Chris Donlan’s grandfather was an L.A. cop in the 1940s, and Donlan’s father grew up there. Of course, this means Donlan had to play L.A. Noire with his dad, at least to show him the long-since razed Richfield Tower. I’ll never forget the moment we found it. Dad could just about remember the cross-s
Elisée Maurer has made “a game to make games”. If you think Minecraft is a platform for game creation, just wait until you see Maurer’s Craft Studio: It take inspiration from Minecraft of course, but it’s also reminiscent of Little Big Planet, letting you build things, but also design the principle
This is how you end up making a clay video game: Most game artists are used to working with pixels and polygons, but what do you do when you’re an artist just getting into development? If you’re like Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring, you make your game out of clay. – – – Both Gustafsson and Zaring
Terry Cavanagh, the creator of Super Hexagon, was trying to rerelease his 2009 flash game Don’t Look Back on the iTunes store. It was rejected because it contained a description that did not comply with the app store guidelines: The sentence that ruffled Apple’s feathers was “there are no in-app pur
The tradition of letter-writing hasn’t yet died. On dearada.com, anyone can write a letter to Ada Lovelace, the first programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of poet Lord Byron and inherited some of his aptitude for creating scandals; Lovelace wasn’t afraid to do things that were considered improper.
The Vita game library is still small, so Dokuro, out for download today, is a welcome addition. As a little skull man, you lead a princess across obstacles by arranging things just so. The game’s visuals are inspired by storybook illustrations. Before the development team had even begun work on Doko
State of Play is a series of interviews with videogame professionals. Their most recent interview with Edmund McMillen of Super Meat Boy fame shows him reflecting on Indie Game: The Movie: how he had to distance himself from fans, and the necessity of creative production for his mental health.
The Indie Royale Fall bundle offers a chance to play five great games for a meager price. It includes To the Moon, which has some of the best sci-fi storytelling in a game I’ve seen recently, as well as the lauded adventure game The Blackwell Deception. The bundle also offers the adorable god-game R