PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Final Factory blends factory building and spaceship design with RTS-style troop commanding and classic bullet-hell gameplay. Pretty impressive for a largely solo-developed game. “At At this stage the game is more like a cross between Factorio and Cosmoteer ”, explains Ryding.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 14, 2019

Santorini is a fantastic board game that came out about two years ago. In its heart, it’s an abstract strategy game that could have come from antiquity. It has been given the modern board game polish, though, with adorably cutesy art of Greek gods, and an incredibly photogenic set of stackable plastic components.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Leder Games really nailed it when they came out with their board game Root in 2018. It’s broken into and remained within the Board Game Geek top 50. Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. This two-part article was so influential in my initial design of War Co. This two-part article was so influential in my initial design of War Co. Constraints.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. This requires a lot of knowledge, skills and time to build and integrate all the components. Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 1995, the game formerly known as Settlers of Catan was nothing more than the obscure creation of designer Klaus Teuber. The board game market as we know it today did not exist yet. Catan was the first major hobby board game to come into existence. Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

After a year in Early Access, a unique game now crashes into Steam that presents players a simple yet irresistible premise: build structures and crash them into other structures. Abriss – Build to Destroy is the brainchild of three German students operating under the name The Randwerk Cooperative.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

Sagrada is one of my recent favorite board games. It is fundamentally a pretty simple game, but it has a lot of really endearing qualities. The dice are bright and pretty, as are the puzzle boards on which you build stained glass arrangements of dice. Need help on your board game? Gaming goes deeper than that.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In March of 2019, Paladins of the West Kingdom by Garphill Games raised nearly a million New Zealand dollars (around $600,000 USD) on Kickstarter. Ever since then, Paladins of the West Kingdom has been on the Board Game Geek Hotness list nearly every time I’ve checked. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. It has remained a popular board game since, regularly topping out the Board Game Geek Hotness and showing up multiple times as a giveaway prize in Pangea contests. Everdell is a worker placement, tableau-building board game.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. He never worked on a ‘real’ game either.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 27, 2020

It has since remained a hot game on Board Game Geek and a perennial favorite in Pangea Games board game giveaways! So with that in mind, what can we learn from this award-winning board game with a silly name? Need help on your board game? Unfortunately, push-your-luck games can quickly become obnoxious.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

That is by no means a small amount to raise, but what’s interesting is that Spirit Island has remained on the Board Game Geek Hotness list off and on for almost three years. Clearly, there is much more to this game than what immediately meets the eye. Need help on your board game? You’re next, agriculture games!).

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

A couple of years ago, Dinosaur Island was a massively successful game. Even now, two years later, the game’s name has enough cultural cachet to lead to the most popular board game giveaway Pangea has ever sponsored. Need help on your board game? Take one good look at this game. Dino cooking! Nostalgia works.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2023

Eray Ağaçdoğrayan , founder of Gyroscoping Games , is Turkish himself. There’s one tool that is perfect for showing the non-refugees the life of refugees, and that’s video games!” Building and managing It prompted Ağaçdoğrayan to start his own game development studio Gyroscoping Games. million people.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 2, 2023

A common way to monetize freemium mobile games is through in-app advertising, where ad placements are sold to generate profit from the entire player base. Freemium games reach wider audiences, but the risk of churn is always looming. The game has several power progression vectors.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

A role that she holds dear and that inspired her to establish her company Kucheza Gaming. In 2020 she decided to channel her decade-plus entrepreneurial experience into her current venture leaving everything behind to focus on gaming. The Kucheza family Bukola’s childhood was filled with a lot more physical playing than video games.

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Unity Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Mairi Nolan, lead game designer at Eleven Puzzles, shares the importance of verbal interaction and how the team built communication into the studio’s latest release Unsolved Case.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“Art directors look for “skill level, originality, and the x-factor.” – Randy Briley, veteran game art director and senior lecturer at DigiPen Institute “ The gaming industry offers abundant opportunities for enthusiasts to turn their passion into a fulfilling career. Choose pieces that highlight your skills and style.

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iXie gaming

MAY 23, 2023

Find your calling in the array of jobs that encompass the Game Lifecycle ! Video games on various platforms like Gameboys, consoles, personal computers, and mobile phones being mere sources of entertainment are now officially a matter of the past. There are opportunities that could interest you in every stage of this gaming lifecycle!

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

Using Kickstarter for a game shouldn’t be solely about the campaign but about building a company working on multiple games. View Kickstarter as a tool, not the end goal”, says Michael Liebe , Lead Outreach Games Europe at Kickstarter on the IndieGameBusiness podcast.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. But in today’s competitive world, the players are unaware of about 80% of the games, while 20% of the games are unprofitable and are removed from the online medium.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just like reality, games need an internal mechanism for the distribution of resources during gameplay. This system is known as the video game economy. The in-game economy creates balance within the game by enabling the player to earn and spend resources as part of the game’s progression. How Does It Work?

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Is doing game design professionally what you really want, or would doing game design as an amateur hobbyist be enough? Remember, getting an entry-level job in the game industry isn't the end of the road but the beginning. I'll tell you now that I never went to school for game design.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where players lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We But also other numerous close relatives of the homo sapiens, such as Neanderthals and Homo Naledi which will be all present in our game.”

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cocoon, the intricate puzzle adventure by Jeppe Carlsen , known as the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, launched to raving reviews after 6.5 The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. He never worked on a ‘real’ game either.

Games 104

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. He never worked on a ‘real’ game either.

Games 104

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Logic Simplified

JULY 27, 2023

You came up with the ultimate game idea and think it is perfect. But soon after the launch, the audience was not impressed with the game. Some might find the levels boring, the visual design distracting, or the story might not entice them. Therefore, before developing the game's final version, you must test a prototype.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Developing a rich and immersive game world is a complicated and multi-disciplinary process. To build a truly immersive gaming environment, a team of designers, developers, artists and programmers employ a combination of psychology, art and technology into video games that challenge and capture players, resulting in satisfying gameplay.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Demographics have changed the nature of gaming over the course of time and the industry has evolved above gender, age, and other demographics. Today people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds play and enjoy video games, while their preferences and consumption habits may vary.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The realm of game development is a captivating blend of creativity, technology, and passion. If you are a beginner and thinking of entering this world of game development, then this can be both an exciting & daunting journey. What is Game Development? Tips to Consider Before Entering in Game Development Industry 1.Define

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2024

Absolutely Games recently released Classified: France ’44 on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms. The game introduces fresh perspectives to the turn-based tactics genre with innovative features. The game introduces fresh perspectives to the turn-based tactics genre with innovative features.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 10, 2016

There's a new episode of my Raw Game Design podcast up for my ($10+) patrons, here. That same podcast link also has links to all the other episodes of Raw Game Design too, btw. This is "raw game design" in the truest sense in that we are lost in the forest here. Which modes even exist? How are they arranged?

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

WebGL, or Web Graphics Library, is a powerful technology that allows developers to create high-performance 3D graphics and games that run directly in the browser without the need for plugins. With WebGL, developers can harness the power of the GPU to create immersive gaming experiences that can be accessed by a wide range of users.

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