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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. When his last game, that he spent 17 months working on, flopped, Auronen felt the pressure to make enough money to support his family. So what went wrong?

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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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4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

You’re sweating the moment you get this game out of the box. If you’re a fledgling designer and you want to make your players nervous, this is how you do it. A well-designed co-op game like Pandemic stands out among the crowd. You know what I’ve noticed?

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Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

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Associate Development Manager Co-op/Internship - Summer 2025 (Sports FC QV) Game Product Manager Intern (Summer 2025) Music Intern EA Sports FC Franchise Activation Intern Associate Character Artist Intern Client Engineer Intern Visual Effects Co-Op Associate Environment Artist Co-Op (Summer 2025) Game Design Intern (Summer 2025) Game Design Co-Op (..)

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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. Nobody Stripmines An Idea As Well As Indie Devs Do The history… Vampire Survivors entered early access in December, 2021. Soon, Vampire Survivors will have couch co-op. I recommend it.

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What if any technical reasons are there that more PS5 and Series X games do not support offline co-op and multiplayer modes? It seems that while yes, current gen games are more demanding, current gen hardware is exponentially more capable than past generations. Why not just add a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th viewport into the world and let people game together? Any relevant answer would be appreciated. If none, I’ll just assume my suspicions are correct and you are under some NDA about this. The breaking of which would result in being blacklisted and hunted down by John Wick himself. Thank you.

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Here are a few game design considerations that make split screen a non-trivial task, even in a scenario where technical limitations don’t exist. Aspect Ratio When we are designing a game, screen visibility and aspect ratio are important. We can run as many viewports as we could possibly want.

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

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In today, you’ll go through about 40 hours of gameplay through 4 different game worlds and countless sub-quests before you reach the final Leviathan raid where you’ll require great levels of skill and a well planned out strategy to emerge as the victor. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design?

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