The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero. So great that a million indie developers coincidentally had the EXACT same idea a few days later. Both about game design, and about the indie games biz as a whole.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, Spyke Games showed how ambitious they were from the start with one of the largest seed rounds the games industry has ever seen… Of course, to secure this type of investment, you need an extraordinary team with unique backgrounds, and Spyke Games had just that. Spyke Games is playing it safe and getting results.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Demand for Multiplayer Games There is a great demand for multiplayer games and it is the tech experts, creative thinkers, and game designers who have made them what they are today. Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 19, 2023

Here are a few game design considerations that make split screen a non-trivial task, even in a scenario where technical limitations don’t exist. Aspect Ratio When we are designing a game, screen visibility and aspect ratio are important. We can run as many viewports as we could possibly want.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Recently, we’ve been publishing a lot of content helping non-programmers learn how to make sci-fi video games without having to know how to code. However, we thought we’d take a short break from our game development tutorials and instead focus a couple of posts on game playing instead. Want to Make Video Games?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

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. So do they compete or co-exist peacefully? Now cross-platform game development with Unity is possible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Panel: Recession vs game industry Host: Laura Taranto, Senior Director of Product, Big Fish Chris Petrovic, CBO and Board Member, FunPlus Dara Leung , Managing Director, The Raine Group Micha Katz , Managing Director, Aream & Co. Cross-platform is becoming more important too, he said.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Kristian Segerstrale : Kristian was a co-founder of Glu mobile, CEO of Playfish acquired by EA, was a seed investor in Supercell, was a senior exec at EA, and now is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp which will soon release their new MOBA shooter called Catalyst Black ( [link] ). and now is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp. So I think that's true.

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