PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Final Factory blends factory building and spaceship design with RTS-style troop commanding and classic bullet-hell gameplay. Hence the premise of the game is that you are a Von Neumann probe, sent to consume all the resources in the Universe and build the ultimate (final) factory. Pretty impressive for a largely solo-developed game. “At

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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. AWS also hosted insightful sessions featuring Epic Games, Netflix Games, Riot Games, Jackbox Games, and more.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with. Build games holistically Although the debut game Genesis Noir was quite successful, the team at Feral Cat Den didn’t immediately start working on a sequel. “We

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This city-building sim takes players back to the Song Dynasty, where they must navigate the challenges of settling a town, cultivating the land and expanding the city. One of the most eye-catching features of Thriving City is its distinctive visual style. We all agreed that it had to be a bustling city”, says Game Producer Reinhard Wu.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

This city-building sim takes players back to the Song Dynasty, where they must navigate the challenges of settling a town, cultivating the land and expanding the city. One of the most eye-catching features of Thriving City is its distinctive visual style. We all agreed that it had to be a bustling city”, says Game Producer Reinhard Wu.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Fink shared that the team plans to host open development talks every Saturday on Twitch, where they would discuss new features and gain valuable player input. By involving their player base in the decision-making process, they not only improve the game in real time but also build a strong bond with their audience.

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece. The rapid feedback and iteration cycles enabled by this level of playtesting mean that the game is currently in fantastic shape. Limited play decisions.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

This extended infrastructure provides a developer platform for studios and publishers to perform their game development virtually, starting with playtesting. With GeForce NOW Cloud Playtest, players and observers can be anywhere in the world. All this is possible with Cloud Playtest on the GeForce NOW Developer Platform.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

Whenever I do solo dev work, the feature that always takes the longest and tends to require the most work to get something playable by actual players is the UI. Building out the gameplay features is always a lot of fun, but you can only go so far by fiddling with variables and restarting.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, I’ve even said: “ don’t build a board game, build a business.” I concluded that the best way to broaden the game’s appeal and expand into a new market would to build a new version. After several months of brainstorming and playtesting, we settled on the mechanics of Cover Your Kingdom.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. There are many more ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game. No one tried to challenge whether it was worth building what the team originally had in mind.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

I think that anyone making something like this is slightly delusional, thinking that your latest feature is the coolest thing ever,” he admits. Feedback from playtest sessions with friends or players is really important. These are essentially the building blocks of all sports, so I based the game around sandbox “sports”.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 16, 2024

During this phase, testers create a rough sketch of the game’s basic features, previously fixed bugs, areas that were improved, and how they were improved. Therefore, testers often repeat the process to re-verify the bug fixes and improvements made on the latest game build. Repeat Game testing is an iterative process. So, why wait?

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

Are they building the backend themselves, or using a BaaS? During the following Playtesting session, the game designer is unimpressed with the current state, mentioning missing features. Was there a joint Kick-off session before feature development started? Will they store the user data in a SQL or NoSQL database?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How to Venture in Your First NFT Game Development Here is a step-by-step guide to help you build your first NFT game: 1. Upon establishing your audience, brainstorm unique features and game mechanics. Learn a Relevant Programming Language Building an NFT game requires you to properly understand a relevant programming language.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This feature set enables you to thoroughly test your video game, ensuring it works as expected and is free from errors. Xcode Instruments If you’re building video games for iOS, Xcode Instruments can be an ideal testing tool to level up your game QA. This tool focuses on gathering user feedback and playtesting.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What are the frictions to overcome when it comes to building your animation production pipeline on the cloud? To build your animation production pipeline on the cloud, there are several frictions you need to overcome. Amazon Machine Images (AMI) to give you access to a pre-made template, or to let you build your golden image.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. Marvel Snap starts with a simple intro sequence featuring Nick Fury and Doctor Doom battling each other with you controlling Nick Fury.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Building multiplayer games can be rewarding and exciting for aspiring game developers. Here’s a quick overview of the entire process of developing multiplayer games, from pre-production to post-release: Concept and Design  Like any other game, the journey of building a multiplayer game starts by creating the game concept.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. It’s the phase where anticipation builds up for the game’s grand entrance. Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues. Testing Testing is like quality control.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Building a brand Cilingir used League of Legends and Genshin Impact as examples of brands that have resonated outside games, and stressed that community-building has never been more important as it lowers your UA cost. Then, think about play diversity, mastery, depth and social features that make the game even stickier.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

