PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I took the opportunity of being jobless and having a reasonably favorable financial situation and living conditions to actually give that dream a go. This doc often contradicts itself because it’s literally just my thoughts on paper. Then I try to make sense of that entire doc and see if I can make a coherent fun core design out of it.

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Game Daily

MAY 21, 2023

The talk will investigate how game designers can leverage Lucio’s learnings to “optimize gaming experiences and enhance social interaction for local economic growth” What is cultural interoperability? Here are ten highlights from the days ahead.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 3, 2019

For that reason, I’ve brought in Sean Fallon, Founder & CEO of Smunchy Games and User Experience (UX) Designer extraordinaire. By looking at game design from this new angle, we hope to help you understand why board games are so playable and what that means for other aspects of our lives. Need help on your board game?

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 8, 2024

This is the second part of the design/marketing/release process for our newest indie RPG, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. TL;DR: We’ve been making indie games for a living for 30 years. I really hate making screenshots, but sometimes I capture something that looks pretty cool. The first part is here. Here’s how we manage it.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 8, 2020

Game Design Principles & Finding An Audience. At this point, many game designers will balk at the idea of doing market research. If we lived in a world without money, marketing would still exist. Game designers market without even meaning to when they design their games. Need help on your board game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2024

But, in the heat of marketing and live operations, too strong a focus on conversion can lead you to price your starter packs too low. But, in the heat of marketing and live operations, too strong a focus on conversion can lead you to price your starter packs too low. Read on to learn about the results. So far so good.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Play-testing is the most important part of board game design. It’s how you turn rough, raw ideas into polished, ready-to-play games. It’s also brutally difficult. Play-testing is a labor of love, and sometimes it’s hard to even find play-testers in the first place! ” Need help on your board game?

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Raph Koster is one of gaming’s most renowned designers of online play worlds, like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. As author of the highly influential book A Theory of Fun for Game Design, he’s a sought-after commentator on the state of gaming. And that’s the heart of roleplay too.”

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

I remember at one parent-teacher conference she said, I thought you were terrible in the beginning but by the end of the year, you were the best in the class. Hard skills that I could make a living with. “It was all about puzzle design, analytical thinking, and understanding player agency and mechanics”, she says.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

After days running a simulation trying to figure out how they can leave the Neutral Zone without getting blasted away by the Dauntless or unleashing the Living Construct onto Starfleet, Dal feels incredibly demoralized by their lack of success. Zero has an epiphany that the program has been designed to keep them occupied.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 27, 2024

It's huge, it's full of cool story and unique design, and it's really cheap. I won’t live long enough to get around to remastering it again. As I went to sleep last night, I thought about things I could have done. We have just released Geneforge 2 - Infestation , our newest indie RPG, for Windows and Mac!

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Real Programming

MAY 9, 2024

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. Just like people who speak multiple languages claim to think differently in each one, so coders switch their thought processes when they move between coding languages.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

He recalls booting it up and as soon as he saw the magic within, asking his mum if people create games for a living. Driven by his desire to immerse himself in game design, Kimani rejoined Wits University. He had no idea, his lighthearted antics and behind-the-scenes glimpses would soon ignite a viral sensation. Let’s do that.”

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Use the hive-mind to design brands. The other is The Brooklyn Strategist – a game store that’s pretty near where I was live in Brooklyn. If you want to get your board game into retail stores, it helps to set small, achievable goals. Why eleven?

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Every job has a unique set of specialized skills; some examples are, programming for game developers, testing basics for game testers and a flair for language, creativity, and expertise in design for game writers and designers respectively. Your work will essentially represent your unique brand of thought process and creativity.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And if I, a game designer, can't enjoy fun, what am I even doing here? And if I, a game designer, can't enjoy fun, what am I even doing here? Great example: Martin Scorsese, the greatest living filmmaker, finally winning Best Picture for The Departed.) I've always loved award shows. I like getting in on big, cultural events.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The leaves have almost all left their trees, most of my family is still in a food coma from last Thursday, and – oh yes – the Black Friday shopping has begun! As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” Brass Birmingham ( $50.59

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Use the hive-mind to design brands. Anyway, I started writing a book on how to fail well and then I thought… having barely gotten into the book, “I need to fail more. So I thought I would invent a board game based on the book Would You Rather.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

This can be tremendous for your personal growth because it pushes you well past limits that you thought were unbreakable. This often includes major problems in your marketing, a badly thought-out pitch, or an insufficiently engaged audience. Let’s be real: life doesn’t go from point A to point B like you think it will.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2023

