Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This is because a given project is at its maximum headcount right before it ships - you need all hands on deck during full production, building and validating all of the content in the game. There needs to be other projects in development to pay for those people after the game launches.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This growing use of generative AI is largely attributed to its advanced capabilities, including the ability to create unique content. Generative AI has experienced increasing usage in game design as it accelerates and streamlines different aspects of game development.

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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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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Since childhood, Nicot always had a fascination with video games, but when it was time to pick a career, game designer wasn’t on the radar. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind. The Sanctua game design document was 95% complete before I started coding.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

That I keep revisiting this aspect whenever I add new content shows that it is indeed an ingrained part of the vision. I want my games to be challenging but fair. So numbers aside, we also have to take play style into account with regard to balance, and content and mechanics that spark debate between players is a good thing.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Ideas Are Cheap I'm kind of dubious about classes that claim to teach game design. UFO50 contains both introductions to a multitude of game genres and constant examples of how an old genre can be refreshed with a simple idea. Then I move seamlessly to the next game I feel like. There is so much content.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 2, 2023

To justify my point on why these changes are aimed at improving monetization, I’ll explain the exact changes, why I think they did them, and give my prediction of how successful they will be and if we will see more games replicate them. Why Brawl Stars 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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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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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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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

CEO and founder Sean Pinnock acknowledges that the company’s core offering is a game engine, albeit one made from the ground-up to help resolve Web3 game development’s most pressing challenges. “We want to make it easier to build triple-A content that people can expand upon.”

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2023

They are the primary content source for Building Hope. But also popular media, books, interviews with refugees, and personnel working in humanitarian programs shape our game design and content creation process.” So I carefully studied the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) reports.

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