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Breaking into game art and game development can seem daunting, but there's good insight and advice out there for new starters. Christopher Payton has worked in the video games industry for over 20 ...
In an interview with Game Rant, the lead game designer on SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance discussed the title's enemy and boss ...
The Psychology of Engaging Players Game developers make games engaging using psychology. Reward systems, near misses and progressive jackpots all contribute toward keeping players interested.
Interactive Arts and Technology 312 introduces students to a range of topics in game design, from player psychology to uncertainty to narrative to economic systems in games. The course lectures cover ...
As games critic Keith Stuart puts it: "Are games art or aren't they? Nobody need answer. Games are beautiful and important — we can leave it there and know that we are right." Watch a clip: ...
The Art Institute of Vancouver has been named the eighth-best best undergrad school for game design, beating out the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on rankings released by The Princeton Review.
Besides earning a Game Art and Design degree up to Masters level, she is a designer of board games, board game workshop facilitator, and an avid TTRPG Games Master - not to mention a former ...
We opened in 2012, and since then a vibrant community of game makers has made it home. Bit Bazaar is really shaped by the kinds of work our community is doing in alternative games, independent game ...
Roger Ebert, a film critic I respect and read regularly, once said that games are not art. Apparently he never heard the end of it from gamers. That's why, in a new column posted on the Chicago ...
Former high-flying executives at a major video game company have been put on trial for enabling a toxic workplace. How did we ...
And last year, Bitmap Books released The Art of the Box, collecting more than 350 of them. The 564-page book spotlights 26 illustrators, many of whom made their names on early game box art.