PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

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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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 15, 2024

In Guntouchables by Danish indie developer Game Swing , enemies randomly power up from the upgrades that a team of four players can’t lift out of the levels. This leads to some unexpected and quite frankly, explosive situations as the game progresses. Game Swing was founded in 2013 by five Danish game design students.

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OPM Jobs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

However, chocolates and flowers aren’t always enough—a memorable gift, such as a gadget or game, might feel a lot more meaningful. Gaming isn’t inherently romantic or sexy, of course. To lighten your load, we’ve compiled a list of our favourite gaming-themed Valentine’s Day gift ideas.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

It was a fun cheap game that is still fun and cheap. It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero. Both about game design, and about the indie games biz as a whole. Brotato has a great design. Everyone else has.

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Designer Notes

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Chet Faliszek, who co-founded Stray Bombay and is best known for his work at Valve on games such as Left 4 Dead and Portal 2. Games discussed: Pong , Tecmo Bowl , Civilization series, Archon , M.U.L.E. This episode was recorded August 17, 2021.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. The game matures and consolidates around a competitive core.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Demand for Multiplayer Games There is a great demand for multiplayer games and it is the tech experts, creative thinkers, and game designers who have made them what they are today. The other aspect is the competitiveness that this category of games brings to the players through leaderboards and rankings.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 19, 2023

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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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… 10 Best Sci-Fi Games To Play in 2020 for FREE. In this post, we’ve rounded up the 10 best sci-fi games you can play for free in 2020. If science fiction is what you’re looking for, we have your covered with the ultimate list of the best free games in the genre. . Planet Calypso.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 17, 2011

Cooperative multiplayer is an oft-underused method of allowing people to play games together in a more accessible and casual manner. Not to say that those games aren't well designed and enjoyable overall. Still, any designer thinking about the cooperative space should have this problem at the forefront of their mind.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. What is Unity?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic!

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you really wanna go nuts, try to define what a “game” is. I mean, Hidden Object Games barely even count as an activity. And yet, we know they are games, because they have “game” in the name. things about making and writing about games for 30 years is the patterns you get to see.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Almost 2 years ago, the entire games industry was amazed by the announcement of a gigantic $55M seed round raised by Spyke Games. Many successful game company founders would jump on the chance to exit with $55 million, let alone receiving it as seed investment. Spyke Games is playing it safe and getting results.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Level Design Layout, place, trigger, volume, spawn, point, reward, treasure, quest, lighting, light, dark, texture, object, obstacle, blocking, whitebox, direct, draw, through, inviting, space, place, multiplayer, competitive, cooperative, co-op, deathmatch, capture the flag, ctf, domination, asymmetric, symmetric.

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