Opinion: How will Project 2025 impact game developers?
Game Developer
JULY 18, 2024
The Heritage Foundation's manifesto for the possible next administration could do great harm to many, including large portions of the game development community.
Gnarly content: 9 risks for horror game development
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DECEMBER 4, 2024
This blog explores some of the risks of horror game development and how to address them.
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What are game developers getting out of Bluesky?
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NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Game developers are among the millions users leaving X (formerly Twitter) and signing up for Bluesky. What are they getting out of the platform?
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Snapping Your Career into Place with Ben Brode: Game Developer Podcast Ep. 48
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
This month on the Game Developer podcast, we interview Ben Brode, chief development officer at Second Dinner, the studio behind Marvel Snap.
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Balancing creativity and deadlines in game development
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The article offers a framework for managers to balance creativity and deadlines, ensuring the timely delivery of a great game.
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Twitch axes in-chat badge identifying game developers
Game Developer
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Along with getting rid of the badge, Twitch is restarting its organization reviews that let accounts see stream analytics, manage games, and build Extensions.
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Must-have tools and libraries for indie game developers in 2024
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NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Thanks to the constant development of technology and an ever-growing set of powerful tools, indie developers can create games that rival those made by big studios. If you're an indie developer looking to take your project to the next level, here's your essential toolkit for 2024.
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Xbox expands Research division to collaborate with game developers
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
A new program within the Xbox Research division allows developers to give the console maker feedback and help it improve in key areas.
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What Washington State is doing to juice local game development
Game Developer
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The Washington State government's Chamber of Commerce wants to the state's 'creative economy' humming along.
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Game developers are still feeling the pull of last-generation consoles
Game Developer
AUGUST 8, 2024
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S reported surprising sales slumps in the last few months. What will this mean for the rest of this console generation?
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Marketing Art in game development: What makes a 2D Marketing Artist?
Game Developer
JULY 1, 2024
Breaking down the core elements of this career path, its importance in the market today, what skills you'll need to break into the industry and your future career prospects.
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One lesson from 10 years of writing for Game Developer
Game Developer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Bryant's must-read lesson from the last decade: don't worship idols to find meaning in yourself.
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Studio Global Presence in Game Development As A Competitive Advantage
Game Developer
AUGUST 2, 2024
Once you realise the importance of having a robust and adaptive framework and implement a similar structure into your operational approach, your workflow will become unmatched.'
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Group photo: The editors of Game Developer discuss their favorite photo modes
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
As we close out Photography Week, let's talk about some of our favorite photo modes and how they've enhanced our playing experience.
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Are space shooter games still 'a rite of passage'?
Game Developer
JULY 12, 2024
I will attempt to provide the games developer community with my thoughts regarding how I ventured into 'solo indie' games development.
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Exploiting Fear to Create Good Horror Games
Game Developer
MAY 8, 2024
Developers Jade Jacson, Steve Kirby and Kelvin Moore dive into horror as a genre, why we like to be scared and how game developers can exploit our deepest fears to create a wide range of scares.
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Book Excerpt: Great Games Need Great Leaders
Game Developer
AUGUST 15, 2024
This book brings together the knowledge and perspectives of numerous past and present games industry leaders and practitioners to form a clear picture of how leadership operates in a game development studio.'
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Amazon Games CEO thinks genAI can help make better ideas for games
Game Developer
AUGUST 23, 2024
If genAI has any benefit to game development, Christoph Hartmann believes it lies in getting rid of the 'less boring' parts in the name of creativity.
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Codecks nets €1 million in funding for game dev project management tool
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
With the new funding, Codecks aims to beef up staff and create new features to help game developers to keep track of their workload.
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Bridging history and gameplay: Lessons from historiographical video game design
Game Developer
AUGUST 20, 2024
As a historian specializing in Japanese history, my journey into the realm of historiographical video game design has been transformative. This post chronicles that journey, highlighting key lessons learned and offering practical insights for game developers interested in integrating historical accuracy into their designs.
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Game Developer's 2024 Wrap-Up: 5 devs that made an impact
Game Developer
DECEMBER 20, 2024
These are a few of the developers wed like to send some kudos, for making the industry a better place in a very difficult year.
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Classic Postmortem: Telltale Games' The Walking Dead (2012)
Game Developer
OCTOBER 25, 2024
In this postmortem from Game Developer Magazine's March 2013 issue, get an insightful, behind-the-scenes look its design process.
