When Bruce Shelley tells you about the five most important steps on setting up your game design document, you start taking notes. The Ensemble Studios co-founder and current consultant for numerous game studios offered some valuable tips on drafting a game design document.

During his own career in the game industry, InstantAction’s CEO and co-founder of Westwood Studios Louis Castle has had his fare share of having reinventing himself. From the time he had to pick his future livelihood as a teenager, to founding and setting up Westwood from his own garage. Here are some tips he shared…

During the Browser vs. Client-based Freetoplay MMOs panel at GDC Europe, one major problem with client-based games was also brought to attention that normally never receives that much attention at game conferences. The game-client’s size. “Size does matter,” IGG’s chief operating officer Kevin Xu told a slightly giggling audience. “The smaller the better.” IGG’s mixed…

Quantic Dream’s CEO and founder David Cage was invited to GDC Europe to explain why, how and what happened after his team made Heavy Rain. Not before he started his talk criticizing the state of current games as being too much “defined by who you kill or what you destroy”. Cage argued that games have…

During his keynote talk on the first day of GDC Europe Tencent Games’ vice president Bo Wang talked about how Tencent reached the top of the Chinese online games market. While Tencent is best known as a leading provider of Internet and mobile & telecommunications value-added services in China, Wang spoke of the massive potential…

“It’s evolution,” argued Playfish studio director Jeferson Valadares during his talk on intuition versus metrics on the first day of GDC Europe. After offering a quick and swift introduction to the most recent and popular debate within the game development community, Valadares continued to explain why both are equally important and require two completely different…

During his keynote at GDC Europe, Warren Spector had a lot of advice and wisdom to share on how to mature the game industry. Having worked with several people in Hollywood, Spector addressed the matter of being careful, when borrowing concepts from other media might be fine and developers should step in to do their…

Kicking off the first talks at this year’s GDC Europe, Ubisoft’s Executive Producer Christopher Schmitz and BlueByte’s Senior Producer Benedikt Grindel offered their take on the critical success factors of game production.