PreMortem.Games

APRIL 24, 2023

When he left his day job in 2014 to become a full-time indie developer, he realised he had to come up with something special to stand out from the crowd. In 2014 I decided to leave my (unrelated) day job after saving up money for years in order to go ‘full indie’. It’s hard to get noticed as an indie dev.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

” “We went from animation based to animation with inverse kinematics (IK), to fully IK based, to ragdoll based, guided by IK and minor animations. The post Indie dev studio Wikkl Works takes virtual rock climbing to New Heights appeared first on PreMortem Games. It is great to see that it’s working out so far.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It keeps sending me updates on the problems with the local stray animal in Mumbai! The post Chet Faliszek about his indie debut The Anacrusis “I hope we pull off a miracle” appeared first on PreMortem Games. Which if you know me is a good basis for a name”, Faliszek explains with a faint smile.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Kenyan indie developer cherishes that early morning spark. He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. His impeccable animation skills shine in the teaser videos he meticulously moulded for his debut title Kanairo 101. In the quiet of the night, between 3 and 5 a.m.,

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. look with fluid animations in a sports game. Their solution was a unique blend of hand-drawn 2D sprites and animations in a 3D environment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In September 2022, content creators Jason Yevgeniy Gastrow (better known as Videogamedunkey or just Dunkey) and Leah 'Leahbee' Gastrow announced the formation of their indie publishing label, Bigmode. Earlier this year, the publisher revealed its first title, Shared Memory's Metroidvania-style game Animal Well.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

But the Dutch industry is also home to a vibrant community of indie game developers. Dutch Indies Like Paladin Studios. by Paladin Studios Another indie you will find at the Netherlands Lounge is Linx Interactive. It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. The art, sounds, and animation need to communicate the puzzle logic effectively.” Based in Copenhagen, Geometric Interactive boasts a ten-person strong team. “At

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2024

Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions is a game by Swiss indie game studio Momo-Pi. They won Best Game at the Google Indie Games Festival for their debut game Persephone. The tactical action adventure has much going for it. It looks great, bright and colorful and has gameplay that is both taxing and entertaining. Well, players!

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, I eventually felt the need for a significant change in my life, leading me to transition into the roles of a 2D rigger, animator, and game developer.” But with the added elements of illustrations, animations, and music.” My friend and I collaborated on a small indie game about the Wild West, called Dead Dust.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

They have to survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance the technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve their civilization. There are plenty of indie developers that say this and it’s possibly the most crucial part of game design and development.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 6, 2019

Also, Godot tries to integrate all tools that you need to make a game almost out-of-the-box, from essentials like the off-line code reference to the new animation state machine in version 3.1. Every game developer on the team can contribute to tools that enhance everyone's workflow easily! It went well, but.I

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

The number of pre-recorded lines has grown, the number of options a player has to interact with NPCs has increased, and facial animations have become more realistic. Developers of middleware, tools, and games can use NVIDIA ACE for Games to build and deploy customized speech, conversation, and animation AI models in software and games.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. Created and animated by hand, frame after frame, but integrated into a three-dimensional setting.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 6, 2024

As the pressure of indie-gamedev began to take its toll, I was kinda left alone to fend for myself. I have a deep admiration for everything old-Disney related, and when I first watched Paperman, a Disney animated short, I was instantly inspired to create a paper plane game. How did you decide on the visual style of the game? “I

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 2, 2023

The idea was borne from Shueisha's Game Creators Camp, which western PR manager John Davis (who's also the co-founder of Kyoto-based indie games festival BitSummit) describes as "an incubator for indie developers in Japan." Read more

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

There have been times in my work at Blizzard where I’ve made an animation or edited a PSD file or a 3D model to iterate more quickly on a design and the designers on those teams have let me know how much they appreciate it.” The advantage of the indie space in general is that we get to work on smaller, more niche ideas.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

You can totally miss important conversations and scenes because you're stuck in the stairwell climbing animation at exactly the wrong time. Your cute animal cult will follow whatever "Doctrines" you declare. The weakest is perhaps the wolf form, where the animation doesn't quite match the movement physics. But also veganism?

