Game Developer

JUNE 2, 2023

Game developers Taylor McCue and Nilson Carroll released their third yearly Queer Games Bundle that features games and software made by LGBTQ developers.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2024

Solo dev Tuomas Auronen , operating under the name Redbeak Games , looks pretty relieved three days after the launch of his game Mortal Glory 2. When his last game, that he spent 17 months working on, flopped, Auronen felt the pressure to make enough money to support his family. Why did you become a solo developer? “I

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2023

With the discussions over the use of AI in game development raging on, Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen , Lead VFX Artist at Mainframe Industries and founder of Dinosaurs Are Better , spends his spare time to see what all the fuss really is about. are answered in his regularly updated dev blog. With his free, experimental 2.5D

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Game Developer

APRIL 24, 2024

The studio behind browser games like Mahjongg Solitaire and Block Champ is inviting smaller teams to join its network and get millions of eyes on their game.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2024

Nielsen is a self-taught game developer, with many of the necessary skills ‘accidentally’ acquired over the years. Nielsen worked as a comic writer and artist for over ten years before transitioning to game development. Since then, he has created three games. ” Why did you become a solo developer?

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

"It's been five months since the closure of Volition, but I'm grateful to post that a group of us have re-formed as Shapeshifter Games." "

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Ryan Burnett, president of Respawn's Wisconsin-located satellite studio, shines a light on how the state holds benefits for game developers.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 23, 2022

From Twitter's maelstrom to Stadia's death sentence to devs offering support to Ukraine, these are the events that shaped 2022.

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Game Developer

APRIL 25, 2024

Valve approved games with genAI only a few months ago, which goes to show how quickly the technology is becoming commonplace.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

Fresh out of school Kaighen Finley started his own web & game development company Team iNtuition. Just to be on the safe side he mainly focused on web development, but his heart was not in it. It took him 4 years to create his game and in that time he learned some valuable lessons. “If I function well like that.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A stellar year for game releases, that’s for sure. But also a dreadful year for job security in game development, with a heartbreaking 10.000 layoffs. We let the creators talk about their own games. On the last working day of 2023 we take one final look over our shoulder to see what we are leaving behind. See you in 2024!

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Game Developer

MARCH 14, 2023

The newly formed Gas Giant Games will make their presence known at next week's Game Developer's Conference, where it'll show off its first project to court publishers and investors.

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Game Developer

MARCH 21, 2024

called out the game industry for its consistent inability to support Black devs. Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2024

CEO Dave Rosen called Wimo Games' recent closure "not the outcome we had hoped for." "

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Game Developer

JANUARY 24, 2024

Talofa aims to use the newly gotten seed money to build upon its debut game, Run Legends, and create other "games for good." "

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2023

Inc describes its tool as a "generator of generators," that lets devs iterate on 2D art assets trained on their own art datasets.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets By Synty Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle for game developers, the Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets by Synty bundle.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Here at PreMortem.Games we have a great admiration for developers that go through a complete development cycle alone. Because, let’s be honest, creating games is hard. And it takes a special kind of developer that wants to fly solo. It took solo game developer Graham Reid great effort to finish his game. “I

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 5, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Best of Synty #2 Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty #2 Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle is a collection of low polygon asset packs from Synty Studios.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

January 2024's layoffs continue with alleged cuts at Reikon, which released its debut game Ruiner in 2017.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Months after it swore off releasing new mobile games, Playtika has bought up Innplay to create "exceptional gaming experiences for our players."

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Do you ever wonder how you can get better at game development? If so, keep reading for some great tips and watch the Livecast for all 12 ways to get better at game development. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 5, 2024

Top image: The Wandering Village by Stray Fawn Studios was one of the selected games last year. The off-site GDC event European Game Showcase 2024 is coming to San Francisco once again this year. It’s an event where 30+ European developers get to showcase their latest games to the press, publishers, and strategic partners.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Developer Dmitriy Gusev , operating under the name Diedemor Studio, made this game by himself. This has been one of the most complex games for me so far”, he admits. Because Gusev is an avid builder of scale model submarines, he really wanted to have submarines in his game. I just love creating games”, he explains.

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Game Developer

APRIL 12, 2024

Avalanche Studios CEO Stefanía Halldórsdóttir said the bargaining agreements help the studio "[become] one of the best workplaces in the games industry."

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Game Developer

JANUARY 18, 2024

Over 3,000 game industry professionals weighed in on this year's State of the Game Industry survey with opinions about layoffs, the use of generative AI, return-to-office policies, and more.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Game development began as a hobby but became serious very fast. “I The Hanover, Germany based solo dev describes his creative process as ‘a mix of perfectionism and empathy’. The game is slated for release sometime next year.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Best of Synty Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty GameDev Assets Bundle. This bundle if a huge collection of low polygon style game art packs from Synty.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says the company began running into financial problems "about 10 weeks ago."

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Game Developer

MARCH 20, 2024

Game design professor Jeremy Bond shares how to prepare your students for the uncertain game industry future.

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Game Developer

MARCH 7, 2024

Hasbro senior vice president of digital strategy and licensing Eugene Evans says there are two core elements any licensed D&D game must possess.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The recently-published GDC State of the Industry Report revealed that developers are growing frustrated with the games industry’s sustainability efforts.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Known for remaking the Destroy All Humans games, Black Forest may be the next studio to get hit hard with reductions.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 30, 2020

Board game development is incredibly complex. To create a board game from start to finish , think of everything you have to do: Come up with a board game idea and design a game around it. Play-test the game until it feels right. Create digital print files of your game. Find artists.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2024

When the allure of game development clashes with the necessity of a traditional job, the only choice is to juggle both endeavors simultaneously. I simply couldn’t shake off my passion for making games”, says Larabie. “So, So, I ended up living a dual life, working my day job and moonlighting as a developer.”

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Threshold's closure comes a month before it was set to officially reveal itself, and whatever it was working on, to the world.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Michael Schmidt has been interested in spirituality and Islamic spiritual tradition for a long time, and in his latest game Islands of the Caliph it all comes together. Schmidt developed the game by himself, because “I’ve never been any other kind of developer”. Why did you become a solo developer?

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