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Solo dev Vladyslav Pidiashenko “I hope IHAS will inspire players to better their lives”

PreMortem.Games

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. After finishing IHAS, I will start to build a strong team to work on games that are beyond my scope a solo dev.” It’s used to both fight enemies and solve puzzles.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Understanding that a game wasn’t going to build itself, I quit my job and just went for it.” He spent two years building Oakenfold after a successful Kickstarter campaign got him part of the necessary funds. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.”

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Makhoba Kamogelo: “Don’t let fear stop you from reinventing yourself”

PreMortem.Games

Why did they always have to be about fighting?” She’s been with me every step of the way as I try to build a career in this industry.” It’s a great community for building relationships and networks, which is important in the games industry. One of those games was Street Fighter. Every two weeks, we had assignments.

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Rami Ismail • Find your USP by describing the game in one or two sentences

PreMortem.Games

The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

KinitoPET combines this trend with the evergreen horror genre to bring you a unique experience about virtual assistants. The twin-stick shooter requires you to keep track of and fight the ever-closing game windows while evading enemies. Psychopomp GOLD Atmospheric psychological horror awaits you in the catacombs of Psychopomp.

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10 Elements of Good Game Design

Brand Game Development

Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. If you can give your game a story, you build a whole world of context that draws patterns in the mechanics and the theme. was garbage in its first ten iterations. It stalled out for the next four.

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Reality, Upgraded: Navigating VR/AR Gaming with Alex Silkin

Game Dev Unchained

His experiences have led him to focus on the development of VR games based on popular intellectual properties such as Creed: Rise to Glory and an upcoming sci-fi horror game inspired by the Alien movies. He concluded, “I think there’s obviously enough space for these two to kind of fight it out.”