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2023 was the year of creepy fishing adventure Dredge by Black Salt Games

PreMortem.Games

One of the biggest breakout hits of 2023 was the haunting fishing adventure Dredge by New Zealand-based indie developer Black Salt Games. Playtesting is a major and frequent part of our development process so we had confidence throughout that we had a really good experience on our hands. says co-founder/CEO Nadia Thorne.

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Gorilla Softworks’ debut game The Ancients aims for prehistoric realism

PreMortem.Games

There are plenty of indie developers that say this and it’s possibly the most crucial part of game design and development. Trying to develop an indie game on the scale of a AAA title is the reason why a lot of indie studios fail.”

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. So, almost two years ago I decided to fully embrace the indie path and became a solodev.” The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time!

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Unique blend of genres in haunting fishing adventure Dredge by Black Salt Games

PreMortem.Games

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. seconds.

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Unique blend of genres in haunting fishing adventure Dredge by Black Salt Games

PreMortem.Games

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. seconds.

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Schedule for GodotCon 2018 in Pozna?

Mircosoft Game Dev

The above activities are intentionally planned not to fill the whole day, so that there is time to get to know each other, present one's work to other attendees, playtest games, etc. As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1. Thursday, 11 October 2018.

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Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17

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It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. There's also a thrill of access, where the camera captures vulnerable moments it wasn't quite supposed to see.

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