September 30th is International Translation Day! No, really, it’s all thanks to St. Jerome, the patron saint of translators. To celebrate this fact, here’s a...

If you want to learn how to create board games, set up your indie gamedev business, create isometric worlds, build a JRPG, design talent trees, or understand...

In these guides, we've picked a dozen gamedev platforms and engines, and asked experienced developers to introduce you to each, explain their capabilities,...

Game jams have exploded in popularity. What used to be mostly small locally hosted events are now massive worldwide gatherings of game developers. There's a...

While a lot of this year's Unite conference focused on technology-related aspects of the Unity engine, there were many talks from developers on their...

You can't beat learning from personal experience... but learning from someone else's experience is often less painful. In this post, I've collated some of my...

Interactive fiction, also known as the text adventure game genre, has seen a major revival in the last few years. Between nostalgia for the past reborn on...

Welcome to Gamedevtuts+! This site is dedicated to game developers, and we host tutorials, tips, and articles about game design, coding, and working in the...

When I attended GDC 2013 I spent most of my time at the Independent Game Developers Summit where I got to hear many successful indie developers talk about...

The annual Game Developers Conference is a huge event, and the expo floor is a great place to learn about many new tools and pieces of software from major...

Besides running the Tuts+ Network, Envato also runs a set of digital stock marketplaces - and one of these, GraphicRiver, now sells sprite sheets for games....

The indie gamedev community is awesome: so willing to share tips, tricks, advice, and even detailed tutorials explaining important concepts. Here, I've...