PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 7, 2020

Toys for which you had to build a track yourself and then simply put them on it, and race with your friends just by pressing a button! We decided to release our game on Nintendo Switch, as joy-cons and console itself suit the game perfectly. It all started when we were just kids playing slot cars toys, do you know those?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. This is how our game looked like in the beginning.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

DOS games were those developed under this operating system. While some of the best DOS games can bring you back to wonderful memories of your younger years, they also laid the foundation for what we see in the gaming world today. What Makes A Good DOS Game? Did the game perform well for what it was? Best DOS Games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I've been featured on the VFX Process Youtube Podcast to talk about the creation of Menace , and it was also featured on IGN - Future Games show channel. I knew that if I could get the simulation capture process figured out in the City Sample Demo, I could make my own environment in the future and use the same workflow.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

When the Nintendo GameBoy was first released in 1989, it was a revolution in personal gaming. Other handheld game systems came out around the same time, including Sega Game Gear, NEC TurboExpress, and the Atari Lynx. Fortunately, the DS was backward-compatible, meaning it could play GBA games just fine. That’s okay.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. What is Unity?

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. This raises the question of what is the point of a historical game?

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If so, do bots have any role in this scene, either as part of the game or for training/analysis? Generally speaking, these communities are trying to make a solitary game more social, even if the games played are technically still single-player. Is it very different from the single-player game vs bots?

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

The Ants stood out from the crowd with its unusual theme – the game follows the life of an ant colony trying to make it in the wild – and piqued the interest of gamers all over the world, managing to reach top200 in the US and Japanese market. Japan and the US are the game’s biggest markets. Source: GameRefinery SaaS platform).

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. The game released worldwide just this past month (after spending well over two years in various stages of soft-launch) and is starting to rank in the Top 500 grossing charts on iPhone.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. I don’t think it’s possible for a 4X game to consistently provide a satisfying, climactic ending; the genre’s strengths come from the vast possibility space, the lack of guardrails, and a commitment to reward smart play fairly.

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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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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

This might have some very light spoilers, but… honestly, one of my main criticisms is that there isn’t much to spoil in this game, at least not in the 27 or so hours that I played. But the rest of the game that I saw, was not like this intro at all. It seems like maybe the problem here is how long the game is.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. These games have a huge leg up in terms of organic downloads. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. billion in 2018, making it the highest-earning mobile game of 2018.

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