Game development & industry

Game development, the game development and publishing industry in general, and any related topics like modding, programming, Unity, "the making of" post-mortems, etc.

>"they don't make games like they used to". >make a game like they used to. >nobody buys it

223 posts · 6 months ago

Now that Insomniac is the de facto marvel game dev what other heroes should the make games of?

31 posts · 6 months ago

Why are game developers allowed to act like asshats?

260 posts · 6 months ago

>make game. >all the blood in you and your wife's bodies stolen

32 posts · 6 months ago

At what point did the game industry decide they wanted to be taken seriously as a form of art?

34 posts · 6 months ago

Why did appealing to the "male gaze" fall out of favor in the Western video game industry?

383 posts · 6 months ago

I've been writing game design essays, just started this one about immersion. Thoughts?

41 posts · 6 months ago

What's the worse community you've ever come across in gaming? >inb4 sonic

164 posts · 6 months ago

Was there a more pathetic game developer than this?

58 posts · 6 months ago

>The most important geographical region to video game development

68 posts · 6 months ago

ITT: things that are considered good game design practices but actually make a game worse. >tight gameplay loops

84 posts · 6 months ago

Should have stuck with making animations instead of falling for the game development meme

18 posts · 6 months ago

as a game dev

65 posts · 6 months ago

Japanese game developer to shy to show her face because she looks old

553 posts · 6 months ago

mary jane looks worse than expected. gotta love western video game devs

42 posts · 6 months ago

Other than Earthbound, what community is the most like this?

299 posts · 6 months ago

>AI will make game development easier :D. >the AI games

91 posts · 6 months ago

How do we fix modern video game design?

29 posts · 6 months ago

>*singlehandedly ruins capcom fighting games for 15 years and gets away with it scott free, rendering almost two decades of game development a comp...

33 posts · 6 months ago

Alice Madness Return game design document

151 posts · 6 months ago

What does a game developed in 2011 (released 2014) look better than a game released in 2022 with ten times the budget?

83 posts · 6 months ago

Silhouettes are the biggest fricking meme about game design for characthers, people only recognizes the characther because it's either already pop...

37 posts · 6 months ago

>best game of all time. >the peak of immersive sim genre. >the gamer community refuses to discuss it

248 posts · 6 months ago

>Too difficult, bad game design

35 posts · 6 months ago

How did the Fighting Game Community end up like this?

29 posts · 7 months ago

AAA games these days are all above 100GB. wtf is wrong with game devs. At this rate games will be above 1TB soon

92 posts · 7 months ago

Fr fr what has happened to game developers?

79 posts · 7 months ago

What should be done about braindead game developers? Banning people for offline modding?

57 posts · 7 months ago

Why are modern game designers so bad at their jobs?

318 posts · 7 months ago

What went wrong with western game devs?

38 posts · 7 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3 anime confirmed. Cyberpunk taught the game industry that anime sells.

101 posts · 7 months ago

remember when the game industry celebrated attractive women

444 posts · 7 months ago

Unity CEO is getting fired

98 posts · 7 months ago

Oh nononononononono whats going on at unity

81 posts · 7 months ago

What happened to GOOD game design?

51 posts · 7 months ago

If I want to get into simple game development, should I learn one, the other, or both?

108 posts · 7 months ago

Post shit video game design:. >Rolling is faster than moving and has no cost or downside

75 posts · 7 months ago

Are standalone expansions the future of AAA game development?

33 posts · 7 months ago

Fact: Most gamers now consider right to be the correct way to design games over left

69 posts · 7 months ago

The loss of videogame manuals permanently changed game design.

34 posts · 7 months ago