It won’t be that way for a lot of games programmers out there, and that’s okay. Getting experience as a programmer is super important, and is crucial in order to improve yourself and to reach your ...

Unsung Heroes of the Games Industry: Tools Programmers Do you want to help make games for a living? This feature series explores some of the roles you may not have considered.

What Do Programmers Do, Anyway? Computer programmers design, develop and test software and ensure software adheres to best practices in performance, reliability and security. Computer programmers can ...

First reported by Tencent, an unnamed game programmer in Shenzhen, Guangdong province left his job in the video games industry and took up a cart to sell "shaobing" on the street. According to the ...

2D platformers: a game programmer’s guide High-Order Fun has a helpful guide to programming 2D platformers that walks through how to calculate basic movement, slopes, ladders, stairs, one-way ...

Seeing the newest and best video game graphics can be a stunning experience. They’re made possible by the amount of memory programmers have to work with. The Commodore 64, released in 1982, got ...

A video-game school holds workshops to teach young black and Hispanic students how to design games. Organizers hope to diversify the industry and combat the racial stereotypes found in many games.

Abstraction Games says it plans to increase the pay of its programmers in an effort to attract more talent from abroad and encourage more coders to join the games industry. The port specialist ...

You may have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or even mods that allow some in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? That's virtually unheard of... until now. SethBling ...