PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The game invites players to interact with tiny townsfolk, build unique structures and explore surprises, all while pioneering the possibilities of mixed-reality technology. Then I wondered, ‘Where would they build houses?’” Within days, the concept was pitched to Meta and greenlit enthusiastically.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What started as a passion project has grown into a full-fledged god game blending city-building, resource management and player-driven storytelling. It would be great to bounce ideas and concepts off of fellow colleagues when building my games. What’s your creative process? How did you get the idea for Creo God Simulator?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. While he didn’t immediately embark on this ambitious project, the concept lingered in his mind and gradually took shape as a concrete game design. This way, the game never stays in one specific gear for too long.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“I wanted IHAS to deal with so many philosophical concepts,” Pidiashenko explains. In the past, I’ve tried creating a few YouTube channels (starting in 2017) and TikTok accounts, trying to build an audience and, eventually, turn it into a business. That’s why I wanted IHAS to deal with so many philosophical concepts.”

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For gateway gamers, you’d prioritize a simple game based on straightforward concepts, understandable strategy, non-gamey language, approachable graphics, a short play time, and general ease-of-use. The post Should You Build for the Gateway Gamer or the Hardcore Gamer? You would then have a trade-off.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Knowing other developers were using it gave us more confidence to build. The following year, the Norsfell team submitted their concept to the Montreal Ubisoft Indie Series annual competition for local independent game studios—and won. Buoyed by success and a cash prize, they moved “Tribes of Midgard” into production.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

She drew a lot of the first concept art for the main characters. According to Lamhut the team explored several concepts before settling on Roguelites. We can definitely say that it works wonders for the type of game we’re building. There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

TikTok brought them back into fashion and in splendid style when the concept of fidget trading emerged as a new trend in 2021, with users filming the process of trading their fidget toys with each other. A large part of Fidget Trading’s massive success was due to the popularity of the game concept and familiarity among TikTok users.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Rebots came from a simple concept. Jake Rasmussen , the game’s director, wanted to create a game about building and programming robots,” says Porkoláb. It brings together resource gathering, crafting, building and working with robots, while also telling stories through the game’s alien characters.”

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here are just a few examples: Cooking Madness looked at how it could further monetize the concept beyond pickaxes with Pirate Treasure, which features a $4.99 premium battle pass. Candy Crush Saga took an unsurprisingly sweet approach to the Digging craze with Baker’s Box , which swaps sand for cookies and pickaxes for spoons.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 4, 2024

We spoke with recent graduate, Sai Usha Poojitha Mannuru, about her time studying Concept Art & Digital Illustration Foundations at CG Spectrum. Sai now works as a 2D concept artist and digital illustrator at Eitri Studio! featured] What I'm doing now since graduating CG Spectrum helped me build a good portfolio for my job search.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

I started tinkering with small projects on my own, and over time, I realized I enjoyed the freedom of building something exactly the way I envisioned it. Something I want to feel in a game rather than a structured concept. It wasnt really a big decision. What are the biggest advantages of working solo? Whats your creative process?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 15, 2024

“I shared the concept with them early on, and they were fully on board, which boosted my excitement. “They handled functionality, building everything off the first game, letting me focus on creative aspects like story, cutscenes, music, voiceovers, and art,” he notes. .

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some of the initial concept and atmosphere from that school project still resides within the game,” explains Olsson. Buildings crumble on impact, glass shatters and debris bounces off the car into the street. It’s that thoroughness that got publisher Konami interested in the project. “We

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The small team of six to seven professionals is tasked with wading through roughly 150 new concepts per month, determining which few might have the potential to become the next big title. Kepler Interactive’s selection process hinges on more than just a game’s polish—it’s about the ‘vibe’ and the unique potential of the concept.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

As such, deck building complexity is potentially off the charts. World of Warcraft had a similar issue where power and complexity was building at an exponential rate with each expansion pack because every expansion needed to invalidate raid gear from the previous status quo in order to entice players to keep playing.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This is because a given project is at its maximum headcount right before it ships - you need all hands on deck during full production, building and validating all of the content in the game. The next factor is that most big layoffs come after a project has shipped.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2023

Elemental cornerstones Building on that conversation 10 years ago when the 4 friends Onat Hekimoglu, Fabian Preuschoff, Daniel Beckmanns and Ole Tillmann confessed their love for stop motion and story games, the narrative developed. The titular hero is a young lab assistant for the ship’s lead scientist, Jeanne Mareaux.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

Following the competition closely, CG Spectrum was wowed by the creative stories told through such a high caliber of concept and in-motion work — futuristic settlements sprawling across extraterrestrial landscapes draped in dramatic light and shadow, with fantastical creatures lurking in between! Missed out on the challenge?

