PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Digitalization has resulted in a glut in gaming content and increased marketing expenses.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Toronto, Canada based indie dev Thousand Stars Studio prides itself on being a culturally diverse studio. Were aiming to create content that resonates with a broader, untapped audience, she says. Spreading kindness From a content creation perspective, we have even higher aspirations.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on. I think you have the wrong idea about what game designers do.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. Cocoon’s development journey spanned a challenging 6.5

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. The exchanges, the free-flowing and expressive combat and how satisfying it feels to land a hit.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Remember - as an indie developer you won’t please everyone Watch the stream from 1:11:30 to see Rick and Tim’s early (and awkward) YouTube videos :D What Are Games That Play Themselves? However, being an indie game developer is a different proposition. They’re games that require little to no input from the player.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Truly open worlds populated by procedurally developed content, adaptable game mechanics, and narratives. Designer Jobs: AI-driven procedural content generation (PCG) algorithms generate game content dynamically. Fighting against the AI revolution is not the answer. AI frees up developers to focus on more creative aspects.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It doesn't matter how good your content is if nobody sees it. During those hours of walking and fighting (and, in Baldur's Gate 3, searching 20000 identical crates), players will forget a ton of story. Each chapter had exactly one very memorable, hateable villain to fight. Baldur's Gate 3 is too long. Doesn't matter.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

But a Lot of Pretty Things get Repeated While Elden Ring is enormous, a lot of that length comes from repeated content. Fortunately, when you get tired of a certain sort of content, you can skip it. Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand. The bull case : AI will supercharge indie developers allowing them to challenge large AAA by removing production constraints. Fighting against the AI revolution is not the answer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Consider it an appetizer to the content. We’ve seen mid-sized and indie devs find great success on PC by operating outside platforms like Steam; Battle State games is one great example. We’ve just finished the first round of this fight, with many more to come. Below you’ll find our conversation on YouTube and podcast.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Wanna get a peek at a previously unrevealed level area Ian's been working on that will serve as the arena for the Kristala demo boss fight?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

It’s gonna be the work, the creative work of millions of people who can each add their own elements to it through content creation and programing and design. And companies will be able to form to create content that builds out this world. And that there’s a big market of creators building content and earning a living from it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Hypercasual IPMs have started to flatten towards the end of 2019. For some games, this is a 1-time IAP.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Felt like they had to cut down 50% of their planned content, which is never easy. The final boss fight is a conversation, and the ultimate weapon is. The final boss fight is a conversation, and the ultimate weapon is. Still, overall this was a very impressive achievement for just 3 indie developers. philosophy and logic!!

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. Limited regen (e.g.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 19, 2024

Like, you need their help, but they immediately make it clear they won't fight for free. If I could make one change to the Larian design aesthetic: Yes, gamers love content. FIFTY EMPTY BOXES ARE NOT CONTENT. A lot of successful indie games, like Pillars of Eternity and Disco Elysium, are fueled by the power of words It works.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It's probably not worth the hassle for a solo indie. Dense narrow spaces = too much content packed together and repetitive encounters. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. So these are leftover placeholders that lead to cut content. Sit and listen. Money sink.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Wayyyy back in the 70s and 80s, science fiction/fantasy/superhero content hadn't completely taken over the culture yet. New nerd content was rare and treasured. Now, of course, this sort of content is pretty much all there is. You can turn on the tap and choose from 73 different flavors of Medieval Fantasy Content.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. Originally launched back in 2019, Dicey Dungeons was an immediate hit indie game. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Immersion is essential to every excellent game, and a 3D visualization is a terrific approach to creating engaging content.

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Filmustage

MAY 3, 2021

Photo by Tech Daily / Unsplash Surely all those who more or less follow the film industry have heard of the incredible boom in the field of streaming content. I do think it is one of the changes that we could consider as a positive: the more competition, the more need in gaining quality content. Stream, stream, stream!

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 1, 2022

This goes double if they just finished a huge boss fight and are full of adrenaline. Then, if you keep playing and repeat content or do harder stuff, you get a "better" ending. As in, they needed to find out a little more about what happened to be content.) This needs to take enough time to be clearly communicated. GOAT) SOMA.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. Indie gamers, e.g.: People looking for cool, smaller games to play, no matter the type. An Indie or Experimental Game : Steam, GOG, etc. Starting over, is the game commercially viable? Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Since we last met, things have legit been poppin' off over here. Concept Art.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight. Like you need to fight Archduke Bob. You have to fight Bob, therefore you enter the sewer. Indy's side quest to find the ark's location led to a really exciting scene with snakes. The journeys are where the action takes place: the fights, the sneaking.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. Back in 2019 when I was making the original prototype, there were also two other gay cowboy things on my mind: Orville Peck's hit single "Dead of Night" and the gay indie romance film God's Own Country.

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