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Dean Gichukie’s studio Kunta Content delivers authentic African stories

PreMortem.Games

Welcome to Dean Gichukie ‘s world, where history comes alive through Kunta Content. The Kunta Content team Dean’s creative journey began at age 8 when he started drawing and painting. He navigated the challenges of running a tech company, pitching to investors, collaborating with artists, and building the platform.

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COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

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At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration. Cocoon’s development journey spanned a challenging 6.5

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AWS for Games to spotlight generative AI at GDC 2024

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Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. AWS will be joined by game studios and technology partners for panel discussions on generative AI, cloud game development, and building game development backends. Be sure to RSVP here if you plan to attend.

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

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As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. But that’s not all.

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GenoTerra - The finished prototype.

Mnenad

Prototype is ready! But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). Procedural generation of game content by computer software is therefore becoming more and more important as a design technique. What was the Thesis about?

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How to build successful VR games as a solo developer

Game Analytics

Building video games has never been a simple task. And that resulted in the first prototype of Dreadhalls. Build on your strengths. So I try to target the few websites that specialize in VR content, plus social networks where the VR community gets its news from. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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What are game development jobs that most people have not heard of?

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Prototype Artist - an art generalist who specializes in putting together usable art for a game prototype. Test Engineer ] - a programmer whose focus is on building and maintaining automated tests to validate game assets, rules, and gameplay.