PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And it takes a special kind of developer that wants to fly solo. This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. It took solo game developer Graham Reid great effort to finish his game. “I A point of interest in the indie game sea.”

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Spider Web of Narratives Developing a game with a complex narrative structure, multiple endings, and randomized events can be a daunting task. The game is balanced on a multitude of variables, events, triggers, put together like a house of cards. A little mistake, a little bug, and everything can fall down.” “All

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” Be direct when writing rules.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. ” Need help on your board game? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Indeed, on the Pangea Games Facebook group where we regularly give away free board games, Root has by far the most popular prize we’ve ever given away (all three times we’ve done it)! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In it, I talk about why I love Pandemic for introducing me to hobby games and why I find its take on cooperative gameplay particularly effective. Force players to balance tactics and strategy.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. The mark of a great game developer is to make great complexity and interaction come out of simple elements. Need help on your board game? Just here for Highways & Byways updates?

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. Most people who want to write a video game need to buy a piece of software called a Game Engine. It's the tool you use to make games. That are negative.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

My name is Leszek Nowak and I’m a part of independent studio 2Dynamic Games located in Kraków, Poland. We are a small team working on our first team project, Lumencraft, which is released as I'm writing this. I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Writing an especially warm review for Eurogamer , critic Emad Ahmed captured the game’s authenticity: “Venba captures something wonderful and mysterious to those of us in the diaspora, which is the real and imaginary conversations our parents and grandparents must have had about moving to the west.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Over half of the respondents (57%) work directly on game development. When it comes to what would increase already very high job satisfaction, pay is the primary driver (37%) with interesting projects (17.0%) and better work/life balance (14%%) trailing as the second and third factors. Likely both. But this is why we do surveys.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Great art is one of the most critical parts of a board game. As game developers, we have only a handful of tools at our disposal to help teach players what a game is about and how to play it. .”

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Most board game mechanics will not work as well as you intend them to. Good board game developers need to know when to drop mechanics and when to refine them. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Everybody who goes to Kickstarter with hopes of publishing their board game desires to not only fund, but to achieve many stretch goals. After all, doing so means you make more money and your game ends up in more people’s hands! Need help on your board game? Make sure the balance is right. Why Stretch Goals Matter.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 14, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I talk a lot about the business side of board game creation. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I wasn’t expecting to discover the impact those childhood games made on my preferences as an adult. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It was supposed to mimic last week’s in that I was going to review my top 5 favorite games as an adult.

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Real Programming

JULY 12, 2022

The days of parents worrying about their kids pumping too many quarters into arcade games at the mall are long over. The games kids play today are a high-art form all their own with incredible graphic design, script writing, problem-solving play, and more. Video games have also become a multi-billion-dollar global industry.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 4, 2018

Why don't we unit test games like you would other software? It's basically where you write programs that feed data (sometimes random data) into program's functions or modules and make sure you get the expected results or proper errors. No one of going to die or lose their entire bank balance because of our bugs.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

This recap post / viewing guide covers only the first half of the series (episodes 01-17) and I'll try to write-up the second half later. This is a more business-oriented aspect of game development that we rarely see, and frankly, an aspect we rarely associate with DF either. What's the balance? How involved should he be?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

We want to thank the community for participating in writing these predictions. Then in 2010 when game developers were making more money than they expected, they flipped the script and made Facebook Credits mandatory and exclusive, and demanded a 30% cut. Where is Facebook gaming today? Where is Facebook gaming today?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

When it comes to games, there are a handful of truths that are very important to realize. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That’s why I developed a theory which I refer to as the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 24, 2020

At the time I’m writing this post, that means clicking Lists then clicking Create List button. You’ll be asked to enter the following: List Name – I use Brandon the Game Dev Newsletter. Someone can then write a newsletter that starts out as “Hey *|FNAME|*!” Provide an email, username, and password.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Here are the bios I use: BrandonGameDev bio: Board game development is a wild, meandering journey.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? I’ll also be writing responses for Will. Brandon: Excellent!

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

You can get an accurate prediction on customer churn without having to hire an entire data science team or take precious time away from your game developers. This presents a balanced dataset which is crucial when building machine learning models because it helps ensure the model works well and prevents bias. Let’s dive in.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

When you’ve made an excellent 3D game, you definitely want it to run on more devices, not just high-end ones, as this would mean losing many users. In this article, I will share the methods I’ve learned from over a decade of 3D game development to make a game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Not just their stats and skills, but also in careful naming and writing of interconnected backstories that I knew few players would even read. I know a thing or two about power creep in game economy. As a Lead Designer for LEGENDARY I invested a lot of time on creating and balancing our first few hundred heroes.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

We were made aware of a pretty sad bug where the ‘women in tech’ event in the game did not alter the gender balance of job applicants. We have now fixed this and also added a lot more famous women game developers to the game. Women in Tech.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

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? What are some guidelines for writing good rules?

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

This is the responsibility of a game backend. Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed AWS service that provides a backend for game developers, allowing them to focus on building their game and leave managing and scaling cloud infrastructure to GameSparks. Alternatively, you can also write your own request body.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, you can subscribe here. If you haven’t yet, read the articles on Budget Viability , Milestones , Anti-Bullet-Points , and A Good Pitch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

I'll walk you through some of these features and systems in more detail, so you can get a better sense of what sets Marvel Snap apart from other CCG games. Cards Cards are the cornerstone of any card game (obviously!), As certain decks become dominant, players can quickly create counter decks to keep the game balanced and interesting.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AWS provides tools such as AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to automate horizontal scaling and distribute traffic across multiple resources. Additionally, proactive capacity redistribution introduces further delay in restoring balanced backend systems.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week, I talked about how time-consuming and difficult it can be to get a board game working. It takes a long, long time for a board game to be fun. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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AWS Games

MAY 7, 2024

Palia’s external traffic is routed through a geo-load balanced domain name system (DNS) address to a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Releasing Palia During Palia’s development, its cloud infrastructure was built entirely in a single datacenter: US West (Oregon).

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

They oversee both the foundation and execution of the game mechanics and overall user experience. Some game designers focus on combat balance, using spreadsheets and simulations to provide challenges without impossibility. What does a game designer do?

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