Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

The Transformative Landscape of Game Development: A Deep Dive with Willem Delventhal As a digital ecosystem thrives and transforms at a rapid pace, a recent conversation with game designer and educator Willem Delventhal offered insights into the evolving realm of game development.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Worker placement is a very simple concept with really profound implications. There is a reason this mechanic is present in many BGG Top 100 Games such as Viticulture , Caverna , A Feast for Odin , and Agricola.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. You can listen to our episode of the Game Raven Review podcast right meow! Concept Art.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. has to be the visual flair of the game. Anaïs Simonnet Deeper combat Was it all a waste of time?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

When board gamers need a game to mercilessly mock , they look no further than Monopoly. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Monopoly is a bad game, but have a little respect. That’s not how family games are meant to go!

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

There are other ways to play with this fatigue and stamina concept. The ideas give a new design tool for me to work with and it expands on the farming genre games. Usually game developers don’t give a lot of thought into stamina bars and how it can affect the characters and game design.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.”

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

If Microsoft had given them another 6-12 months to truly polish everything, then it maybe would've been a more solid OK game. Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). link] Concept Art. Welcome, beautiful creatures!

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. No, not to my knowledge.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Pandemic blows the minds of a lot of new gamers because it’s often the game that introduces the concept of cooperative board game play. That alone is enough to make it special, but it’s no one-trick pony.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Brandon: Let’s take a video game example. Smash Bros.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The early game is slow and boring. All your good pieces are trapped behind a wall of bad pieces, so you both have to spend a bunch of turns moving the bad pieces out of the way so the good pieces can fight. Stalemate is a wildly stupid concept. And it’s pawn movement you chose to patch? That’s not it!

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Game analytics has a real-life impact on game players. Learn the basics of game analytics through this article by seeing how to make your games more popular by implementing these insights. There are three main ways game developers can retain users and make them loyal with game analytics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s more important than ever to protect the hard earned spoils of successful live operations – both by spending wisely and by protecting product leadership from the randomization that comes with new product concepting. A game concept can come from anywhere. Standardizing the materials provided for the process is a good start.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Fulfillment is one of the most intricate and complex parts of the board game business. In fact, I’ve written about a few times: a crash course on the concepts , how to prepare for the costs , and a personal story of how hard it was to fulfill War Co. Need help on your board game? But there’s more to it than that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

I find the comparison unavoidable: They share many similarities and core concepts. Both games offer a Battle Royale-esque experience, where players have indirect control over a mob of troops that is built with resources collected during the match, and leading to a final clash in a small area.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

I think the “smaller Apple Arcade” concept is a bit of a red herring. On one hand, it makes sense that Netflix would want to be the Netflix of gaming. Likely, it is this unhired person’s job to come in and answer the question “what should Netflix Gaming be?” What directions could Netflix take?

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

On the path to becoming a pro game developer the hardest thing is not learning how to make games, it’s actually the un-learning you have to do. And one of those guidelines is choosing the correct game engine for your needs. You see choosing a game engine depends on your goal as a game developer.

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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. Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here. For the entire mobile games industry, revenue was down for the first time ever in 2022.

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Big Games

AUGUST 19, 2021

When you play a challenging game with difficulty levels, you get to become conscious about the game environment and get yourself involved in the game. The urge to complete the task, fight the obstacles and rescue the victims gives mere satisfaction to the players.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

Not only did we finally reveal the first official gameplay trailer for Kristala , but we also took part in a super exciting rapid pitch event held by our friends at Xsolla.and snagged free tickets to the 2022 Game Developers Conference (known as GDC to all the cool kids)! Concept Art. Staff Parry Icon. Riposte Icon.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

(Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Games” concept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). This newness and ambition was a big part of why, as a player playing the game back then, it was so good at inspiring a sense of wonder.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

What if a game mainly features unique worldbuilding instead of intriguing gameplay? With the purpose of vadaliting it, Lilith tries to establish a sustainable/scalable business model of game development and publishing, as well as build up an even more diversified portfolio. Scenic design inspired by vaporwave.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Before we get into the details though, I’d like to start with a round of virtual applause for the real rock stars, the guys and gal of Team Rikodu who made it all possible.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

For each locked Gate you encounter, there’s a corresponding Key somewhere in the area you can access, and fighting/hacking/sneaking your way to that is how you progress. Getting from the airlock to your objective should involve a series of Gates and Keys.

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Interesting Choices

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

To my knowledge, it isn't yet common for games to be commissioned in the way that works of art were commissioned by patrons throughout history. Hokra is a 2v2 sports game where the teams are fighting over control of a single ball. The second memory happened when the Hand Eye Society guys invited me to show the game in Toronto.

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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

The weapons-as-tiles concept made positioning and movement interesting enough to me – and I ended up doubling down on that with how weapons worked (see Healthbars). ” The Gun only worked as part of cleverly pre-planned designs, which was fundamentally fighting the reactive-design goal I was going for, so I scrapped it and rethunk.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

In game development, your initial implementation of gameplay is always broken, and needs iteration to improve. Many countries want their game industry to grow, so they offer subsidies for game development. If it looks too similar to other games, it will also most likely fail. a fighting game), is animation.

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