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A Beginner’s Guide to Multiplayer Game Development

iXie gaming

As a result, multiplayer games have revolutionized modern gaming, from human vs. computer to human vs. human interaction. Building multiplayer games can be rewarding and exciting for aspiring game developers. Start by defining the type of game you want to create.

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DIY desserts and tie dye shirts – Mobile games inspired by social media (part 2)

PreMortem.Games

Social media has a knack for bringing niche topics to the attention of a large audience. Lately, we see more and more games inspired by these social media trends making it to the top charts in terms of downloads. AppMagic investigates the rise and fall, successes and failures of these specific types of games.

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How to Diagnose Failure & Move Forward as a Board Game Developer

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Failure can involve missed deadlines, lost clients, scrapped prototypes, controversial public statements, or no-show events. If the audience shows passion and interest, continue to game design.

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The magical realism of Indonesia in the 90’s captured in A Space for the Unbound

PreMortem.Games

And I think it will be quite refreshing too for an international audience to be able to experience some parts of the world that are not commonly represented in many mainstream media.” We made a pilot trailer and concept art that served as a main aesthetic code for the art style. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it.

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The sense of wonder in Verne: The Shape of Fantasy by Gametopia “It’s a tribute”

PreMortem.Games

One of the things that fascinates me most about pixel art is that you are working with concepts, like working with Lego pieces. What you create is a representation of a concept, an emotion. The game is obviously based on the many works of Jules Verne, but the story that it tells is an original one.

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How to Work in a Team in the Board Game Industry

Brand Game Development

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? I’m a designer, and I do development and social media outreach.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

In game development, your initial implementation of gameplay is always broken, and needs iteration to improve. " As much as an engine might help a specific use case, truth is that success depends above all else on how feasible your development process is. Starting over, is the game commercially viable?