The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the previous part of the post, we’ve introduced you to the most important reasons to create a game design document in your project, using three examples: personal project, internal project, and commission work. Sometimes the creation of a game design document may seem like a defeat, especially the big ones.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While tools have improved dramatically, allowing smaller teams to produce more graphically and mechanically complex games than ever before, producing equivalent experiences to AAA mega-studios is still prohibitively expensive. Thrilling as a solo ten-hour-long campaign can be, linear content is expensive to produce.

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Big Games

JANUARY 9, 2025

Console Games Console games are mostly characterized by immersive worlds, better graphics, and extended play sessions. They are intended for players who like a more engaging game experience and sit for long hours. Furthermore, this gaming also has exclusive content that is not found on mobile platforms.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I tend to use the word game development as a catch-all term for everything that is associated with making a game – that includes game design, product development, marketing, promotion, Kickstarter/crowdfunding, fulfillment, and selling.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I produced a lot of content and had some success, but it wasn’t all that sustainable. Eventually, I burned out and decided to end my content creation career in early 2021. On one hand, I get to do what I love to do, especially game design, storytelling, and art. How do you deal with that? “

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

. “I try my best to accept that I may not be the most talented or brilliant game developer in the world, but that I am capable of making something fun and beautiful.” Years ago, I became a solo developer initially because I wanted to make games, plain and simple. ” Why did you become a solo developer?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While Goodwin Games was officially founded in 2023, Selfloss has been in development since 2019, starting as a solo project led by Khoroshavin himself. In 2020, he was joined by his wife, Gorokhova Rita, who took on the role of 3D modeler and content lead. Later, Dmitriy Nakhabin, a former student of Khoroshavin’s joined the team.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

The creative elements of coming up with story and narrative bits that will work within the constraints of a word budget, screen space, and even linguistic and cultural context is excellent (and transferable) practice for building narrative game content. If you want to be a narrative designer, you should go for it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 18, 2023

He was followed by Spry Fox lead game designer Alicia Fortier, Blizzard Entertainment lead content designer Osama Dorias, and The Outsiders lead UX designer Anna Brandberg sharing their own experiences with occupation burnout and what they've learned from the ordeal.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In order to do this, one needs to increase her understanding of the way the systems and content interact by guarding against future possible edge cases and issues that she foresees others on the team bringing up, and being able to articulate all of the elements needed to craft the experience she's trying to create.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

I think you have the wrong idea about what game designers do. 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.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Use Unity Timeline to create cinematic content, game-play sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. . The post Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store appeared first on Jaunty Bear Games. TextMeshPro is the ultimate text solution for Unity. Universal RP.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Play-test with game designers. Let’s say you’ve made light games.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ideas for the game’s content were inspired mainly from movies and TV shows, while the game designs came from the games the team loves to play, like Everquest for the open world concept and The Vanishing Hitchhiker for the atmosphere. We welcomed the different ideas and incorporated them into the full game.”

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Lost Garden

JANUARY 3, 2021

As game budgets expand once more, the success of a title often depends on producing large amounts of high quality content. Mistakes setting up your content plans can easily result in panic, shipping delays, scope cuts, rework and crunch. Modern developers live on the content treadmill so we might […].

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. When creating a new game, video game mechanics are often considered the most important factor. What are game mechanics?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Things were getting serious three years later when Ryding decided to quit his job as a software engineer and work full time as a game developer. One of my close friends, Ches Denison, joined me working 5-10 hours a week as a playtester, game designer, and just a general jack-of-all-trades-guy.

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Sirlin

MARCH 16, 2015

The core game has simplified and streamlined rules and we go through each one and explain why we made these changes. We also cover all the new (optional) content and what it adds to the game. The core game has simplified and streamlined rules and we go through each one and explain why we made these changes.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

“We are aiming to have a constantly shifting and engaging gaming experience where the visual look and game mechanics are always changing, and everything you come across feels fresh and intriguing.” He’s also planning the overall game design. Now it’s mostly about creating the content of the levels for me now.”

