Developer Insights

Encouragement, routine, and reinforcement are crucial to retraining neural pathways.

Cross-platform play is essential to a game like We Were Here Forever. Here's a look at the infrastructure that makes it work.

"The blocks that form this game's narrative and gameplay aren't universal or mythic. They are the result of figuring out early on what the game was and what it wanted to do, and then designing a system to accomplish that."

"Painting everywhere is a technically expensive thing to do, and it can be very difficult to achieve if you’re not entirely focused on it as a goal of your project."

Read the first chapter of this debut book on the ins and outs of getting onto the games narrative career path.

The latest game in the Voxel Trilogy was built with a lot more resources, prompting a refreshed approach to key art and effects.

How do you craft an environment filled with tension in the absence of direct conflict?

Striking the right balance between two genres means knowing what you want before development even begins.

How the game was designed to motivate players through systems and environment.

Having a set of design pillars to draw from can add structure and insight into your process and perhaps even get you through a narrative pinch.

Distilling two such distinctive genres required an element of creative negotiation.

A technical and in-depth look at the particle systems that make Slime Rancher 2 feel like a winter wonderland.

How the developers returned to their Norwegian roots and embraced local history to develop a sequel.

This eclectic game combines Wario Land with the overcaffeinated energy of '90s cartoons. Here's how the developers iterated toward the game it came to be.

The cooking game genre has sort of an uncanny valley: to be real, or not to be real. Here's how one studio approached it.