Transform into Old mech Donald with Lightyear Frontier
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Where will retro-inspired developers turn next?
Diligent attention to the NES palette and arcade-style love letters
Celebrating the unprecedented weirdness of Mario’s Game Boy debut
Why Super Mario Land is still the plucky plumber's trippiest outing
Out now! On another planet with Wireframe #69
Get your exclusive Planet of Lana poster in this month’s feature-packed Wireframe
Cutesy 3D platforming gets a cuboid upgrade in the upcoming Mojito the Cat
Spain’s Guillem Tenza Albeldo went from architect to game designer – and has big plans for the future
Shovel Knight Dig review: fun down under
The latest Shovel Knight spin-off is an adventure we can dig
How I became... a Senior Lighting Artist at Firesprite Games
Ellen Shelley on the importance of using light to set atmosphere and how to avoid creative exhaustion
How Roll7 got its skates on to reinvent the genre
Co-founder Thomas Hegarty reflects on the studio’s educational origins, all the way up to the skater’s paradise it is today
Recapturing the feeling of childhood RPGs in Dreamed Away
Software engineer turned solo dev Nicolas Petton discusses his French-inspired homage to Mother
Go for it, Goemon: The history of Mystical Ninja
We explore Konami’s underappreciated Ganbare Goemon series, and the games the West never got
Gungrave G.O.R.E review: superfluous style and lacklustre action
Third-person shooter revival is a grave state of affairs
Lode Runner has been inspiring the game developers of tomorrow since the eighties
How the eighties platformer’s level editor gave players the chance to awaken their inner game designer