PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. Will we ever make it to the headquarters of Jonworks Interactive in one piece?” When we finally did, we found Jonathan C. Don’t do all that stuff I just said. That game was not Drift Type C.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Koster is currently CEO of Playable Worlds, a company with a mission statement of building “living worlds where there’s space for everyone to play their own way and create their own stories” In a recently published GDC interview , Koster gave a fascinating insight into his views about the current and future state of metaverse gaming. .

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1: Game Designer vs Game Programmer Summary In this video, we’re breaking down the jobs of game designers and game programmers, showing you how sometimes, they wear each other’s hats, especially in small teams. So far we’ve looked at game programmers and game designers. So let’s take a look at those next.

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Game Daily

MARCH 30, 2023

But as a publicly traded company, and facing a media that is waking up to Roblox’s immense cultural footprint, the company is looking for ways to protect its reputation. In an email to GameDaily, a spokesperson for TINA wrote: “Obviously we consider this a win!”

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We certainly don’t get it always right. Our track record for 2023 predictions: 4 correct 3 partly correct 1 wrong See what where we missed and why. Prediction #1 Organic Discovery Will Be Declared Deceased We predicted that in 2023, the iOS and Play stores will be officially declared dead - and no funeral will be held.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

“I think there’s a fatigue within some elements of the development scene, where people are tired of making the same stuff over and over again, and want to try something different. The whole center of it is, you get to kill stuff, and it can feel a bit overwhelming. It was circular.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. And we spiced things up by voting on the likelihood of each prediction. We want to thank the community for participating in writing these predictions.

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Game Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Mainly, he stated his belief in the thing we call metaverse. He made the excellent point that stuff like VR goggles and NFTs do not make or break the metaverse. This is a game engine of layered sophistication, that allows anyone to create mini-game worlds, based on Fortnite.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 24, 2023

It took Fabrice Breton, a French solo developer at CowCat Games , 6 years to create Brok the InvestiGator. He created what he calls the first ‘Punch & Click game’, combining a classic adventure with beat ’em up and RPG elements. By using their brain or by hitting enemies and stuff?” I am in full control! Doing okay!

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I took their work, which they had so painstakingly and lovingly created, and marketed it before printing it and sending it around the world. Today, I’m going to talk about how we got this game printed. You have to create files which your printer, which is likely overseas, can use to start creating a physical product.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2023

Hasbro saw all of that success, ostensibly built in no small part on their own contributions to the space, and asked themselves “Why aren’t we getting more from this thing we built?” who built their stuff on top of D&D have a huge part in all of this, but Hasbro doesn’t get anything from them (including the huge franchises).

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

VFX Artist: Maker of particles, explosions, dust poofs, blood spatter, lightning bolts, fireballs, speed lines, motion blur, depth of field, god rays, and all sorts of stuff. Character Artist : Creates the wire frames that form the shape of living things and house the skeletons the riggers create. She writes that stuff.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Pitch your ridiculous companies. And that’s how we wound up on an enjoyable video call for over 2 hours! We had no experience in the game industry. We spent 3.5 We finally got to a point in 2014 when he said, “I think we’ve done enough, we can start playtesting it.” Use the hive-mind to design brands.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this game, you sit at a table and communally make up a fantasy story about murdering people and taking their stuff. A few years back, WotC created an Open Gaming License for D&D. Some insider at WotC leaked a new version of the Open Gaming License, which basically took away all the good stuff. What have we learned?

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Since Baldur’s Gate 3 was released, many thought it created an earthquake in the gaming industry. We are here to put everything we know on the table regarding the Starfield vs BG3 comparison. Time is money, and many gaming companies seem to take it literally. Once this is announced, we will know better.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Despite only founding the company in 2019, they’ve worked with a range of Roblox developers and helped publish over 30 successful titles on Roblox. Here’s what we found. So there’s a huge opportunity here to partner up with an influencer who’ll create regular videos about your game. So what’s their secret?

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Febucci

APRIL 6, 2022

However, if you browse through my blog you can easily notice that I posted zero stuff in 2021. To put it in a few simple words: creating a prototype, pitching to publishers, contacting lawyers, forming a new team from scratch (from different parts of the world) and more… does indeed take time! What the #$@? The bad news (I guess?)

