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A wrecked car in Pacific Drive.

Randomizing terrain with Houdini to shape player goals in Pacific Drive Randomizing terrain with Houdini to shape player goals in Pacific Drive

The tiny team making the spooky survival sedan driving game Pacific Drive explains how their procedural terrain tech supercharged the game's artist and level designers.

byBryant Francis

Feb 21, 2024

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How to create comic-book style VFX for games, like in HAWKED How to create comic-book style VFX for games, like in HAWKED

byVladimir Semykin

Feb 16, 2024

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Skull shaped cave

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Feb 13, 2024

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Adam Duncan at the League of Geeks office

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Feb 12, 2024

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A woman with curly hair sketches while sitting on a curb.

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byBryant Francis

Feb 7, 2024

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Backrooms, Liminal Spaces, And The Subliminal Menace Of Loneliness in Indie Horror Games Backrooms, Liminal Spaces, And The Subliminal Menace Of Loneliness in Indie Horror Games

byNathalie Lawhead

Feb 5, 2024

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Sargon battles a pair of warriors in a forest environment.

How Memory Shards help players find secrets in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

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byBryant Francis

surreal pixel art landscape featuring sweets

Dali meets Monkey Island: Behind the surreal style of Twilight Oracle

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byDanielle Riendeau

Level Design Process #01: Cube to Temple

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byAmin Montazeri

Food for thought: taking food in games beyond mechanics and into the narrative

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byWojtek Borowicz

Vahram and Sargon fight against a red backdrop.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown makes neat use of mocap tech

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byBryant Francis

Key artwork for Foamstars

Foamstars will feature AI-generated artwork produced by Midjourney

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A scene from Venba from Visai Games.

Visai Games' Venba leads finalists for the 2024 IGF Awards

Venba leads finalists for the 2024 IGF Awards

byBeth Elderkin

Select Game Makers Sketchbook showcase winners, from GDC 2022.

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byBeth Elderkin

Cal Kestis looks at a distant temple in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. The text "Game Developer End of Year Round-Up is in front of him.

Game Developer's 2023 Wrap-Up: Bryant Francis' Top 10 games

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byBryant Francis

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Two comic strip characters stand on the other side of the door. The woman holds a hammer. The man holds a battle axe.

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