Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In all, the exciting experience that comes with multiple players gaming together comes from no other and there are various elements that support that kind of experience and that type of gaming. Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day.

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

The video game market is an endless treasure trove. As game fans, we can choose from both big AAA productions and less known (but not always) indie productions. If you look at the development of computer games, you’ll find that indie games have always existed, only now they have a much better channel of distribution.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Naoum calls himself a jack of all trades, a master of none, so going solo on game development made a lot of sense. Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!”

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I sat down with John Krajewski , the man behind the unique and forward-thinking game, Eco. The conversation shifted from the nuances of game development to the larger, looming concept of the “metaverse.” “The community’s voice is invaluable; it helps shape the game,” he remarked.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. She has been invited to the White House and represented the USA at the World Conference on Science Literacy.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

this Saturday June 12, 2021, we are headlining the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest and I also will be moderating IGDA GDSIG's skipped (due to the cancellation of GDC last year) roundtable, Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities. There was just so much more to talk about emotional touchstones in emergent narrative!

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Game Designing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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. Despite the bold new direction, the game was generally well-received by critics and gamers. Games Credited. Early Career.

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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. Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here. For the entire mobile games industry, revenue was down for the first time ever in 2022. Kress hates vests y'all!

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Depending on these, you can make a budget-friendly game or the next GTA. Keep reading this blog to understand how mobile game development costs differ from AAA games. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? The best part about these is that even a solo developer can create them.

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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’m making a game called Lucid ,” began Eric, a clear nod to a rich history of 32-bit gaming, particularly the SNES era. .” “I loved the concepts, the design.

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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.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

That makes them the closest thing in games to a rock supergroup: Maya Kylmamaa (Game Lead, Engineer) , was CEO of the now defunct Reforged Studios (a Helsinki studio focused on AAA strategy games). One could wonder if this makes Ryan a bold choice to lead the studio. I won’t forgive you for that, Supercell!)

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The Bottom Feeder

JULY 24, 2023

Never trust professional reviews of AAA games. They were written by professional indie game developers who should know better. A Few More Key Concepts To Remember 1. They will pay billions of dollars a year to FREE games like Fortnite and League of Legends for COSMETICS. Never trust anyone. But whatever.

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AWS Games

JUNE 8, 2023

The number of services available on AWS and the quality of those services are key to the success of solo game development businesses like mine. Using AWS also helped lower development costs and accelerate iterations.” Taking a leap of faith, he left that role to focus solely on developing his own games.

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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. And one of those guidelines is choosing the correct game engine for your needs. You see choosing a game engine depends on your goal as a game developer.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

(Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Games” concept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). This newness and ambition was a big part of why, as a player playing the game back then, it was so good at inspiring a sense of wonder.

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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

JUNE 13, 2021

I think the “smaller Apple Arcade” concept is a bit of a red herring. On one hand, it makes sense that Netflix would want to be the Netflix of gaming. Likely, it is this unhired person’s job to come in and answer the question “what should Netflix Gaming be?” What directions could Netflix take?

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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. A game concept can come from anywhere. Standardizing the materials provided for the process is a good start.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

Before I get started, I should make it clear which context it is that I’m talking about: single player, somewhat narrative driven videogames, like RPGs or adventure games. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. The same is true for secrets in games.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

If Microsoft had given them another 6-12 months to truly polish everything, then it maybe would've been a more solid OK game. 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. a typically Arkane-ish setpiece scale which you never see again.

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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. Apple simply does not want game developers to direct players to make purchases with any method but IAP.

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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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