Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 21, 2024

To dissect this further, Mishka Katkoff sat down with the “OG of IPs and Transmedia” Peter Levin , to discuss the state of the industry, the role of gaming, and where things are headed. Legacy media companies are catching on. Levin predicts that more industries beyond traditional media will enter the fray.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 9, 2024

Voice-controlled game developer Volley has closed its Series C fundraising round and secured $55m. It follows Volley's Series A round in 2020, and Series B round in 2022, both of which were led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifically, video production and game development require efficient workflows that involve multiple departments and span different time zones. Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Patrik Nagy , a 20-year-old software development student from Hungary, began working on simple games at age 12, driven by a passion for programming and game development. His latest and most ambitious project, Backrooms Media , dives into the eerie lore of the Backrooms. How did you get the idea for Backrooms Media?

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If you’re a student and you have an interest in game development as a career, you should absolutely look into these. Internships are a great way to earn some experience in a professional environment and to get mentorship from those of us in the trenches. This is part 2 of this year’s internship roundup. Click here for part 1 ].

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s pick up from there and talk about what specifically goes into making a game. What is board game development all about? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. ” So what goes into game development?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2023

During her talk at IndieGameBusiness Sessions she talked about incorporating social media as a vital marketing tool. There are various ways to make sure social media plays a vital role in your overall marketing plan. Social media is just one of the available channels for marketing. You can set up a tone for your game or studio.

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Game Development for Beginners

APRIL 28, 2023

Are you a game developer looking for ways to promote your game on social media platforms? Hashtags are a powerful tool that can help you reach a larger audience and increase your game’s visibility. In this guide, we will discuss the best hashtags for game developers to use and how to use them effectively to.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’ll use the game development process – from start to finish – as an example. Audience Validation: Checking the game one last time to see if people like how it turned out.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Do you ever wonder how you can get better at game development? If so, keep reading for some great tips and watch the Livecast for all 12 ways to get better at game development. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Social media has a knack for bringing niche topics to the attention of a large audience. Lately, we see more and more games inspired by these social media trends making it to the top charts in terms of downloads. AppMagic investigates the rise and fall, successes and failures of these specific types of games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2024

Rolling Stone has returned to games media by launching a new section, Rolling Stone Gaming. As reported by Game Developer , the section will be headed by senior gaming editor Christopher Cruz, who was previously an executive producer of the site's content studio which included its daily show Rolling Stone on Twitch.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

This article explores the latest trends shaping the future of game art, including real-time rendering, stylized game art, AI-assisted creation, and the rising influence of user-generated content in shaping artistic directions. The Rise of Cross-Media Art Integration Game art is no longer confined to gaming alone.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2024

On the GamesIndustry.biz Academy stage at EGX 2023, Sinéad Oram, a 2D artist at Sony's Media Molecule, shared her insights into securing a position within this segment of game development. But it's something that – with the right level of skill and hard work – is absolutely within your grasp. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Founded in 2018 by CEO Senad Hrnjadovic, SenAm Games is an independent game development studio based in Munich, Germany. We have a solid track record of developing and releasing three games in the last seven years, including client work, Hrnjadovic says.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Nigeria-based games developer Maliyo Games is behind a new Disney game coming to mobile this month. The animation is co-produced with Kugali Media and set in a futuristic Nigeria, while the game is called Disney Iwájú: Rising Chef, and is due to launch on the same day. Read more

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 12, 2021

Other industries could definitely benefit from the checklist mentality, and I consider crowdfunded board games to be among them. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Ask a few friends to retweet/share your social media posts.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image credit: DanielAlexanderSmith / Wikipedia For decades, Peter Molyneux was a regular fixture on the game media outlet interview circuit, his face gracing the cover of magazines or website feature splashes. The badly botched launches of Kickstarter game Godus, and mobile game Curiosity further damaged his reputation.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Los Angeles-based studio shared a statement on social media , citing a "lack of support for VR within the industry" as the main reason for closing its doors. "As As an AAA VR game developer, we are just not able to justify the expense needed going forward," the studio said. "[We]

