Eyes dilated, fingers primed, ears perked. This is the sensory cocktail I experience every time I swipe my phone screen and pop open a freshly picked digital pack of Pokémon cards. Pokémon just celebrated its 29th anniversary on February 27th 2025 aka Pokémon Day — aka 29 years since the original GameBoy games were released […]
What comes to mind when you think about Malaysia? Perhaps the diverse foods pop into your brain. Maybe you envision the peninsula that encompasses the region. But what if I told you it’s also home to an energetic indie game development scene taking place right as we speak? Persona Theory Games is one of the […]
It’s hard to believe that Nintendo’s kid squid ink shooter is a decade old, so let’s just stop age-spiraling right now please. Splatoon 3 is 90% the same DNA as its previous iterations. That’s not a bad thing. Splatoon’s splish-splashing core gameplay ain’t broke and nobody’s fixing it, but with that is the notion that […]
When I think about growing up in America, I often consider what my definition of home is. The answer usually circles between complicated and chaotic. At GDoC Expo this year, many games and developers dove into the same question. We took some time to talk to Sherveen Uduwana (he/him), an award winning designer and producer […]
When you’ve read enough stories, watched enough movies, and played enough video games, you’ll quickly become familiar and exhausted by The Hero’s Journey – otherwise known as the monomyth. From The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and The Legend of Zelda, it’s a trope that has been passed down several narrative generations and is […]