PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

His design process is highly iterative, starting with loose ideas and evolving through sketches, prototyping, and constant refinement. And of course, balancing everything like coding, art, marketing, and playtesting can be exhausting. Play the Katanaut demo on Steam , full release later this year. Whats your creative process?

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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Visit the demo-packed AWS booth (#S927): Engage with purpose-built solutions from AWS that span the entire game development lifecycle. You will learn how to build your own game distribution channels, offer instant-on playable demos, explore new game modes, and reach new players on different devices all without modifying your game code.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

” Once a concept is chosen, it goes through a prototyping phase where function takes priority over form. “Playtesting is key. Play the demo now. We love exploring different styles of puzzles, logic, pattern recognition, environmental interactions and even experimental mechanics like cooperative dialogues.”

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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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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. I sometimes use blank cards or write on prototypes if I need to iterate quickly, but that typically only happens at conventions. Carla: I also do a lot of interviews!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Wiscon I’ve attended even early in development to test out ideas, check reactions, and see players interact with everything from paper prototypes to physical, professional printed game versions of State of Wonder. Sweden doesn’t do Unpubs, so bringing a prototype can be dangerous and can sometimes even backfire.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Meanwhile, Sony is happy with the VR demo, and the studio is getting more experienced with Unreal.

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