Game Developer

Series

Identifier: MAG-GD

Staff Only

Game Developer

Scope and Contents

This is a nearly complete collection of Game Developer and its many supplements, including the Game Developer Game Career Guides. Where applicable, supplements are organized with the issues they were bundled with.

Dates

Publication: April 1994 – Fall 2013

Creator

United Business Media (Publisher, Organization)

Extent

220 Magazines

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Game Developer was a monthly magazine that covered "the art and business of video games," published by UBM, which also managed the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and Gamasutra.com. In addition to the monthly (or occasionally bi-monthly) magazine, Game Developer would occasionally release special issues or supplements, most notably a Game Career Guide published every fall (after the June/July issue) starting in 2002. For several years, UBM also bundled a GDC preview guide with the magazine.

Custodial History

Several issues in this collection were donated by former Game Developer contributing editor Noah Falstein and former editor-in-chief Brandon Sheffield.

Note on Digital Copies

Digital editions of nearly all issues of Game Developer magazine are available on the GDC Vault website. However, issues on GDC Vault predating May 2004 do not include the advertisements from the print edition of the magazine. VGHF has re-scanned issues through April 2004 (and other missing issues) in order to capture their advertising content.