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How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

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. It's a hybrid game.

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The Economics of a 2D Adventure Today

Grumpy Gamer

Someone recently submitted a question asking what it would take to build a classic 2D point-n-click adventure today and would it be a viable business? 1) We're building a classic 2D point-n-click adventure game. The goal here is a class point-n-click adventure. Assumptions. But more on that later.

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Logjam as mourning wood

Radiator Blog

As with my previous gay games, the controls are simple: you move the mouse up to raise the axe, and then move the mouse down (or click) to chop, and that's pretty much it. Here I use a classic gamey-style back-and-forth aiming meter where you have to click at the right time, yet there's a delay between your input and the end of the animation.