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Get a job: SCE Santa Monica and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board
by Eric Caoili
[05.18.12] jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at SCE Santa Monica Studios, Monolith Productions, and others.
Console/PC , Social/Online , Smartphone/Tablet , Indie , Serious , Programming , Art , Audio , Design , Production , Business/Marketing , Recruitment
In-depth: SQL Server - High performance inserts
by Ted Spence
[05.18.12] #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, EEDAR's chief information officer Ted Spence continues his SQL Server examination by explaining how to create robust scalability one feature at a time.
Console/PC , Programming
GDC Europe 2012 adds new BioWare DLC, Bigpoint, HTML5 talks
by Staff
[05.17.12] GDC Europe 2012 has added new talks, with BioWare talking post-release DLC lessons from Mass Effect and Dragon Age , plus Bigpoint on free-to-play game design and YoYo Games on HTML5 programming.
Console/PC , Social/Online , Programming , Design , Business/Marketing , GDC , GDC Europe
How you can use metrics to predict when players will quit
by Christian Nutt
[05.17.12] writes how he applied analytics to MMO Aion to predict with 90-plus percent accuracy when players would churn out -- but there's one surprising caveat to that.
Social/Online , Programming , Business/Marketing , Exclusive
Flash, Facebook lead social developer tech survey
by Patrick Miller
[05.17.12] Game Developer magazine, with a continued focus on Flash complemented by a new trend toward Unity.
Social/Online , Smartphone/Tablet , Programming , Art , Audio , Design , Production , Business/Marketing , Exclusive
In-depth: Channel API
by Noel Austin
[05.17.12] #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, freelance senior programmer Noel Austin, shares his results after testing the performance of Channel API with Google App Engine.
Console/PC , Programming
The ins and outs of God of War 's 'interlinked' art and technology
by Christian Nutt
[05.17.12] Console/PC , Programming , Art , Exclusive , E3
How Indiana Jones Adventure World 's core game mechanics target Facebook players
by Patrick Miller
[05.16.12] Indiana Jones Adventure World was one of the first Zynga games with consequences," writes lead designer Seth Sivak in a new Game Developer magazine postmortem.
Social/Online , Programming , Art , Audio , Design , Production , Business/Marketing , Exclusive
GDC Europe 2012 debuts talks from Dear Esther , Amnesia creators
by Tom Curtis
[05.15.12] GDC Europe quickly expanding, event organizers have debuted new sessions from thechineseroom's Dan Pinchbeck, Frictional's Thomas Grip, and more.
Console/PC , Social/Online , Programming , Design , GDC Europe
Get a job: Treyarch and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board
by Eric Caoili
[05.14.12] jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Avalanche Studios, Treyarch, Monolith Productions, and others.
Console/PC , Social/Online , Smartphone/Tablet , Indie , Serious , Programming , Art , Audio , Design , Production , Business/Marketing , Recruitment
UE3 integrates RealD's stereoscopic 3D for licensees
by Eric Caoili
[05.14.12] Console/PC , Programming
Xperf Wait Analysis: Finding idle time
by Bruce Dawson
[05.14.12] #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Valve Software's Bruce Dawson takes us through his Xperf experience finding the cause of (and a workaround for) repeated hangs in Visual Studio's output window.
Console/PC , Programming
Four key advantages of a procedural platformer
by Staff
[05.10.12] Cloudberry Kingdom , explains four things that are gained by procedurally-generated levels.
Indie , Programming , Design , Exclusive
In-depth: Embracing dynamism
by Niklas Frykholm
[05.10.12] #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, BitSquid co-founder Niklas Frykholm demonstrates some tricks you can apply when everything is fluid and malleable with dynamic programming languages.
Console/PC , Programming
C/C++ low level curriculum: Looking at optimized assembly
by Alex Darby
[05.09.12] #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Gamer Camp's Alex Darby explains how to set up Visual Studio to look at optimized assembly code generated for simple code snippets.
Console/PC , Programming
XaitControl for Unity adds mobile support for character AI, game logic
by Eric Caoili
[05.08.12] Smartphone/Tablet , Programming
Al Lowe is 'fleshing out' the Leisure Suit Larry remake
by Leigh Alexander
[05.08.12] Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe about Replay Games' crowdfunded remake: How does one revisit a classic and please fans old and new? Is there a place for Larry in today's world?
Programming , Art , Design , Exclusive
Get a job: Bethesda and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board
by Eric Caoili
[05.07.12] jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Bethesda Softworks, Ready At Dawn Studios, and others.
Console/PC , Social/Online , Smartphone/Tablet , Indie , Serious , Programming , Art , Audio , Design , Production , Business/Marketing , Recruitment
In-depth: Generating uniformly distributed points on a sphere
by Jaewon Jung
[05.07.12] #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Crytek's technical lead Jaewon Jung shares what he believes is the ideal way for generating uniformly distributed points on a sphere.
Console/PC , Programming
In-depth: SQL server performance
by Ted Spence
[05.04.12] #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, EEDAR's chief information officer Ted Spence shares some useful performance tuning lessons he's picked up with SQL over the years.
Console/PC , Programming
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