Julian Pritchard talks to DigiPen student Alicia Yeargin about her degree, her experience as a student, and her thoughts on games and game design.
Interviews
5 Teddy Lee (maker of My First First Quantum Translocater and other popular Flash games) gives us his take on puzzle game design.
How are puzzle games designed? Teddy Lee
2 In this puzzle game design interview, Dave Hall from Toxic Games tells Dev.Mag how they designed the puzzles for Q.U.B.E.
How are puzzle games designed? Dave Hall
4 Ted Lauterbach, creator of the eerie puzzle game, suteF, answers our questions about puzzle game design.
How are puzzle games designed? Ted Lauterbach
3 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.
How are puzzle games designed? Guy Lima
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.
How are puzzle games designed? Rob Jagnow
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 […]
Jacking up
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.
Painting a pretty picture
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.
Playing with Clay
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 […]
Not so Glum
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.
Multiwinia – The Interview
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 […]
Speaking about Spelunky
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 19, released in December 2007. Bit-Blot, comprising of indie developers Alec Holowka and Derek Yu, is the force responsible for the IGF Grand Prize winning game, Aquaria, which was released on 7 December 2007. We chat them up and ask them about their […]
Swimming with Bit Blot
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 22, released in June 2008. Q. Mind telling us a little about yourself? Danny. My name is Danny Day. I’m 27 years old. I own QCF Design, an independent game development studio. I run Game.Dev, a non-profit community of South African game developers. […]
A Day to Remember
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 28, released in January 2009. To accompany our review of the game, Dev.Mag sat down with Daniel Remar, the sole creator of Iji, and harassed him with questions about the development of the remarkable game.