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Valve sets new guidelines for devs selling season passes on Steam

Game Developer

If you aren't ready to clearly communicate about the content included in each DLC and when it will be ready for launch, you shouldn't offer a Season Pass on Steam.'

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Rogue Company developer removes all Dr Disrespect content

GamesIndustry.biz

Whilst the live-action game hadn't received any content update for over a year, developer First Watch Game pulled all content affiliated with the streamer following reports Beahm had "inappropriate" communications with a minor. Free-to-play shooter Rogue Company has severed ties with Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm.

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Charis Reid: “Save time by automating your communication with players”

PreMortem.Games

She emphasises the role of communication and consistent engagement with the audience without compromising development time. “As As a Community Manager you may get a little bit sick of answering the same questions over and over again and you kind of want to be a little bit more creative”, says Reid, pointing at automation as a solution.

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How to Use Content Marketing to Sell Board Games

Brand Game Development

One of the greatest forms of marketing, my personal favorite, in fact, is content marketing. The term “content marketing” gets thrown around carelessly on the Internet way too much and with little meaning attached, but the basic idea is simple. The Wikipedia definition I’ve included below is even more insightful.

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Parallel Experiment by Eleven Puzzles: “Put your heart into it and players will notice”

PreMortem.Games

Weve spent countless hours fine-tuning puzzles to ensure both players are always actively solving, thinking and communicating.” We want puzzles to be fair, meaning they should be challenging but solvable through logic and communication, not random trial and error,” Olczyk explains. “Playtesting is key.

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Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity

AWS Games

In this blog we describe how the AWS machine learning services can be used, in conjunction with graph databases and visualisation tools, to automate the process of scoring users and determining the impact of toxicity on your community. For this solution, we will use it to label any offensive content. Press Open Jupyter.

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Marketing manager Joana Keler: “Social media is your game’s best friend”

PreMortem.Games

Some of the key goals for social media marketing are game discovery, sales lifecycle, community building and direct communications. She went on to share some interesting tips for sharing your content on TikTok. Content on the platform is all about authenticity, so showcase the process of creating the game.

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