Game Wisdom

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Why You Can’t Objectively Build Great Games Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com I was reading a piece over on Game Developer that gave me pause for a second about whether this is what game design at the AAA level is about now — focusing on analytics and trying to “math” the perfect … The post Why You Can’t Objectively (..)

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

After the exhaustion of shipping a game, I have a period of deep uncaring about the medium. I need to play a few really fun games to get interested again. It's a truly remarkable indie title. Each game also has an extra-difficult goal, and completing it rewards you with a cherry. (As Good games sell bad all the time.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

The Transformative Landscape of Game Development: A Deep Dive with Willem Delventhal As a digital ecosystem thrives and transforms at a rapid pace, a recent conversation with game designer and educator Willem Delventhal offered insights into the evolving realm of game development.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Set in a beautiful, Slavic-inspired world, Selfloss by Kazakhstan-based indie studio Goodwin Games is an adventure that explores themes of grief, healing, and resilience. ” Epic MegaGrant Developing a game in Kazakhstan poses its own set of challenges, as Khoroshavin explains.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!” It’s something different.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

But the end is here, the game is out now on steam. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Naoum calls himself a jack of all trades, a master of none, so going solo on game development made a lot of sense.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

Then the first wave of really successful indie games appeared on Steam, in the late 00s and early 10s. I thought if I practiced enough, I could make 2D games by myself, and so I decided to try it.” I wouldn’t feel comfortable working on a game if I had to just follow someone else’s ideas.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ That bit of feedback was a big part of how I knew I had found my career. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Game Wisdom

MAY 25, 2023

The Clash of Choices in Game Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com One of the many balancing acts of game design is the act of creating cool, interesting, unique, abilities for the player to use, and then balancing said abilities within the scope and design of your game.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there ever was a fitting metaphor for the trials and tribulations that indie developers face while creating their debut game, it’s Ascending Inferno , the upcoming release by Australian developer Oppolyon Studio. As first-time indie developers, their journey mirrors the very game they’ve crafted.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Stirring Up Mess On Twitter Vogel's 1st Law of Video Game Visibility: "No matter how passionate an online 'controversy' about a game is, 99% of its players will never even know about it." 2nd Law: "Outside of 1 or 2 monster hits a year, no indie game will ever be heard of by more than 1% of gamers." It happens.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2016

At the time, the industry was worth about $880 million , with the majority of that being for existing collectible card games like Magic: the Gathering , Yu-Gi-Oh! , Everyone – the most indie developers, the established companies, the fans, and the investors – get to participate in an open forum. and Pokemon.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

A level designer doesn't need to create the individual assets, but will need a rock-solid understanding of how the placement of objects and division of space can create places that are intuitive for players to navigate. If he wants to go into the indie space and work with an extremely small team, he's going to need to wear a lot of hats.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

I think you have the wrong idea about what game designers do. We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 22, 2021

Many of you who read this blog know that I am self-publishing board game designer who uses Kickstarter as my platform of choice for funding the bulk of my projects. Certainly no surprise if you’ve read some of my articles like A Crash Course on Kickstarter for Board Games. Alternative 1: Go through a Publisher.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Small teams and solo developers often produce some of the most unique and personal games, and this holds true for Rablo Games, an indie studio led by founder Pablo Coma. ” But as is often the case, plans change, and the solo dev path transformed into a collaborative journey. Two people, twice as fast?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The San Diego, USA based developer does however love the freedom he gets as a solo dev: “You get to make all the decisions. That’s when I realized that I love to make games. I love to see players’ reactions when they play my game. Ironically, my cousin hated game design and instead works in real estate.”

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

There are so many games industry events out there to choose from. Are you looking to network with other devs or searching for advice on getting into the industry? Even if you’re just looking for a casual event where you can have fun and meet some like-minded games industry folk there is an industry event out there for you.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

He decided to start his own indie game development studio, Overwrite Interactive , and create a video game from scratch. For Alan's video game to come to fruition, he needed a team of capable artists to help him. About Overwrite Interactive's global game dev team & their roles. featured]. Dogyeong L.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In the indie game dev scene, the use of AI is often met with suspicion and disdain. Grandmother of ChatGPT Her vision for 1001 Nights started during a game design course in 2020 at Goldsmiths , where she thought about making something based on natural language interactions, using a story everyone knows. “I

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. In this post, I compare and contrast the original and this modern remake from a dev / design perspective. In a past era of game design, we complained when combat games had obligatory stealth sections -- now we have story games with obligatory combat sections.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

Way back in February, I wrote a big article about indie phenomenon Vampire Survivors. It was a fun cheap game that is still fun and cheap. It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero. Brotato has a great design. A great idea.

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Game Wisdom

JULY 2, 2023

The Emergent Design of Scholar of the Arcane Arts Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this developer interview on the Perceptive Podcast, I spoke with Endo who for their first indie dev game is working on Scholar of the Arcane Arts, a game that combines roguelike and emergent design.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Unlike the film and music industry, there remains a dire absence of ways for young talent to enter the games industry. After completing a game design course, there simply isn’t an active effort among publishers to go and recruit people. First, reduces on-ramps even further.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

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. And so, we quickly realised the potential to form a bit of a ‘Super Group’ by bringing Game Design and AI Tech together.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“The community’s voice is invaluable; it helps shape the game,” he remarked. This iterative approach to game design – release, get feedback, improve, repeat – can be a pragmatic strategy for developers to bootstrap their way through the development process, all while nurturing a passionate player base. .

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 11, 2018

Influencers (press and widely known devs) in the industry are craving deep, meaningful and grown-up narrative games, and they will latch onto games that even hint at that, even if they do a crappy job at it. Thimbleweed Park is not that game. Could be useful for adventure game designers. But point taken.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Find out what that actually means, watch them play Despot’s Game and learn new game dev tips as they answer questions from the community. Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. Completely in control of every movement and strike.

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 3, 2023

Penny was kind enough to share her experience at GDC and why she believes it's such a valuable event for people looking to break into the games industry. GDC is an annual event that brings together programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business leaders from around the world. STUDY GAME DEV

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts. Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release.

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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!

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The principles and design tenets he acquired in architecture seamlessly blended into his game design. Drawing inspiration from the cinematic worlds of both the East and West, the upcoming game, “Lucid”, has captured the attention of many. But why this shift from AAA games to indie games and support platforms?

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We’re in production for a currently untitled game that we plan on building entirely using no-code development tools like Bolt. This process was inspired by a Picasso quote, where here states that: The Importance of Play & Experimentation When Designing Environments. You don’t’ want your game to be called an asset kit flip.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Pham and Max delved deep into the world of indie game development, discussing everything from the inception of the game to its surprising success. In fact, their team took a lot of inspiration from games like CS:GO and other tactical shooters, such as Battlefield. “I don’t think [we’re] number one.

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DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's Until next time, happy dev'ing!

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