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AWS to showcase tools for breakthrough gaming experiences at GDC 2025

AWS Games

Find out more about a flexible Game Provisioning Platform they developed that can automatically spin up game services tailored to the unique requirements of different Riot titles.

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

PreMortem.Games

And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. By September 2022 I had most of the design and lore elements of the game ready, including several prototypes, but it all looked terrible.

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Indie dev studio Wikkl Works takes virtual rock climbing to New Heights

PreMortem.Games

The idea for New Heights emerged as a personal prototype, driven by the desire to create a game focused on exploration rather than violence. This game could become the ultimate digital climbing game platform, where people can upload their own models, create boulder problems, try out climbing locations before traveling and more.”

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How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 1

Brand Game Development

I’m a solo game designer/developer of strategy games on both analog and digital platforms! Wiscon I’ve attended even early in development to test out ideas, check reactions, and see players interact with everything from paper prototypes to physical, professional printed game versions of State of Wonder.

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Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17

Radiator Blog

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. It was a quirky story-first 3D platformer with jokes that were actually funny. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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Level Design: Crafting Engaging Environments for Your Game

Logic Simplified

Even so, different types of video game-level designs, such as shooter-level design, platformer-level design, puzzle-level design, multiplayer-level design, etc. Playtesting Playtesting involves testing a game with real players to assess its design, functionality, and entertainment value. require a unique approach.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish Board Games or Not?

Brand Game Development

You do the game development and playtesting. You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. In just the last five years alone, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon, and other lesser crowdfunding platforms have continued to grow.

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