophone Games’ Luis Hernandez reveal why original art assets and a defining aesthetic style can count for more than polycounts and texture fidelity
Read More »Professor Layton puzzle designer passes away aged 90
Akira Tago’s series of quiz books inspired Level-5’s beloved head-scratching franchise
Read More »Models from Hell: How practical maquettes defined the original Doom
Learn how the man behind RoboCop's special effects helped create the look of id Software's most terrifying monsters
Read More »Borderlands artist: Diversity is ‘just good design’
Creating a wide range of characters is "more fun than the same generic bro and hot chick over and over again"
Read More »INTERVIEW: DriveClub designer Simon Barlow talks progression, UI and meta-gaming
From WRC to Motorstorm and now DriveClub, Evolution Studios’ Design Director Simon Barlow has a lot to say about the mammoth task of managing progression and unlocks in a game with heaps of content which prides itself on shareability and social gaming.
Read More »Apple ‘isn’t yet happy’ with Apple Watch’s battery life
One report claims there’s a reason why Apple chose to omit any details about the Apple Watch’s battery life at its reveal on Tuesday. Re/code reports that according to sources Apple isn’t yet happy with the watch’s battery life”, which for the time being lasts for about a day” meaning …
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