PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

Now, with the follow-up, Nirvana Noir , the New York-based indie studio Feral Cat Den is crafting audio-visual poetry in motion. This gave the studio a bit of an outsider perspective. This time around we’re putting a lot more time and resources into playtesting and catching problems early.”

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We We as a team learned from The Ancients to pace our enthusiasm and scale the game to the size of the studio. Trying to develop an indie game on the scale of a AAA title is the reason why a lot of indie studios fail.”

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

As an independent studio always running out of money, DF has to constantly seek new deals and diversify its projects: Headlander for Adult Swim, Rad for Bandai Namco, and now some sweet sweet Sony VR money. Tech-wise, it's a vertical slice "learn Unreal 4" project, a big shift from a studio that used to roll its own in-house engine.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

This extended infrastructure provides a developer platform for studios and publishers to perform their game development virtually, starting with playtesting. With GeForce NOW Cloud Playtest, players and observers can be anywhere in the world. All this is possible with Cloud Playtest on the GeForce NOW Developer Platform.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Demo: A short guide to contributing to Godot's editor | Gilles Roudière ( groud ). Workshop: 2D game workshop/demo | Leszek Nowak ( John Meadow ). Leszek will demo the development of a 2D game with audience interaction. Demo: Showcase and insights into the new TPS demo | Juan Linietsky ( reduz ).

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Feedback from playtest sessions with friends or players is really important. Plus, hearing from people who played the demo, really like the game, and want to talk about the details of it is the best. Once I feel that a solution is clear enough, I tend to get a sudden impulse to start making it, so I just follow that urge.”

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. The four person team at Black Salt Games founded the studio at the end of 2020 after working together at another studio for over a decade. Even with no tutorial.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. The four person team at Black Salt Games founded the studio at the end of 2020 after working together at another studio for over a decade. Even with no tutorial.

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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.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 22, 2024

Chris Zukowski , Creative Director of How To Market A Game , is a game marketing consultant and strategist who has guided numerous game studios in finding their audience. For feedback, opt for playtests or betas instead. Relying on a single game to fund your studio is unrealistic. Ensure your Steam page is up well in advance.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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. Each clan's capital city will have its own unique starting point.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

She taught herself programming and volunteered for indie studios, eventually creating her first prototype, ‘Potions: A Curious Tale’. 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.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 14, 2024

Setting arbitrary deadlines if you don’t have any actual ones, like telling a friend to come over for a demo session.” With my new project I will do A LOT more playtesting early on and also maybe art testing. Better to just move on to some other problem that’s easier to solve and tackle the hard one another time.

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