March 27 🕹️ Live with veteran game designer Chris Bateman!
Join the presentation for the *Game Design Masterclass*, discover the course, and start learning how great games are actually designed.
💺 Save your spot ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/1981691176...
#gamedev #gamedesign #masterclass
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Elevate your game design with our Retro Lending Sign Set!
8 unique GLB formats for Unreal, Unity, and Blender to create the perfect urban atmosphere.
Get yours now!
👉 https://artstn.co/m/A36me
#GameDev #3DModel #RetroGaming #Shizukuya
This week we have a special treat for shmup fans: a rare Guwange interview with character designer Junya Inoue! For fans of Cave's haunting Muromachi-era danmaku, this interview covers it all: the influences, game design, challenges, concept art, characters, and more! shmuplations.com/guwange
Quick read: How to Create a Presskit for Your Indie Game https://f.mtr.cool/qnrmxldsgv #GameDev #IndieGames #RGS
Developers and Gamers alike are fighting back against the rise of Generative AI.
Alexis Brutman, CEO and Game Director of Astral Clocktower Studios, sits down with GameRant's Evan Zimmer to discuss the impacts of AI on indie developers.
gamerant.com/ai-game-deve...
Ya tenemos cartel para la próxima quedada de #GGDevs que se celebrará el 20 de febrero en A Coruña. Si eres desarrollador de videojuegos, tanto profesional, como amateur, no te lo pierdas ;)
El final de la era industrial produce monstruos: anatomía de la policrisis que atenaza la vida cotidiana y amenaza nuestro futuro inmediato www.jotdown.es/2026/01/anat...
Open source self-hosted internet archiving tool to collect, save, and view websites offline, including HTML clones, screensthos, PDF, and WARC files buff.ly/2GRVkUB
some nice glowy pills
some nice glowy pills
some nice glowy pills that are a-jiggling
Gradient pills effect. Live demo and source code: felixturner.github.io/tsl-gradient... #threejs #webgpu #tsl
I wrote an article for @theconversation.com on how philosophy can help us understand the deep harms of AI-generated sexual images, e.g by Grok on X, as well as other digital misogyny like assault in virtual reality. #philsky #philtech
theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...
The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter, curated by Prof. Dr Rudolf Inderst, is published weekly on GamesMarkt. This week's topics include the Rockstar Union trial, minor protection in the Netherlands and @gamepoems.bsky.social.
www.gamesmarket.global/game-studies...
- The daily video game history fact -
EverQuest (1999) was the first commercially successful 3D MMORPG, selling over 3 million copies worldwide and reaching a peak of about 550,000 active subscribers by the end of 2004.
Gameplay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5mN...
Usability heuristics and competition in games
#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #gamedesign
Twisted Ramble Games Twisted Tamble #GameDev, Kerstin, Verena and Sandra, got to know each other during studying Game #GameDesign and are focused on story-driven #GameDev.…
Games Are Need Satisfiers - How games fulfill emotional needs
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JIuPw_kcbazTQX1hFxcadtWpvKi5tzdFKAS_UhCwihE
#GameDesign #Motivation #Needs #Gameplay #GameDev
"If you can dream it, you can do it." Great quote, but in gamedev, it only works if you have a plan. Game Design is an engineering discipline, and documentation is our blueprint. Here is a massive history of how we learned to capture those dreams on paper.
nickkeepkind.medium.com/the-big-hist...
Jenna with a distressed look on her face in front of a Steam search listing of a serious of hentai femdom games. The words "an investigation" are behind her.
NEW VIDEO ALERT:
230 games came out on Steam the first week of 2026. I looked at every page to see what I could learn about the state of Steam. It made me feel like I was dying.
youtu.be/Yjf-GPp3n5k
Sheffield is preparing to level up the mission to save the nation's video games for posterity with a new cultural history project. 👾🕹️
The National Videogame Museum in the city is home to Behind the Screens - the first effort to create a national archive of video game design.
Is this the greatest piece of recursion ever? A depressing game design where depressed game designers might end up producing game about depressed game designers.
New podcast episode is live 🎙️
In Episode 008, Patrick talks with Clem (Heroes of Normandy) about his journey into game design, the importance of storytelling, and the mechanics behind his new game Operation Overlord. We also dive into playtesting, terrain impact, and future projects.
Webinar. Games for Change: Outgrow Hunger. Global Game Jam 2026 Prep Week. January 23.
🎮 GGJ26 Prep Week | Sponsor Webinar 🍽️
Games for Change: Outgrow Hunger
🗓 Jan 23, 2026 | 🕕 6pm UTC
In partnership with the World Food Program, explore how games can raise awareness of food poverty & sustainability, and learn effective impact-driven game design.
📝Register: buff.ly/bzpgLxG
#GameDev
A purplish pink graphic showcasing the WIP Night details. There's a drawing of a horse, kangaroo, cockatoo, ibis and koala, all in states of being half rendered realistically, alongside goofy "poorly drawn" features. Above them are WIP Nights' details: Noble Steed Games, WIP Night!, 12th December, Friday, 5:30pm-8:30pm, ACE Parramatta. At the bottom are sponsor details: Screen NSW, ACE and Noble Steed Games' logos.
🐎 WIP Night is back! 🐎
It's a night for Sydney game devs to share their works-in-progress, with microtalks + 10 games to try! Check out what local devs have been cooking, plus some food and drinks!
🗓️12th Dec, Friday. 5:30-8:30PM
📌ACE Parramatta
RSVP here: events.humanitix.com/wip-night-7-...
We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link.
Successful applications will be paid an honorarium.
If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there.
Link:
powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...
If you're having a rough day after Turkey Day, take comfort in knowing that Tim Berners-Lee original paper describing the World Wide Web was rejected so he had to present it as a poster instead.
Players can’t count… or read… or listen. At least not in the way game designers assume they can.
#GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameDesign
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
1982 was very early for Japanese adventure games, with only a small number of releases. Takara Building Adventure thus is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, but it was not generally available...
...until today.
Includes some unexpected history!
bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
Jumping Flash! The First Great 32-Bit Action Platform Game on the Sony PlayStation || GTV Japan
youtu.be/_ZW1rieqdaE?...
I had the great pleasure to talk to Jessica Doyle & Jordan Ferguson about their Boss Fight Books book "Dance Dance Revolution" in my podcast Game Studies.
newbooksnetwork.com/dance-dance-...
Listen, like & share!
#DDR #Podcast #GameStudies
//cc @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @bossfightbooks.com
In my upcoming book, I look at experimental games by Fluxus artists. These have been touchstones for game studies scholars like Mary Flanagan and Ian Bogost, but usually only in a cursory way. I thought it might be fun to take a look at a couple of examples.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791622...
