PreMortem.Games

MARCH 24, 2025

For Barcelona-based Gatera Studio , their debut title ANTRO is more than just a game, its a statement. Gatera Studios origins are as grassroots as the themes of their game. As Rodrigo de Pedro , programmer at Gatera Studio, explains, their goal was to bring urban underground culture to gaming. Keep it simple, stupid!

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

I’d like to explain to you exactly how to create a demo of your board game on Tabletop Simulator, but first let’s discuss what I perceive as its five main benefits: 1. How to Make a Tabletop Simulator Demo of Your Board Game. Once you understand the basics, you can learn more of the nuanced aspects of creating a demo.

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

French game developer Drama Studios has announced a new $2.5m seed series investment round "to strengthen the core development team and advance [its game Unrecord] to a solid demo state."

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 24, 2024

Gloomhaven developer Flaming Fowl Studios has announced layoffs, and that it's putting its current project on hold. In a Steam post , the studio announced a demo for its new game, Ironmarked, before clarifying that production is currently stopped due to lack of funding.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 23, 2024

To release an 8-hour long demo of your upcoming game, like Italian studio Jyamma Games did with their soulslike Enotria: The Last Song , takes guts and confidence. When the studio offered this generous slice of the game for players to try out during the last Steam Next Fest, reactions were very positive.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 19, 2024

To release an 8-hour long demo of your upcoming game, like Italian studio Jyamma Games did with their soulslike Enotria: The Last Song , takes guts and confidence. When the studio offered this generous slice of the game for players to try out during the last Steam Next Fest, reactions were very positive.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Polish indie studio Eleven Puzzles has been making a name for themselves as the creators of some fine cooperative puzzle games, like Unsolved Case and Unboxing the Cryptic Killer. Co-founded by Adrian Olczyk and Karolina Pytka, the fully remote studio has been crafting unique multiplayer puzzle experiences since its inception in 2020.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Founded in 2018 by CEO Senad Hrnjadovic, SenAm Games is an independent game development studio based in Munich, Germany. Great formula In order to make the game appealing to the whole family, the studio opted for a bright and cartoony look of the graphics. Instead, in scenes where he is present, the camera will switch to his viewpoint.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It may have been born out of necessity, but after two successful murder mystery games EQ Studios can now be considered somewhat of a specialist in this particular genre. Still, Fery Tomi, Director of the Las Vegas based studio, wants to keep all options open for the next project.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When considering games and studios, publishers and investors always look for external validation. Find the fun factor in your game and build a demo around that Developers should do their homework before approaching publishers and investors. Find the fun factor in your game and build a demo around that. Absolutely chicken!”,

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2025

For 2-3 years I've been contributing level design to Big Hops (check us out at Day of the Devs) and I've learned a lot about making 3D platformer levels But for a demo / better sense of the game, contact the director Chris Wade ( chris [AT] luckshotgames.com ). AT] gmail ) and we can probably figure out a last minute meeting or demo too.

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Game Wisdom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Atlantis Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this video, I sat down with designer Danilo Paulo from Poncho Studios to talk about and do a play of his game Avante! The demo … The post First Look at Avante! Atlantis appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. “We didn’t know each other, we just all got a call from a bigger studio that told us we could use some of their spare space to develop video games. . ” Play the Atomic Picnic demo on Steam.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Perfect Random, the indie studio behind Sulfur, began as a dream project from four co-founders back in 2021. Social media and community engagement from a public demo have all played a big role, but I believe the game’s unique art style, features, and unique gameplay have been our best marketing tools!

