gdc 2012
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Crowdsourcing Invents Games With Donut Whales And Robot Pickles
The Game Developers Conference sees a lot of creativity and interesting ideas pass through the halls of the convention centre it’s hosted at. Production company iam8bit put together their own creative project that spawned some abstract and quirky game ideas.
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What Do Great Game Developers Know About Tic-Tac-Toe? I Battled Them To Find Out
Only one award-winning video game developer got violent when I played Tic-Tac-Toe with him last week.
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Notch Says He Doesn’t Just Change Minecraft Because He Feels Like It
Markus Persson thinks of himself as more of a programmer than a game designer. “I don’t spend a lot of time on mechanics,” the creator of the hit sandbox/adventure hybrid says. “I play [Minecraft] more than I write it, because I want to make sure the things you can do in the game can be…
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Chris Hecker Calls Out Players, The Press And Developers For Lack Of Variety In Games
Why are so many games just copies of past games? Who is responsible for this state of affairs? Does the industry need more variety to survive?