Ex-Humble Games staff form new publisher, Good Games Group
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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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GOG expands preservation program to protect delisted games
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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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Why you can’t objectively build great games
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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
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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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Opinion: How will Project 2025 impact game developers?
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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.
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Indie publisher Armor Games reportedly axes publishing team
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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
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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
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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
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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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Exploiting Fear to Create Good Horror Games
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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: Game Design Workshop, 5th Edition
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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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Book Excerpt: Designing Games Meant for Sharing
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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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Creativity from constraints: developing new games from old IP
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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: Game Economy Design: Metagame, Monetization and Live Operations
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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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What the game industry must do to prevent occupational burnout
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APRIL 10, 2024
Game industry working conditions are improving, but occupational burnout still runs amok. Studios and workers have the power to slow it down.
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Getting under the hood of racing games
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Franchise development director at Sumo Sheffield Steve Lycett dissects the history of racing games and how developers can steer their games to success.
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Book Excerpt: Great Games Need Great Leaders
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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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Gnarly content: 9 risks for horror game development
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This blog explores some of the risks of horror game development and how to address them.
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Why art tests fail artists and the game dev industry
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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
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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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Amazon Games CEO thinks genAI can help make better ideas for games
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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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W4 Games says Godot console porting solutions land in October
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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
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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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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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Book Excerpt: Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game
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MAY 16, 2024
'Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games (RPG) and to assess its lasting impact on the RPG genre and video game industry.'
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Rolling Stone launches game vertical with help from Saudi wealth fund
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MAY 22, 2024
RS Gaming has been launched in partnership with ESL FACEIT Group, which is owned by Saudi state-backed investment fund PIF.
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Book Excerpt: Game AI Uncovered, Volume One
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This volume brings together the collected wisdom, ideas, tricks, and cutting-edge techniques from 20 of the top game AI professionals and researchers from around the world.
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Game composer Nobuo Uematsu will retire after Fantasian's console launch
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After nearly 40 years of composing music for games (and Square Enix and Final Fantasy specifically), Uematsu has reached the end of the road.
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Are space shooter games still 'a rite of passage'?
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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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U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation
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The Video Game History Foundation decried the 'lobbying efforts by rightsholder groups' that have 'impeded' proper efforts to archive old games at libraries.
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Devolver Digital launches publishing label Big Fan Games for licensed games
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OCTOBER 1, 2024
Big Fan wants to help indie studios bring non-game properties like comics and TV shows to the medium and make a name for delivering 'quality adaptations.'
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Game performers demand more support from studios over 'graphic' scenes
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AUGUST 19, 2024
Actors in the game industry claim they're often asked to perform explicit and intimate scenes without warning or appropriate workplace protections.
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Humble Games' recent restructure is hurting devs and their games
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JULY 30, 2024
Developers Squid Shock and Stairway are unable to push console updates, and the former is resorting to Patreon while looking for a solution.
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Balancing creativity and deadlines in game development
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The article offers a framework for managers to balance creativity and deadlines, ensuring the timely delivery of a great game.
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What happens when a secretive blockchain company buys your game studio
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Former employees of Phoenix Labs and Rumble Games say they were told to keep blockchain platform Forte Labs' purchase of their employers an absolute secret.
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I designed economies for $150M games—here's my ultimate handbook
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After 5 years designing game economies generating $150M+, I've compiled my knowledge into a detailed 7-chapter guide on game economy, balance, and monetization.
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Why is it so expensive to make games in the United States?
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JULY 23, 2024
It's becoming harder to sustainably run a game studio in the United States. What can be done to improve that?
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Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner working on 'most ambitious Godot game yet'
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The company has formed a strategic partnership agreement with Godot vets at W4 Games to support the open source engine.
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Twitch axes in-chat badge identifying game developers
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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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SAG-AFTRA can now call immediate strike if game companies refuse AI protections
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JULY 22, 2024
The union is attempting to secure better wages, working conditions, and AI protections for voice actors and performers within the game industry.
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ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online
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APRIL 22, 2024
Libraries' attempts and proposed plans for archiving older games don't strike a chord with the ESA, which still thinks it remains publishers' burden.
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Dungeons of Hinterberg shows how all games can feel like 'vacations'
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JULY 18, 2024
Microbird Games cofounders Regina Reisinger and Philipp Seifried say devs can take inspiration from "vacationing" in games.
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Hooded Horse's Tim Bender doesn't think constant growth should define games
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The Manor Lords publisher advocates for letting games be measured by their developer's own aspirations rather than the thinking of "number go up."
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Obituary: Geoff Follin, video game composer, passed away at 58 years old
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MAY 31, 2024
Follin and his brother Tim were well-known for their music in '80s and '90s games like Silver Surfer and The Incredible Crash Test Dummies.
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