GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 13, 2024

Via the website StartEngine, Frost Giant Studios launched a campaign earlier this year that enables players to buy shares in the company with the promise of (hopefully) sharing in its long-term success. The campaign aims to raise between $15,000 and $5 million, and at the time of writing it's approaching the $1 million milestone.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The project and the studio were unveiled in July last year: EA launched Cliffhanger Games, a new developer working on a Black Panther game. This interview is part of GamesIndustry.biz’s Black Voices Progress Report, offering insight into the different experiences Black professionals have in the games sector.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly. Not games writing mind you, but copy writing – for pitches, store pages, press releases, & everything else. If you’re writing to a publisher or the press, they need to know whether this is useful to them immediately.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

This couldn’t be truer for Kushal Sithlu , CEO of the South African studio Pineapple on Pizza. Today, his award-winning studio, just a year old, has been a part of the prestigious Google Indie Games Accelerator and the Creation Africa Program. That’s when I started writing more, getting into poetry.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

25 years old, fresh out of script writing studies and feeling detached from society. “In moments of crisis – when the amount of work, mainly due to script writing, was beyond me – my friend and business partner Maciej Staczyk used to tell me: Any task, even the largest one, requires a finite number of hours to complete.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Tango Gameworks' founder and CEO Shinji Mikami is leaving the Evil Within studio. I am writing today to let you know that studio head Shinji Mikami has decided to leave Tango Gameworks in the coming months," he said. The news was reported by True Achievements , and then confirmed to the publication by Bethesda.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

As of this writing, it also continues to hold strong among the top five downloadable titles on the Nintendo eShop. The remarkably warm reception has been equally surprising to its developer, the newly formed Double Dagger Studio, helmed by Matt T. Read more

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Retro Game Coders

MARCH 8, 2024

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! At the time of writing it is on version 2.5.3 file format (.spd)

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

John Ikpeme is the CEO of Nigeria-based Dash Studios. Not only has he kept his multi-award-winning game studio thriving, but he’s also integrated his passion for gaming into his career. Even at the bank, they know about Dash Studios and welcome it.” I focus on data at Dash Studios,” says Ikpeme. “I

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

25 years old, fresh out of script writing studies and feeling detached from society. The process of writing the 300,000-word script took me 20 months. When a deal with an investor fell through after only four months, he found his studio in debt. Jędrzej Napiecek was not in a good place. To be honest, he just felt so… useless.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 24, 2024

Larian Studios' game also took home the award for Best Writing in a Game, having been nominated for six awards in total. The 13th annual New York Game Awards took place yesterday, with Baldur's Gate 3 taking the top prize of Game of the Year.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

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. Regarding the designing of traits, story elements, characters, mission objectives and dialogue writing, I took on most of that.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

As reported by Game Developer , senior animator Eric Webb shared on LinkedIn last Friday that the studio "had to lay off most of [its] staff." Something Wicked Games has reportedly cut an unknown number of staff.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Not only is it Bethesda's first single-player RPG since Fallout 4, but it's also the studio's first original IP in 25 years. As of writing, the game has a Metacritic score of 87 out of 54 reviews. Expectations have been high for Starfield.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2025

I'm also speaking at GDC about the difficulty of teaching level design and writing The Level Design Book , now a top search result and community resource used in multiple schools and studios. A lot of the dev team will be hanging around GDC too. It's funny to be part of a "foreign" delegation "visiting" my home country.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2025

I ended up working with more than one of the developers I worked with at that company at other studios later on in my career. That turned into an offer, which resulted in my employment there for a time while I looked for work back in proper video games. You are never tied to any one employer and you can always leave.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A synopsis demands exactly this challenge, regardless of whether you're writing for a feature film or a multi-season TV series. Let's find out what makes film and television writing unique and how to create a synopsis that elevates your story. These objectives should guide how you write.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. Several hats Working as a two-person studio both developers have to be versatile. “We João does all the art and shaders.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” I feel like I was put on Earth to make this game”, he says.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Inside this special South African studio run by all-female creators, you’ll find Makhoba (Khadija) Kamogelo , also known as Kamo. She prides herself in creating a tribe around the award-winning studio’s title Dungeon Crawler. Even though high school limited creative outlets, her love for writing shone through.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

