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Wrapping up 2024 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

For the last five years, off and on, he worked on Critter Crossfire , a turn-based tactics and first person shooter hybrid. I prioritize creating content based on what I believe will facilitate the games marketing efforts, he explains. This game represents me as a developer, he says. I get excited to implement wacky ideas!

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Prehistoric Hunt - Predator Update

Indie DB

With it comes complete rework of the first person view, a new threat in the water: Mosasaurus and a new pterosaur Thalassodromeus. Read on to find all content! Predator Update is here! And there’s a lot more!

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Actually talk to the (author-led AI) murder suspect in Dead Meat by Meaning Machine

PreMortem.Games

His debut game Unknown Number was the first game in what its creator Tom Keane called the ‘First Person Talkers’ genre. Unknown Number put First Person Talkers on the map, with talks at GDC, several indie awards, and even being exhibited at the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC.

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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Is it heat, wind, light, acidity, soil sugar content, or any of the previous puzzle mechanics we spent the last 2 hours tutorializing? What affects this plant's color?

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Mordhau on consoles: “A lot of smoke and mirrors go into making things hit”

PreMortem.Games

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Airships: Conquer the Skies is still going strong on Steam and Stark keeps adding new content to the game to keep the community interested. He now works under the name of HALbot Studio s on not one, but two first person survival horror games, House of Lies and The Nightmare Escape.

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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

Game Refinery

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more.

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