PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But as the story developed, it took on a life of its own. ” Once a concept is chosen, it goes through a prototyping phase where function takes priority over form. “Playtesting is key. “Surprisingly, very few developers are truly exploring it. That was it,” says CEO and co-founder Adrian Olczyk.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Jason Nicot , a French solo game developer operating under the name Choose Red , recently announced his latest game Sanctua. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind. Nicot’s transition to full-time game development wasn’t without challenges.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 3, 2019

The concept is simple: through gamification, you take the elements we associate with games – point scoring, competition, rules – and apply them to something else. Businesses have fallen in love with this concept because they’ve found that gamification works wonders for motivating people. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Now that we’ve accepted that theme and mechanics are imaginary, abstract concepts, let’s put them to use. Then you can start developing mechanics. Through playtesting, you can answer the question “do the mechanics suit the theme?”.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. “We didn’t know each other, we just all got a call from a bigger studio that told us we could use some of their spare space to develop video games. . Now we’re much bigger and have lived way past them.”

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

Alice Ruppert , a leading authority on equestrian games with her website The Mane Quest and a producer on the game, spent most of 2023 working on its inception and concept, laying the foundation for a game that faithfully portrays horses. “We At present, roughly 20 people are dedicated to Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With Solium Infernum, Australian game developer League of Geeks has revived Vic Davis’ PC cult classic from 2009. That concept had been floating around the studio since 2017. But still, there was an extended period at the start of development where we worked very closely with Vic to ensure we were on the right path.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. ” Besides, when we – as gamers and game developers – put aside our frustration for a moment, we can actually see Monopoly for what it is: a solid concept with bad execution. Watch your playtesters’ reactions.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. Sharp criticism and failure is what hones your design sense.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Sarah: It was also in 2013 that we met Ben and were playtesters for his game Tower , which he launched on Kickstarter early in 2014.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting started with your first NFT game development venture can be interesting. But is the NFT game development market worth entering? So, yes – NFT game development is worth it. And how do you start your first NFT game development project? Why is NFT Game Development Becoming So Popular? billion by 2028.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” Playtest a Ton. Need help on your board game? With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 29, 2021

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Now look, some parts of game design – like playtesting or accessibility testing – can be tedious. “Do I care about the basic concept of the game?” Sometimes, it just makes sense to quit. Need help on your board game?

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Let’s begin by understanding the concept of levels in a video game. In a game, new motives, challenges, and concepts are added to the game world, while ensuring they increase the degree of difficulty at every level. Process of Level Designing and Game Development 1. Looking for experts in game logic and development?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But going through 3 years of development by himself has made him realize that solo is not really for him. “I Why did you become a solo developer? “I I became a solo developer 3 years ago after losing my job just before the pandemic hit. “I I became a solo developer 3 years ago after losing my job just before the pandemic hit.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Building multiplayer games can be rewarding and exciting for aspiring game developers. In this article, we will guide you through the fundamentals of multiplayer game development to help you kickstart your journey to creating your first multiplayer game. Development This stage is where the actual game creation occurs.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

In 2022, a life-threatening incident could have derailed his dreams, but his passion for expressing his creativity through game development fueled his recovery, leaving his physicians in awe. Concept art for upcoming game Moya Sithlu and his family moved to Durban from East London when he was in grade 10. I have around 160 poems now.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. But for you, if it’s too much work to develop further, then remove it. Playtesting is crucial at this point. If you’re not careful with how you develop your VR game, you can make your players physically sick.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Game development isn’t as smooth and glamorous as many newbies imagine. It comes with challenges like tight deadlines, production obstacles, publisher pressures, and long work hours, which are just a glimpse of every developer’s hurdles. Many newbies ask the question, what are the stages of game development ?

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. When you’re writing to your development team, your team has more important things to do than reading (or they think they do, right, producers?). A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Now, Yomi 2 is a re-imagining of that fighting-card-game concept. It's very expensive to develop, and I've really gone far beyond my ability to fund it already. These are updated pretty often based on feedback and playtesting from patrons. Please consider joining Patreon to support this development effort.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

Interviewing is one of the most important aspects of any developer’s job. I’ve been interviewing developers since 2013, talking to dozens of candidates at companies such as King, Foxglove and Yager, writing job specs for various roles, and providing hiring decisions. Why would you listen to me? How would you approach this?"

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eighth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Playtesting storytelling.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. Moving from full-on development to showcasing your game is a huge shift. Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. I’m pretty sure we’ll be doing some more playtests in the near future. Ovidiu Mantoc – Level Design, 3D Art. Cosmin Coroiu – 3D Art. Carmen Palade – Animation.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

This work deals with the development and design of an open world game with a high. You can also read about procedural generation in general and how my self-developed Shape Based TFFT-Method is being used to create a more coherent visual language in open world games. degree of design coherence.   Just with other designs.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. If you're new 'round these parts, let us help you get properly acquainted. 3D Modeling.

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Sirlin

JULY 22, 2015

Yomi Card Game I took many of the concepts and dynamics that go on in fighting games and put them into a card game form Yomi ( Steam / iOS / tabletop ). We could certainly add more to our controls scheme if we need to, but so far it's gone over fantastically in playtesting exactly how it is.)

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. Honestly that resource should get more use, and definitely would if Cogmind is developed long enough (there are Plans).

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

Christina has given this game such a life, and I’ve long felt, since early in the development, that while the core mechanism is the “brain” of Spellstorm, the characters are the heart of the game. work, is that life is too short to spend months or years trying to get a game concept working. I’m really excited!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

History Most people in the western hemisphere may not be familiar with Call of Duty: Online (CoDO), a project kicked off in 2010 and announced in 2012 as a partnership between Activision and Tencent, with Activision in charge of development and Tencent as the Chinese publisher of record.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. This aligns with the concept that although Exiles prototypes are meant to be very good, they’re also usually flawed in some way, such as eventually breaking down, blowing up in your face, or something in between :P.

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Tom Francis

AUGUST 20, 2019

A lot of people have trouble understanding this concept or just don’t like it. In my playtests this version feels like it gives you a lot more to think about, and more control over your success, which is why I’m ok with allowing a hard failure state. Problem 2: The Shame Pile. Problem 3: Too easy.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This concept would end up remaining true into the final design. At this point, I have playtested Tasty Humans over fifty times. Need help on your board game? The design process really started with the puzzle. Final Thoughts.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

That includes the unexpected depth of the board game industry as well as the surprising variety of responsibilities which a self-publishing developer must handle. I’ve written about the five levels of communication game developers must master. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. Since cops ignore consent, I had to program special cop-only exceptions in my core TestSexMood() code function. L of semen for each one.

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