Videogame Workshop

New blog! It's October, so let's talk about Aliens! There's a surprising amount of connections between some games and the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter. Find out how these Aliens from Kentucky invaded videogames! #GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameDesign #halloween

ThinkyCon is starting now!! 🎉 thinkygames.com/even...

This week we're talking about how Until Dawn uses it's genre to compliment it's design choices. Read the new blog here! #GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameDesign #halloween

BioWare is closing, and the next Mass Effect game is cancelled.

Xenomorphs, Jason, Freddie, Horror is full of unstoppable enemies. In this blog, we talk about unstoppable enemies and how they're used in videogames! #GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameDesign #halloween

New crossword puzzle made with the ridiculous headlines from the past 2 weeks! Chicago's contribution to this week's puzzle: Lincoln Park billionaire accused of fueling ____ infestation #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

Making a game for spooky season? Here are 3 ways to add dread to your game! #GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameDesign

Playing anything good this weekend on @itch.io? If not, our recommendation is to check out the 637 games that were published for GBJAM 14! itch.io/jam/gbjam-14

Mario when SEGA cancels the Sonic franchise

If you're stressing about releasing your game on steam because you might mess something up, this should help your imposter syndrome: Ubisoft released Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on steam... without including the game. #gamedev #indiedev www.polygon.com/ubisoft-hero...

Wait. Eve online runs on Python??? I thought that was a joke! Also, good luck y'all migration is hard work. www.eveonline.com/news/view/th... #gamedev #python

The Snes turned 35 recently (NA release) and Linux turns 35 today. Naturally, I had to see if anyone got Linux to run on Snes. Of course they did. chorman0773.github.io/SNES-OS/ #snes #linux #retrogaming

New Blog! What do blue shells, snowballs, and quitting have in common? A big reason why player stop playing or caring about your game is that they feel their actions don't matter. So, here we talk about catch up mechanics and keeping players in the game. #gamedev #indiedev #gameMechnics

This one goes out to anyone reproducing bugs on a QA report. Your computer was probably tired. Cannot reproduce. #Gamedev #Indiedev #qa #programming

Part of Nintendo's E3 1996 B-Roll (recently digitized by VGHF) includes early footage of Mario Kart 64, then known as Super Mario Kart R! In this clip you'll find a different title screen, different character icons, and Kamek the Magikoopa as a playable racer.

We took a week off to celebrate a year of weekly headliners (!!!) We're working on some some cool stuff and we're thinking about switching headliner to a monthly or biweekly format. But, for now enjoy bigger headliner cause a lot of stuff happened these past two weeks!

In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, green trampolines make Mario jump so high he goes offscreen for 6 seconds. By extracting his position values from the code, we can "zoom out" the stage and visualize his actual arc, which reveals just how absurdly high the jump is.

We made it to 1 year of weekly headliner puzzles, and roughly one year since we started this company! Thank you all for talking game design with us!

Some game makers are always pushing the limits of their technology. #gamedev #indiegamedev #podcast

Answer: Japanese *NINJA* certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad

On this week's ridiculous crossword puzzle made of real headlines: "Japanese ???? certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

In case any of you all need weight references for your RPG weapons here's a handy guide: DM: "you swing your claymore and it hits with the equivalent force of a newborn!" #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

When your RPG has a "wait" option. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedev

Getting the QA bug report on a Friday afternoon #gamedev #indiedev

So, the true villain of the Legend of Zelda series is... game development. #gamedev #indiedev

I learned that conservation of ninjitsu was a major design inspiration for z-targeting in Ocarina of Time. The issue? Players had a hard time following multiple enemies. One of the devs noticed something similar happened in martial arts movies. Why not copy them? 🧵👇 #gamedesign #gamedev #Indiedev

This is still one of the best visualizations of how optimizing draw calls looks like at run time! Horizon Zero Dawn's open wold is vast, but not all of it is in active memory or rendered while you play. Instead, just the chunks of the level that are needed are loaded. #gamedev #indiedev