Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

Developers Doug Sharp and Mark Roth walk us through the game's glorious past and promising future.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Several games in the classic franchise are now open source, so longtime players can peek under the strategic hood and see how they work.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

GameFromScratch.com EA Release Command & Conquer Series Source Code EA have just released the source code for several games in the Command & Conquer series ( Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn), Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals and Zero Hour ) under the GPL v3 license.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 27, 2025

From PUBG x Dragon Ball to Goddess of Victory: NIKKE x Nier: Automata and State of Survival x Resident Evil , collaboration events with renowned franchises have consistently demonstrated their ability to significantly enhance mobile game performance. Below, we go through the highlights.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In order to understand how something is "hard coded", you need to understand what we do to the code in order to make it run on your device. Code is written in a human-readable format, but there is a lot of optimization and changes that get done to the code before the device can run it.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 16, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Descent 3 Source Code Released The source code for the 1999 Interplay/Outrage Entertainment game Descent 3 was just open sourced on GitHub under the MIT license.

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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Experience first-hand how Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games helps build breakthrough gaming experiences at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 17-21, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Unlock direct-to-player game streaming at 1080p resolution, 60 frames per second to any device globally with a web browser.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here are some best practices for mentoring others in your field and how to find those key relationships to advance your own career.

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Real Programming

MARCH 28, 2025

So, it makes sense that one of the fastest-growing extracurricular activities today isnt basketball or pianoits coding. According to a recent Nova One Advisor market report , the global online coding-for-kids market is experiencing explosive growth. Why Is Online Coding So Popular With Parents? Its happening online.

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Game Developer

MAY 28, 2024

Adding controller support to the PC version of Besiege isn't as simple as copy-and-pasting its console counterpart's code.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jordan Mechner talks about Digital Eclipse's latest retrospective: and how its exhaustive treatment tells the game's very human story beyond the source code.

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Game Developer

MARCH 20, 2025

'If there is any moment where standing up for our values in this industry matters, this is it.'

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But for now, it'd really help us if you wishlisted the game on Steam or idled in the Discord , mostly so we can show those stats to convince rich people to give us money to finish making the game. If you're interested in why we're making this game / what's going on. But I've been threatening to make a sports game for a while.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This captcha code mobile game dares to ask, can you remember the rules of a language you just made up?

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

GameFromScratch.com C# Development with Godot and Visual Studio Code Tutorial This is a quick tutorial to get you up and running with the C# programming language in the Godot Game Engine using Visual Studio Code and the newly released C# Dev Kit.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Dove and Open Source Afro Hair Library has unveiled the Code My Crown guide. The free downloadable resource aims to provide game developers instructions, references, and source code for creating Black hairstyles in video games. Read more

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Real Programming

MARCH 15, 2024

In over twenty years of teaching kids to code, RP4K has found that these two things are deeply connected. Fun is the underlying motivator that drives kids to become coding champions, improve their skills, and turn their imagination into things like video games that they can play with friends and family.

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Game Developer

MAY 23, 2024

In a Game Developer interview last year, creator Billy Basso discussed his animation process and use of creative coding to build Animal Well's unique aesthetic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In this latest episode of the podcast, Mishka Katkoff sat down with Cameron Stewart, Group Vice President, US Game Development, at SciPlay, to uncover the keys to their continued success in the social casino space. The companys evolution isnt just about adding new featuresits about ensuring their games resonate deeply with players.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Jordan Weisman has a lengthy entrepreneurial history in both tabletop gaming and video games. In video games, he started FASA Interactive (MechCommander, Crimson Skies), Virtual World Entertainment (BattleTech Center location-based entertainment), and Harebrained Schemes (Shadownrun Returns, The Lamplighters League).

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Game Developer

MAY 3, 2023

YoYo Games 2023 plans for its GameMaker program include AI integration, full mod support, and a redesigned version of its Code Editor tool.

