The Magic Number
Top of the stack: Gram Games on the making of Six!
Mark Muller, Kerem Alemdar and Cem Öcalan reflect on the puzzle hit
Five Years On
Backflip Studios on releasing DragonVale World five years after the original
Adapting to the new world
Now Playing
Now playing: Oscar Clark on Sky Force Reloaded
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Learn From Experience
Jobs in Games: King's Ben Hollis on how to get a job as a Lead Game Designer
The man behind Shuffle Cats shares career insights
Free To Pray
The 10 commandments of free-to-play game design
Thou shalt not try to change free-to-play
Making A Mark
How a vibrant community is helping shape the future of 60-second RPG Exiles of Embermark
Tim Harris talks us through the latest in Exiles' development
Shocking Jam
GameSparks to host first ever game jam on 24 September
12 hours to make a new game and win prizes
Google Games
Google recruiting game designers and engineers to build "the future of mobile entertainment"
Inexperienced candidates need not apply
Apply Now
Angry Birds Action developer Tag Games hiring Producer and Senior Game Designer
Dundee-based studio now hiring
Get Ahead
Hothead on how game designers can stay ahead of the competition
Creative Director Mike Inglehart gives three key areas
Learn From The Best
What other mobile shooters should learn from Glu Mobile's Rival Fire
The case for Rival Fire as a best-in-class shooter
War Theory Meets Supercell
Plarium on the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical levels of war in Clash Royale
Guy Ulmer on the games disrupting the flow
New Frames Needed
How to convert your freemium-hating colleagues to F2P
MegaZebra's Matthew Laurence on challenging stigma
Triforce
How to balance time, resource deficit and session frequency to make a successful F2P game
Alexander Shtachenko is a juggler
No Babysitting
OKAM Studio on empowering designers with Godot Engine's adventure game framework Escoria
Ariel Manzur on letting designers design
Designing Candy
How King uses magic and data to find the fun in Candy Crush
Jeremy Kang discusses level design on match-3 games
Lessons In Vr
Why VR game developers need to "sacrifice creativity for comfort"
Player Research on the lessons developers have learned in VR
The New 52
DC Comics Legends revamps gameplay to be more like EA's successful CCG Galaxy of Heroes
Streamlined character progression and simplified missions
Developing Strategy
Helsinki strategy experts PlayRaven hiring Senior Game Designer
Spymaster and Winterstate seeks experienced F2P design pro
More With Less
What we can learn from the success of Nonstop Knight
Torulf Jernström never stops
Swedish Scenes At Stugan
Stugan 2016 applications closed, location of summer program announced
7 weeks of making games in the Swedish countryside
Jam Tomorrow
Jamchester: UK's biggest game jam to take place in Manchester on 20-22 May
Over 200 developers making games across three days
Bica Game Designer
Portugese developer Bica Games is looking to hire a game designer
Continuing work on Smash Time and other projects
Creativity Through Limitations
ZeptoLab's Eugene Yailenko on lessons learned from King of Thieves
From prototype to 24 million downloads
Speaking Volumes
Spry Fox's David Edery on Alphabear: post-mortem of a viral hit
Third time's the charm
Something To Build On
What EA's Petri Ikonen learned from designing SimCity BuildIt
How user testing saved the project
More Options
How far can your core game stretch?
Torulf Jernström on getting elastic
Ustwo Plus Four
Join Ida: Monument Valley developer ustwo games is hiring
New recruits wanted at the London HQ
Making It
Video: Disco Pixel's Trevor Stricker on making it as an indie
Everyone's doing it
Coming Soon
Mediocre on new game DIRAC and playtesting the social way
Swedish indie looks forward to a big 2016
Next Top Designer
ZeptoLab seeks the next big designer with its Game Designer Challenge
Have you got what it takes?
Automatic For The People
Can Machine Learning tune your game better than you can?
Torulf Jernström has a robot helper
Big Ideas
Video: Mobile developers discuss what makes the best ideas
Dream a little bigger
Music To My Ears
Video: The emotional case for in-game music
Makes the people come together
Indie Lifeblood
Indie developers discuss why they are the lifeblood of the industry
Or are they?
Quit Your Job
Nicoll Hunt on why you should quit your job
Right now. Do it.
Homeward Bound
Indie developers discuss the new ways of working in the current industry
Mostly just working from home
Audience Panel
Indie developers on considering diversity in your game's audience
Who's playing your game?
Know Yourself
Jonathan Evans on asking yourself what kind of indie developer you are
Maybe it's time you found out
Product Panel
Indie developers discuss if you should focus on the game or the service
Short bursts of fun or long-term battles?
Appocalypse Panel
Indie essentials discuss how to survive during the "appocalypse"
Facing the end of times head on
Get Smart
Kim Soares on how to be smart as an indie
Tips and tricks to survive in the mobile wilderness
Wwhcd?
Harry Slater on why console game design doesn't work on mobile
Think about your limitations
Studio Profile
How a YOLO attitude helped Dumpling Design's Dashy Crashy hit a million downloads over a weekend
The fledgling studio invite us in for a chat
Tell Me A Story
Video: Evan Skolnick on the importance of storytelling in games
It's not just about feelings
Left Or Right?
Video: Failbetter Games on the best number of choices to give players in non-linear games
So many paths, so little time
Winning
Video: How to come up with a winning game concept
You just gotta believe in yourself!
Train-ing Session
Video: Big Huge Games' Tim Train on what made DomiNations a success
Knowing your competition and working rapidly
Design Trends
Video: How emerging consumer tech will impact mobile games
Intentional or not, it's important to follow the trends
Taking Back Control
Why Age of Empires designer Bruce Shelley thinks mobile strategy games are dissatisfying ... and what he's done about it
A new strategy