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How the Broken Sword remaster smooths out the point-and-click difficulty curve

Game Developer

Revolution Software co-founder Charles Cecil explains how the studio ditched '90s design conventions to reinvent Broken Sword for modern audiences.

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Developers behind 80 games sign deals with SAG-AFTRA

GamesIndustry.biz

Named studios included Studio Wildcard (the team behind ARK Survival Evolved), Little Bat Games (an indie studio currently working on its debut title, Vampire Therapist), and Francisco Gonzales (the developer of a series of retro-style point-and-click adventures, including Rosewater and Lamplight City).

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Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code

Retro Game Coders

C64 programmers usually turn to CBM PRG Studio, and I even suggest it as a go-to (heh) in my C64 BASIC Programming course series , but it is only natively compiled for Windows. You can code for the C64, for free, using Microsoft Visual Studio Code! but the best way to install it is through Visual Studio Code itself.

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Passionate Resilience: The Rise of Pineapple on Pizza Studios with Kushal Sithlu

PreMortem.Games

This couldn’t be truer for Kushal Sithlu , CEO of the South African studio Pineapple on Pizza. His turning point came in 2019 at Comic Con Africa, where he discovered a Game Design degree at Wits University’s stand. Once I started programming, the logic just clicked. And it was at this point that I was like, NO!

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Midnight Girl by indie studio Italic is a cool cat – Cat burglar that is

PreMortem.Games

Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. The point-and-click adventure unfolds in a stylish 1960s Paris that exudes both an inviting and eerie ambiance. Our last game was a kids puzzle game, our current game is a point-and-click adventure and our next game might be something completely different.”

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Fly into the unknown with Void Sails by Ticking Clock Games: “We’re self-funding our debut”

PreMortem.Games

Although the studio is officially based in Dubai, UAE, the team works fully remotely from different parts of the world, including Spain and Poland. ” In terms of the 2D art, the team was fortunate to find an artist that clicked. Funding the game has been another challenge for the small studio.

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. It allows for players to create a pleasant looking paint job for their plane in a couple of clicks, and it’s also highly efficient.

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