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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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 14, 2023

Young handles everything from overall game design to art and audio, and Ditton does the programming. Our intention for Early Access is to get the game in a place where the only thing we need to do is add content. Like many self-published indie games, a lot depends on success so we have our fingers crossed.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Harvest Island is a single-player farming simulator that allows players to farm, fish and pet all sorts of animals to their heart’s content. Something truly horrifying… Creator Kevin Le, working under the name of Yobob Games , carefully chose to combine a farming simulator with horror elements, after doing market research.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

It's well-made and I can see why it's popular, but design-wise, I feel it's overburdened with too much stuff. The core game design throughline is clear: they loved the Warcraft wood chopping mechanic, and so they made an entire game around it. Let's take a step back from all that roguelike deckbuilder packaging.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Unlike the film and music industry, there remains a dire absence of ways for young talent to enter the games industry. After completing a game design course, there simply isn’t an active effort among publishers to go and recruit people. First, reduces on-ramps even further.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

The casual interview setting is the perfect way to ask lots of questions about their game design and game development process. Our AWS GameTime audience will learn tips such as how to kickstart a career in the games industry, how to choose the right game development services on AWS and how to engage an early-adopter community.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. Completely in control of every movement and strike.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Pham and Max delved deep into the world of indie game development, discussing everything from the inception of the game to its surprising success. In fact, their team took a lot of inspiration from games like CS:GO and other tactical shooters, such as Battlefield. “I don’t think [we’re] number one.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the thirteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. This week, I want to zero in on the subject of making the perfect board game rule book.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities? Join us for a discussion on what strategies game designers can use to create safe virtual spaces that are enjoyable for all players.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1: Game Designer vs Game Programmer Summary In this video, we’re breaking down the jobs of game designers and game programmers, showing you how sometimes, they wear each other’s hats, especially in small teams. Now in a game development team, there are lots of other roles as well.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The principles and design tenets he acquired in architecture seamlessly blended into his game design. Drawing inspiration from the cinematic worlds of both the East and West, the upcoming game, “Lucid”, has captured the attention of many. But why this shift from AAA games to indie games and support platforms?

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In addition to modern takes on classic games, many companies are creating entirely new content based on retro themes. For example, indie game developer DrinkBox Studios recently launched Guacamelee!, Designing a retro game. Castlevania and Metroid.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 21, 2022

He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's Listen to the whole chat here: [link] Our 'AHA' moments What is a game that plays itself? Tim and Rick disagree on what the definition of ‘games that play themselves’ is!

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Sande Chen Profiled as one of the Game Industry's Top 100 Most Influential Women and a 2020 Women in Games Global Hall of Fame winner, Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the industry.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And if I, a game designer, can't enjoy fun, what am I even doing here? People who really understand the art form and are familiar with all of the works in contention. If you’d like to support us, consider wishlisting our upcoming indie role-playing epic, Geneforge 2 - Infestation , out March 27. It's silly.

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 3, 2023

Penny was kind enough to share her experience at GDC and why she believes it's such a valuable event for people looking to break into the games industry. GDC is an annual event that brings together programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business leaders from around the world.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 28, 2024

This shift is significant for the gaming industry, where development cycles are notoriously long and costly. AI’s ability to handle repetitive and time-consuming tasks frees up human developers to focus on more creative aspects of game design. ” AI’s potential to democratize game development cannot be overstated.

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Yobob Games

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Marketing a new indie game is a huge task that most indie developers would fail at. If it’s bad, the game flops and the game design needs to be worked more which causes the game to be delayed. Next The First Tree Analysis – An Indie Game Marketing, Harvest Island Struggle Next.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya). The profiles make me think of something indie-looking.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. . Top 10 Best Sci-Fi Games You Can Play For Free in 2020. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design?

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

It's such a big, unique, popular game that not picking it apart a bit is game-writer malpractice. Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. Fortunately, when you get tired of a certain sort of content, you can skip it.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

So be sure to subscribe to our channel to get updated when we publish content like that. Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life without having to know how to code or draw. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Player feedback French solo dev Matthieu Houllier , operating under the name Brute Force , has been making games by himself for five years. Because Houllier is working alone, he needs players feedback to shape his games. I prioritize creating content based on what I believe will facilitate the games marketing efforts, he explains.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

This sort of elongated production process obviously has increased project cost ramifications, which only reinforces the above mentioned design evolution - more Hybridcasual! It leveraged its hypercasual core game design to center its marketing videos around, while also showcasing its more RPG elements in a light and fun way.

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

After the exhaustion of shipping a game, I have a period of deep uncaring about the medium. I need to play a few really fun games to get interested again. It's a truly remarkable indie title. Each game also has an extra-difficult goal, and completing it rewards you with a cherry. (As There is so much content.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In a past era of game design, we complained when combat games had obligatory stealth sections -- now we have story games with obligatory combat sections. Before you begin the zombie-filled Palace quest, the game UI helpfully advises, "if you're not a fan of action or horror gameplay, feel free to decline this quest."

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Before The Green Moon (on Itch and Steam ) is a post-apocalyptic indie Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley / Animal Crossing inspired farm life sim about scraping by, in a decaying rural truckstop town with bored depressed locals you gradually befriend (or ignore). I had to 100% all the content in this game!

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

Way back in February, I wrote a big article about indie phenomenon Vampire Survivors. It was a fun cheap game that is still fun and cheap. It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero. Brotato has a great design. A great idea.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

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. And so, we quickly realised the potential to form a bit of a ‘Super Group’ by bringing Game Design and AI Tech together.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. 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.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In today’s post we’re going to explain what we believe at Sovereign Moon Studios to be the best 10 space games that you can play for free online today. Recently, we’ve been publishing a lot of content about how to make space related games without having to know how to code. Want to Make Video Games?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Starting over, is the game commercially viable? This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. And no, it's not the scope that makes the game viable or inviable. A lot of articles you read about making a successful game will tell you to keep your scope small to avoid risks. .:

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: This post spoils what happens in my new game That Lonesome Valley. CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not. see: "CRT Simulation in Super Win the Game" ).

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