Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches. If the prototype gets approved, the team ramps more and builds an entire playable demo that demonstrates all of the major game systems at work. At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

I’ve talked about how you can create a Tabletop Simulator demo for your own game before. My first creation was a demo of Blight Chronicles: Agent Decker for their Kickstarter which was simple but functional. Without a shadow of a doubt, we can say that Tabletop Simulator demos have been beneficial. And if you need help?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Every iteration of each game has to be created somehow and there are A LOT of iterations – usually a new one after each playtest, especially in the beginning. Whenever I demo or playtest, I make sure to get the email address of the person, so I can inform them when the Kickstarter starts.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We're so happy you're joining us for another epically magical installment of the Kristala Dev Blog! This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Emelie: Exactly, I also think smaller cons are better to build an initial audience as it is easier to spend more time per visitor at the booth and there is more time to demo your game as well. There might be a room for playtesting prototypes at some cons, but they are often small and not very well attended.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

After months of toiling in a secluded attic, the last weeks of which were particularly grueling, we finally took Second Hand to its first public showings: first to Dev-Play in Bucharest and shortly thereafter to Clujotronic in our very own Cluj. It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch! Color me excited!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The organizers of the Game Industry Conference (which is also in Poznań just after GodotCon) are letting us use their great venue, and it will be a great opportunity to get together with Godot users and core developers (our lead dev Juan Linietsky is coming from Argentina). All core devs as tutors. Thursday, 11 October 2018.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Although I already demonstrated much of the first new modal UI layout in an earlier forum announcement , I figure I could review those features here in order to provide closure to this series, plus cover some related dev topics as well as the second modal layout.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We finally got to a point in 2014 when he said, “I think we’ve done enough, we can start playtesting it.” ” I would say the demo copy is extremely important. appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. We had no experience in the game industry. We spent 3.5 years working on it as a hibby, meeting occasionally.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Beta 11 is finally tackling this project, and we’ve already seen it manifested across propulsion , weapon mechanics , storage units , fabrication and more, but the comprehensive item-by-item review has only come to pass as part of the conclusion to this dev cycle. Trap Extractor demo. Fine tuning.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

I decided that launching a demo of my game was going to be beneficial and I made sure to get as much reach as possible.” She used it both as a marketing and playtesting tool. Launch disruption Gittins undertook extensive exploration and study to determine the best strategies for her game’s launch. “I

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 14, 2024

It was right at the beginning of the pandemic, in early 2020, when Austrian indie dev Dominik Hackl started working on Summit , a 2D mountain-climbing Metroidvania. Without much game dev experience he relied on YouTube dev vlogs to help him along. Take enough time off for non-game dev related hobbies.

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