Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The game is sunsetting so there's layoffs. We've seen a huge number of layoffs in 2023 and this year so far. When the vast majority of the costs in the industry are salaries, the vast majority of cost-cutting is how many workers to let go. I doubt we've seen the last of them.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Their top 3 leading games of all time are Park Master with 175M installs, Ball Run 2048 with 149M, and the more recent Number Master with 83M. How do you approach development of Hypercasual games in 2024, considering the general shift towards Hybridcasual? .” Developers can choose the best conditions from many publishers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Peak Games boss Inonu said that Apple should help developers more by clarifying its privacy policies further and that Google’s approach seemed to be better thought out. In response to Playtika’s assertion that it won’t be launching any new games , Supercell’s Haussila said: “We’ve never had more games in development that we do today”.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Tie-dye games As for the game’s dynamics on the market, it peaked two months after its release in early July 2020 and quickly went down to 5.58M monthly installs. In January 2023, the game generated 1.9M In January 2023, the game still generated 2.8M Since then, its downloads have been decreasing gradually.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In September 2023, she received a Rising Star Award at the Fak’ugesi Festival for her game ‘Rapz,’ which she created to foster a sense of self-love in young girls. She employs art forms such as dance, filmmaking, fashion, and now game development to find creative solutions to things that are near and dear to her.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

If you’re an avid gamer who loves computers, you may be thinking about pursuing a career as a game developer. Game development is a specialized, comparatively small, and lucrative industry. Retail gaming in the United States is estimated to be worth $4.19 billion in 2023. It usually takes four years to earn.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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AWS Games

APRIL 8, 2024

To drive innovations in this fast-moving market, HUDstats prioritizes reliable, battle-tested resources that help it move quickly and prototype tools their clients haven’t yet imagined, which is why the company adopted Amazon Bedrock for generative AI.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Overall, we believe that 2023 will be the year of austerity and efficiency. This means cutting new games in development, investing in revenue-generating titles, reducing headcount, and implementing hiring freezes. Companies are getting hyper-focused on profitability and reducing all ‘fat’.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. But you might not know that he is also a published author , a venture partner at Play Ventures , a very active angel investor, and co-founder of the powerful Next Games. Joakim Achren.

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