Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You know how achievements often require a bunch of very seemingly-arbitrary conditions to meet, like visiting Calendar Man at several major holidays in one of the Batman Arkham games? I think most players don't really understand how much tracking we do for UI/UX.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Games are more than just a diversion. However, developing games has become very time-consuming and expensive. This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The process of developing a game doesn’t end with coding and design. Testing the end product is crucial to ensure it delivers a seamless user experience (UX) and meets the industry requirements & standards. Several testing techniques are used to test the game’s readiness for release. What is Functionality Testing?

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. But in today’s competitive world, the players are unaware of about 80% of the games, while 20% of the games are unprofitable and are removed from the online medium.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Mobile gaming has experienced an unprecedented surge in recent years, with iOS emerging as a prominent platform for game development. For aspiring game creators, venturing into iOS mobile game development services can be thrilling and rewarding. Tip #2: How to make an iOS Game?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City. From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. The Forgotten City (2021).

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Making a game accessible to only a specific region is one of the worst mistakes a developer can make. There are nearly 8 billion people in the world, and you need to get as many of them as possible to play your game. If you’re looking to get into the world of game localization, this guide is for you. Translation.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

and my notes are obviously going to spoil some of the game's structure, but all these spoilers are pretty vague and anyway I don't name any names. This is a business model I've always wondered about -- make a big complicated game, but then earn revenue from selling ads on the wiki for your own game? Anyway, here's my notes.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

A solid game outsourcing partnership is reason enough to see your project as 50% complete. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Working with an established game art outsourcing firm with a solid track record alleviates any worry about deadlines or allocating internal resources.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

And although there’s no official confirmation yet, recent hiring and community buzz points out that the game is getting ready for a global launch. In my opinion, this looks like they need the designers to work on the long term systems, and the artists are to generate the extra volume of content (characters, skins…).

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Konstantin Mitrofanov , Chief Product Officer of Belka Games (a studio that has quietly racked up half a billion in revenues) shares practical steps on how they were able to create an organization that is both autonomous and highly successful. Or they review the assets they’ve created in a graphics editor rather than in the game itself.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Here's the panel description: Title: Creating Touchstones in Emergent Narratives When: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Time: 11:15 - 12:10 Eastern Time Games have a unique ability to establish empathy between a player and a world and characters, but game players don’t always follow the path the narrative lays out for them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. She has been a speaker at numerous game-related conferences, including the Game Developers Conference, NY Comic Con, PAX East, and SXSW.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

There's always a significant amount of UI groundwork that needs to be done in order to make a game playable at all, just because of how much information needs to be conveyed to the player. Whenever I build support into a game for different characters, cars, tracks, loadouts, etc.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 16, 2022

Game Genre. UI, UX Artist - 1. Award-winning educational gaming website offers 1000+ learning activities for kids in grades K to 5, both educational and interactive. The game supports young minds to create new skills more efficiently while promoting fun. Game Redevelopment. Multiplayer Games. Educational.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. But you might not know that he is also a published author , a venture partner at Play Ventures , a very active angel investor, and co-founder of the powerful Next Games. I get to talk to Joakim regularly.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

, this Saturday June 12, 2021, we are headlining the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest and I also will be moderating IGDA GDSIG's skipped (due to the cancellation of GDC last year) roundtable, Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities. Watch it for free on www.youtube.com/GeorgiaGameDevs Here's the deets!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

Written by Laura Taranto and Ahmetcan Demirel , both senior product leaders with vast experience in casual games. Dream Games, the developer of the massive Match-3 success, Royal Match , is still attempting to answer this (difficult) question. Expanding further back makes it a bit easier to see the tea leaves.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

It’s been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history. Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. Game Dev Tycoon started, as many games do, on a single piece of paper.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Leadership Executive Producer (aka Game Director ) - The mastermind in charge of the entire project. All designers and content creators answer to him. Keeps a high level view of the game’s content and systems to make decisions to direct the different design subteams during development towards the ultimate goal.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Written by Jesper Gustavsson , Director of Product at SYBO Games and a games industry veteran with 10 years of experience in building and operating mobile games as a product manager. In 2012, Microfun transitioned into the mobile gaming industry with the release of “Super Model” (an RPG fashion game).

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To give some context on the magnitude of GTA V, as of today: In the last 30 days GTA V was the biggest game on Twitch by average viewer count and total hours watched, and the 2nd in terms of channels (source: Twitchmetrics ). And during that same period it has been in the Top 5 Steam games with most concurrent players (source: SteamDB ).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Download Godot 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

We also discussed a proposal to further clean up the documentation and clearly separate more game-specific tutorials, as well as having a clearer way to link to content generated by our community. Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. As always, our goal with hires is that they need to be cash-flow positive.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This analysis is written by Abhimanyu Kumar with special contributions from UX Reviewer ’s Om Tandon and Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid & Grit. Having said that, we would all agree that games like Coin Master aren’t “truly Casino” even though they are classified in the same category according to our taxonomy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Some content, I just record and publish. It's a hybrid game. Carbonated also raised an $8.5M

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

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