PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 12, 2024

For his debut game Supernormal , Hitori was inspired by the much-hyped, but never-released horror game Allison Road. In fact he even asked creator Christian Kesler permission to use Lilly’s design for his own game. “It Development on Supernormal took about two years. Why did you become a solo developer?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. Despite being a solo dev all that time, he never really struggled with his motivation. “I I feel like I was put on Earth to make this game”, he says. “I’ve What are the biggest advantages of working solo?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Something truly horrifying… Creator Kevin Le, working under the name of Yobob Games , carefully chose to combine a farming simulator with horror elements, after doing market research. “A A lot of people know about Stardew Valley and streamers love horror games. Le created the game by himself in three and a half years. .

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 23, 2024

Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. Despite being a solo dev all that time, he never really struggled with his motivation. “I I feel like I was put on Earth to make this game”, he says. “I’ve What are the biggest advantages of working solo?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Like Seoul-based Funnylocks with their recently released horror action shooter Unstoppable. Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 19, 2024

Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. Despite being a solo dev all that time, he never really struggled with his motivation. “I I feel like I was put on Earth to make this game”, he says. “I’ve What are the biggest advantages of working solo?

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now, she’s navigating the world of game development, where each day brings new challenges and exciting discoveries. Let’s take a trip back memory lane and find out when the seed of game development was planted and how each part of Kamo’s past adds up. This knowledge helps me create architectural designs in games.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 22, 2022

Recently I promoted my Lazy Game Dev product and this is one of the emails I wrote for the promotion. A young, insignificant game dev named Asbjørn Thirslund is hurrying home to create his first tutorial for a YT channel he just started called Brackeys. You’re a YT game dev,” shouts Brackeys. BAHAHAHA!”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. Actionables For three of your most favorite games, think of how you would recommend them to a friend if you forgot the title.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 24, 2023

This isn’t a horror story about that kind of nightmare scenario, but the slow and steady grind of my job satisfaction slowly worn down into drudgery. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventeenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Artwork by James Masino for my first game, War Co. Need help on your board game?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

KinitoPET combines this trend with the evergreen horror genre to bring you a unique experience about virtual assistants. Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Here at PreMortem.Games, we have great admiration for developers who tackle the entire game development cycle on their own. Because, lets be honest, creating games is hard and it takes a special kind of developer to choose the solo path. I dont want to work on my game 7 days a week. It was relatively easy.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry.

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Yobob Games

JANUARY 6, 2023

Game Development Journey of Marketing. 3 years is a long time to make a game. I just knew I needed my next game to be bigger than my previous if I wanted to be a game designer full time. I say this because I worked on other games before Harvest Island. None of those games gave me that fan base.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

So to get his advice and learn his secrets, we sat down to hear his story and journey as a solo-game developer. I always wanted to make games – I even did small projects when I was a teen and carried on while studying computer science. Having a full-time job ate into Sergio’s personal dev time. Here’s what he had to say.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 27, 2024

In the 2D side scrolling horror game Terror at Oakheart players follow a diverse cast of characters that are all destined to die gruesomely at the hands of a psychotic serial killer known as Teddy. The game is developed by Californian solo dev Michael Cosio, working under the name of Tainted Pact.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the upcoming horror platformer Unlife , players have to navigate a post-apocalyptic world where mankind is all but wiped out from a nuclear war. Developer Dmitriy Gusev , operating under the name Diedemor Studio, made this game by himself. “And I just love creating games”, he explains. How do you deal with that? “To

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 12, 2024

Boss Team Games - the publisher behind 2022's Evil Dead: The Game - has teamed up with John Carpenter to make two new horror games based on Carpenter's horror series, Halloween. Carpenter - who says he is a "huge gamer" himself - is said to be "intimately involved" with productions.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

Video games are no stranger to the power fantasy of a lone hero who single-handedly turns the tides of war and saves the day, world, or universe. This is not the case in the upcoming four-player sci-fi tactical survival horror shooter, The Forever Winter. Just trying to survive another day is all the victory you can hope for.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 15, 2021

To help you survive not only the virus but the stultifying boredom of being stuck in your own home, I’ve put together a list of the very best solo board games in the world. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Arkham Horror: The Card Game.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Nemesis ( $119.99 on Miniature Market ).

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

That would already have me going back to the drawing board of a game concept to see if there’s a more elegant way of hitting the design goals. But then the history of the pawn reads like the patch notes of an incompetent game dev scrambling to appease a community without any conviction or guiding principles of its own.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

evoke the themes of sex magic and divinity reuse assets and systems, feel connected to the rest of the game And let's not forget to factor in the common ongoing doubt in game dev -- that maybe a good ending isn't even worth making, since most people won't even play to completion and witness it.

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