GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 22, 2024

Even reporting from the other side of the Atlantic, it's easy to tell that the vibe at this year's Game Developers Conference has been different. Check every Friday for a new entry. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When it comes to female game developers, it’s not only about the quality of their work but also about the environment they work in. This idea was at the heart of the discussion on the 2nd of December 2023 at the AGW panel titled: The Importance of an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Business Support for Female Game Developers.

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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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Harold Serrano

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

I’ve always believed that developers shouldn’t have to fight with the tools—they should just work. It’s all designed to make game development as smooth as possible. I want to ensure that anyone—even those new to game development—can pick up the Untold Engine and start creating right away. Want collision?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. Feelings are a deeply under-discussed part of game development, and an even more deeply underappreciated part of entrepreneurship.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And it takes a special kind of developer that wants to fly solo. This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. It took solo game developer Graham Reid great effort to finish his game. “I A point of interest in the indie game sea.”

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Our eight different player archetypes Mobile game developer Playrix is one of the pioneers of this event type in casual puzzle games, spicing up their LiveOps rotation with fast-paced, competitive events. For example, the Instant Showdown recurring event brings light PvP action to Homescapes.

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Sirlin

JULY 22, 2015

Former Street Fighter designer / Evolution staff member / writer of competitive gaming guide is working on a new fighting game focusing on easy execution, great online play, and will be free to play." Which game is it though: Fantasy Strike or Rising Thunder? As great as it is, it isn't literally a fighting game though.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other's work. This entry was contributed by Ember Trail's Cruz Segovia Ardiz, game director of the alien planet management game Distant Bloom , which launched on Steam last week.

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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

JUNE 24, 2019

As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. After playing, I agreed.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to Unity’s new Toxicity in Multiplayer Games Report , the percentage of players who report witnessing or experiencing toxic behavior increased from 68 percent in 2021 to 74 percent in 2023. Half of the players surveyed say they regularly encounter toxicity in games. ” You can download the full report here.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now, she’s navigating the world of game development, where each day brings new challenges and exciting discoveries. Let’s take a trip back memory lane and find out when the seed of game development was planted and how each part of Kamo’s past adds up. One of those games was Street Fighter.

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Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Loading times were too long and Z-fighting was apparent. So, what issues did find? Even though the setup took a few minutes, I saw problems right away. For example, the engine does not have any culling mechanism. Stay tuned for part-II

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. As a child, he was delighted by action-packed animations like Kung Fu Panda and was drawn to stick-figure animations, particularly for their captivating fighting scenes. They hired him to create animations for an augmented reality game.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even still, ignorance is a reliable shield from the emotional strain of the trials and tribulations of starting a business or beginning game development. If you are a first time developer, you know less now than you ever will, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Need help on your board game?

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We discussed how the character collector, idle RPG, X-Hero , has been experimenting with different hyper-casual minigames (such as a hypercasual puzzle mode called SaveDog) to help drive user acquisition in our blog on the biggest mobile game development trends of 2022. Genshin Impact’s turn-based TCG minigame, Genius Invocation.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

These games are designed for simple gameplay, with no prerequisites and a wide range of difficulty levels, which means that they’re accessible to a much wider audience than most traditional games. 2D and 3D character development. End-to-end Gaming Services Powered by a Brand-new Identity. 3D environment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Riot for sure succeeded in shipping fast, but they clearly didn’t pay much attention on the business case for the game. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Most board game mechanics will not work as well as you intend them to. Good board game developers need to know when to drop mechanics and when to refine them. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

Clearly, there is much more to this game than what immediately meets the eye. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. For that, we’ll reference the game’s Board Game Geek page. There’s a lot we can learn from it!

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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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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

David Hunt, CEO of start-up Noodle Cat , wants to remodel the basic form of game development, with a radical departure from industry norms. He tells GameDaily: “This feeling I’ve had has been growing and burning for years, that the way we approach development, as an industry at large, is broken.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A stellar year for game releases, that’s for sure. But also a dreadful year for job security in game development, with a heartbreaking 10.000 layoffs. On the last working day of 2023 we take one final look over our shoulder to see what we are leaving behind. This year was a two-faced monster. See you in 2024!

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

The fact that it took him over five years to get to the point that it’s nearly ready for Early Access is largely due to learning the ropes of game development along the way. Why did you become a solo developer? Game development is the most time-consuming thing I’ve ever done. Now, it totally consumes him.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Gamathon 24 brought together video game developers, animators, comic artists, XR developers, and tech enthusiasts, all determined not just to survive, but to truly thrive. It began with an online workshop by Joey Ansah, on fight choreography for video games.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Based on the number of users installing a game, the platform will trigger a fee depending on specific revenue and installation thresholds.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Pandemic blows the minds of a lot of new gamers because it’s often the game that introduces the concept of cooperative board game play. That alone is enough to make it special, but it’s no one-trick pony.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

When board gamers need a game to mercilessly mock , they look no further than Monopoly. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Monopoly is a bad game, but have a little respect. That’s not how family games are meant to go!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m currently working on releasing my first game, State of Wonder , as well three other projects on the side.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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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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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In it, I talk about why I love Pandemic for introducing me to hobby games and why I find its take on cooperative gameplay particularly effective. Photo taken by Jana Reifegerste and posted on Flickr.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Marquise de Cat rules the woodlands with an iron paw, forcing the woodland creatures to team up and fight back. Clearly, they’re doing something right here. So what exactly is Root ?

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