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Ex-Humble Games staff form new publisher, Good Games Group
Game Developer
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Humble will use Good Games to continue supporting games it had already published prior to restructuring its staff in July.
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59 percent of devs say industry in 'bad' straits, blame investors and mismanagement
Game Developer
JUNE 24, 2024
As the game indstry continues through these difficult times, those surveyed by the Game Developers Collective believe they know the real core problems of the industry.
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Survey says half of developers consider VR market on decline or in stagnation
Game Developer
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Developers speaking to the Game Developers Collective seem to think the VR games market has hit a roadblock, even with this year's launch of the Apple Vision Pro.
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GOG expands preservation program to protect delisted games
Game Developer
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The company's recent efforts to protect and update older games will now include titles that get delisted from its store.
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Insulation vs isolation: The question defining the future of Australia's game industry
Game Developer
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Australia's cautious game development community has ridden out the worst of 2024, but is it ready to take a risk to raise its profile on the world stage?
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Unity CEO Matt Bromberg says Runtime Fee reversal is part of bid to become 'a fundamentally different company'
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Bromberg told Game Developer that Unity's Runtime Fee reversal is part of a bid to bring the company "back to where it began." "
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The Last Humble Bee postmortem: Staying sane in solo development
Game Developer
DECEMBER 5, 2024
This is a postmortem for my second game release, and I share lessons learned for staying sane in independent solo game development.
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Why you can’t objectively build great games
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Developers are always trying to find that winning formula for the perfect game, but it takes more than analytics to build an amazing game.
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Every Game Has the Community It Deserves
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
If game designers are to have any success combating toxicity, we must acknowledge that our own design choices are often the underlying systemic cause, and that it is our responsibility to change them.
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Indie publisher Armor Games reportedly axes publishing team
Game Developer
AUGUST 1, 2024
If true, it's unclear what that means for the games Armor's expected to publish. Ex-staff claim the publisher has eliminated its entire publishing team.
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70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability
Game Developer
APRIL 16, 2024
With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.
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Update: Humble Games confirms layoffs amid 'restructuring', denies full shutdown
Game Developer
JULY 23, 2024
Update: In a statement, Humble confirms layoffs at Humble Games but maintains that the publisher is still up and running. Update: Humble has now provided a statement saying Humble Games hasn't been shut down, but just restructured.
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New publisher Shoreline Games launches for indie, subculture-driven games
Game Developer
OCTOBER 1, 2024
The new publisher is geared toward indie games based on systems and with the potential to foster passionate communities.
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Classic Postmortem: Harmonix's Dance Central (2010)
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
This Dance Central postmortem was first published in Game Developer Magazine in January 2011.
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Book Excerpt: Game Design Workshop, 5th Edition
Game Developer
APRIL 18, 2024
It includes a host of new diverse perspectives from top industry game designers.' This updated 5th edition brings deeper coverage of playcentric design techniques, including setting emotion-focused experience goals and managing the design process to meet them.
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Creativity from constraints: developing new games from old IP
Game Developer
MAY 2, 2024
A game's legacy is not just the nostalgia it will come to evoke after enough time has passed. Its legacy is also in the creativity it comes to inspire in the works that arise in its wake.
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Book Excerpt: Designing Games Meant for Sharing
Game Developer
JULY 9, 2024
This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved over time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts.'
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Book Excerpt: Game Economy Design: Metagame, Monetization and Live Operations
Game Developer
OCTOBER 10, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive overview of game economy design. The reader will gain insights into the components that form a game economy, how these components are utilized to shape a metagame experience and how monetization is integrated into this.'
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Why art tests fail artists and the game dev industry
Game Developer
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Art tests in game dev often harm diversity and fail to reflect real skills. It's time to rethink their use and adopt more inclusive hiring practices.
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Phoenix Labs lays off staff, cancels games in major restructuring
Game Developer
MAY 16, 2024
Update: The studio behind Dauntless and Fae Farm has laid off an unknown number of employees and cancelled a game "mere weeks" away from launching in Early Access.
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W4 Games says Godot console porting solutions land in October
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Devs looking to port their Godot-developed game to consoles will have solutions as soon as October.
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Predatory tactics in gaming are worse than you think
Game Developer
JUNE 24, 2024
I want to shed light on a tactic that involves collecting data as you play, feeding this data into complex algorithms and models that then alter the rules of your game under the hood to optimize spending opportunities.
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