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Attracting investors and publishers with the right kind of game demos

PreMortem.Games

Typically highlighting a game’s mechanics in their raw form, even before content and visuals receive their final polish. Public demos aim to showcase your game’s mechanics and style to players while also garnering interest in the full game through story introduction.

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Frightful Favourites: The GameDev.tv Community’s Top 10 Halloween Game

DameDev.tv

For gamers and game developers alike, this is the season to dive into the world of horror games, immersing ourselves in atmospheres filled with suspense, mystery, and pure fright. From haunted mansions and desolate space stations to eerie towns shrouded in fog, this list promises a thrilling ride through the annals of gaming horror.

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Alan Wake 2: The art of horror

Game Daily

Kyle Rowley: We wanted to figure out what kind of horror experience we wanted to make, based on Alan Wake as an established franchise, and the things that we did in the first game. Early on, we wanted to identify ourselves as more of a psychological horror game. So psychological horror made a lot of sense for us.

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14 low-budget, highly successful story games

Game Analytics

This time, we’ll look at the top games that use storytelling as a core mechanic and show you that you don’t need sparkling design and intense gameplay to create a hit. Three Minute Games also included a time mechanic to make it feel even more realistic. Horror in the darkness by Karmic Shift Studios. It’s all in real-time.

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10 Elements of Good Game Design

Brand Game Development

On the other hand, playing Tasty Humans has short turns, which helps the game stay snappy even though it’s a brain-burny puzzle game. one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. The mere threat is usually enough to keep the game going.

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Thrill-seeking

iHobo

The self-adjusting speed of early puzzle games like mega-hit Tetris worked extremely well to ensure wide appeal. A huge range of brilliant puzzle game designs in the 90s and 2000s delivered thrill-seeking play that was fundamentally not about winning. Next week: Horror Yet players still have fun doing it.

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Godot games in the Steam Next Fest (October 2021)

Mircosoft Game Dev

Dark Crypt by @DaisyGames3 is a puzzle game with a horror setting, well on topic for the spooky season! Manipulate gravity in Spinstar, @PixyDevs 's precision puzzle platformer with great pixel art and music! Hashi: Light by amiksemo is a minimalist and casual puzzle game with a ton of puzzles to solve. Dark Crypt.

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