Initially I never thought that I would have gaming as a career, but then one day I woke up and I just thought why can’t gaming be a career option and it just went from there.” Passion to Profession – Joining iXie Santosh’s time at iXie was an opportunity to turn his passion into his profession. Those were popular titles back then.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

My name is Kenny, and I create games on Tabletop Simulator for publishers and designers. Chai showed me what a Tabletop Simulator workshop creation needed, atmosphere, quality and a well-designed workshop page. As the coronavirus lockdown continues, a lot of people are having a hard time getting their board game fix. How Did I Start?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 7, 2023

We dive into some interesting economic learnings from the decades-old CS:GO and how they might be applied to modern economy design. ? Make sure to signup so that you can stream it live. The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul is this week! Listen to one of our podcasts from this week, we’ve got: ? TWiG #222 - App Store Exposé!

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2023

ALT My general thoughts on this are from the perspective of a designer who’s worked on a game that’s been live for a long time. ALT My general thoughts on this are from the perspective of a designer who’s worked on a game that’s been live for a long time. Obviously the creators, marketers, influencers, etc.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Once you have defined everything, craft a well-thought-out design document, which will act as your roadmap for multiplayer game development. Multiplayer games have taken center stage by allowing players to play with or against other gamers and friends across the globe. However, knowing where to start can take time and effort.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s a peculiar dichotomy created by an arbitrary calendar, but it does spark some thought. A simulation determines who lives and who dies, and that simulated death turns literal. Lent, however, is a season of self-denial, reflection, and meditation, according to practitioners. Spock deduces that the war is waged via computer.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Free-to-play and live-service games have become well-established in the gaming industry. They provide players with a convenient way to start playing, and the longevity of such games hinges on the appeal of their existing content as well as the strategy for delivering and monetizing future updates.

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iHobo

MAY 23, 2023

Of all my hundreds of game projects, this is still the title where I am most proud of the game design, the project where I beam with pride when I think of the incredible team and the contributions everyone made to make such a memorable and unique experience. And so it was!

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Everybody wants to be a board game designer these days. Many board game designers are competent in every aspect of board game design, except for testing the premises of their ideas. We have the beautiful fortune of working in a hot industry that’s always bringing in fresh talent. With fresh talent comes fresh ideas.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Game porting involves adapting a game initially designed to run on a specific platform to run on another or several other platforms. Future-Proofing Your Game We live in an increasingly dynamic world where everything can change more rapidly than you can ever imagine. Why is Game Porting Important? This expands the player base.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Thoughts and opinions are his own and do not express those of his employer. Anyways… here we are 12 years later and Live Service and Other revenue account for nearly 70% of EA’s revenue, with Full Game sales making up an anemic 30%. Written by Ethan Levy , Executive producer at N3TWORK, who is building his first blockchain game.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Star Trek: Prodigy ’s freshman season has been fairly consistently fantastic, and while I don’t think “ Supernova Part 2 ” quite lives up to the same level of quality, I do think the season’s final episode sets us up for a really fantastic coming season two. Your mileage may vary. No, I don’t know how that works either, so don’t ask.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Like anything in the good old analog world, the physical experience cannot simply be thought of; it has to be lived through. As a mentor of the 2D animation courses at CG Spectrum—an online training center—Hubert Lapointe ( Rick and Morty , Solar Opposites ) knows a thing or two about e-learning. Attention commitment.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Well, machine learning is used for various purposes, such as game design analysis, player behavior analysis, optimization, and media streaming analytics, to mention a few. Esports has taken the gaming world by storm in recent times. According to Statista market forecasts, the eSports user base is expected to reach over 856 million by 2028.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It mainly focuses on testing for video and audio issues, mechanical breakdowns, and incomplete interface design, to mention a few. Also, it may involve reviewing new games for potentially significant bugs and glitches before releasing them to the public. But why is Xbox game testing important? Why is Xbox Game Testing Important?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 9, 2018

It’s an extremely lively website that hosts innumerable diverse communities and has a unique culture that makes it seem impenetrable to the self-promoter. r/tabletopgamedesign and /r/boardgameindustry are good for connecting with other designers and developers, getting feedback on a design, or even organizing playtests. /r/tabletopgamedesign

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting started with your first NFT game development venture can be interesting. But is the NFT game development market worth entering? The global play-to-earn (P2E) NFT games market is predicted to reach $3.6 billion by 2028. It is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 21.3% from 2022 to 2028. But what are NFT games?

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

March 2024 events and dates TBC DevGAMM Gdansk 1st – 2nd |Gdansk, Poland DevGAMM conference is aimed at developers, publishers, game designers, programmers, artists, business development managers, recruiters, journalists and everyone involved in the game industry in any way. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more.

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