PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“For weeks, I thought about what I wanted to do and rediscovered my passion for video games. I’ve been playing video games my whole life, starting when I was 5 or 6. At first, I considered getting into esports, but I quickly realized it wasn’t for me. It’s used to both fight enemies and solve puzzles. Playtest early.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It began with an online workshop by Joey Ansah, on fight choreography for video games. He is an English actor and fight choreographer, known for his expertise in film and video game adaptations. Alongside dancing and dining, attendees took part in a mini design thinking session.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I was working at a tech incubator in Zambia, surrounded by programmers, and it never crossed my mind that we could make our own games. Then someone told me about a game developer in our community who had developed a fighting game based on their comic. They created videos, and I could see them playing the game.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Though, all of these foibles could be found in other games as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The initial three founders came together after realizing that existing crypto games — notably CryptoKitties at the time — were unsustainable both technologically and economically. Game Loops and Systems Overview Axie Infinity’s game design falls under the “Turn-based RPG” subgenre, according to GameRefinery’s taxonomy.

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