Have you ever wanted to make your own adventure game? Failbetter Games has created a tool called Story Nexus which allows you to craft your own text based adventure. And even if you don’t want to create a game, you can play other people’s. The adventure creation package requires no coding but allow
Why? Why not. This is how it was done: Instructables user dany32412 pulled an Xzibit, he built a Nintendo NES system into an old school NES Cartridge. Inspired by Kotomi who completed a similar project, he sourced a NES On A Chip (NOAC), a cloned consol which is essentially a fully functional Ninte
Extra Life is a nonprofit that holds an annual 24 hour gaming marathon for charity. With the help of Twitch, a gaming entertainment service, they have set a fundraising record. The Twitch community has managed to raise more than $1.5 million for the Extra Life 2012 charity, which is set to see thous
Dishonored started with art and went from there, no plot, just an idea of what the world was going to be (a fact which our reviewer discovered on Monday). With Viktor Antonov, the guy who brought us the design of City 17, leading the charge, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Antonov and Sebastia
Kotaku hosted a forum where its audience could ask an anonymous game developer about the development process. No punches were pulled: One reader asked, “If a small Studio pitches an idea, how much of the influence will be on making money from that Idea?” To which the developer responded: “Most of th
Ever wonder how a video game gets greenlight? Sometimes all it takes is a 96 second demo: This video wasn’t even playable. It was just an idea that Nels Anderson and Klei were kicking around and had animated. Interestingly enough it bears quite a resemblance to the final product.
Starcraft 2 is one of the biggest e-sports around. If you can’t compete with the best, you can at least watch them. “The Drinking Man’s Guide“, as dubbed by its creator Frank Lantz, can help you get acquanted with the particulars: Lantz, designer of “cross-media entertainment” and games, and co-foun
Video games and the future of psychological analysis: Back in 2011, PhD student Giel van Lankveld noticed something interesting about Neverwinter Nights. If you compared the in-game experiences of characters with the personality test results of players, certain in-game actions lined up with prominen