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The challenges of designing games for Pillo

Pillo is a new intuitive and comfortable interface for controlling games, in the shape of a pillow. Sounds cool, right? And it is! It is specifically meant to make special games that cater to a new...

How I made Circles feels intuitive without any text or tutorial

Developers CornerJeroen Wimmers -

Circles is an abstract and very minimal puzzle game. It doesn’t have any text, tutorial or score system. Instead, it teaches the player by its form and feedback. The result is a game that feels very...

Implementing Kip Thorne’s Science In Interstellar The Game

Game Design Jeroen De Cloe (Sticky Studios) - 0

After meeting with Christopher Nolan and watching Interstellar six months prior to release, Jeroen De Cloe, founder of Sticky Studios, started working on the game...

The Eyes Of ibb & obb • Blink For Emotion

Game Design Richard Boeser (Sparpweed) - 4

Legs, a body and eyes. Both ibb and obb lack other features. They need legs to run and jump around. A body so they...

The Summer That Launched My Career

Game Design Cliff Bleszinski (Boss Key) - 3

One day Tim Sweeney of Epic sent me a download of a prototype that looked like the old Amiga game "Turrican". It moved at...

Character Beats Plot In Borderlands 2 DLC

Game Design Eric Bartelson - 0

The next instalment of our new series GDC Gems* comes from Anthony Burch, Lead Writer of Borderlands 2, who at GDC 2015 explained why it’s more important...