Games & Game Development

Indie game development

Indie game development sits within Games & Game Development. Explore games as designed experiences, software systems, and artifacts with their own histories and communities. This selection contains 38 catalog videos from 29 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include game development, game design, gdc, indie games, notch and game feel. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“HandmadeCon 2015 - Pat Wyatt”, listed under Molly Rocket, is cataloged as interview. Pat Wyatt, a veteran game programmer who worked at Blizzard and ArenaNet, speaks at HandmadeCon 2015 in a conversation with Casey Muratori. He discusses network code and architecture in games he worked…

“Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho”, listed under grapefrukt, is cataloged as talk. Martin Jonasson and Petri Purho take a bland Breakout clone and add layer after layer of 'juice' such as easing, particles, screen shake and sound until it feels alive. A live demo…