Game Developer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We decided to dig a little deeper into the similarities and differences between The Battle of Polytopia and chess to understand how it has proved a winning design strategy.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Here are some of the most notable design moments in this character's multi-decade development.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This article by Colin Horgan was initially posted to our marketing newsletter for our game “Death of a Wish”. We thought its designerly perspective would be useful and interesting for the larger GameDeveloper.com community.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The former Bethesda Softworks quest designer is now the lead content designer on Something Wicked Games' upcoming game Wyrdsong.

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Game Developer

MARCH 13, 2023

For anyone with an interest in game design, Polaris' developer summit has different articles covering various aspects of design development.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft wants its Xbox developers to use AI in their quest and narrative design, and eventually leverage that technology out to third-party studios.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At GDCA 2024, Composer Yoko Shimomura will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and game designer Fawzi Mesmar will receive the Ambassador Award.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Game Design Documents (GDD) have a long history and a different place in many designers' toolboxes. Here's how to write a useful, up-to-date GDD.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When designing our game, I had to figure out what made an excellent escort tower defense game.

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Game Developer

APRIL 10, 2024

In this post, we’ll look at the history of how we’ve implemented robot design in War Robots and reveal our essential guidelines that will be useful for any developer, no matter the project.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When designing our game, I had to figure out what made an excellent escort tower defense game.

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Game Developer

APRIL 21, 2023

In this free GDC Vault talk, creative director Wren Brier talks about the design pillars behind Unpacking's creation

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Game Developer

MARCH 20, 2024

Christopher Totten explains why mentoring others in level design can be such a problem and how to take time to teach without interrupting the pipeline.

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Game Developer

JUNE 5, 2023

Halo Infinite designer David Ellis announced his leave from developer 343 Industries after a 13-year tenure with the Xbox studio.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mabel Addis will posthumously receive the Pioneer Award, which honors breakthrough business, tech, and game design milestones. The award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer John Romero will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on iconic and genre-defining first-person shooters.

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Game Developer

MARCH 14, 2024

And how can we build one if we don’t have a narrative designer? Do mobile games really need a narrative?

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The design of Baldur's Gate 3's Auntie Ethel encounter is a stellar example of open-ended quest design.

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Game Developer

JULY 3, 2023

Mattel and developer Digital Domain had their fair share of challenges in turning Barbie Fashion Designer into the game that it is.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Let's dig into the challenges that came with designing multiple Spider-Men.

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 28, 2024

Is Strategy Design Due for a Shakeup? The studio redefined tactical stealth design with Shadow Tactics. And yet, despite how well the series is, they struggled trying to make this … The post Is Strategy Design Due for a Shakeup?

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 26, 2024

It was the first game by Free Radical Design, a team formed by the creators of GoldenEye and Perfect Dark, including Steve Ellis, David Doak, Karl Hilton, and Graeme Norgate. I was eagerly awaiting the return of TimeSplitters. For those that don't know the franchise, it was a first-person shooter series that debuted at the launch of PS2.

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Game Developer

APRIL 8, 2024

Babini's decades-long career includes original games like Storyteller and Piopow, and various Cartoon Network games for Flash and HTML5.

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Game Developer

APRIL 4, 2023

A look at some of the best design talks and interviews from GDC 2023

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MAY 4, 2023

Having a set of design pillars to draw from can add structure and insight into your process and perhaps even get you through a narrative pinch.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Free Radical Design has reportedly closed down following earlier reports speculating its future. Per VGC , the shutdown of the TimeSplitters maker was confirmed by various social media posts from employees. With its closure, 80 employees have been laid off due to Embracer Group's ongoing restructuring program. Read more

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In this design talk, Andrew Shouldice, developer at ISOMETRICORP Games, breaks down the secret-making of TUNIC and shares how to make your finite game feel like it's got a bottomless supply of mysteries.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Creativity comes in two flavors – Clean Slate and Reactive. In this blog post, Warren Spector discusses both and admits he’s an adherent of the latter rather than the former.

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JULY 27, 2023

"We need to look at whether there are opportunities in these games to reward players that actually enhance our design choices."

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 18, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Character designer of the Tales of series Mustumi Inomata has died, aged 63. Her sister announced the news of her passing via Inomata's official social media account. She died on March 10; her cause of death was not disclosed. Read more

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

Ward joined TSR during Dungeons & Dragons' first boom, and worked on several add-ons for the TTRPG, plus his own science-fantasy game, Metamorphosis Alpha.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 11, 2023

Old games always have good lessons for modern designers—here's one you may have missed.

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Game Developer

JUNE 8, 2023

If there's one aspect of the game industry that is as mysterious as game design, it is game analysis. For today's post, I want to talk about some of the traps that you can fall into when it comes to analyzing a title and trying to understand the implementation and intent by the designer.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

During her 30-year career in games, McWilliams worked on a number of games such as Gears of War 4, Free Realms, and Deal or No Deal.

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Hear from Unity experts and devs using DOTS in production, and learn best practices and hard-won tips about using data-oriented design in your game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

At Devcom last month, senior narrative designer Arden Osthof gave a talk entitled "Playing with gender: A design framework for character customisation," giving tips on how game makers can improve their protagonist creation tools to be more inclusive. Read more

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MARCH 21, 2023

Double Fine gameplay programmer Rebecca Vessal showed off the highly modular "maneuver" system the team designed to make the game's larger-than-life boss encounters on a tight schedule.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 16, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Krotos SFX & Plugins for Sound Design Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Krotos SFX & Plugins for Sound Design bundle.

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