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Looking back at a long and fortunate career in game development.

This article by Colin Horgan was initially posted to our marketing newsletter for our game “Death of a Wish”. We thought its designerly perspective would be useful and interesting for the larger GameDeveloper.com community.

Eiji Aonuma recently revealed that Nintendo currently has no plans to release additional content for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This decision marks a notable departure for both a blockbuster game and a major first-party Nintendo release.

Vladyslav Popushoi, Project Lead of the UE4 Department at Pingle Studio, shares his team's experience with their successful port of the PC version of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach to Nintendo Switch.

The question for Unity now is, will their key customers accept these changes?

Godot has some catching up to do before it becomes the new Unity. But it does have its charms and advantages.

This article explores the use of Whole Tone and Octatonic scales in game music (from Winifred Phillips’ highly-rated GDC 2023 lecture, “Chaos Theory in Game Music.”)

Unity's controversial newly announced fee system has developers, as well as teachers and students, in a frenzy.

Unity's claim that its per-install policy will only impact top developers isn't as reassuring as it thinks it is.

The pursuit of platform agnosticism is a way of reclaiming power constantly lost to the game industry's drive to maximize profits.

Apple revealed the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro series, powered by a redesigned GPU, with exclusive ports of AAA console and PC games. This insight explores its importance, and why meaningful gains for publishers are far from guaranteed.

Netflix has recently revealed plans to encourage adoption of the games catalog that it offers as part of a standard subscription. This is set to become part of a two-pronged strategy: Netflix Stories will strengthen its content offering, while Games on TV focuses on widening access.

How can you trust a business partner that will radically change the terms not only of your future relationship, but your existing one as well?

In this article, we’ll analyze two mathematical concepts: Markov chains and random walks.

If you're starting a new game project, do not use Unity.