Raph Koster

JUNE 28, 2024

This is the game I have wanted to make for nearly thirty years. It has in it all the lessons of all these decades of online game development — and it looks forward, not back, to reinvent what an online world can be. I believe it does things that other games just can’t do.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Web3 game developers and publishers are often pretty bad about explaining their products to potential players. Impenetrable crypto-jargon is afforded a higher status than basic details about the games on offer. Likewise, Wreck League is a fighting game, albeit with Web3 functionality and NFT collectibles.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In 2009, this rough, glitchy, blocky game was released to the public. In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. The English solo developer began his journey right after the Pandemic. Inevitably, I’ve gone over time and over budget,” he says.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

From role-playing and first-person shooter games to simulation ones, there is a video game genre for every gamer’s choice. To this day, game developers continue to blend already existing genres, sub-genres, and types in new and surprising ways to provide players with more options.

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Rampant Games

JULY 13, 2022

JRPGs became their own genre in part because of the conventions Japanese game developers followed. A few key games became popular, their conventions became roughly standardized, and then–as with RPGMaker– the console import market (and some PC games) were flooded with games that bore a lot of surface similarities.

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Tom Francis

JULY 30, 2018

Ability progression: your suite of abilities is usually something you expand and upgrade as the game goes along, often choosing what to specialise in. Story-driven, goal-driven: immersive sims are generally not sandboxes, you know who you are in this world, what the story is, what you’re trying to do and why.

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