Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Don McGowan, the former Bungie CLO who pursued Destiny 2 cheaters and players that threatened his coworkers, wants developers to fight for their rights.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 30, 2024

Drag Her, a 2D hand-drawn fighting game featuring a roster of real-life drag artists, launched its Kickstarter campaign back in February 2022 with a modest and cheeky funding target of $69,000.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

'That's one thing I learned for sure: players always want more.'

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Game Developer

MARCH 15, 2024

Rocket Rat Games talks about the nuances and thought processes that went into weaving important, strategic, and exciting movement choices into its starship battles.

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Game Developer

MARCH 11, 2024

' fighting game is stepping onto the stage once again. Warner Bros.'

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Game Developer

APRIL 19, 2024

Ahead of its 10th birthday, Marvel's mobile fighting game is leaving the iOS/Android playground to hang out in other app stores.

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Game Developer

APRIL 24, 2023

The ongoing fight between Epic Games and Apple over third-party App Store payments ended largely in favor of the tech giant, albeit with some concessions towards Epic.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 28, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week in Start to Finish , I wrote Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish or Not , an article dedicated to the benefits and pitfalls of self-publishing your game. Need help on your board game?

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Game Developer

MARCH 1, 2024

Balatro may look like a gambling game, but it very much isn't, which Playstack says it had to fight for to clear its release.

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Game Developer

MARCH 21, 2023

Double Fine gameplay programmer Rebecca Vessal showed off the highly modular "maneuver" system the team designed to make the game's larger-than-life boss encounters on a tight schedule.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 4, 2023

Guilty Gear Strive is reportedly the first entry in the series to hit such a milestone, and the only game in Arc System Works' entire 35-year history to do so.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I’ll make a game where you can decide for yourself whether to fight or sneak past any problem." "I’ll show them," recalled Warren Spector.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WB Discovery's David Zaslav had no trouble touting the bloody success of NetherRealm's newest fighting game in its opening months.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Back in March, Osama Dorias was part of an industry panel on burnout at the Game Developers' Conference, sharing his own personal story of burning out in the industry and the toll it took on his mental health. It's night and day," Dorias says. Just night and day. I'm not saying it's good now; that's uneven across companies.

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Game Developer

JUNE 12, 2023

Bandai Namco announced its 2012 fighting game Soul Calibur V will be taken offline and delisted completely on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on June 19.

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In this guest blog, the Rubber Duck Games team breaks down the journey to developing a boss fight for Evil Wizard – from design and prototyping to animation, testing, balancing, and finalizing the visual effects.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Weve previously explored how collaborating with fan-favorite IPs as part of a LiveOps strategy can have a drastic impact on in-game performance, and that logic very much applies to anime crossovers. Interestingly, it also launched alongside a new permanent in-game feature: special abilities.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 22, 2024

Microsoft has responded to the Federal Trade Commission's complaints regarding the recent changes to Xbox Game Pass , including price increases and the discontinuation of its console-only tier.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 7, 2023

But fortune smiled upon Teninke, when her brother eventually “outgrew” his gaming phase, leaving the console all to herself. Among the assortment of games, at Teninke’s disposal, one stood out like a shiny pearl. Seeing that was hard and I always found myself in the middle of a fight beside her. said Teninke.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As stated in my previous post , my goal is to improve the robustness of the Untold Engine by focusing on developing various games. I was thinking of a game to make, and I thought about how much my kids love car games. By AI assist, I simply mean a path the car will follow throughout the game. So, what issues did find?

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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

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. Its easy to get stuck chasing perfection, but games are meant to be played, not just endlessly tweaked.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1) You have options on how to act and what to do after you acted, (2) these choices impact the game and future choices, both in the near future and far future; and (3) when playing for the first time I didn't feel like I had a choice, there was only thing my character would have done. different outcomes for people or places.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. As an example, collaboration events are used by more than 70% of the top 10% of highest-grossing games in the China iOS market.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 10, 2024

Content studio Offbrand has branched out into games, having launched its publishing division Offbrand Games. Offbrand Games' first title is the sequel to Aether Studio's fighting platformer Rivals of Aether, which initially launched in 2017.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 10, 2024

It's hard to believe it now, but Dylan "TheBoyDilly" Johnson – CEO and founder of the wildly successful Good Gamers – didn't ever plan to be a game developer. Back in early 2020, Johnson was one of millions of health workers at the forefront of the fight against COVID.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

While 3D dominates modern game development, 2.5D continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. Works While 2D and 3D have traditionally been viewed as separate paths in game development, 2.5D From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 22, 2024

As we step up to recognise Earth Day 2024 – the 50-year-old global event that seeks to highlight issues affecting our climate, oceans, and planetary peace – not-for-profit organisation PlanetPlay wants to help game studios and players make meaningful change. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 22, 2024

The SAG-AFTRA National Board has unanimously agreed to permit its chief negotiator to call an immediate strike at will in a bid to protect voice actors fighting for job security as more and more studios explore generative AI. Read more

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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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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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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 1, 2025

The gaming industry is, unfortunately, very hit-driven. The top 10% of earning games take in ~90% of the total revenue for the entire industry. generally out-earn the experimental and new games by orders of magnitude, even if the new games hit it big.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

Video games are no stranger to the power fantasy of a lone hero who single-handedly turns the tides of war and saves the day, world, or universe. In this game, war is definitely hell, and all you can do about it is… well, nothing. The Forever Winter is the studio’s debut title, but far from the first game for its developers.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. years of development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A group of developers is fighting back against Unity's plan to charge for game installs by cutting off the ad and monetisation revenue they would have been sending to the engine provider. Read more

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Taught By Thirst is a new Mesoamerican themed single player Quake map that I made for Remix Jam , a 3 week community level design event where we all adapted multiplayer maps from other games for Quake. Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play.

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