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AWS Games

MARCH 12, 2025

This blog is co-written by Reza Nikoopour, Principal Engineer, Cloud Governance at Epic Games. For game studios large and small, a smart cloud governance strategy can go a long way in reducing costs and increasing security for a live service game. Shane Smith, VP of Technology Services at Epic Games.

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Real Programming

JUNE 27, 2024

Similarly, kids enrolled in RP4K’s summer coding camps walk away with foundational programming skills that employers seek. Let’s look now at how RP4K’s summer coding helps develop better leaders. When kids learn to code online , they need to test their assumptions and reevaluate what does and doesn’t work constantly.

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Game From Scratch

JULY 17, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Godot Block Coding Plugin There is a new visual programming language for the Godot game engine implemented in the Godot Block Coding plugin. This plugin adds a “Scratch-like” Lego brick programming system on top of Godot.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 24, 2024

Activision Blizzard has updated Call of Duty's code of conduct to combat player harassment and provided more insight into its voice moderation system.

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Real Programming

MAY 23, 2024

That’s why online coding classes are so popular, but which one should you take? RP4K has a summer coding class program that lets students take a deeper dive into coding. Instead of weekly one-hour sessions, kids spend two hours a day learning to code five days a week. Your kids will love creating their own video games.

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Real Programming

JUNE 11, 2024

The basic idea is simple: the movies and games we see on screens can be addictive, and if you’re not careful, they can suck you in and consume much of your life. More than anything, RP4K’s coding camp classes are fun. Let’s check out what makes the screen time kids enjoy at RP4K’s summer coding camp so productive and fun for kids.

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Game Developer

MARCH 17, 2023

Yarn Spinner lead developer and Secret Lab co-founder Jon Manning joins us on the Game Developer Podcast to share the secret trick to teaching writers to code, sing the praises of good documentation, and highlight the value of a collaborative development community.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The number of jobs people can apply for when they have excellent coding skills is incredible; not only are there prestigious, high-paying jobs like app or video game developer. More than that, parents want their kids to understand the underlying code driving digital technology so they can shape it rather than the other way around.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A two-year legal dispute between Snail Games, its parent Studio Wildcard, and Angela Game has been settled, following allegations that the latter stole the source code of Ark: Survival Evolved. Read more

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Real Programming

JULY 30, 2024

Thankfully, summer coding classes for kids make learning fun with generous, deep-dive sessions that revolve around creating a real video game. Please read on to learn how our summer online coding classes balance fun and education. RP4K takes pride in making computer programming for kids as fun as playing video games.

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Real Programming

APRIL 26, 2023

Learning to code is mathematical too, and also doesn’t directly require multiplying or dividing large sums. Let’s check out how RP4K’s coding classes are grounded in mathematical concepts. In 2020, Elliott returned to his mathematician roots to create a new coding course, “Mathematics and Physics for Video Game Programmers.”

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2025

Luke Muscat is no stranger to success in the mobile gaming world. I didnt feel like I was learning that much with each new game, he says. I had never actually shipped any gameplay features with code I had written. I had never actually shipped any gameplay features with code I had written.

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Retro Game Coders

MARCH 8, 2024

You can code for the C64, for free, using Microsoft Visual Studio Code! The Commodore 64 Programming Extension – VS64 VS64 is a Visual Studio Code extension for C64 programmers by Rolandshacks on Github. but the best way to install it is through Visual Studio Code itself. At the time of writing it is on version 2.5.3

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Kids who are hungry to learn computer programming need ample time to study, experiment, and play with the code. Coding is a discipline as open-ended as your skills and imagination. Once you grasp the fundamentals, kids can build things like their own games or custom Minecraft modifications. What I need is a deadline.”

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Kids and parents tend to have different reasons for learning how to code. Children seldom look this far ahead, and their reasons for embracing coding differ. You wouldn’t ask kids why they advocate playing tag, watching movies, or playing video games. Learning to code has a bit of each of these things in it.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Jason Nicot , a French solo game developer operating under the name Choose Red , recently announced his latest game Sanctua. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind.

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