OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

There are so many games industry events out there to choose from. Even if you’re just looking for a casual event where you can have fun and meet some like-minded games industry folk there is an industry event out there for you. Are you looking to network with other devs or searching for advice on getting into the industry?

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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. So much of success in this industry is based upon your abilities as a project manager, marketer, promoter, and accountant.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game. Need help on your board game?

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The FireDrill GameDay Here at Sky Betting & Gaming, we’ve had great success running fire drills against our production systems. A FireDrill GameDay brings together two activities in Chaos Engineering : GameDay: purposefully creating major failures with the goal of increasing reliability.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. Welcome to our annual, highly anticipated, prediction series.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

we want to shine a light on the amazing projects that are made using Godot. Our project manager Rémi already collected all of them in a Twitter thread. The list of games is reproduced below. You have until the 7th of October 2021 @ 17:00 UTC to test the games! Godot games at October's Steam Next Fest.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 4, 2023

game industry work satisfaction survey “It’s time to admit that remote work doesn’t work. Personally, over the years I have experience running games studios as fully on-site, remote, and hybrid. We will share our findings in our next newsletter! WFH Friday is a four-day work week. Full WFH is a two-day workweek. in 2012 for $1.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

The funding was deemed just enough for the team to reach the end of its first project without having to "scramble" for more funds partway through. Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. Most importantly, the game was and is performing!

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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. Former Disney and NBCU Execituve Talk the Death of the Games-as-App Before going deeper, let us define the terms: Hypercasual games are the bubble gum of the gaming industry.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 31, 2023

She is not just developing a new game, she’s creating an entirely new experience that challenges everything we thought we knew about gaming. The Ground Screams To Whisper is not your typical game and neither is it just one thing, it’s a graphic novel, a puzzle game, a VR game and an album.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The name alone evokes a lot of feelings in hopeful entrepreneurs and board gamers alike. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Sure, tabletop games made $113 million on Kickstarter in 2016. Kickstarter. ” Well, yeah.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The era of neural networks has transformed the concept of AI in cinema from antagonists in films about the rise of machines into indispensable assistants at all stages of project realization, including pre-production. So today, selecting the right software isn't just an option; it's a game-changer.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the latest episode of the DoF Podcast, Mishka reconnects with Rina Onur Sirinoglu, CEO of Spyke Games, to talk about her exciting new mobile gaming venture, which recently secured a $55 million seed round. Rina co-founded Peak Games, which has become a game-changer in the Turkish gaming scene.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Brandon: Tell me a little about yourself and your projects.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? What are game mechanics? Jesse and I will explain further.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? How can you tell stories through games? Do not eat!

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eighth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Even abstract games like chess have an intrinsic story to them.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I talked about How to Play-Test the Core Engine of Your Board Game. This is the process by which you confirm that the game you ultimately want to make is possible. Click here.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

After shipping Civ 3, one thing I heard often from the Civ 2 community was that the modding tools lacked support for something called “events” which I eventually learned meant a system of triggers and effects that modders could use to give games a narrative arc. However interesting this was, it’s not a game I could make.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you like it, you will love Naavik’s monthly Blockchain Games report! Executive Summary Sky Mavis’ mission is far more about spurring economic opportunity through play rather than about building an amazing game. The current game could continue to grow for a while, but its current economic policies are fundamentally unsustainable.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It took me a long time to get this game ready for blind play-testing.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

That's why our piece today is extremely applied: we've put together a selection of software for film production, so let's explore them together. Filmustage can be used to plan your project. Disclaimer: This is a selection of what we think are the best tools for filmmakers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

On March 16th, in the midst of a global pandemic, Supercell dropped a new game: Hay Day Pop (HDP). The minute a supercell game is released, a thousand slack notifications go off. Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be. Edited by Adam Telfer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. To date, Supercell has created multiple genre-defining games and generated billions in revenues -- all with little more than 300 employees (!). Our short answer is no.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. Several of the industry’s top IPs have received high-fidelity ports that have been successful in bringing core franchise players to the mobile format. These games have a huge leg up in terms of organic downloads. Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

AWS re:Invent was back in full force in 2022 with over 50,000 members of the global cloud community coming together in Las Vegas for the 11th edition of the conference. This blog details the service launches, customer sessions, and partner announcements most relevant to game developers. Watch the re:Invent breakout session. Learn more.

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