Micro Mortem – Page 2

While working on Boss 101 we’re always looking for things to add which increase the playability of the game for the player. Things like mini-games, quests and achievements are a few of the tried and true ways w... Read More...

Designing A Believable Homemade Flamethrower For The Last of Us

Nick Gindraux (Naughty Dog)

Art

Concept Artist Nick Gindraux was tasked with the design of a homemade flamethrower for protagonist Joel in Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us. Here is what he came up with. “I started working at Naughty Dog during... Read More...

The Witcher 3 Quest Design: How To Not Drown

Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz (CD Projekt RED)

Game Design

Webs of variables and branches in our games have always been very complicated, posing a huge challenge for quest designers to control and keep track of. This becomes even more visible in The Witcher 3, since we... Read More...

Cleaning Up The Menu Space in SpeedRunners

Tom Brien (tinyBuild)

Art

If there's anything I'm the best at, in our company, it's avoiding work! SpeedRunners is an Early Access game that updates with new features, levels and options every couple weeks. Development priority can s... Read More...

Football Mafia is a shameless experiment in addiction

Jurriaan van Teunenbroek

Business

As an industry, the games we produce are there to provide you fun, emotion, depth. We will call it entertainment and we will even say it will give you an experience like no other. It will teach you something, t... Read More...

Humor Helped Goat Simulator Go Viral

Alessandra van Otterlo (Control500)

Business

Goat Simulator is a weird game and everything about its PR is just as odd. At Nordic Game Conference, Armin Ibrisagic, game designer and PR manager at Coffee Stain Studios, shared how fans led the way in an uno... Read More...

Keeping Up — A Smarter Camera For Munch Time 2

Aaron Oostdijk (Gamistry)

Tech

As you can see in the above trailer, Munch Time 2 is a 2D metroidvania platformer with a focus on active combat and swing physics, that all come together in a light puzzle-filled adventure about a silly little ... Read More...

“To Die or Not to Die” –Death Animations in Guns, Gore & Cannoli

Benjamin Claeys (Claeysbrothers Arts)

Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQ4KcjcnM0&feature=player_embedded As you can see in the trailer above, there are obviously many enemies and weapons in Guns, Gore & Cannoli (Steam). Everybody who has ev... Read More...

Why Giving Away Free Game Assets Is Good Business

Kenney Vleugels

Business

Some will argue that giving away free stuff isn’t a good business strategy if all you do is give away free stuff. Let me tell you why this strategy works for me and why it might work for you. A couple of... Read More...

Upgrading Core Tech For Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Frans Kasper (Abstraction Games)

Tech

Taking Hotline Miami 2 at face value; it can be perceived as a bigger and badder version of its 2012 predecessor with a few additional bells and whistles, a new story, a new battery of excellent soundtrack tune... Read More...

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