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Overwatch’s “Hero Mode” Needed to be a Spinoff

Deconstructor of Fun

A lot of ink has been spilled on the debacle of Overwatch 2 canceling their co-op PvE “Hero Mode”. Putting emotions aside, I think it’s worth re-examining why co-op PvE seemed like a good idea in the first place, and what went wrong in development. A more subtle challenge comes from character design.

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10 Best Free Sci-Fi Games You Can Play for FREE

SOVEREIGN MOON

Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. . Top 10 Best Sci-Fi Games You Can Play For Free in 2020. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design?

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Panel: Recession vs game industry Host: Laura Taranto, Senior Director of Product, Big Fish Chris Petrovic, CBO and Board Member, FunPlus Dara Leung , Managing Director, The Raine Group Micha Katz , Managing Director, Aream & Co. Then, think about play diversity, mastery, depth and social features that make the game even stickier.

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

PreMortem.Games

Player feedback French solo dev Matthieu Houllier , operating under the name Brute Force , has been making games by himself for five years. Because Houllier is working alone, he needs players feedback to shape his games. I prioritize creating content based on what I believe will facilitate the games marketing efforts, he explains.

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

PreMortem.Games

Jason Nicot , a French solo game developer operating under the name Choose Red , recently announced his latest game Sanctua. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind.

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The Fast Life and Fiery Death of Vampire Survivors Games.

The Bottom Feeder

Both about game design, and about the indie games biz as a whole. Brotato has a great design. I’m sure they care about their game, but this title makes it seem like they don’t. Meanwhile, In Vampire Survivors The game made a ton of money. Steam Workshop could do INSANE things with this game.)

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Tile Busters: Leaving The Reddest Ocean To Find A Blue Spot

Deconstructor of Fun

So, Spyke Games showed how ambitious they were from the start with one of the largest seed rounds the games industry has ever seen… Of course, to secure this type of investment, you need an extraordinary team with unique backgrounds, and Spyke Games had just that. Thus, Tile Busters was born.

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