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BitCake Studio built online multiplayer game Atomic Picnic completely remote

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BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. says Lamhut laughing.

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Invaluable lessons on crafting impactful games: insights from LIMBO’s Dino Patti

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This approach creates a sense of wonder and discovery, empowering players to feel ‘agency’ as they explore the game. It’s a design method unlike many other games and something that took me time to fully grasp. Here, instead of asking players for feedback, we observed how they interacted with the game.

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Gorilla Softworks’ debut game The Ancients aims for prehistoric realism

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The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where players lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. They have to survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance the technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve their civilization.

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BitCake Studio builds online multiplayer game Atomic Picnic completely remote

PreMortem.Games

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. says Lamhut laughing.

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Passionate Resilience: The Rise of Pineapple on Pizza Studios with Kushal Sithlu

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His turning point came in 2019 at Comic Con Africa, where he discovered a Game Design degree at Wits University’s stand. “I However, it still took a nudge from a dreadful experience in an Applied Mathematics class to propel him to switch from Computer Science to Game Design. It was great! I had so much fun with it.

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Bringing it Together – The Board Game as a Project

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Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games aren’t made by one person usually and definitely not in my case.

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Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17

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I assumed it was mostly for fans but after watching all 32 episodes (on 2x speed, skipping some parts) I've changed my mind and now I think it's essential viewing for all game designers / devs. Outside of game design, there's a growing tide against "design thinking" style methods, see "Design thinking was supposed to fix the world.

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