When the founders of Afterburner Studios began working on their first game, they were looking for a way to marry the mechanics to ...

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I want to talk about Lancer’s development not as a nuts-and-bolts triumphant-engineering story — that’s my design partner’s purview — but from a ...

It’s been seven years since Tim Schafer kicked off the nostalgia-fueled video game crowdfunding craze with Broken Age. It wasn’t the first game ...

This piece was originally sent to backers of Defense Grid: The Board Game’s Kickstarter. It has been copyedited for clarity. I have gotten ...

Jon Shafer used to be the strategy game wunderkind who got started making mods, mentored under the legendary Sid Meier, took over Meier’s ...