Chris Kerr, News Editor March 26, 2024 9 Min Read Image via Game Developer / Chris Kerr It’s a radiant day in San Francisco, and I am surrounded by indies. You can’t turn a corner in The Midway without locking eyes on the most fascinating, offbeat morsel of interactive media you’ve seen since all of …
Outersloth receives more funding, partners with ‘Slay the Spire’ creator
The creators of Among Us have announced more funding for their new indie publishing label, Outersloth. Revealed during Summer Games Fest, the initiative has already signed 13 games, and now two notable indie developers will provide additional funding and help reviewing game pitches. The first of the two developers contributing to Outersloth is Slay the …
Creating eerie investigations through snowy footprints in Gevaudan 1851
This interview is part of our Road to the IGF series. The IGF (Independent Games Festival) aims to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize independent game developers advancing the medium. Every year, Game Developer sits down with the finalists for the IGF ahead of GDC to explore the themes, design decisions, and tools …
Transforming Lives and Industries: Ukraine’s Youth in the Gaming World
Dmytro Palii, Blogger November 2, 2023 5 Min Read Hello, I’m Dmytro, and I come from Ukraine, a land marked by its enduring struggle for freedom and democracy. Our journey towards independence, which culminated in 1991, has been fraught with challenges, including a Russian occupation that sought to extinguish our aspirations. In 2014, as Ukraine …
Postmortem: Infernax
Developer: Berzerk StudioPublisher: The Arcade CrewRelease Date: February 15 2022 Platforms: Steam, Win10, Xbox, Playstation, Switch Number of Developers: A good dozen Length of Development: 11 years Budget: Considerably more than a potato salad Development Tools: Prototyped in Flash, launched in Unity3d Eleven years ago, we set out to make the hardest, goriest, coolest homage …
Riot Games lays off staff to ‘solve challenges and build for the future’
Update: A spokesperson for Riot Games confirmed 32 employees were let go. Of that number, 27 were active League of Legends developers, and five were from Riot’s publishing division. Original story: Developer Riot Games is eliminating staff, said co-founder Marc Merill. Some roles have been cut within the League of Legends team. He explained the …
AppMagic secures $3 million investment to put into international sales teams
AppMagic, a service used to determine the market for mobile apps and games, has raised $3 million in a new round of seed funding. The bulk of it ($2.5 million) comes from Gem Capital, a Cyprus-based company that’s previously aided developers like Mundfish and Sad Cat Studios. With the funding, AppMagic plans to build out …
Art Deep Dive: Optimizing the visuals of Glow Season in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Game Developer Deep Dives are an ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design decisions aren’t really that simple at all. Earlier installments cover topics such as the technical design of impossible spaces in the …
Three Reasons why I love Orbitect: A retrospective.
Matt Javanshir, Blogger November 27, 2023 10 Min Read As Orbitect is just a few short weeks away from release, I wanted to write something that I like to think is one of the things I do best: meandering reflective introspection. Orbitect is a game which is near and dear to my heart. My feelings …
Detroit Beyond Human sells over 10 million copies in over six years
Quantic Dream announced its narrative adventure Detroit Become Human has sold over 10 million units since its 2018 launch. “We are extremely grateful to each and everyone out there who played the game,” wrote co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumière. “You mean the world to us, and we couldn’t have achieved this incredible milestone without every single …