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Visual Concepts lays off staff at Lego 2K Drive South studio

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The layoffs have resulted in a 'majority' of losses for VC South's art team, along with cuts among design and engineering.

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IO Interactive will publish Build a Rocket Boy's 'proof of concept' game for Everywhere platform

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The Hitman studio will publish the first game built on Build a Rocket Boy's Everywhere MMO, but has no concrete plans to be a third-party publisher full-time.

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Thoughts To Live By

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As a lesson in and reminder of what's philosophically important to my studios' games, inspirational posters have been a useful tool. This post features some 'here's what's important to me' concepts and asks you to come up with your own.

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BitCake Studio built online multiplayer game Atomic Picnic completely remote

PreMortem.Games

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. . There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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‘A sprinkle of alien essence’ brings the Creatures of Ava by Inverge Studios to life

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In Creatures of Ava by Spanish indie studio Inverge Studios , players take on the role of Vic, a young explorer stranded on the planet Ava alongside her companion, Tabitha. However, as development progressed, the concept evolved into something much more narrative-driven.

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How ex-Blizzard devs Frost Giant got players to invest nearly $1m into the studio

GamesIndustry.biz

Plenty of GamesIndustry.biz readers are familiar with the concept of crowdfunding, with well over a decade of Kickstarter campaigns helping to bring many a game to market. Less common, however, is equity crowdfunding. Read more

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Three Minutes to Eight developer Chaosmonger Studio “Multiple stories moving parallel”

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Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. Nicola Piovesan remembers how he created the concept in a semi-hypnagogic state right before falling asleep. “I

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