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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Real Programming

MAY 9, 2024

They’re the coding languages powering the most popular apps, websites, and video games today, so coders blazing their own trail need to know them. At Real Programming 4 Kids , we teach 7-year-olds brand new to computers how to design and code their own video game using the language Python. The point isn’t to give them a model to copy.

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

RP4K hires a range of teachers with computer engineering and computer science backgrounds, and our lessons prioritize fun over everything else, even learning to code ! His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs.

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DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I told people I wanted to become a video game developer. " "Video-game developer jobs are rare." " Yes, back then the video game industry was far more niche than it is today. ." " Yes, back then the video game industry was far more niche than it is today. "is this it? "

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Google made tons of promises that Stadia will break open the streaming games industry and respectfully they did just that then bowed out as quickly as it came in. Lastly, how big tech companies are taking the lead for the game industry and we determine if whether its a good thing or not. Got a great idea for an app or a game?

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The positive effects of gaming – their psychological and practical benefits – has become a fertile field for researchers in recent years, boosted by health organizations seeking new ways to treat patients, as well as commercial entities with skin in the game. All are based on consumer surveys.

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Rampant Games

MAY 1, 2023

Back in 1994, with the ink still dry on my degree in Computer Science, I got a job in the video games industry working for a new startup called SingleTrac. Most of the people there were engineers and artists from a simulation company called Evans & Sutherland. The final title for the game was “ Twisted Metal.”

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 8, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how to find an audience for a board game. Need help on your board game? Test demand.

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Game Daily

JULY 13, 2023

Roblox CEO David Baszucki says he has a bullish outlook for digital social spaces – aka metaverses – and expects that non-gaming activities will be key drivers of growth in the near future. “Say we want to have a Roblox company meeting with 2,700 people. And so I think it’s bigger than gaming.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The number of jobs people can apply for when they have excellent coding skills is incredible; not only are there prestigious, high-paying jobs like app or video game developer. There are tons of adjacent jobs in non-tech companies since they all rely on computers for some aspect of their operation.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The big fish in the game industry are swallowing up the smaller fish and the only reason why is because things are on sale, but may also be in trouble. There is a misconception that the Pandemic has been overall good to the game industry, but the truth is that there has been also a bad amount of companies that were struggling to find footing.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In recent years, big players in the gaming sector like Microsoft, have recognized the significance of data analytics. Also, smaller developers are trying to stay up with the data science and marketing aspect which is prevalent in major corporations. According to a Statista report, the video gaming industry has amassed up to 2.7

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Game Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

The findings will bolster opponents to legislation or diktats that seek to control how much time people spend playing games. Providers of online games were ordered to prevent minors from playing between the hours of 22:00 and 08:00. China, of course, is not alone in expressing concern about the effects of gaming on young people.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 25, 2024

The gaming world has evolved significantly over the years. This has resulted in game developers embracing advanced and innovative technologies to maximize player acquisition and retention and stand out. Developers are now using their games as data collection and analysis tools to better understand their player preferences.

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Game Designing

MARCH 1, 2023

Video game engineers are an important part of a game development team who takes care of a range of advanced technical tasks. Due to the skills required, becoming a game engineer can take some time and education, but it can also be a very well-paying job. Game Engineer vs Developer or Designer?

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Already, computer science applications like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), Data Science, and more are shaping all types of vital technologies, from small devices in our pockets to the industries we purchase goods from to the airplanes we fly in. That fact alone motivates kids to learn Java.

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

The idea of the metaverse is straight out of a science fiction novel. Several companies like Microsoft, Sony and Nvidia are investing extensively in this technology to gain benefits and transform how they work. Furthermore, it provides its users with efficiency and an engaging gaming experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2024

Guest post by Julian Runge , Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Principal Scientist at Game Data Pros I went out and asked game and app developers how they price their starter packs, and to find out why they do so. have worked in games; 66.7% have worked only in games. Read on to learn about the results.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 24, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. Old World has a lot of different currencies (referred to in-game as “yields”), which represent things very concrete (Iron), somewhat vague (Orders), and VERY abstract (Civics).

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 10, 2024

A conversation on social media sparked this idea, I thought it would be interesting for the Retro Game Coders community to share how you got into programming and your journey from starting out to what you do now? As well as games of Jetpac and Jet Set Willy, this computer had a role in teaching us a version of Turtle Graphics called LOGO.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We have just started a Kickstarter for our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Dwarf Fortress is the banner Olde Game these days, but the first Geneforge game was out and selling before it was even started.) I keep saying this blog is free.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Graph neural networks (GNNs), with their ability to learn and reason over graph-structured data, have emerged as a game-changer across various domains. Customer success stories Here’s how different companies have been using the NVIDIA Accelerated DGL and PyG containers to accelerate their workflows.

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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. This kind of a powerful draw lets the users make friends and build relationships by communicating about their shared experiences in the game.

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Real Programming

JUNE 16, 2022

RP4K makes it a point to hire teachers who skew on the young side, ensuring the instructors who teach your children how to program video games also grew up playing them. Gaming has a strong hold on children, and when adults grow up, they look back with fondness and pure joy at the halcyon days of video gaming.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game? Source ).

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game. Need help on your board game?

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Jesper Juul

JUNE 17, 2022

TL;DR; I used to meet resistance to the idea that video game rules (usually expressed in the programming) and algorithms can be meaningful or important. I discuss four ways game rules can create meaning and/or have political implications. How then to explain why we find video games meaningful? September 12th.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… 10 Best Space Games To Play in 2020 for FREE. In this post, we’ve rounded up the 10 best space games that you can play for free in 2020. All of the space games on this list are hand-picked by our team of space game connoisseurs. Looking for FREE Space Games to Play in 2020?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

Apart from running the one and only MobileDevMemo , he also runs a strategy consulting firm for media and consumer technology companies - Heracles Media. Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2:

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2020

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. The most common metrics gaming companies focus on are Day-1, Day-7, and Day-30 retention rate. The soft launch of the game was a disaster.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This post is written by Sophie Vo who’s building a kick-ass game team at Voodoo Berlin. I am Sophie, a creative Game Lead working at Voodoo. Both are a mix of art and science. I joined Voodoo in Berlin with the goal to open a new studio that would develop new types of games (i.e. What games to make?

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. 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. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. Feelings are a deeply under-discussed part of game development, and an even more deeply underappreciated part of entrepreneurship.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 10, 2013

I'd make games and type in programs from Byte magazine. Computers were still the stuff of science fiction or only owned by huge companies or universities and housed large noisy air conditioned rooms with punch-card machines. We were pushing the limits of BASIC, removing features from our games just to speed them up.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company. As the company deals with rapid changes in user engagement, we identified the need for a better way to scale infrastructure compared to traditional AWS solutions. How do we scale at Dream11 ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What are the biggest challenges and mistakes made by early stage companies when first attempting to scale? Why not ask some of the people who were there as founders, investors, and key executives at those very companies? a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Carbonated also raised an $8.5M

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