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 21, 2024

There's an exclusive playable demo for the game that is only available for a limited time. With the game Hollow Home , Ukrainian indie studio Twigames shows what it means to live in an occupied city. Valerii Minenko , Founder of Twigames studio, explains how his team came up with the idea of the game. Booth E-069.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

When a deal with an investor fell through after only four months, he found his studio in debt. In order to pay off his employees the studio started working as subcontractors on games like simulators. Play the demo and buy the full game We. Finally the game found financing thanks to a subsidy from the European Union. The post We.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Moreover, crafting a compelling demo reel requires more than assembling work samples. Filmustages AI simplifies VFX breakdowns, so you can impress studios faster. Let's explore the key elements that industry-leading studios prioritize when evaluating artist submissions. File Formats and Codecs The trusted studios recommend H.264

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Although the studio is officially based in Dubai, UAE, the team works fully remotely from different parts of the world, including Spain and Poland. Funding the game has been another challenge for the small studio. ” Void Sails will be out on 1 May 2025, play the demo now on Steam.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The demo of Guntouchables is now playable on Steam. We hope to make a game that offers a meaningful and amazing co-op experience. Making something that gives other people a great experience together is by far the most rewarding reason to be in this industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 7, 2023

The humorous tone and polished look perked many players' interest, making En Garde one of the most popular demos during the summer 2023 Steam Next Fest. For many, it was the surprise of the Future Games Show: En Garde, a colourful fencing action game that pits you against large groups of enemies as experienced swashbuckler Adalia de Volador.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With IDFA regulation changes and an influx of new games entering the market, publishers and mobile game studios are facing an ever-uphill battle to acquire new players (UA) and retain them. The event looked the part too, utilizing the same pixelated art style as Dave the Diver, and was monetized through a premium battle pass.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 15, 2024

z is welcoming 300 UK HR professionals and studio leaders to its second HR Summit in London this September. Partners to the event this year can book space to host roundtables, demos and meetings at the Summit, or sponsor some of our special awards. GamesIndustry.bi Read more

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Image 2: GDC 2025 attendees demo Amazon GameLift Streams. Leveraging Amazon Nova , cutting-edge generative AI foundation models, these demonstrations illustrated how developers and studios of all sizes can streamline development, enhance player engagement, and unlock new monetization models.

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AWS Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Game studios need scalable and efficient management processes to evolve their operations. In part 3, we discuss managing Infrastructure as Code and how your studio can use it to create your game’s infrastructure. We will walk through a demo to deploy a multiplayer game in your AWS environment.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

Historically, it’s also been a forum for launching new game development offerings, making partnership announcements, and debuting compelling technology demos. The demo illustrates how the technology can make NPCs more dynamic and intelligent to enhance the player experience.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

When a deal with an investor fell through after only four months, he found his studio in debt. In order to pay off his employees the studio started working as subcontractors on games like simulators. Play the demo and wishlist We. .” In addition to his creative worries, Napiecek also had to deal with financial concerns.

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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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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. Nirvana Noir is ‘coming soon’, but you can already try out the demo. Their first game, Genesis Noir, was already a moving work of art.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

It was crafted to provide studios with essential background and guidance on practical generative AI capabilities, examine the technology stack, discover game developer use cases, and more. The Titan Image Demo showcased advanced techniques that can be used to solve real-world image asset creation tasks using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 27, 2023

That’s why Brazilian developer Gamecraft Studios is evening the odds with a unique weapon-stacking system. Vampire Hunters was conceived at the beginning of last year during an internal game jam held at Gamecraft Studios. says Tiago Zaidan , CEO and Lead Producer of Gamecraft Studios. Play the demo of Vampire Hunters now.

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AWS Games

JUNE 15, 2023

Pre-Requisites A Windows workstation with a dedicated GPU Visual Studio 2022 Visual Studio 2022 Game Development with C++ Module Installed All Visual Studio 2022.NET Open it in Visual Studio 2022. If your Visual Studio 2022 install recommends installing any additional components, go ahead and install them now.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 3, 2025

Hiring Friends Most studios in the world start the hiring process by going through the network of their team. I was once leading a studio that parted ways with six out of the last eight hires. In practice, we looked for artists who loved to draw outside office hours and programmers who had a history of self-taught and demo scenes.

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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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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I had very little feedback up until the release of the demo. When you put everything into a project and others don’t it just slowly crushes you.” And the biggest pitfalls? Not getting confirmation. And as the game is a weird mashup of genres, I really was not sure if it would even work.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 21, 2023

What began as a casual endeavor gradually evolved into a fully-fledged studio as the game’s success solidified their path. The studio’s current focus rests on their latest project, A Void Hope. ” One of the new ideas is acting as a publisher for other indie studios. Play the demo now on Steam.

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