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Every month, the team at Creative Assembly helps us debunk some common development role myths
Read More »Creative Assembly’s creative director Mike Simpson: ‘Designing a game is like designing a bridge’
Sperasoft’s Steven Thornton: ‘The strongest games design portfolio is one with playable content, even if the art is all sticks and spheres’
Cherry picked advice to help you reach the next level in your career
Read More »Gravel – An Unreal Milestone
They have twenty years of experience with their own tech. Now, to raise the game, Milestone are trying something with a new engine and a different style, as Sean Cleaver finds out
Read More »The Big Question: Real Life Locations
Video games excel in indulging fantasy, but what problems can recreating a real life location pose? Recruitment agency Amiqus investigates
Read More »Wellcome Trust to offer NFTS Game Design MA Studentship
New "Studentship" will offer PhD biomedical students the opportunity to cross disciplines in to entertainment
Read More »Nuclear Throne dev Vlambeer to release game design history book
120 Years of Vlambeer and Friends documents studio’s entire output, including art, interviews and analysis
Read More »The Witcher 3 quest designers talk balancing story with gameplay and declaring war on ‘fetch quests’
‘Some characters are so important that they need whole stories to be told about them, otherwise it’s better to remove them completely’
Read More »‘We should analyse games as we do cinema and literature’: EU awards €2m to outline game design theories
Researcher Espen Aarseth to lead five-year study into game analysis, which he also hopes will combat stereotypes about addiction and violence
Read More »Nintendo and library unite to teach game design to kids using Super Mario Maker
‘We want them to learn the basics of level design, and start to think about the strategy and creativity that goes into creating games’
Read More »Post-mortem on Party Hard: Why we burned our game design document
Alex Nichiporchik, CEO of TinyBuild, reveals the role that alcohol, a contract signed on a napkin and throwing away the original design played in the success of Party Hard
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