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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Solo dev Graham Reid: “Being part of a like-minded community is really important” Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. Solo dev Lente lives and works on a boat and that shows in her game Spilled! Despite being a solo dev all that time, he never really struggled with his motivation. “I

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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Gone Home anchors its story focus with voice acting, narration, simpler puzzles, and wry realism. There are 9 puzzles. Which means this isn't just a puzzle game.

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Splash Damage acquires Battalion 1944 dev Bulkhead

GamesIndustry.biz

Derby-based Bulkhead is best known as the team behind World War 2 shooter Battalion 1944 and first-person puzzle game The Turing Test. UK developer Splash Damage has acquired Bulkhead for an undisclosed sum.

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Wrapping up 2024 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

For the last five years, off and on, he worked on Critter Crossfire , a turn-based tactics and first person shooter hybrid. Financial success Solo dev Tuomas Auronen , operating under the name Redbeak Games , looks pretty relieved three days after the launch of his game Mortal Glory 2. I get excited to implement wacky ideas!

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Actually talk to the (author-led AI) murder suspect in Dead Meat by Meaning Machine

PreMortem.Games

His debut game Unknown Number was the first game in what its creator Tom Keane called the ‘First Person Talkers’ genre. Unknown Number put First Person Talkers on the map, with talks at GDC, several indie awards, and even being exhibited at the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC.

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Unreal Engine 5 FPS: Create A Zombie Horde Shooter

Awesome Tuts

This is a method we’re using inside Game Dev Pro which we found very effective because the best way to learn is by doing and by doing we don’t mean just copy-paste what’s being done in the tutorial you’re following but changing stuff in the project, rewriting the code and so on.

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The 2020 Holiday Shopping Guide for Board Game Lovers

Brand Game Development

Still, even the most ingenious crime is only a puzzle for the world’s only consulting detective—Sherlock Holmes! The goal of Unstable Unicorns is to be the first person to collect seven Unicorns in your play area, also known as your Stable. Description from Manufacturer. 7 Wonders $45 (and 7 Wonders Duel $25).

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