Veteran designer and Tomb Raider creator Toby Gard explains how to enhance the reality and player interest of even a very basic game's design,

Veteran designer and Tomb Raider creator Toby Gard explains how to enhance the reality and player interest of even a very basic game's design, with a level design case study.

Ian Bogost looks at Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain in the context of film and cinematography's history to explain why he feels the game, billed as an "interactive film," is not quite that.

One of the original creators of Sonic the Hedgehog, Yuji Naka updates Gamasutra on his own studio, Prope, and discusses upcoming Ivy the Kiwi?, thoughts on Sega, and more.

What goes into reawakening a franchise that a publishing executive admits "did fall on hard times"? EA Games label president Frank Gibeau and EALA's Greg Goodrich and Rich Farrelly discuss the

As one of the biggest names to make the transition into social games with FarmVille developer Zynga,

Ben Cousins, former DICE man who spearheaded Battlefield Heroes, talks Lord of Ultima and how these games are part of a new division of EA catered to the free-to-play market -- and why.

Remedy animation programmer Henrik Enqvist takes a look at how the team created a believable tweed cloth simulation on the title character's jacket in Microsoft's horror-thriller Alan Wake.

How can visual art create meaning in games, and what techniques will serve best? Volatile Games' art team behind Dead to Rights: Retribution's neo-noir Grant City attempts to answer these questions.

In Gamasutra's first postmortem of an iPad game, two members of the team at Magnin Associates, a veteran developer of portable games,

The bestselling fantasy author details his process of building credible worlds that can support lengthy book series and massive games, from Forgotten Realms to 38 Studios' upcoming MMO Copernicus.

Nintendo's main man behind the Metroid series talks about what he feels is the core of its enduring popularity, the collaboration with Team Ninja on Other M,

While 3D interfaces are just taking off for consumers, years of research have been poured into the field. Dr.

Digital Chocolate's lead social designer discusses the complexities of attracting social gamers with little patience -- and still teaching them to play your game both effectively and appealingly.

The experienced designer and Lara Croft creator here outlines a process for designing action/adventure gameplay that will satisfy the needs of both your player and your game's story,

Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews looks at the U.S. console game industry's return to growth in March's NPD results -- are the declines behind us, and where do we go from here?

Eidos Montreal art director Jonathan Jacques Belletete on delivering a believable Cyber-Renaissance -- complicated by setting it before the first game in the Deus Ex series but ten years later in

Blue Fang Games' director of online and mobile games discusses the proper way to evolve a studio used to developing packaged,

In this signature Game Developer magazine article, the editors profile 50 of the most important individual contributors to the current state of gaming -- from indies to AAA, from business to art,

The creator of the 2009 IGF Grand Prize winner Blueberry Garden shares the thought processes and inspirations that shaped his atmospheric exploration-based PC indie game,

The Remedy man on the creative evolution of games, the production process of this long-in-development thriller,

Longtime Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka discusses his move to No More Heroes creator Grasshopper Manufacture and the philosophy behind his approach to creating game music.

Design consultant Ernest Adams examines the psychological tactics used by MMO developers to generate revenue in free to play games -- and questions the ethics of games based on hate, humiliation,

The iPhone has a huge game library -- but are other smartphone platforms catching up? Developers and analysts weigh in on the right approach to the marketplaces for Android, Blackberry,

The design director of Red Faction: Guerrilla talks about the transition from being scared of player freedom to truly embracing it,

The veteran game creator on the state of design and writing, why social is the most important new frontier in gaming,

BioWare's creative force and now chief creative officer of EA's RPG/MMO division speaks about the vastly different decisions made in the design of the company's various RPGs.

Boomzap Entertainment has built a work style that emphasizes finding the fun before entering production, and here producer and designer Luna Cruz outlines how this results in high-quality titles.

Designing engaging and varied multiplayer maps can be a challenge, and here,