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Yep I'm at GDC 2025 (links / presskit / dance card)

Radiator Blog

Below, my event schedule / dance card for the week: SUNDAY: I'll be at Day of the Devs , where I've contributed level design to a featured game Big Hops. TUESDAY: My "Teaching (and Rethinking) Level Design" microtalk is part of the Educators Summit: Educators Soapbox session. social event.

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Horse Reality by Studio Deloryan strikes the right balance between science and gameplay

PreMortem.Games

Ultimately, in such cases, we prioritise features that enhance player happiness as we tend to call it, Roodhooft continues. Our goal is to make breeding feel strategic, educational and rewarding, without sacrificing the fun factor.

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The UK's biggest games student event returns to EGX in October

GamesIndustry.biz

The GI Academy will also feature developer and educator booths, with the event already 70% full. Students, job seekers and those simply interested in working in games can take part in a series of tasks that, once completed, would allow them to 'graduate' from the GI Academy. Read more

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Godot 3.2 will allow disabling editor features

Mircosoft Game Dev

It sounds like an odd feature to have (and never crossed our minds at the beginning). Disabling / enabling features. To make it short, it allows enabling or disabling editor features. To make it short, it allows enabling or disabling editor features. There are two main use cases for this feature: Education.

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Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem

PreMortem.Games

Networks and prestigious educational backgrounds were equally important. He highlighted how Madiba had gathered a team of 20 individuals without formal game development education, yet managed to create a game of remarkable quality, earning a solid 7/10 rating. Degrees alone were not enough to secure promising careers.

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Industry needs to break down biases about African games markets

GamesIndustry.biz

The talk was hosted by Games Industry Africa co-founder and Starbreeze VP of business development Vic Bassey, and featured Africa Games Week co-founder and RenderHeads CEO Nick Hall, RocketRide business development manager and IGDA board member Limpho Moeti, and Maliyo Games founder Hugo Obi.

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Fantasy Strike's Features

Sirlin

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. This is none of that.

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