”The games business is a crapshoot,” said Chris Crawford, a San Jose game designer who by most accounts is one of the few successful independent computer game authors.

The development of interactive computer video games has become a multi-billion-dollar industry that caters to the legions of gaming enthusiasts with a steady output of new games featuring ever greater ...

Nolan Bushnell recently was named VSGI’s “Game Pioneer in Residence,” and he began his service by connecting with GMU computer-game design students and giving a public lecture Oct. 3.

Amy Price, PE Lecturer and UEFA A Licence holder, looks at what coaches can learn from studying effective video game design.

Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design are the lucky beneficiaries of a settlement reached in a class action lawsuit involving video gaming employees at Sony.

Billy Olden is hoping to land one of them. Olden is the first graduate of Southern Polytechnic State University’s computer game design and development program, which was established in 2009.

There is a huge library of books out there that provide reference guides to programming, and there’s a smaller selection dedicated specifically to techniques used by game developers. Recently ...

Even if you're a casual fan of computer or video games, chances are you've heard of Sid Meier, the veteran computer game designer who co-founded MicroProse with Bill Stealey in 1982.

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