Game Developer (magazine)

{{short description|American magazine marketed to video game designers}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| image_file = Game Developer June-July 2013 Cover.png

| image_size =

| image_caption = June–July 2013 cover

| editor = Patrick Miller

| editor_title = Editor

| frequency = Monthly

| circulation =

| category = Video game industry

| company = UBM Tech

| publisher =

| firstdate = {{start date and age|1994|3}}

| finaldate = June/{{end date|2013|7}}{{cite news|author=Brendan Sinclair |title=Game Developer magazine ceasing publication |url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-04-09-game-developer-magazine-ceasing-publication |access-date=5 December 2015 |work=Games Industry |date=9 April 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208125757/http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-04-09-game-developer-magazine-ceasing-publication |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}

| finalnumber = Vol 20 No 06

| country = USA

| based = San Francisco

| language = English

| website = [http://www.gdmag.com/ gdmag.com]

| issn = 1073-922X

|logo=Gdm-logo.svg}}

Game Developer was a magazine for video game creators, originally started in March 1994 by Miller Freeman, Inc{{Cite journal|title=Game Developer Premier 1994|journal=Game Developer Magazine|publisher=Miller Freeman, Inc.|year=1994|pages=2|issn=1073-922X}} as quarterly, later bimonthly, and finally monthly.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag|title=GDC Vault|website=www.gdcvault.com|publisher=UBM Tech|access-date=2018-12-24}} In each issue, industry leaders and experts shared technical solutions, reviewed new game development tools, and discussed strategies for creating innovative, successful video games. Monthly postmortems dissected the industry's leading games, from AAA console to social and mobile games and beyond, and columns gave insight into deeper development practices from across all disciplines, from design, to programming, to art, to business, and audio. It was closed in 2013 as part of a restructuring at parent company UBM Tech (part of UBM plc) that included the closing of all print publications owned by that company.{{cite web |url=https://www.polygon.com/2013/4/9/4205514/game-developer-magazine-shuttering-print-version-by-july |title=Game Developer magazine shuttering, Gamasutra evolving |website=Polygon |date=April 9, 2013}}