January 2013

FEATURES

by Deborah Chantson and Julien Barnoin

How would you make a game about growing up with an alcoholic parent? Find out how Minority Media made it work in this Papo & Yo postmortem.

Front Line Awards

by Staff

The Game Developer readers have spoken: Find out which dev tools were the best in the business for 2012.

Bring Your Tools To Browsers

by Chris Edwards

The web isn’t going anywhere. Insomniac Games senior engine programmer Chris Edwards explains how—and why—they migrated their dev tools to the web.

Remixing Classics: Interview With Masaya Matsuura

by Patrick Miller

Game Developer caught up with PaRappa creator Masaya Matsuura to chat about the Japanese game industry, tech, and the new indie generation.

DEPARTMENTS/COLUMNS

Game Plan
Patrick Miller
Our New Year's Resolutions

Heads Up Display
Staff
New Media Rights And The Twine Revolution

Educated Play
Alexandra Hall
Shove Pro

Good Job!
Patrick Miller
Caryl Shaw Heads To Kixeye, New Studios, And Who Went Where

Cross-Platform
Nils Pihl
When Players Make The Rules

Tool Box
Noel Llopis
Gamemaker Studio v1.1.7

Sound Shapes Gallery
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Our New Year's Resolutions
Game Developer's self-improvement goals for 2013. Every year I make a few New Year's Resolutions; last...

Who wants to make social games?
Wading through the apologies. This Thanksgiving I met a young fellow who worked in games, and we discussed...

Stack Trace And The Death of A.A.A. Development
[Part 1]Is the game-development detective in over his head? It was pouring rain as I stared out the window....

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