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today. She observed an evolution in her children’s preferences from traditional Disney shows to influencer and gameplay content. Access to the internet and video games has changed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Integrating IAP into traditionally ad-driven games requires rethinking game design and player experience, proving that hybrid monetization demands more than simply adding IAP options. While some players are willing to pay for exclusive content, others prefer progressing through rewarded ads.

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Game Daily

MAY 15, 2023

GameDaily: What are the most important features in Meta World My City that you consider to be genuine innovations in blockchain gaming design? Min-Kwan Kwon: We developed Meta World: My City in a way that anyone can enjoy both board games and virtual real-estate collections.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

. “My Co-founder Jakob Schmid and myself created the rhythm based puzzle platformer 140 together back in the day, and we are both interested in integrating music systems with the game design.” Carlsen’s vision for Cocoon sprang from a fascination with game mechanics.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Whereas if 90% of the people in a bar were women, the idea is that the environment is more appealing than the actual content. When it comes to female game developers, it’s not only about the quality of their work but also about the environment they work in. They created videos, and I could see them playing the game.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

However, I think it’s also promising evidence that there is an appetite out there for this content – a desire to view and evaluate gaming through the lens of impairment and exclusion. That’s a conclusion that should matter to any budding game designer, because it suggests what I believe to be a huge opportunity for the whole sector.

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Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

AI in Game Design and Development AI is not just improving gameplay but also streamlining game development. Game developers use machine learning algorithms to generate realistic animations, optimize in-game physics, and even create procedurally generated content, reducing the time and cost of production.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

Storytelling like this is a great way to juice your game with some nice texture, but know its limits. It tends to be really painful when modern game designers take on stories from ages past. Hades indeed has an enormous amount of content. This game was built to eat a thousand hours. Maybe Hades 3 can be Norse.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

.” Brandon Pham noted that AI technology has advanced at a rapid pace, observing that “it felt like the last six months have been supercharged in a way that I haven’t seen new technology being thrown in, embraced in the gaming or at least game development scene.” I think consent should have been asked.”

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 30, 2021

In this video from 2021 CIMFest, game designers and community managers discuss how to remove toxicity from game communities. Originally scheduled for 2020 GDC, this roundtable on Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities was canceled due to the pandemic.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2023

If they had wanted the players to be better about it, they should have done more to make it better for the D&D players and content creators - maybe more permissible licensing to allow use of official settings/characters/monsters/etc. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Sirlin

JANUARY 21, 2024

I have a YouTube channel about design. Game design mostly, but sometimes design topics in general. Please do the usual “likes and subscribes” if you like my content. It also includes a new video podcast series. Sirlin's YouTube

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Is it well-defined?

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Lost Garden

MAY 18, 2023

(Note: This was written for the Games of 2020 content put on by Game Developer magazine. The massive success of WiiFit was a wakeup call, not for the game industry, but for Maytag and Whirlpool. With a dash of simple game design, a simple bathroom scale outsold […] I won a free ticket to GDC 2009.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For example, if our USP (unique selling point) is a new feature, then its flow really does have to be “invented” using bold design experiments. And if our game’s USP is graphics, then raising the bar for ordinary assets and continuing to refine old content could be an important business decision.

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OPM Jobs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

” Kim Parker Adcock | Owner and MD, One Player Mission MEET THE MCV/DEVELOP 30 UNDER 30 Melissa Larsson | Marketing Manager, Square Enix Max Louis | Founder and Studio Director, MLC Lucy Hale | Brand Video Creator, Square Enix External Studios Vijay Gill | Producer, Rocksteady Studios Katy Wood | Senior 3D artist, Hyper Luminal Games Jupiter (..)

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

“If you’re doing a video game campaign, you should not send T-shirts, posters and whatever” For a successful Kickstarter, developers should have a bug-free, visually impressive demo or vertical slice ready, aligning with the final game’s visual standards. Funding goals, influenced by Steam’s pricing trends, are shrinking.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

Driven by his desire to immerse himself in game design, Kimani rejoined Wits University. Cukia Kimani & Ben Myres He explains, “The reason for me to go back to Wits and do a post-grad in Game Design, to be honest, was the community. I was not just like, ‘hey guys, I made a video game.’

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