A trend you may have noticed in the promotion of modern indie games is for lavish 2D animated trailers, as seen from indie hits like Dead Cells, Vampire Survivors, or indeed the launch of just about ...

University of Texas at San Antonio students will soon be able to earn a bachelor’s degree in creating video games. The school’s game design program is slated to launch in the fall semester as a ...

Is a player's experience interlinked with that player's psychology? This is a vast but barely explored topic that Sensemitter’s analyst Bogdan Baranovskiy explores in this article, providing insights ...

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Jasiri Booker’s parkour and breaking movements are used to animate the title character in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales video game. “I stick to walls. I beat people up. I get beaten up constantly ...

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is expanding into video game development, seeking candidates with game design experience. On Thursday morning, Musk shared a post on X from the account @techdevnotes that ...

For many Duke students interested in designing video games, Duke Programming, Arts and Design is the gateway to the game development industry. DPAD, a name that makes reference to the directional pad ...

Aspiring game designers can save on the recently released new edition of one of the most popular game development reference books. Level Up: The Guide to Great Video Game Design by Scott Rogers is ...

How a young game designer at Namco turned a simple idea about eating into a worldwide gaming icon. How each of Pac-Man’s ghosts has its own unique behavior that’s driven by early game logic. Why the ...