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Perforce

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The industrial metaverse might seem like something from an advanced, sci-fi universe far in the future, but the building blocks of this concept are already present and functioning today.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

“From there, we kept exploring and experimenting, refining the concept into a story-driven adventure where players have real narrative agency aboard their flying ship, says Casals Meet deadlines Ticking Clock Games was founded in the summer of 2023 by Game Designer Roman Gushcha and Casals, who met while working in Poland.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape.The recent Kickstarter campaign for the game reached its 60.000 goal in just 19 hours! Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will release in Steam Early Access in September 2024.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 24, 2023

The path to success in such an environment is often unclear, with industry veterans having to navigate uncharted waters as they seek to build and evolve their companies. “What you really care about is the end product, and it doesn’t matter if you build the foundations,” Tadej shared.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Those content updates and patches are the "service" part - we have to build them, they go live and get pushed out to the public. The "live service" part means that the game is "live" (it is out in public) and that we "service it" by building additional stuff for it over time. Now let's get to your questions.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Let me illustrate this concept in two gifs. This will build tension very quickly and pull the player in - an angry player will be many things, but won't be bored. We need to build the anger up at a target, and then we need to lead the player to the best place to release all that anger on the target, achieving catharsis.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Technical Director Ivan Marcin is back for another groundbreaking session that will guide attendees through building a multi-modal agent using Amazon Bedrock. Games professionals can also attend a workshop to learn how to use generative AI for building game concept storyboards.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Throughout the show, AWS showcased how it empowers customers to deliver breakthrough gaming experiences, offering new ways for developers to build, run, and grow their games. Building Games with Unreal Engine Horde on AWS showcased Epics build automation platform, emphasizing efficiency in large-scale game development.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Through this unique online network, Alan connected with Advanced Concept Art Course graduate Dogyeong (Do) Lee and Game Design Course graduate Alexios Vasilakis who both joined the Overwrite Interactive team. Alan's advice for applying for an Epic MegaGrant is to have a playable build. for the pixel artist to use as a base.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Transforming creative Mobile gaming advertisers build a high volume of new ads and new iterations, feeding these into marketing platforms seeking increased ROAS or reduced cost of acquisition. How these decisions are made could be the competitive advantage you need for your game.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. The core engine involves this concept plus mechanics related to virus eradication. Carcassonne : The purpose is to build the best village. Sometimes you want to build a game around a mechanic.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

You'll be able to earn the skills and experience needed to make your dream game real while building other games and seeing some best practices in action. You can even consider the day job as a means to earn some funding to build a demo that you can use to shop around for investors and further funding.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. Build on your strengths. So rather than coming up with an entirely new concept for his second title, he stuck to his guns and layered in more elements – like in-game combat and the use of limited resources – to get people more engaged. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The concept is so simple that the Unity project has zero code / zero C# scripts. I tried to build up and pace out the jokes, I tried playing with different senses of "beef." Just make the thing and let the activity breathe. So this is a game about literally finding beef and clicking on it. Very simple. But it's always there.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. After encouragement from a friend, I studied and began building modded move sets (PSAs) in Smash Bros: Brawl for mages and characters from other franchises, independently, using the forums as guidance.” Effloresce : “Apply or build the idea. I function well like that.”

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Filmustage

JANUARY 16, 2025

Free Sign Up The Building Blocks of VFX Magic Ever wondered what makes those jaw-dropping visual effects pop off the screen? The VFX Artist's Toolbox Think of VFX as building the world's most amazing digital sandwich - you need all the right layers! Building Digital Dreams Think of 3D modeling as sculpting with pixels!

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Then it cuts to concept artist Emily Johnstone anxiously trying to pitch design ideas to a group brainstorm meeting which she just happens to be the only woman in the room. They build a small forest camp themed test level to jump around in, but it's difficult to pinpoint look and feel because they don't have an art director. (I

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