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QA staff at Forza Motorsport support dev Experis are unionizing

Game Developer

Experis' quality assurance team wants its union to address the developer's "multitude" of issues and ensure its members can have a family-supporting wage.

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Solo developer Kaighen Finley: “It’s easy to lose myself in game development”

PreMortem.Games

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

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GDC 2023: Trends re-defining the future of game development

AWS Games

Based on what we heard, a few themes that are top-of-mind include: cloud-based game development (aka Game Studio in the Cloud), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help support player community health, content moderation, and AI-driven game development.

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How to Order and Test Samples of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the last of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Quality Assurance in Board Gaming.

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5 Ways to Vet Your Board Game Before Launching a Kickstarter

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Many board game designers are competent in every aspect of board game design, except for testing the premises of their ideas. Play-testing is how we perform quality assurance in the board game industry.

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Is self-publishing your board game a good idea?

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It takes a lot of time to learn and it’s an entirely separate discipline from game development or any other responsibility that you will handle on a regular basis. You do the game development.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish Board Games or Not?

Brand Game Development

To get the Start to Finish series going, I’ve spent some time discussing games, game development, and the amount of careful messaging that is needed to create and sell a great game. At this point, you may be beginning to have some healthy doubts about the benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing a game.

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