Her Story took out two major awards at the IGF Game Developers Choice awards in San Francisco today, including the “exellence in narrative” and the Seumas McNally grand prize. Hosted by Capybara Games’ Nathan Vella, the ceremony offered up few surprises, though Vella did use the event as an opportunity to announce some news about...
Crows Crows Crows’ first game, the free Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist. Great news, number crunchers and spreadsheet slayers, the accounting app for you is finally on its way to VR. William Pugh (who worked on The Stanley Parable) and Dominik Johann of Crows Crows Crows have partnered up with Justin...
Letting your players design the future of your game is a risky choice, but it can also have some unexpected benefits—even if it doesn’t solve the problems you wanted it to. That’s what David Osborne, the lead designer on RuneScape, had to say during his talk at GDC about RuneScape’s experimental crowdsourced design program. “From our...
Ninja Theory showed off a new trailer for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice during Unreal’s keynote at GDC, but it wasn’t any ordinary press conference reveal. Stage left, curtains parted to reveal an actress decked out in face-rigging attire, effectively transmitting her live performance into the trailer in real time. This is how Ninja Theory is capturing...
“My goal is to get rid of these female tournaments altogether,” says Stephanie Harvey, a five-time world champion in Counter-Strike. “The goal is to compete against each other and be one of the first competitive environments that doesn’t care about gender.” During a talk at GDC, Harvey and Morgan Romine, an anthropologist specializing in diversifying...
