Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Founded in 2008 , Moonmana is a European game development company and Art production studio that works hand-in-hand with Forbes TOP 13 List of the most valuable video game companies. . Artem was an experienced software developer when he decided to start Moonmana, but game development was his true passion.

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OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

We all remember the times where the focus of most AAA game studios seemed to be to fulfil the fantasies of cis men. Some cis men continue to struggle to let go of the idea that certain games are for them, and studios find themselves caught in controversy where there should be none. ” – GLAAD director Nick Adams.

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Game Designing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a child, he gained a deep appreciation for film and developed a refined taste in the medium that would inspire his work for years to come. Kojima always had a knack for creating and worked on film and writing projects before deciding to enter the video game industry in the mid-1980s after securing a job at game developer Konami.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. Army Commander by Lion Studios. But Army Commander by Lion Studios seemed to nail this on the head. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. We love the concept. Net Fishing! Cast your net to collect as many fish as you can.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. The antithesis of hypercasual, but Shea said the results mean that a similar approach will now be deployed across all of Voodoo’s studios and games going forwards. Missed a previous newsletter?

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I recently spoke to Eric and chronicled his mesmerizing journey from architecture’s rigidity to the fluidity of game development. “I am essentially, I’m the Matte Black Studio. “I loved the concepts, the design. Eric’s foray into gaming began late one night in an architecture studio.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Giving a number to any game’s development expense is practically impossible. Because each step has its nuances, if one game became successful in a month, other developers could empty their whole bank account, and still, there’s no guarantee the target market will appreciate it. Thousands, Millions, or a Billion– what’ll be your guess?

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AWS Games

JUNE 8, 2023

Imagined as a sci-fi take on esports, the game was developed in only two years by a single developer, Kavosh Omidi, using Amazon GameLift dedicated server management on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I decided to go with AWS and I’m really glad that I did; it’s not just for big studios,” noted Omidi.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unreal Fest, the annual developer conference organized by Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine (UE), returns to New Orleans October 3—5 for three days of speaking sessions, hands-on workshops, and specialized industry tracks. This allows smaller game companies to produce AAA game content, and that’s exciting.” Learn more.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

On the path to becoming a pro game developer the hardest thing is not learning how to make games, it’s actually the un-learning you have to do. You see choosing a game engine depends on your goal as a game developer. Some people treat game development as a hobby, and in that case you can choose whichever engine you want.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. They obviously couldn't make the big sprawling maps key to their studio identity, since those would required long multiplayer sessions with no real savegame support.

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Game Designing

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The role combines both artistic and technical skills into a single job that is crucial for productions in film, television, video game development, and more. Once concept art has been created for a 3D character or asset, it will be the job of a 3D modeler to make the actual object that will be used by animators.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

History Most people in the western hemisphere may not be familiar with Call of Duty: Online (CoDO), a project kicked off in 2010 and announced in 2012 as a partnership between Activision and Tencent, with Activision in charge of development and Tencent as the Chinese publisher of record.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s more important than ever to protect the hard earned spoils of successful live operations – both by spending wisely and by protecting product leadership from the randomization that comes with new product concepting. How do studios of all sizes invest in new products prudently in today’s games market?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

I think the “smaller Apple Arcade” concept is a bit of a red herring. But when you think about the AAA catalogs offered by Xbox Game Pass and Playstation Now, this just seems like a nearly impossible battle to take on for a streaming media company with little game development experience, no matter how flush with cash they are.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nevertheless, now that the hype faded out and people are more focused on actually making games, the trade-off between decentralization and mass market reach should sway developers to forget about buzzwords. Where that first sentence worries most of the developers is secondary sales, i.e., sales happening between players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

However, we are missing the forest for the trees when we try to stick to a couple of high-level concepts instead of seeing the larger picture. If things are evaluated from an idealistic perspective with little or no connection with reality, people might say “We should have a decentralized system with nothing enforced by a single entity”.

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