GDC 2022: Latest Updates

Blockchain developers, investors, and advocates stuck to their guns across multiple GDC talks and presentations.

Returnal was a huge pivot for Housemarque. Here's how the team navigated its development.

In this write-up of John Romero's in-depth Wolfenstein 3D postmortem, learn about the incredible story of Wolfenstein 3D, from casual idea to completed game.

"Because there was so much space, there was so much time for us to sit there and appreciate the quality of the sounds."

All wings report in.

"The biggest challenge was that we needed to believably populate the entire world again."

Time loops are so strong they can shape entire game narratives.

The story of Wordle is a tale built around doing several things that game developers generally are not meant to do. Here's how breaking the "rules" allowed Josh Wardle to create a simple but clever game that had a surprisingly huge impact on its players.

"[Extended crunch is] just not supported by reality, because humans aren't machines. We don't have a constant output per hour. We get tired."

Here's what goes into designing a single major level of Horizon Forbidden West.

"Having light and shadows helps players figure out where they sit on a surface, and where other objects sit on the surface in relation to them."

"We're not gunning for a one-hit viral thing. We're really aiming for sustainable, practical community engagement."

The temporal upscaling technology will be made available through the Xbox GDK later this year.

Daniel Mullins Games' Inscryption transcended expectations once again to win Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards on Wednesday—making it the first game to ever win top prize at both the IGF Awards and GDCA.

Inscryption also honored for Excellence in Design, Audio, and Narrative; other winners Include 'Papetura,' 'Memory Card,' 'Live Adventure,' and 'Mini Motorways.'