Every game tells a story. Some might even call it a script. And if you can correctly identify that script ahead of time — accurately picking out plot points along the way — you can produce a joyful ...

My brother wants me to help his ~9yo son get into programming. After having struggled to teach my bro how to program in Objective-C over the last year so he can write iPhone apps, I'm thinking maybe ...

Everyone has at least a few games on their computer, and I would assume most of the Hackaday readership would be among the enlightened PC gamer bretheren. At this year’s DEF CON, [Tamas Szakaly] gave ...

I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that realm. At first, I thought "Halo as a shell script?", but then I came to my senses. Instead, ...

Back when Game Builder Garage was announced, I was curious to see what Nintendo would come up with. Having had the game demoed to me, it looks like it will be a very handy learning tool for aspiring ...

In this article, we’ll discuss the 10 most user-friendly programming languages for developing games. You can skip our detailed analysis of the growth of the video game industry and the opportunities ...

Games writers have historically been treated as what Rhianna Pratchett dubbed 'narrative paramedics', brought in too late for an emergency operation to patch up bad story or stitch together ...

Everyone has at least a few games on their computer, and I would assume most of the Hackaday readership would be among the enlightened PC gamer bretheren. At this year’s DEF CON, [Tamas Szakaly] gave ...