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Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

Game Design Aspect

She is the co-author of Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform and was a contributor to Secrets of the Game Business, Writing For Video Game Genres, and Professional Techniques for Videogame Writing. For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com. You can find her on Twitter at @Ing3nu or on her blog at www.ungerink.com.

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Upcoming CIMFest Keynote: Flavored by Authenticity

Game Design Aspect

She is the co-author of Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform and was a contributor to Secrets of the Game Business, Writing For Video Game Genres, and Professional Techniques for Videogame Writing. For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com. You can find her on Twitter at @Ing3nu or on her blog at www.ungerink.com.

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Creator autonomy takes center stage at GDC

Game Daily

.” Oneal, who is Asian American and gay, called on game industry workers and managers “to think about what you can do to make everyone around you – no matter their gender, race, or identity – feel welcome, comfortable, and free to be themselves.” ” This kind of change is a long and hard road.

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From Music to Games: Dominique Gawlowski’s journey to shaping Free Lives’ culture

PreMortem.Games

This warmth is a hallmark of Free Lives, the South African indie game development studio behind Playtopia. Despite her parents being anti-games, she enjoyed racing games on her brother’s old Commodore and formed strategic friendships with kids who had Nintendos. We also designed Indie Planet at Playtopia.

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3D Art Styles For Games

Moonmana

Games developed with the fantasy realism art style often involve aliens, races, and creatures that aren’t “real” yet are depicted realistically within the game world. The cartoony art style is applied in the development of puzzles, educational, adventure, and hyper-casual online games. Fantasy Realism.

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Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Talking about quality training courses that add up to the real educational value, Unity developers are lucky to have a wider pool of options.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

There are "sims" like SimCity, which seek to be taken semi-seriously as semi-scientific primers to urban planning for educational use in schools. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really. When cool European indie artists do it, I can abide it, but if I do it, I just feel too smug. Do not mind the gap!