I must say this has been an exciting time, having the opportunity to revisit everything to iron out as many kinks as possible, in many places adding new build possibilities or even whole new mechanics. Categorical Approach. As an example, by far the most sought after prototype was Lightpack 2.0,

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Although I already demonstrated much of the first new modal UI layout in an earlier forum announcement , I figure I could review those features here in order to provide closure to this series, plus cover some related dev topics as well as the second modal layout. The inventory! It’s gone! Condensed part headers in action.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Gameplay testing , also called playtesting, is the process of having testers play a game to identify issues, collect feedback, and enhance its quality before official release. It assesses a particular service or feature of a game by setting multiple data values and variables to the game and running it in the runtime environment.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This ensures that many game mechanics, interactions, and features are thoroughly tested. Different game types benefit from varying levels of automated playtesting. These scripts should be reusable across different game builds and versions. This is because they need to be run consistently.

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Game Global

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Natalie recommends working with the localization team to make a list of technical requirements or ‘check points’ to include in the early game build, which can be shared with developers and the QA team. As Mike says, no matter how brilliant the other features are, bad localization will ruin your game. Challenge no. 3: Managing queries.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. Sample Garrison interior layout (major features labeled), under the old system first introduced in 2015. This always felt like a kind of side project though, one which could be small (doesn’t live up to the potential?)

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This year, we featured 22 inspiring creators in our Solo Developers-series and we love to share some of their highlights in these final days of the year. An ambitious game that combines medieval city building and kingdom defense with ARPG combat and monster hunting. No amount of playtesting is ever enough, he says.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Some individual items take days or even weeks to build. This way we know the maximum rate at which such an item can be used, plus this kind of item is likely more accessible to builds that don’t have the capability to supply large bursts of energy at once. They’re that crazy. Sample ASCII art from among the 100 new items.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

A standout feature of Chasmal Fear is the multiple player choices system and randomized events. “After we had the main gameplay features and ‘hooks’ of the game written down to the last detail in a design document, it was then that we began writing the story,” Mojsovski shares. Then, analyze their feedback.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

NEM and its chaotic effect is a whole different ball game that can be great for some builds, but there’s always the chance it’ll mess you up, so it takes a special embrace-the-chaos sort of mindset to use. Both can fit into the lore rather nicely, though, and in fact be related to one another.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Another layer of uneasiness A big factor in the game’s atmosphere and world building are the visuals. Our first playtester hit the first target after approximately 0.5

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Another layer of uneasiness A big factor in the game’s atmosphere and world building are the visuals. Our first playtester hit the first target after approximately 0.5

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

One of the things I’ve been focusing on a bit more in recent years is a revival of the greater game:non-game work ratio that Cogmind enjoyed in its early years when I was less interested in promoting it and more interesting in just building cool stuff. All your base are belong to us.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You have to build VR experiences the right way to make this happen. Playtesting is crucial at this point. Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. It does take much longer to build a great VR game. VR is all about immersion.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Customer Stories Learn how game studios of all sizes use AWS for Games services and solutions, including generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), to build, run, and grow their games across the globe. Product Launches AWS for Games is a portfolio of purpose-built capabilities to help game developers build, run, and grow their games.

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

And we use the forums for the occasional REXPaint feature/help discussion, so yeah they have their uses even now. Discord itself of course wants to capitalize on this effect and promote related features, so it provides an SDK for doing such things. Okay yeah that makes sense.

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