Riot Games is embracing bold new designs and reworking its approach to releasing champions in League of Legends. This shift stems from the belief that taking risks on innovative mechanics is ...

Iowa State University is in the final stages of incorporating a new game design major. Originally scheduled to begin in 2024, the new major will be available for students beginning fall of 2025.

I am a vaccine-immunology researcher and, since childhood, an enthusiastic (but mostly talentless) amateur gamer. I have an enduring love for the text-based adventure games I played in the 1980s, as ...

In the last few days, a slew of TTRPG and board game designers have led an online charge against 4 Pillar Games (4PG), a website publishing bizarre GenAI-assisted biographies of tabletop game creators ...

Abstract: We use AI agents to play successive design iterations of an analogue board game to understand the sorts of question a designer asks of a game, and how AI play-testing approaches can help ...

One of Escape From Tarkov's top devs has left Battlestate Games. Lead Game Designer Jean Tyulegenov revealed on Twitter that, after nearly a decade, his time at the studio had "come to an end." Though ...

JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...