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Wrapping up 2024 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Financial success Solo dev Tuomas Auronen , operating under the name Redbeak Games , looks pretty relieved three days after the launch of his game Mortal Glory 2. The game is developed by Californian solo dev Michael Cosio, working under the name of Tainted Pact. Here Below is an attempt to pool resources between small devs.

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Solo dev Jason Nicot on his new project Sanctua “A more mature party game”

PreMortem.Games

In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. If it’s necessary to maintain a high level of quality, offer regular content, and respect the players who are loyal to the game, I would do it. But with one of the players corrupted, escape is easier said than done.

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The Fast Life and Fiery Death of Vampire Survivors Games.

The Bottom Feeder

Nobody Stripmines An Idea As Well As Indie Devs Do The history… Vampire Survivors entered early access in December, 2021. Its creator hired a bunch of staff, and they've been releasing bunches of new content. Vampire Survivors is still fun, and I occasionally give it a play or two when new content comes out.

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“Gameplay Programmer” is a very broad job title. What are some subsets of this? Combat, AI?

Ask a Game Dev

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators!

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Short N Sweet looks to open up a new sector in console gaming

Game Daily

He cites the difficulty of obtaining console dev kits. Mirrored Souls (pictured above) from The Bricks Studio is described as a “single-player-co-op puzzle-platformer” in which players control two characters at the same time on a mirrored screen in an attempt to reunite them.

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The Imminent Ragnarok of M&A in Mobile Gaming Space

Deconstructor of Fun

This post is written by Eric Seufert , a strategy consultant and the owner of Mobile Dev Memo In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of events, including a great battle, foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures and gods, natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water. Model 3: Early Stage Bets.