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This excerpt of "We Deserve Better Villains: A Video Game Design Survival Guide" by Jai Kristjan offers up 5 detailed pieces of advice for how to effectively manage your game design career!
This week's roundup includes a look at Thatgamecompany's Sky, the rise of the professional dungeon master, and the far-ahead tech of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on N64, & lots more.
Blizzard Entertainment published a blog post today in which company cofounder Frank Pearce lays out his plan to leave the company after 28 years and "pass the torch to the next generation."
A composer & sound designer on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus takes us on a deep dive into how he used the sound sculptures at the Baschet workshop to create a unique, oppressive soundscape.
Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now on the Gamasutra Job Board!
In this 2017 GDC session, Brightskull's Michael Csurics reveals the extensive, experimental lengths taken to create the voiceover performances in Fullbright's award-winning narrative game Tacoma.Â
The Sims programmer Don Hopkins has uploaded a smattering of design documents from the development of the influential life simulation game.
Andrey Doronichev, Google’s Director of Product for Stadia, addressed some of the public's concerns in a recent AMA on the upcoming cloud-based game platform.
Hey innovators, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is using virtual reality to improve public safety, and you can learn from their work firsthand at XRDC this October!
Sega has scrapped its publishing deal with Interior Night, the narrative studio founded by former Quanitc Dream and Sony Entertainment Europe designer Caroline Marchal back in 2017.
Founded by The Witcher head story designer Artur Ganszyniec and project lead Jacek Brzezinski, Different Tales intends to tell slow burning stories "rooted in the common human experience."
Coffee Stain Studios' Gafgar Davallius reveals how Satisfactory is optimized for multiplayer while "handling a base with over 2000 conveyors, transporting thousands upon thousands of items."
Insomniac Games' Ryan Smith talks to Gamasutra about the game design foundations of Marvel's Spider-Man (and how far back in Insomniac Games history they go).
Microsoft has closed out the fourth quarter of its 2019 fiscal year with year-over-year decreases in both its game and Xbox businesses, though full-year game revenue is on the rise.
Zynga is moving into a new space in Bengaluru, noting that the city has become a game development hub in India.
As a Senior Game Designer, you will work with a team of producers, designers, engineers, product managers and marketers to lead the creation of world-class free-to-play mobile games.
In this 2019 GDC session, Mountains' Ken Wong discusses the journey of designing the studio's hit debut game Florence, a poignant look at the ups and downs of relationships.
Ubisoft is one of the major players known to be bringing existing games to Google Stadia and the company says that, at this stage, doing so hasn’t been incredibly expensive.
Bit Heroes launched on Kongregate's online game portal in 2016, and has now been acquired by the San Francisco-based developer and publisher.
Game industry experts Kimberly Voll, M.E. Chung, Grant Shonkwiler, Elan Ruskin, Sean Vanaman, and Eve Crevoshay join the illustrious GDC Advisory Board to help make GDC 2020 the best show yet!
Tim Willits, the studio director, level designer, and former co-owner of id Software, is leaving the company after 24 years.
If you're curious to learn how Oculus squeezed a mountain of tech into its standalone Quest virtual reality headset, you'll want to check out these pictures.
There's been a changing of the guard at Ubisoft, with PC replacing the PlayStation 4 as the company's most lucrative platform.
Recording a loved ones' memories for use as in-game audio is not as straight-forward as it might sound. In this article, I look into the challenges I faced when doing so.
"Diving Bell's chief strength is its dumbness," says dev Lars Doucet, creator of the recommendation tool. "It's dead simple, transparent, & predictable, but the results are delightful and surprising."
This week's roundup includes a look at Thatgamecompany's Sky, the rise of the professional dungeon...
Sounds and music are one of the most important parts of the game atmosphere - as equally important...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, Bob Whitaker talks with Dr. Roger...
We recently released our second big Update for Satisfactory and one of the things we improved is...
Designing a tool for browsing Steam games "Wikipedia binge" style
Press Releases
Buttery Games lead designer Craig Robinson reflects on his first year of game development after graduation, highlighting the challenges that his team faced at the outset.
Damien Yoccoz explains how you can use free resources to find your target audience and make your game more appealing to players through market research.
Want to experiment with an early access business model? Goblinz Studio's Yannick Elahee outlines helpful techniques and best practices for managing open development.
XCOM, CIV, Bioshock Infinite, World of Tanks, the list goes on.Top publishers and defense contractors count on Exis to deliver their assets. Why not join them, and get the best art possible for your projects?
We are a 40-people game art production studio based in China, we've been serving the global game dev industry for more than 10 years, providing 2D Concepts, Illustrations, UI graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Animation (Key-frame & Spine).
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Art Bully Productions was founded in 2008 by 3d art professionals who have years of experience in the video game industry. We pride ourselves on delivering AAA quality work at very competitive rates to developers of all sizes.
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