Julian Pritchard talks to DigiPen student Alicia Yeargin about her degree, her experience as a student, and her thoughts on games and game design.
Apr 172012
Feb 202012
This article looks at Kickstarter, and to use it to raise funding for game development as an alternative to the traditional publishing model.
May 232011
Teddy Lee (maker of My First First Quantum Translocater and other popular Flash games) gives us his take on puzzle game design.
May 162011
In this puzzle game design interview, Dave Hall from Toxic Games tells Dev.Mag how they designed the puzzles for Q.U.B.E.
May 092011
Ted Lauterbach, creator of the eerie puzzle game, suteF, answers our questions about puzzle game design.
May 022011
Dev.Mag talks to Guy Lima, one of the founders of Ragtime Games, on how he and his team designed the puzzles for Continuity, the sliding-tile platform puzzler.
Apr 262011
As part of our series of interviews on puzzle game design, we asked Rob Jagnow about his approach. Jagnow is the founder of Lazy 8 Studios, and the designer behind Cogs, the steampunk-themed sliding-tile puzzle game.
Aug 272009
Save Jack was one of last year’s honorable mentions in Microsoft’s annual DreamBuildPlay game development competition, made by a pair of South African devs with a penchant for interesting ideas and a desire to put them into action. We decided that it would be a good idea to interview these good folks for their take [...]
Jul 202009
Polynomial‘s been getting around lately, with its beautiful fractal landscapes (in three dee!) attracting a lot of attention and even more awe-struck gaping. We accosted the game’s creator, Dmytry Lavrov, for a chat about its creation.
Jul 092009
Blazing in at the IGF and leaving a clay-ridden trail of aliens, shotguns and grumpy farmers, Cletus Clay is shaping up to be one of the most interesting indie offerings around, not least because it uses a game world built entirely of plasticine models.
Jun 162009
Today’s game market is, by all accounts, saturated. There’s simply not enough time for people to play everything that’s on offer out there, even if everybody dedicated their lives to hunting out – and playing through – as many titles as humanly possible.
Jun 112009
In the past few years indie game development has really been taken to the next level. Yet, while there are hordes of sites with interesting news about indie games, nothing quite beats TIGSource. Mostly because of the pie, though.
Jun 012009
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 16, released in August 2007. Put yourself in this situation: you’re an enthusiastic gamer, you’ve played your fair share of the latest releases, you humbly proclaim yourself supreme overlord of Counter-Strike, and you regularly peruse your copy of the latest ‘zines. For all intents and purposes, some may [...]
May 132009
To accompany our review of the game, we sat down with Glum Buster’s sole creator, Justin Leingang, for a discussion about the game and its intriguing sales model. Q. Firstly, tell us about yourself. JL. My name is Justin Leingang. During the daytime, I work in the commercial video games industry. During the nighttime, I [...]
May 092009
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 26, released in October 2008. After playing the preview code of Multiwinia, Dev.Mag went to have with a chat with Mark Morris, MD of Introversion.
Apr 022009
We’ve accosted indie developer Derek Yu, creator of Aquaria – which we covered extensively in the past – for a chat on his new creation, Spelunky, a unique blend of the replayability of roguelikes and the immediacy of platformers. All this goes well together with our review on the game this month too.
