PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time! Even if you work on successful studio games that have good profit, you can still find yourself without a job.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

Years ago, at the annual Penny Arcade Expo games convention, I was showing off an advanced prototype of Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing. The newsletter is free but you can support the existence of LTPF with a small subscription fee. The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.”

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

I will sometimes sketch out what I’m thinking on paper if necessary, but will always try to use the lowest fidelity needed, then prototype it to find out if it is good/fun/useful.” “For One that could run, jump, swing, climb, fly, flip and fight in a fluid way. I try to avoid wasting time with high-fidelity mock-ups.

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Filmustage

MAY 17, 2022

It is important to say, however, that such a ridiculous price hides one strong condition: the studio will only make the film with James Cameron in the directors’ chair. A large part of the budget was spent on underwater filming (the special effects were not yet perfect enough to simulate the underwater world in a film studio).

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. There is concern about whether Apple’s devices would support Windows for development, considering most gaming studios use Windows PCs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most notable move being the opening of a Berlin studio that is categorically focussed on “casual” games, with key hires coming in from Blizzard, King, Rovio and the likes. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

We wanted to turn the typical team-shooter on its head and create a game unlike anything else in the shooter genre,” says Fun Dog Studios CEO and Creative Director Miles Williams. Players take on the role of scavengers, or scavs, that have no allegiance to the fighting factions. We’ve created almost an ‘anti-shooter’. Or die trying.”

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. Unity also enables quick prototyping. But is there an ultimate winner?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it. Making a prototype. Well not really. are on the right path.

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