PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. As a one-person team, he embraces both the creative freedom and the intense challenges that come with solo development.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The developer is conducting layoffs across its League of Legends team in prepartion for the 'next phase' of the (almost) 15-year-old MOBA.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Along with getting rid of the badge, Twitch is restarting its organization reviews that let accounts see stream analytics, manage games, and build Extensions.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 31, 2024

Unity has become the first third-party platform to roll out support for Apple's XR headset.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Kadokawa wants to build on the success of Elden Ring by creating more original franchises.

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AWS Games

MARCH 11, 2025

platform is addressing these challenges head-on with its comprehensive cloud-native game development environment built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The technology allows teams to set up their game development environment in the cloud. This feedback-driven development process ultimately led to the launch of Remngu 2.0a

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Game Developer

AUGUST 5, 2024

Andrew Wilson argues College Football 25 needed genAI not just to help recreate all its real-world players, but also to help build the revived series' future.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

HTML5 games are in a 'renaissance,' and Playgama wants to make it easier for developers to reach the entire market instead of bouncing between 'standalone playgrounds.'

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Game Developer

MAY 8, 2023

Red Hook Studios had to build a better way of doing Early Access to make Darkest Dungeon II.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Minecraft franchise loses its third spinoff in as many years as Mojang moves away from further developing Minecraft Legends.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Developers will have to register a phone number by October 24 if they ever want to update their game or add new users to their Steamworks account.

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Game Developer

APRIL 5, 2023

Sweet Baby co-founder David Bédard explains how the studio worked alongside creators from marginalized communities to build two new games for Panic's groovy Playdate handheld.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Founded in 2018 by CEO Senad Hrnjadovic, SenAm Games is an independent game development studio based in Munich, Germany. We have a solid track record of developing and releasing three games in the last seven years, including client work, Hrnjadovic says. Instead, in scenes where he is present, the camera will switch to his viewpoint.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 31, 2023

The co-development studio is working on its own mystery IP.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2025

Determined to push himself, he embarked on a new path as a solo developer. To find his first solo project, he developed a new brainstorming approach: he built a prototype in roughly 100 hours and let people play it. Why did you become a solo developer? I had two main motivations in becoming a solo developer.

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Game Developer

MARCH 20, 2024

Longtime developer Rez Graham shares the advantages (and disadvantages) of building your own tech for indie game development.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The AR developer has spent half a decade using its games and positioning tech to build a 'detailed understanding' of the planet.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Here at PreMortem.Games we have a great admiration for developers that go through a complete development cycle alone. And it takes a special kind of developer that wants to fly solo. This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

Fresh out of school Kaighen Finley started his own web & game development company Team iNtuition. Just to be on the safe side he mainly focused on web development, but his heart was not in it. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. Why did you become a solo developer? Effloresce : “Apply or build the idea.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

Working under the name of MystiveDev the Mojsovski-brothers actively include the player community in almost every aspect of development. Compelling gameplay loop Balancing the creation of assets, the Mojsovski brothers share that the assets are a mix of marketplace acquisitions and in-house development. “I say it’s 50/50.

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Game Developer

APRIL 14, 2023

Luna Abyss developer Bonsai Collective explains how it preserved performance by taking a unique approach to its bullet hell system.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Esteban Hernandez , the solo developer behind MKSM Design , has spent almost seven years bringing Creo God Simulator to life. What started as a passion project has grown into a full-fledged god game blending city-building, resource management and player-driven storytelling. Despite the rewards, solo development comes with challenges.

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Game Developer

MAY 13, 2024

Design lessons from Pacific Drive show how developers can build new experiences in familiar genres.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Game developers face numerous challenges in managing game servers such as scaling servers to meet player demand, managing game deployment pipelines and optimizing server fleets for costs. Lets explore available development workflows using Amazon GameLift Anywhere. Choose the created Custom location you just named and select Submit.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Everywhere developer Build A Rocket Boy has reportedly been hit with layoffs. As reported by PCGamesN , redundancies have allegedly affected an unknown number of staff across multiple departments, including publishing, QA, and art across the developer's three studios in Edinburgh, Budapest, and Montpellier.

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Game Developer

JUNE 28, 2023

While numerous tech vendors have clearly identified the need among developers for accessible, usable, and affordable tools, progress has been incremental at best.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story.

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Game Developer

JULY 11, 2023

The studio was founded in 2022 by a group of former Journey , Blaseball , and What Remains of Edith Finch developers.

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Game Developer

MAY 23, 2024

In a Game Developer interview last year, creator Billy Basso discussed his animation process and use of creative coding to build Animal Well's unique aesthetic.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With their second game, Canadian indie studio Lithic Entertainment takes a sharp turn from the tranquil charm of their peaceful city-building debut title, Dwarrows. Chain physics Development hasn’t been without its hurdles. Bellemare notes that the themes resonate throughout the game’s characters and story as well.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. “We didn’t know each other, we just all got a call from a bigger studio that told us we could use some of their spare space to develop video games. . Now we’re much bigger and have lived way past them.”

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The two-time CEO at Avalanche Studios and Flashbulb will 'build on and strengthen the winning formula that Raw Fury has developed.'

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Everywhere is being developed by Build A Rocket Boy, the studio founded by former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies.

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Game Developer

MARCH 22, 2023

Epic spotlighted new tools at GDC 2023 that it claims will help developers of all sizes build richer game worlds.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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. Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 30, 2024

But those games were licensing deals, externally developed by Scopely and Larian Studios, respectively. And despite the success of those partnerships, Hasbro is actually investing considerably in building out its own internal development. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Belgian developer Cyborn has introduced a fresh perspective on mixed-reality gaming with the release of Wall Town Wonders , a game that transforms living spaces into bustling miniature towns built right on the wall. Then I wondered, ‘Where would they build houses?’” Miniature people came to mind almost instantly. Iteration is key.

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