My first encounter with Cassie Simpson was during the inaugural Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Africa in 2023. In December 2023, she exhibited some of Chroma Pixel Games’ studio work at Africa Games Week and attended Playtopia Festival. ” Animation, writing and marketing are the three majors Simpson decided to take.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Mark Healey, one of Media Molecule's four co-founders, is leaving the studio.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

I’ve been interviewing developers since 2013, talking to dozens of candidates at companies such as King, Foxglove and Yager, writing job specs for various roles, and providing hiring decisions. The post Finding the right people for your studio by running effective tech interviews appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A dispute between a game developer and one of its fans has resulted in a DMCA takedown notice pulling the studio's game from Steam.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2020

In a past progress report I announced a Godot extension for Visual Studio Mac and MonoDevelop. Today I'm announcing two new extensions for other editors: Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. As of this writing, the two extensions provide 3 debug targets: Launch , Attach and Play in Editor. Visual Studio for Mac.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The process is the same: the melody comes first, then the studio mock-up, then the live recording. Like a lot of composers I work in Pro Tools because that software translates most readily to other studio environments.” I have no limitations on instruments. instrumentation depends on what I hear after looking at the art or movies.

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 8, 2011

What if movie studios required vertical slices of movies. Maybe writing a novel works this way, but making movies and games do not. Given that they are the ones getting stinking rich off of all our hard work, shouldn't we expect that from them? It just doesn't work. They are an iterative processes.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Why writing rules is different than other kinds of writing How to structure a rule book Making rule books clear and concise Your player’s first experience and your rule book Dealing with rule book skimmers Parting advice. Brandon: Both in consulting and in creating books, you’ve done quite a bit of writing.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 15, 2024

French indie studio Seed by Seed appreciates the importance of players’ time. Our studio has a flat hierarchy, nobody is the boss, and we don’t have a creative director. Everybody in the studio is welcome to pitch ideas and we chose the projects we all want to work on, together.

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 7, 2011

What if movie studios required vertical slices of movies. Maybe writing a novel works this way, but making movies and games do not. Given that they are the ones getting stinking rich off of all our hard work, shouldn’t we expect that from them? It just doesn’t work.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 29, 2024

Ultimately, we decided to create our custom physics engine, using NWH Wheel Collider as a base for collisions and writing every part of car physics from scratch. Racing portfolio Studio Perfect Pixel Dude, based in the city of Kalisz, Poland, was founded in 2013. “We The path ahead for #Drive Rally is clear.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

This recap post / viewing guide covers only the first half of the series (episodes 01-17) and I'll try to write-up the second half later. As an independent studio always running out of money, DF has to constantly seek new deals and diversify its projects: Headlander for Adult Swim, Rad for Bandai Namco, and now some sweet sweet Sony VR money.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

Now, with the follow-up, Nirvana Noir , the New York-based indie studio Feral Cat Den is crafting audio-visual poetry in motion. This gave the studio a bit of an outsider perspective. Their first game, Genesis Noir, was already a moving work of art.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Industry news features headlines in flashing neon about studio closures and layoffs, the predatory nature of perpetual crunch, the toxicity of online communities, and horrific accounts of discrimination and harassment. I could pick any one of them and write an article on "Why I Love" the experience it offered. Sign me up. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They've learnt how to ride motorcycles together, how to surf, and completed a short story writing course… so starting a games studio together seems like a logical next step. Since, they've developed a habit of just saying yes to things. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The indie studio was founded in 2022 by Kostia Liakhov , Game Director and Head of Art, and Samantha (Sam) Cable , Game Director and Head of Narrative. ” Inspired by the rising issue of pet abandonment, Cable wanted to write a script that demonstrates the complex and nuanced world of cat ownership. .

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Larian Studios' title was nominated in five categories, including Best Game of the Year, Best Writing, Best World, and Best Music. The nominees for the New York Game Awards 2024 were announced yesterday, with Baldur's Gate 3 taking six nominations.

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