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Midnight Girl by indie studio Italic is a cool cat – Cat burglar that is

PreMortem.Games

The point-and-click adventure unfolds in a stylish 1960s Paris that exudes both an inviting and eerie ambiance. Funny then that the game is made in Copenhagen, Denmark. Pedersen is the programmer and CEO of the company and Ryder takes on the roles of game director, graphics artist, musician and game designer.

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5 Lessons I Learned at a Play-Testing Convention (Protospiel Atlanta)

Brand Game Development

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

Do not bother with design. Don't apply design patterns or encapsulation for the sake of it. If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. A common excuse for this is teamwork and many programmers working on a game. What makes your game different?

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How Flying Sheep raised funds to make its ‘frictionless’ Web3 game Star Life

Game Daily

. “I’m personally very interested in the idea of digital items, as I started my career in F2P monetization and in-game shop management.” We believe for a Metaverse to exist, anyone should be able to access it anywhere, anytime, as easily as one click. There were two problems with web3 gaming until now.

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How To Play-Test the Rules of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory! They explain, limit, and clarify.

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How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

I think a lot of the time when you end up fundraising, you typically fundraise off the back of an initial product idea or initial, hey, there's an opportunity to make a combine a match-3 and the RPG and the MMO category into that, you know, wild new type of game that. It's a hybrid game. They get to a prototype level.

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2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

Deconstructor of Fun

Castle Clash by IGG, War Dragons by Pocket Gems and Art of Conquest by Lilith all came down between 15 to 35 percent compared to 2019. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. Card Battlers used to be a sub-genre led by Hearthstone.

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