December 4, 2014
Super Wolfenstein
Super Wolfenstein 3D now with REALISTIC PHYSICS If this makes you giggle as much as it did me, you pretty much have to play it.
Author: stavrosthewonderchicken
November 27, 2014
How Much Graphics Does It Have?
November 26, 2014
Highway at Night
Highway at Night is a pretty amazing 1023-byte javascript demo. How it was made, and the source code. [via waxy]
November 19, 2014
Piracy, Irony, Hilarity
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? In 2013, Greenheart games released Game Dev Tycoon and then immediately uploaded a cracked version of the game themselves to teh torrentz. Hilarity, as they say, ensued.
November 13, 2014
Gamergate By The Numbers
Press E To
Gamefilter and MefightClub's own hellojed has made a lovely thing called Press E To. You should try it. [via RPS]
November 10, 2014
ProGenJam2014
Itch.io's Procedural Generation Game Jam is underway, and runs until November 17. Everything is math.
November 9, 2014
Internet Arcade
The Internet Arcade is a whole bunch of classic arcade games from the golden age, playable in your browser. Defender is theoretically playable at best, though, even with a gamepad, which shouldn't be a big surprise, I guess.
October 24, 2014
The Only Thing I Have To Say
Felicia Day: "I write this to urge any person, male or female, who now has the impulse to do what I did, to walk away from something they loved before, to NOT. Don’t let other people drive you away from gaming."
October 1, 2014
Brave New Steam World
Lars Doucet, one of the developers of Defender's Quest, on how recent changes to Steam are a good thing for game makers.
September 29, 2014
Curating Curation
The Steam Curator Curator: curating curation for those who don't know what they want but want someone to tell them who should tell them what they might want!
September 26, 2014
Cargo Comes From The Sky
The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics In which the elephant in the room is poked a bit.
September 19, 2014
Trick Cracked
What can Quake 3 teach us about the future of games? A lot, says Nicholas O’Brien at KillScreen. What can Quake Live teach us about making wrong decisions at every possible juncture? Even more, says me.
September 17, 2014
Superdimensional
Superdimensional is the highest rated entry from the latest Ludum Dare competition, and it is gorgeous. You can play it in-browser with Unity, peruse the source, or download executables for Windows or Linux. [via]
Interhate
Zoe Quinn talks (at Cracked.com, of all places) about 5 Things I Learned as the Internet's Most Hated Person, in the wake of the idiot-hatefest that has come to be known as hashtag-gamergate. Did I do that right?
MiXXXXXft
Game Developers respond to Microsoft buying Minecraft Just a long listing of tweets, but that's the way of things these days.
August 28, 2014
Achievement Unlocked
The Dissolve on movies stealing from video games, video games stealing from movies, and everybody winning (except Grand Theft Auto, which gets poo-pooed in passing). See also: Why it took a Korean movie to craft a successful BioShock story. [more inside]
A Guide To Assholes
Video Games, Misogyny, And Terrorism: A Guide To Assholes. "There’s something rotten deep within gaming culture."
August 25, 2014
Elite: Game Changer
Elite: the game that changed the world “It was like releasing Citizen Kane when everyone else was doing silent comedies”
August 23, 2014
Fragumentary
The i49 TF2 Fragumentary takes you on a journey through Team Fortress 2's biggest LAN Tournament ever, Insomnia49.
August 22, 2014
Designing Game Narrative
How do you tell a great story with a game? The answer lies not in the plot and dialogue, but in the very structure of the game design itself.
Open Source Game Clones
Open Source Game Clones gathers open-source reimplementations of great old games. See also: Liberated Games for commercial games that have been made free.
August 19, 2014
Color Run
You can't get much simpler than Color Run -- just click the lighter color, as fast as you can! [more inside]
August 5, 2014
Feels
The idea of turning Joyce's Ulysses into a VR game gives me all sorts of conflicting feels, many of them ungood and none of them plump or stately.
August 1, 2014
Magic Tools
Magic Tools is an extensive list of game development resources maintained on Github for some reason.
July 31, 2014
Nested In A Thing
Nested is a thing that you need to try. I'm not sure it's a game, but I think I love it. [via]
July 29, 2014
25 Games
25 Games For Folk Who Don’t Play Games Kind of like a mixtape but also kind of not.
July 24, 2014
Snowfield
In The Snowfield [requires Unity player] you are a lone soldier wandering the aftermath of a great battle. It is the dead of winter and you won't last long in the cold. But you are not alone. More info. Trailer. Postmortem.
July 23, 2014
Medium, Message
Brendan Vance has a lot of very interesting things to say, starting with
I develop videogames for a living, but I spent last year really hating videogames. I questioned how it was I could consume 60 hours of ‘content’ for Assassin’s Creed 3 yet feel utterly unsatisfied by my act of consumption. I questioned what it was I had consumed, other than my own time. I questioned what it was I sought from the game in the first place. I questioned the nature of the ‘content’ it claimed to offer me; privately I began to suspect it might not even exist.
