First person Game Design Indy 
Radiator Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
But I've been threatening to make a sports game for a while. And now since I no longer teach for a living, I thought I'd try an even more difficult way of earning money - why not try "going indie"? Death is usually (a) game over, (b) rare, or (c) strongly penalized. We need bolder sports games.
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 24, 2024
For the last five years, off and on, he worked on Critter Crossfire , a turn-based tactics and first person shooter hybrid. This game represents me as a developer, he says. Without much game dev experience he relied on YouTube dev vlogs to help him along. Three years later the game launched without much success.
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PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 19, 2024
His debut game Unknown Number was the first game in what its creator Tom Keane called the ‘First Person Talkers’ genre. Now he’s ready to take talking games to the next level with his new project Dead Meat. But on a gameplay level, simply talking to a game is not inherently fun by itself.
Radiator Blog
JUNE 2, 2023
Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. So this post will focus on my read of the general game design and player experience.
PreMortem.Games
JULY 17, 2023
This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion. Over the years the team grew to an international and fully remote team of 9 developers that released Mordhau, the studio’s first title, in 2019.
Radiator Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City. Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person RPG called. From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. The Forgotten City (2021).
Game Dev Unchained
JULY 5, 2023
Pham and Max delved deep into the world of indie game development, discussing everything from the inception of the game to its surprising success. In fact, their team took a lot of inspiration from games like CS:GO and other tactical shooters, such as Battlefield. “I don’t think [we’re] number one.
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