Game Developer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Game developers are among the millions users leaving X (formerly Twitter) and signing up for Bluesky. What are they getting out of the platform?

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Developers do not in fact welcome our new AI overlords.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 27, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Awesome Free Game Development Tools Today we look at some of the amazing free game development tools available in 2025. We start of quickly with the most commonly used applications, then we move into perhaps more obscure but no less awesome and FREE tools available to game developers.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Thanks to the constant development of technology and an ever-growing set of powerful tools, indie developers can create games that rival those made by big studios. If you're an indie developer looking to take your project to the next level, here's your essential toolkit for 2024.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

which was previously in development at Romino Games. The Dutch studio is working on a multiplayer arena brawler called Nubs!,

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. As a one-person team, he embraces both the creative freedom and the intense challenges that come with solo development.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2025

This article shares insights based on the development of Wizard of Legend 2, detailing the complexities encountered in Unreal Engine localization.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A new program within the Xbox Research division allows developers to give the console maker feedback and help it improve in key areas.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 27, 2025

Rather than simply creating a selection of live events inspired by Dave the Diver, developer Shift Up dived much deeper with Aegis the Diver , an almost like-for-like version of Dave the Diver faithfully recreated within the confines of Goddess of Victory: NIKKE.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Developers speaking to the Game Developers Collective seem to think the VR games market has hit a roadblock, even with this year's launch of the Apple Vision Pro.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 12, 2024

The game industry lacks a solid code of ethics, and the organization hopes to create one with long-term benefits for developers and players alike.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The longtime support developer hoped to withstand this winter's wave of industry layoffs, but 'ran out of room' to survive.

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Game Developer

APRIL 19, 2024

Hippo Havoc’s Disaster Golf demonstrates the power a little guidance can have in an industry flooded with indie games competing for a piece of the pie.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

'We believe that it is important to nurture developers who take this unique concept to heart.'

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pocketpair Publishing will provide funding opportunities, development assistance, and publishing support.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2025

After over five years of development, Extremely OK pulled the plug on Earthblade, in part because of Celeste's legacy.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2025

The three studios significantly beef up Virtuos' headcount as it focuses on becoming the 'biggest external game developer globally.'

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Game Developer

JULY 26, 2024

The quirky platformer was critically well-received, but its development process was imperiled at almost every stage by multiple competing factors.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In this blog, we look at some of the new and interesting ways developers have implemented minigames into some of the most popular mobile titles on the market, from Royal Match’s Wordle-inspired potion puzzle to Goddess of Victory: NIKKE’s recreation of Dave the Diver. That’s even more true now than it was back in April 2023.

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Game Developer

MAY 29, 2024

Here, we share the development insights and lessons learned from the journey of SOUL COVENANT, highlighting both successes and challenges.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The game commerce platform will support Uzbekistan with a school meant to find the country's 'next generation of developers and innovators.'

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

These are a few of the developers wed like to send some kudos, for making the industry a better place in a very difficult year.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The new studio already has at least three projects in development, and hopes to make games 'on our own terms, with no limits.'

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is a postmortem for my second game release, and I share lessons learned for staying sane in independent solo game development.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 9, 2025

GameFromScratch.com LVR 3D Lua Game Development Framework Today we are checking out LVR, a free and open source 3D Lua game and VR development framework heavily inspired by LVE. LVE is a popular 2D game development framework, recently made famous for powering the smash indie hit Belatro.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Developers across Smite's design, production, and esports teams have been impacted by Hi-Rez's latest reductions.

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Game Developer

MARCH 11, 2025

'The fund's goal is to provide developers with the capital they need to fuel growth.'

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Blind Squirrel grabbed Distributed largely for its proprietary AI tool made for Unreal Engine, which could help make port development shorter.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This month on the Game Developer podcast, we interview Ben Brode, chief development officer at Second Dinner, the studio behind Marvel Snap.

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Game Developer

MAY 20, 2024

The IndieDev program will grant £15,000 / €15,000 to the seven studios in the island of Ireland to generate ideas and create game prototypes.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2025

Hiwarp is an indie game studio based in Spain, run by solo game developer Elwin Gorman. My focus is on developing unique and personal games. Why did you become a solo developer? I started to follow indie developers I admired on Twitter. How do you stay motivated through (years of) development?

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Vancouver studio will continue to develop sprawling strategy titles, but hopes to supplement those releases with more experimental projects.

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Game Developer

MAY 2, 2024

A game's legacy is not just the nostalgia it will come to evoke after enough time has passed. Its legacy is also in the creativity it comes to inspire in the works that arise in its wake.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 6, 2025

Hungarian solo developer Csaba Putnai has poured over 3000 hours into his latest project, The Last Three. Its his second game after the release of his debut, Bob A Thousand Lives , which he developed in his forties. Every element of The Last Three, from the flowing visuals to the moving soundtrack, was developed solely by him.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2025

Determined to push himself, he embarked on a new path as a solo developer. To find his first solo project, he developed a new brainstorming approach: he built a prototype in roughly 100 hours and let people play it. Why did you become a solo developer? I had two main motivations in becoming a solo developer.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

NetEase may have conducted layoffs ahead of its reveal trailer for Marvel Rivals' next characters, Human Torch and the Thing.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 9, 2025

Freejam has been a family to all of us, and [the players] have been a part of that. [.] From all of us here, thank you so much for joining us on this journey.'

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