CG Spectrum

APRIL 3, 2023

Penny was kind enough to share her experience at GDC and why she believes it's such a valuable event for people looking to break into the games industry. GDC is an annual event that brings together programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business leaders from around the world.

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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This episode is sponsored by Autodesk AU 2023 | November 13-15 in Las Vegas ⁠ ⁠ My conversation with Brian Canary, a seasoned game designer, reveals the intricacies of the industry’s shifting dynamics. Collaboration and Single-Player Game Resurgence The discourse delves deep into the essence of game design—collaboration.

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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This episode is sponsored by Autodesk AU 2023 | November 13-15 in Las Vegas ⁠ ⁠ My conversation with Brian Canary, a seasoned game designer, reveals the intricacies of the industry’s shifting dynamics. Collaboration and Single-Player Game Resurgence The discourse delves deep into the essence of game design—collaboration.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Who is bucking the trend: The Merge Games genre downloads continue to decline as scaling up for these games became very difficult due to the unlimited amount of new entrants and privacy changes. What’s really noticeable in the Merge Mansion’s stride is the investment into the narrative in both game design and the creatives.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Every aspect of the game’s development has been thoughtfully considered, from ensuring each card has a rich backstory to using a low carbon footprint blockchain and efficient cloud-based technologies like Amazon GameLift on Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, balancing a three-faction card game is quite difficult,” Devine shared.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve also been writing more general roguelike-related articles, too, looking at game design , item randomization , and backtracking. I can’t promise that one will happen in 2023, but I will at least say it’s not impossible. I foresee, um, more Cogmind, yes ;). WARLORD FOREVER!

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

Back in September, I introduced people to my upcoming card game, Spellstorm. The initial plan was to launch a Kickstarter in February of 2023, but back in early December I realized we were going to have to push that back. I really appreciate the design work that’s happening in this space, and I want to be a part of it.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Subway Surfers was the most popular game for three consecutive years, with 218 million downloads in 2023, 304 million in 2022, and 191 million in 2021. Source: Business of Apps ) Subway Surfers, an endless runner game, was released by Kiloo Games and SYBO studio in May 2012.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya). And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Game Designing

JULY 30, 2023

It should also have a perfect balance of academic activities to enrich knowledge and earn practical skills for future employment. It offers the following programs: 3D and VX Game Design and Development Film/Video Game Programming 24 – Cinema School 2D Film Animation 5. It must encourage collaboration among students.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Six months into development, Coma accepted a job at Appeal Studios as a game designer, eventually becoming a game director. During his time there, he reconnected with a colleague from a previous game jam, Baptiste Remy, who shared an interest in making smaller indie games outside of work hours.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. Game designers would just be guessing. So, what can games simulate?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today, we dive into the critical components of game markets needed to make them fun, and applicable in web 3.0 The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul conference is coming up on March 9th, 2023! For a market game designer, revealing information should be an orchestrated event. and beyond. ? SAVE THE DATE!

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

Both about game design, and about the indie games biz as a whole. Brotato has a great design. However, the weapons aren't balanced well. The newer games try much harder to balance the weapons against each other, providing a better variety of builds. Time moves quick these days. I recommend it.

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