Worker co-op dev The Glory Society has shut down
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The four-year-old studio founded by two of the Night in the Woods developers is closing down and cancelling its debut project Revenant Hill.
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Solo dev Simon Taylor saw his game Smash Dungeon fail “The journey comes to an end”
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
I made a few J2ME games as a solo dev and also collaborated on a couple with another solo dev -which did ok- but I mostly got by with contract work.” I saw someone else mention a work life balance and being a solo dev can become all consuming. For now the journey feels like it’s come to an end as a solo dev.
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The Fast Life and Fiery Death of Vampire Survivors Games.
The Bottom Feeder
AUGUST 9, 2023
Nobody Stripmines An Idea As Well As Indie Devs Do The history… Vampire Survivors entered early access in December, 2021. Soon, Vampire Survivors will have couch co-op. Couch co-op and party games are one of them. Survivors-like games are PERFECT for couch co-op and party play. I recommend it.
4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers
Brand Game Development
JANUARY 21, 2019
A well-designed co-op game like Pandemic stands out among the crowd. In my anecdotal experiences, a new co-op game almost always gets a “ooh, it’s a co-op!” The post 4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.
“Gameplay Programmer” is a very broad job title. What are some subsets of this? Combat, AI?
Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
ALT I’m sure you can probably think of other areas for gameplay programmers to work - here are some I didn’t get to: achievements, crafting, player housing, gathering, player-to-player trading, in-game pets, seasonal events, quests, cinematics, camera, and co-op.
What if any technical reasons are there that more PS5 and Series X games do not support offline co-op and multiplayer modes? It seems that while yes, current gen games are more demanding, current gen hardware is exponentially more capable than past generations. Why not just add a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th viewport into the world and let people game together? Any relevant answer would be appreciated. If none, I’ll just assume my suspicions are correct and you are under some NDA about this. The breaking of which would result in being blacklisted and hunted down by John Wick himself. Thank you.
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 19, 2023
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Board Game Review: Pandemic
Brand Game Development
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
From kids in the basement to “adults” in college – we would always play co-operative video games, regardless of where we lived. I LOVE co-operative games. To me, Pandemic was the first time I was getting to have that videogame co-op experience without a screen. Co-Operation. What I love.
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