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Dear Tester, this is how you can help us be innovative

Game Developer

We’re currently developing a mini open world local co-op called Bugging Humans. We know what we need to do, but perhaps our playtesters can meet us half-way It has a shared asymmetrical UI — where one player doesn’t see the screen but they have the controller, and the other player sees the screen and they have the keyboard.

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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori reaches Kickstarter goal in just 19 hours

PreMortem.Games

Aesir specializes in open-world games, with key genres including simulator games like Police Simulator: Patrol Officers and Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator , alongside horse-riding games such as the Windstorm franchise and Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch.

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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori takes equestrian gaming to 13th century Mongolia

PreMortem.Games

Aesir specializes in open-world games, with key genres including simulator games like Police Simulator: Patrol Officers and Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator , alongside horse-riding games such as the Windstorm franchise and Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch. “At

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Ex-Riot devs Believer seeks "a better way to develop video games" with open-source tool Friendshipper

GamesIndustry.biz

The studio was founded by veterans from Riot Games and is currently working on a next-generation open-world multiplayer game. Friendshipper is a development tool that the team has been using to improve how efficiently they build this game, such as faster implementation of bug fixes during playtests.

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

But the process doesn’t end there, and usually I keep discovering things that make me go back and forth and iterate, playtest, iterate, refine, playtest, iterate… I definitely recommend getting feedback from external playtesters at each step.” “I An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars.

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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

This extended infrastructure provides a developer platform for studios and publishers to perform their game development virtually, starting with playtesting. With GeForce NOW Cloud Playtest, players and observers can be anywhere in the world. All this is possible with Cloud Playtest on the GeForce NOW Developer Platform.

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GenoTerra - The finished prototype.

Mnenad

I used GenoTerra to research and reflect about the design process using procedural generation in the creation of base shapes that the designer/s in a studio can use to create a more coherent game world. “Open World Games" have the potential for countless hours of exploration and fun through their huge game worlds.