PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Small teams and solo developers often produce some of the most unique and personal games, and this holds true for Rablo Games, an indie studio led by founder Pablo Coma. Six months into development, Coma accepted a job at Appeal Studios as a game designer, eventually becoming a game director.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. Funny then that the game is made in Copenhagen, Denmark. Pedersen is the programmer and CEO of the company and Ryder takes on the roles of game director, graphics artist, musician and game designer.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I would try to get your game in front of as many people as you can, get all the feedback you can, and do what you can to improve your game. It would not be weird at all. Get your friends to play it, get your family to play it, get as many people as you can to play it.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 15, 2024

French indie studio Seed by Seed appreciates the importance of players’ time. We’re aiming at making non-violent games that bring families and friends together around the screen.” We found inspiration in games like The Yawgh and Monster Prom.” That immediately dictated the game’s graphical look. “In

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

But the end is here, the game is out now on steam. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Naoum calls himself a jack of all trades, a master of none, so going solo on game development made a lot of sense.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Making games is different to making anything else. Game development takes so long!

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

Come “behind-the-scenes” with AWS GameTime Each episode is hosted live and our Twitch viewers get the chance to directly chat with the creators and game industry veterans of their favorite games. The casual interview setting is the perfect way to ask lots of questions about their game design and game development process.

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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.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

I had some experience with RPG Maker when I was 14, learned the basics of programming and 2D graphics at that time. Then the first wave of really successful indie games appeared on Steam, in the late 00s and early 10s. I thought if I practiced enough, I could make 2D games by myself, and so I decided to try it.”

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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. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. Completely in control of every movement and strike.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 14, 2023

The game is made by a two-man team called Reclaim Interactive. “I I think racing games have fallen out of favor because there’s a lack of innovation as they focus more on graphics and realism than creativity and feel”, says founder and Art Director Brian Young.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On the other hand, a lack of atmosphere, or an atmosphere that is at odds with the game’s mechanical and narrative design can be off-putting to players and lead to poor reception. It’s also important to consider that the bar for video games is being set ever higher, even for indies.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. Plus a chatty heroine that flogs her enemies with a sharp sword and even sharper one-liners. We feel like En Garde!’s

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

These adjustments touch upon various facets such as gameplay, user interface, and overall game design. While most of the decisions are made from within the confines of the development studio itself, developers place considerable importance on a specific form of game testing to gather invaluable insights.

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In addition to modern takes on classic games, many companies are creating entirely new content based on retro themes. For example, indie game developer DrinkBox Studios recently launched Guacamelee!, Designing a retro game. This includes graphics, audio and any other files needed to make your game work.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our tiny company has been earning (well, "earning") a good living making indie computer games for 27 years now. We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. A really solid story in an indie game.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When it comes to game development, visuals do matter. Developing high-quality and impressive graphics is an essential step that requires a great deal of time, effort, and skill. However, when choosing a method for the game’s visual presentation, many people reach a dead end, and numerous questions arise. What Is 3D Art?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Unreal makes it possible to bring literally any vision to life in the form of an advanced video game.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Endless Sky is a space game that anyone can download and play for free. From a graphics standpoint, Endless Sky is the most simplistic game we’ve included in our list. The game has simple 2D graphics and most of the storytelling is told through the use of simple photos with accompanying text. Endless Sky.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1. -->. Marcel Admiraal is an engineer and game designer with a broad range of programming experience; most recently in developing artificial intelligence for human-machine interfaces.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I consider how Godot's unique scene-node system, flexible graphics, scripting language, and open source code make it a promising alternative to standard agent-based modelling software. Talk: Implementing game programming patterns in Godot | Giovanny Beltrán. Tomasz Chabora (Poland) is a passionate game developer and gamer.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

We’ve talked with many students in our online game development course for beginners , and we’ve seen great examples of beginners using all four of these game engines to produce spectacular indie games. I think where Unreal Engine comes out on top is with its graphics processing. Do you love game design?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Starting over, is the game commercially viable? This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. And no, it's not the scope that makes the game viable or inviable. A lot of articles you read about making a successful game will tell you to keep your scope small to avoid risks. .:

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