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We have just started a Kickstarter for our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. If you can back us, we would be enormously grateful. We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Players generally like getting more stuff. Of course, it's not. Nothing is. It needs a bit of work.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

In 1999, the possibility of the board game industry experiencing a massive renaissance like the one we’ve all been witness to was laughable. We now have Scythe , Gaia Project , Terraforming Mars , Gloomhaven, Root … The list goes on. We need other people, physically, in our lives or else we suffer.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 27, 2018

There are a number of great companies you can ask for help such as Fulfillrite and Games Quest. A Crash Course on Board Game Fulfillment covers the basic concepts of fulfillment and How Board Game Fulfillment Works at Fulfillrite does the same basic thing from the fulfillment company’s perspective.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

CG Spectrum graduate Hanny Lu talks about her experience studying Unreal Connectors: Virtual Production , a 12-week micro-credentialing program created in partnership with Epic Games. Hanny's version of the desert road scene in Unreal Engine, applying what she learned in the course to create the landscape and foliage.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

We interviewed via Discord direct messages which have been lightly edited for clarity and flow. They are not focused on companies and new products, but often around people playing games. Emelie: Yeah, marketing is about selling stuff and you can sell stuff at cons. can help you bond and create lasting work relationships.

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Game Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

The company pointed out that the “interactive experience” was aimed at “the global Roblox community of over 52 million daily users” A few months on, and only a tiny number of those daily users are bothering to visit Walmart Land. ” Walmart Land is a slick production. . But with 48.2

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Game Designing

MARCH 1, 2023

In this article, we will go over what exactly a game engineer does, what kind of education you will need to become one, and how much money you can expect to make. For example, if your company wants to work with a custom game engine, a game engineer may be responsible for designing this engine in order to ensure the best performance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This time around we decided to record our conversation - and add a bit more structure to it. Create an account 2. There are two factors here: Gaming investors are seeing crazy multiples for these companies. There are several more experienced game teams, either pivoting or forming new companies.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Pitch your ridiculous companies. And that’s how we wound up on an enjoyable video call for over 2 hours! Molly: Well, we had just two retailers pledge on our Kickstarter and I’m going to name them in a moment. Pitch your ridiculous companies. Just one board game in one board game store! Why eleven?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 21, 2017

The weird feeling that comes with selling stems from either selling bad stuff or from selling to the wrong people. Create a private list. In board games, for the sake of this conversation, we’ll refer to them as the “board game industry.” What do they like? “How do I do that?” Find games like yours.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 17, 2023

“We don’t 100% control everybody, right? And we still kind of trust our developers,” Spencer said in a recent interview. Digital libraries in different ecosystems make it challenging for gamers to switch platforms, creating another layer of commitment and expectation. Did you know we do generative stuff?”

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Hi all, today we release the blog in a slightly unexpected format. This time we want to acquaint you with the backstory of how the idea of an AI-based script breakdown platform was born. Even the date is not a coincidence: on Christmas Eve we want to share with you an inspiring story that proves dreams do actually come true.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 25, 2019

Everybody has jetpacks and Amazon is the only company in existence. I want to start a conversation about the future of board gaming, even if you think some of this stuff is totally off-base. Yet by practicing this exercise, we stretch our imaginations, reset our expectations, and become better planners. The year is 2029.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this tutorial you’ll create a zombie horde shooter game with Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints. The game is simple but is packed with tons of behind the scenes features that will allow you to understand the “why” behind the “how” a game is created in Unreal Engine 5. Creating The Project.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

Creating that big piece of work is the motivation.” Another team member would have halved the workload of course, but I also think it would have sped up the development process as we tried to make our lives work around the project.” But those notes create a basis of a project to build on, ideas being grouped and solidified.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As announced a few months back , we are organizing a Godot Conference ( GodotCon ) in Poznań, Poland next week, on 16 & 17 Oct 2019. We expect close to 90 attendees, so this should be a great event! Note: This is currently an unordered list of talks we will have. Livesteam of the event is online on YouTube.

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Jesper Juul

JUNE 17, 2022

I discuss four ways game rules can create meaning and/or have political implications. When I first started writing about video games, the humanities were probably at the peak of self-importance, and many of the theories we were taught were presented as timeless and universal for explaining all of human culture for all time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Stuff it up with ads of other hypercasual games. Shorts are analyses and opinion pieces originally published as a part of our weekly newsletter. Missed a previous newsletter? Sounds easy, right?

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Creating that big piece of work is the motivation.” Another team member would have halved the workload of course, but I also think it would have sped up the development process as we tried to make our lives work around the project.” But those notes create a basis of a project to build on, ideas being grouped and solidified.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2019

The schedule is not 100% final yet, but here's an overview of the talks/workshops that we planned so far, and some information on the speakers. Juan will give a talk at FOSDEM showing how to create high quality 3D games like the recent TPS demo with FOSS tools like Godot, Blender, GIMP and Krita. GodotCon schedule.

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