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 18, 2024

Day one of the 2024 Game Developers Conference opened with a session about fostering inclusivity and diversity in game communities, with panellists giving a welcome reminder about why this matters and the obstacles standing in the way.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Game Developers Conference organizers Informa Tech have unveiled the finalists for this year's Game Developer Choice Awards. Both are up for the Game of the Year award.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 15, 2024

Perforce's latest annual State of Game Technology report claims the top three issues game developers currently face are funding, collaboration, and time for innovation. 90% thought that the availability and access to senior leadership was more important than "the ability to work remotely" (81%).

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2024

There's no shortage of success stories surrounding Baldur's Gate 3, and Larian Studios creative content manager Ben Maltz-Jones added to the stack in a Game Developers Conference session titled "Roll Play: The Strategy Behind Baldur's Gate 3 on TikTok." million likes spread across more than 100 TikToks uploaded to the site.

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Starloop Studios

APRIL 2, 2024

AI game development is becoming more and more prevalent in the gaming industry. As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, developers find new and novel ways to incorporate it into their game development processes. Magic Media and [.] Magic Media and [.]

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 26, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Starting up a board game news site or news feed is one way to promote your own content. News sites and news feeds help people stay on top of news in the board game industry. News Sites/News Feeds.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 20, 2018

Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game is still going to continue. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This will also help me since I’ll regain a few hours each week for game development. What comes next?

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Nearly 30,000 attendees were welcomed to the March 2025 Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Convention Center with an official ribbon cutting by the Mayor of San Francisco. AWS also hosted insightful sessions featuring Epic Games, Netflix Games, Riot Games, Jackbox Games, and more.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 28, 2024

.” Epic MegaGrant Developing a game in Kazakhstan poses its own set of challenges, as Khoroshavin explains. The indie game development community here in Almaty is almost non-existent,” he says. We’re working on a few prototypes,” he reveals, adding that he regularly shares sneak peeks on social media.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 14, 2024

Former banker turned game developer, Daniel Macharia , has always been passionate about sharing his knowledge. His journey began with a comprehensive 20-part YouTube tutorial series on developing his debut title, Wana Savana that learners could follow along. I don’t want the game to become political.”

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 2, 2018

If you are a board game developer like me, you are simultaneously privileged and burdened to live in this current time. On the one hand, board games have seen a massive surge of popularity, growing about 20% every year for the last few years. It seems like board gaming just broke a billion dollars as a market.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 17, 2024

The International Game Developers Association and YouTuber Youna 'CodeMike' Kang have filed challenged the United States Patent and Trademark Office following a new requirement for home addresses to be included during trademark registration.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. There are, however, definitely weirdo group dynamics that are exacerbated by the technological advances of our era, namely search engines, social media, and an unending deluge of data. So are their media consumption habits.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 4, 2024

Through Physical media. Whether it was a cartridge, CD, UMD, or Blu-ray disc, physical media was the primary way through which games were distributed. The move to digital media from most companies that grew in prominence from the PS4 era, has always been met with mixed enthusiasm. But with technology comes evolution.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 7, 2024

FlatPonies , a Copenhagen-based game development studio, is finally launching Rebots , a first-person automation game that invites players to explore a universe full of quirky robots and expansive worlds. With over six years of development behind them, Lead Producer Regő Porkoláb has learned some valuable lessons.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

Then, serendipitously, one by one, the obstacles toward the modern board gaming landscape fell away. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Why the Question “Why Board Games are So Popular” Matters to You, the Developer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 20, 2024

Epic today held its annual State of Unreal event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, with new announcements for gamers and developers alike. On the player side of things, the big attraction of the event was no doubt the first look at the new Marvel game from Skydance New Media and Amy Hennig, 1943: Rise of Hydra.

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