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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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2025

New studios do start up, but entry level positions are rare since most of the new studios are looking for funding and they need the core senior dev team to build enough of a prototype to sell the idea to the money people. Create art assets, build gameplay systems, create game content, do stuff to level up and grow your skills.

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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Wednesday, March 19 Effortless Game Launches: How League of Legends Runs at Scale on AWS 10:30am to 11:00am | Room WH2011 Discover how Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends and VALORANT, revolutionized their game server infrastructure with AWS. Experience, exploreand PLAY!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Based in Vancouver, Canada, The Brew Barons is their debut title.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 10, 2025

They use proprietary tools to build content. They want technically-minded applicants to work in a mature environment making content for a live service. Some are a little less detailed, like this [ entry level Technical Designer position at Zenimax Online Studios ]. They are a live service game. They need systems-driven gameplay.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

Wikkl Works , a Netherlands-based game studio, is working hard on the climbing game New Heights. The 5 person studio, founded by Guido Boogaard and Finn van der Heide, created a climbing system that mirrors the intricacies of real-life climbing. There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

Prototype is ready! But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). Procedural generation of game content by computer software is therefore becoming more and more important as a design technique. What was the Thesis about?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 21, 2023

Both studios say they regularly analyze game dynamics, including downloads and revenue. AZUR have provided extended commentary on the matter: “We rely on internal analytics, test hypotheses across thousands of prototypes, and monitor various ongoing projects. Do you do any testing of the new mechanics before creating a game prototype?

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Another demonstration will allow lounge visitors to play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Try to focus on the five W’s, ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Where’, ‘When’, and ‘Why’ For example: “We [Who] are unconvinced that the recently suggested [When/Where] reduction in content scope [What] would meaningfully reduce the budget, as content is a minor part of our expenses [Why].”

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

What makes it special is that it is well-liked among indie designers and large studios. The Blueprint system allows for faster prototyping. Its active collaborative forums provide extensive support through forums, tutorials, and user-generated content. Merits: Industry-leading graphics for immersive gaming experiences.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

As co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Nigerian-based studio Dimension 11 , he provided leadership. He recently successfully released two balls and is currently solely focusing on Dimension 11 studios. As he grew, his fascination extended to games such as Prototype, Need for Speed and GTA.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Their slogan, “creating games, stories and adventures that shift perspectives,” echoes back to the meaning of the studio’s name, where magically transforming things aligns with altering people’s views. Love for Africa Before Alkemaiz Games, Mogatusi spent over a decade running 1000 hugs films, creating film and TV content.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc. Is it well-defined? GDD is updated regularly.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A sure proof of the concept or idea has to be generated to see how viable and feasible it will be for the gaming studio to develop the game. Prototyping Prototyping is not integral to the mobile game development process but has advantages. The idea of the game serves as the backbone of the whole game development process.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Being a one-man studio, Sergio managed to produce, release, and publish two successful VR titles. But I didn’t enter the industry professionally until 2007, where I worked at a couple of small studios as a gameplay programmer. And that resulted in the first prototype of Dreadhalls. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

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. Since then, the team has grown steadily to 40 people and opened offices in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

There has been a lot of talk about the future of Hypercasual games: how the market has been in stagnation, making studios slowly but steadily look for opportunities in the fraternal Hybridcasual. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Unreal Engine (UE) is a quality software for the development of various game types, and it’s used by a significant number of famous game development studios in terms of the creation of incredible PCs and console projects. UE provides advanced tools and packages for visual content creation, animation, coding, and even QA. .

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 28, 2024

However, with AI, even small indie studios can produce high-quality games that rival those of larger, well-funded companies. This is where AI steps in, learning procedural rules and relationships from images to generate diverse and adaptive content. .” AI’s potential to democratize game development cannot be overstated.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript. Steam in 2013. Quite an old screenshot by now.

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Febucci

APRIL 6, 2022

To put it in a few simple words: creating a prototype, pitching to publishers, contacting lawyers, forming a new team from scratch (from different parts of the world) and more… does indeed take time! What the #$@? and I also have university in between.). Do you need to interact between two different companies?

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. While still in the early stages, it offers promising rapid prototyping and brainstorming potential. User-generated content: Empower your players to contribute to your game world.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

I will sometimes sketch out what I’m thinking on paper if necessary, but will always try to use the lowest fidelity needed, then prototype it to find out if it is good/fun/useful.” “For Another really important one for me is avoiding clickbait game dev content and news. I try to avoid wasting time with high-fidelity mock-ups.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Tencent has various internal game development studios, but two stand out in particular as the most successful to date: TiMi and Quantum/Lightspeed. These two studios are relentless rivals (think Ash and Gary from Pokemon). We promise to deliver only the most insightful, relevant and entertaining content in your mailbox.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To make the game innovative and fresh, you have to make few updations in the game at regular intervals, like adding content, levels, features, or characters. As you ‘Time is Precious’, build your game prototype and show it to the outside world. Apart from being fresh, it will also help in retaining the players to play the game again.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It’s well-known that our analysis of Call of Duty Mobile was printed on the wall of the studio to motivate the team to beat our early predictions. A live game is expected to grow with each content update. The graveyard was filled with killed prototypes and games that were killed in the soft launch phase. That’s scary.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I believe branded games will become more popular as a means of retaining brand recall and pertinence between seasons and film releases , and I also think 2021 may be the year that real content integration is achieved between streaming series and co-branded, standalone games. Prediction #2 Resurrection of Product Marketing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Documentation: More content, better theme. Documentation: More content, better theme. The same content is also available as the 3.2 Both the Class Reference and the tutorials gained a lot of new content during the development of Godot 3.2. Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

Founded by CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh in 2006, the company has grown from its base in Farnborough, UK, to over 250 people across a mix of hybrid and fully-remote studios. Engine/ # Copy over game content (see PROJECT_NAME arg) COPY --chown=1000:1000./${PROJECT_NAME}/./${PROJECT_NAME}/ PROJECT_NAME}/./${PROJECT_NAME}/

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. There is concern about whether Apple’s devices would support Windows for development, considering most gaming studios use Windows PCs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

Built by Tencent’s Timi studio with decades of creating cosmetic economies (QQ Speed, Legend of the Dragon, Honor of Kings). Live ops through content releases and merchandising is also highly active for the title. In March 2019 they launched the season one battle pass, but it fell flat due to weak content.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

A random AI image generator amalgamates different objects to produce random image content from a textual description. Photo to AI Art This popular style of AI art uses algorithms to automatically recognize the content in an uploaded image. The algorithms then translate the image content and apply it to an AI-generated image.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. The most notable move being the opening of a Berlin studio that is categorically focussed on “casual” games, with key hires coming in from Blizzard, King, Rovio and the likes. Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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