Richard Moss

Kate Edwards wants everyone to become an advocate. The former IGDA executive director previously took up the mantle for advocacy in a fiery keynote address at Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) last year. A year in, Edwards has shown no signs of slowing down in her efforts to inspire all game creators to make change happen.
GameDaily caught up with her during Melbourne International Games Week to get her take on how the industry is progressing on a wide range of issues — diversity, crunch, work...

You'd think that game credits would be simple.
It's just a list of names and roles, after all. How hard can that be to get right?
But credits are rarely simple, because neither is game development. And yet credits are an invaluable, underappreciated aspect of game making.
They're our best — and often only — record of the human labor that goes into game development, serving not only as a reminder that games are made by people — sometimes lots of them — but also as a tool for developers to adva...

Ahead of the 11th main entry in the series, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, releasing this week, we tracked down nine people who worked on the original game and talked to them about how it all began. What follows, in their own words, is a story about discovering a concept with near-infinite potential and then struggling to realize even a fraction of it.

Conventional wisdom may dictate that indie game devs should put all their PC games on Steam, but Jason Rohrer's never been one to simply follow the crowd.
The veteran indie is known for doing things differently, whether he's making a game about burglary and home defense in which the perpetrators are often simultaneously the victims (The Castle Doctrine), exploring life and morality in a five-minute journey through a side-scrolling 2D maze (Passage), or burying a game in the desert in the hope...

When Zach Barth was in eighth or ninth grade, he gave himself a hacker handle.
He had no idea how to actually be a hacker, but he'd seen the movie Hackers and he aspired to be like the people he saw there. With a cool hacker handle like "thekrispykremlin" — a name he plucked out of nowhere — he could at least pretend.
Nearly two decades later, he doesn't need hacker handles to pretend. He has games to do that. His studio Zachtronics makes games about optimizing systems, programming, and now, ...

There are many reasons to be bullish on augmented reality, as development frameworks continue to improve and businesses experiment with new use cases for the technology.
But what’s it like to actually work in AR at the moment? What are AR developers excited and concerned about? And where do AR developers see the medium going in the near and medium-term future?
To answer those questions, we spoke with three developers and two of Samsung NEXT’s own experts about the state of the AR market.
Earl...

What follows is a chapter from The Secret History of Mac Gaming, a new book written by Gamasutra contributor Richard Moss. In this chapter, Moss charts the origins and impact of Silicon Beach Software's seminal game Dark Castle.
Charlie Jackson had a dream to play sport for the United States national team. Which sport didn't matter too much, so long as he could be on the team. The dream came to him in college, when two of his rowing teammates each made a different United States team — one for...

Toward the end of 2017, we ran a story on sunk cost fallacy in game development.
It featured around a dozen developers describing the price they paid for ignoring red flags and continuing to work on bad features or entire projects that were set for failure simply because they'd invested so much time, money, or energy into them.
A short time after the article went live, we got a suggestion from Axiom Verge developer Tom Happ to do a follow-up piece looking at the issue from the opposite direct...

I spoke to several of the two dozen or so people who worked on the original Age of Empires about how it was made. I asked them to reflect on the series' triumphs, successes, failures, and legacy. This is a compressed retelling of their many stories, focusing on the early days—the building of the foundations that are so central to both the Age story and each of the Age games—but spanning the full breadth of the series' life.

On June 11th, 2018, character designer and artist Shoji Mizuno passed away. He was a key figure back in the 1990s at the now-defunct Hudson Soft, a renowned Japanese games publisher — having directed art or design, or sometimes both, on more than a dozen games in the popular Bomberman franchise as well as providing original character designs for the Beyblade anime series.
Since this year is also the 35th anniversary of the release of the first Bomberman game on the MSX, I thought now would be...

Frustrated by the unjustified furore that surrounded his tame interactive movie game, designer Rob Fulop turned to Santa for help. And with a clever business model he and his team at PF Magic invented a new kind of game, one in which you adopt and care for a digital animal -- a virtual dog or cat, or something more exotic, with a personality and needs and quirks not unlike a real one.

It’s widely accepted that living healthy means eating well and getting plenty of exercise, but quantifying the effects can be a challenge and even dealing with many health issues requires a visit to the doctor. Recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) are beginning to change that, however.

We can now use data — including numbers, charts, and analytics — that lend insights into people’s general health, fitness, and well being. Those insights, in turn, could guide us to improved health o...

On the Nascondino World Championship, a yearly hide and seek tournament that attracts teams from all around the globe. I talked to Alan Jones, the co-captain of the Australian team, the Nascondingos, and Giorgio Moratti, one of the organisers of the competition, about how it works, what it's like, why it exists, and where it's headed next.

Every aspect of the original Core Design Tomb Raider series (and by extension the franchise's success post-Core) comes back to the grid that lies beneath it — the majority of the puzzles; the platforming; the cavernous chambers and ruins and outdoor areas that provide a sense of isolation, of solitude and discovery; and Lara Croft's iconic acrobatic movement style.
And yet it never would have happened if not for one pragmatic choice made by a programmer early in the game's development.
This is the st...