Kotaku editor Kirk Hamilton has compiled a list of five mechanics by which games turn a player’s failure or mistake into a meaningful experience.

Action RPG Sample Project is an educational mobile game from Epic Games, which should help designers familiarize themselves with the features of the Unreal Engine on a specific example.

The other day Epic Games introduced an updated version of the Unreal Engine. Its serial number is 4.20. Among the key innovations: mobile optimization, the appearance of Proxy LOD and support for realistic depth of field.

Cases of aggressive and toxic behavior of players in Overwatch have significantly decreased after the introduction of the mutual evaluation of players and the search for a suitable group for the match, Blizzard reported.

Mark Brown, the author of the Game Maker’s Toolkit project, has launched a series of video tutorials for designers who want to make their games more accessible to people with disabilities. Mark’s first video is dedicated to people with hearing impairments and how to make high-quality subtitles.

The narrative game studio Inkle Studios, known for the 80 days project, at the end of August for the first time organizes an “ink jam” – a game jam for screenwriters and developers working with the ink language.

Valve prefers to stay away from what is happening on the Steam forums, and sometimes this leads to sad results. Grace Carroll, who is responsible for SMM at Creative Assembly, told how the Total War community became toxic without moderation and how it was fixed.

The second large-scale update of Unity for the year boasts new rendering capabilities, convenient debugging of code in IL2CPP builds, a Burst compiler, a completely redesigned resource system and many improvements for 2D games, including support for vector graphics and hexagonal tiles in Tilemap.

A few days ago, a new version of the two-dimensional Corona game engine was released. Among the central innovations of version 2018.3326 is support for Facebook Instant Games and Direct Games in VKontakte.

Nick Pearce has developed a popular mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim called The Forgotten City. For his project, he received an award from the Writers’ Union of Australia, and now he is making a full-fledged game based on the mod.

id Software has always been famous for creating games on its own engines, but its new project, Rage 2, is made on Apex. The head of id, Tim Willits, told what dictated such a decision.

Former head of Wargaming Seattle Chris Taylor, creator of the Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander and Dungeon Siege series, answered questions from Reddit users, in particular, spoke about his work on a gaming platform for independent developers. We have compiled a selection of Taylor’s most interesting answers.

For recommendations of Google Play games and apps, high retention rates, rare crashes and a low number of deletions have gained more weight.

What should a good bug report that occurs in the game necessarily include? An article for developers and testers.

The introduction of celebrities and popular movie and television characters into the game is a common practice in the mobile sphere. Now Lithuanian Game Insight has started to practice it actively. The other day she launched a large-scale event in her 60 million blockbuster “Natives”. The face of the new event was Garfield the cat, a popular hero of comics and animated series. We tell you exactly how the company implemented the brand in its…

A player will not want to buy game items or resources unless they begin to understand what their value is. How can this be achieved?

Czech studio Madfinger Games took only two days to adapt its Shadowgun Legends free-to-play shooter for Switch. This was told by the executive director of the studio Marek Rabas (Marek Rabas).

How easy is the problem of declension solved when working on texts in games, in a small case for App2Top.ru he told me Igor Nyrtsov, Editor of Allcorrect Group.

Slovak startup Lubos has made the Armory version 0.4 3D game engine publicly available. Lubos is known as the author of the popular software package for three-dimensional modeling Blender.