PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. But that’s not all.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Farrell and Mackenzie form the two-person indie studio Peaty Turf. What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It Despite going viral on Reddit and TikTok several times, they had to strike a delicate work-life balance to prevent burnout.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 31, 2024

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. They still need to balance this pre-production with finishing the studio's other projects too. What's the balance?

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. Godot doesn’t feel quite as chaotic as Unity did at times.”

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

Then the first wave of really successful indie games appeared on Steam, in the late 00s and early 10s. People who follow indie/solo devs on social media tend to be really nice and positive, but even so it takes a lot of effort.” When I have an idea I consider viable, ideally I go straight to prototyping and develop the game from there.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 27, 2018

The aim of CSG in Godot is for it to be used in level prototyping. Unreal has always offered similar boolean CSG, while Unity has recently acquired ProBuilder (which is a different type of tool, but still aimed at prototyping level geometry). For indies or small companies, it may even involve outsourcing to third party artists.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. The common point is that both were the co-founders of the indie games company Scuttlebutt Games.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

These include File Sharing for collaborative and one-shot work; Shooting Schedules & Shot Lists for the right balance of time and budget; and Storyboard creation to help you build a picture of your future project. Also, if you're an indie filmmaker or small company, the question of the price will obviously be a thrill.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.

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