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

high resolution high quality character models performing high quality animations and visual effects). mobile, consoles with weaker hardware specs, indie games) for important parts. Smaller budget titles and/or titles with smaller teams will still likely lean on pre-rendered cutscenes (e.g. Certain genres of games (e.g.

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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 For example, all the audio is made by Sam Houselander , all the music by Olli Oja and all the animations are done by Nacho de Andres. We don’t take ourselves very seriously.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I didn’t take the thought seriously until I watched Indie Game The Movie and even then it was another few years before I released my first game, Swoopy Boi. I like variety in my work (art, coding, animation, marketing); it keeps things interesting and I also love seeing my own progress over the weeks, months and years.”

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Mnenad

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the 5th devlog episode our mecha learns to shoot and run (animation). Watch the development of an indie game and be a part of it! watch on YouTube. In this episode our mech learns to run, aim and shoot. 🔫   🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Let's have a chat: Discord. Instagram.  

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 15, 2024

The creator of Let Bions Be Bygones (LBBB) is indie game studio Bohemian Pulp , the brainchild of co-founders and life partners, Đorđe and Jasmine Marković. From a production standpoint, pixel art also offered the quickest method for me to create and animate so it was a win-win.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Disinfection , a space horror game by indie duo Evil Turtle Productions which is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Animation: Add "Trimming" option to cut un-keyed timeline before first key in glTF animation ( GH-68665 ). What's new.

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Yobob Games

OCTOBER 10, 2020

There are a lot of items that you can collect in Harvest Island and once you offer them to the gods, you’ll receive bless which is used to befriend animals. Bless is needed to befriend wild animals. For one, it allows you to obtain bless which is used to befriend animals and wild animals. Bless and how it's used.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 5, 2022

In Harvest Island, you are born into a farm and animals are there for you. Another interesting mechanic I added is that you can sing to your animals. Befriending wild animals help improve your character overall. Wild Animals Bonuses. There are huge benefits in befriending wild animals and not just because they are cute.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We For example, all the audio is made by Sam Houselander , all the music by Olli Oja and all the animations are done by Nacho de Andres. We don’t take ourselves very seriously.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We For example, all the audio is made by Sam Houselander , all the music by Olli Oja and all the animations are done by Nacho de Andres. We don’t take ourselves very seriously.

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The Art of the Game

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

I just did an interview with a podcast called BandanaGames , and it was a blast; looking at the rough cut, I’m this animated, geeky spaz – but its nice to see my enthusiasm carries over, and I do believe – its infectious. Let’s work backwards: Me, doing my best simian impression. I’m in a magazine!

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

Which is only avoided with a well-defined hierarchy of power and/or competencies that not everyone in the indie world is willing to assume. The only thing I was clear about was that I wanted the character to be very small and with very fluid animations. What’s your creative process? “I

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

In 2023, gaming is truly for everyone, grandmas play Animal Crossing , teenagers brag about their Fortnite skills, and audience-controlled bots play Pokemon ! AWS are also proud to continue supporting the game developer community and we want to highlight the best games from indie studios to AAA game studios built on AWS.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

It’s a pleasing collection, including hits from down the years, such as Pong, Animal Crossing, Journey, and Candy Crush Saga. That’s worked hand-in-hand with the rise of the indie scene. In his new book, The Best Non-Violent Video Games , James Batchelor celebrates 300 games from the past 50 years.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unknown Number put First Person Talkers on the map, with talks at GDC, several indie awards, and even being exhibited at the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. As such, it was very important for us that the artwork to be hand-drawn, with every frame of animation given love and attention.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We never dared to dream that our game would be a part of Nintendo Indie World. And then, in a hushed voice: “…and secretly we hope to one day have an animated tv show with Bonte Avond characters. Trust me, this is something we are consciously doing better in our current new project.” But we’ll get there when we get there.”

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 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.” It’s the combination of art, coding, music, sound design, graphic design, writing, acting, animation, sculpture, and then at the end you can play it! Especially an indie 2D side scroller puzzle game.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. link] Rigging / Animation. and they're not wrong.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Implementing sprint attack animations, changing walk animations, and correcting dash rotation issues.

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