Joe Humfrey, art and code director at game development studio Inkle, believes that the primary goal in designing text for video games is "making sure every word is effortless to read." It turns out that making sure players can read and understand on-screen text is a more complicated task than you might think.
If you the idea of playing a new Worms game sounds good, but spending $US25 does not, good news. Worms: Clan Wars is available for the sweet price of bugger all right now, and you can get the excellent Her Story and 80 Days with it as well.
We're back for another Kotaku Splitscreen special from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Today we're joined by storied RPG writer Chris Avellone, Double Fine senior gameplay programmer Anna Kipnis, and 80 Days writer Meg Jayanth.
80 Days is a cool game and you should play it. Here's Cool Ghosts hosts (and friends of Kotaku) Matt Lees and Quintin Smith with an enjoyable video that captures what makes the game special.
