Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to the GDC 2024 State of the Game Industry report, about a third of game developers were affected by a layoff in 2023.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2024

Although she enjoyed her time in Turkey and her engineering studies, she decided to leave both behind to pursue her passion for game development. Today she works at Maliyo Games, based in Lagos, Nigeria. I enjoyed the thrill of playing games with friends and family. My favorite is Kenya at 50.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From Unity's botched Runtime Fee to Embracer going scorched earth on its own development studios, here are the events that shaped the game industry in 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

The Portuguese games industry had a big presence at GDC last month, with over 50 delegates from 20 companies attending, 14 companies represented in the country's pavilion (its first ever at the event), and a reception organised at the Consulate General of Portugal welcoming over 100 attendees.

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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

MARCH 9, 2023

Epic Games' new self-publishing initiative aims to make its storefront as enticing to developers as possible.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Game Developer's contributing editor Justin Carter reveals his top five games of 2023.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Godot Developed Non-Game Applications One of the strong points of the Godot Game engine is it’s use to develop non gaming applications. In the video below we run through 15 non-gaming applications that were developed using the Godot game engine.

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Game Developer

JUNE 9, 2023

Our resources for free and low cost game development software, from game engines to art tools and tutorials, and more.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

CEO Lars Wingefors thinks revenue programs like Epic Games' First Run program can help developers reduce the cost of bringing their games to storefronts.

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Game Developer

APRIL 17, 2024

The multi-million pound funding will go towards startup studios whose projecs have the potential to be 'the next best-selling, BAFTA-winning titles.'

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From developers in Ukraine to Poncle, Naughty Dog and Second Dinner, these are our picks for game developers of the year.

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Game Developer

MAY 24, 2023

From RPG Maker to PICO-8, here are a few of the best low-cost game development tools available.

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Game Developer

APRIL 19, 2024

Hippo Havoc’s Disaster Golf demonstrates the power a little guidance can have in an industry flooded with indie games competing for a piece of the pie.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Game Developer, Omdia, and GDC staff discuss the State of the Game Industry 2024 survey, hitting on layoffs, unionization, game engine changes, and much more.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“As I travel across Africa creating games, there’s something everyone seems to agree on…” says Bethlehem Anteneh , a trained architect, co-founder of SOSTLab and the moderator of the She Got Game panel at Africa Games Week (AGW). Think of a bar where 90% of the people are men.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Indie developers like Quinn K, Cosmo D, Taylor McCue and more name their "unsung heroes" of 2023.

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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 Test its feasibility.

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Game Developer

JUNE 7, 2023

Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios launched a new team, RallyHere, intended to support studios that create ongoing live service games.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

During game development, we’re a little in the dark about how players might experience and respond. That’s where UX research comes into play.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Find out why Alan Wake 2, Hi-Fi Rush, and Humanity were all among the best games we played in 2023.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From Dave the Diver to Dredge to Baldur's Gate 3, these are the Games community editorial coordinator Holly Green couldn't put down this year.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

With Mixed Reality (MR) as a key feature in current and next generation VR hardware and headsets, many developers are wondering if their console skill sets transfer to more virtual settings.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 15, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CCP Games, developer of Eve Online, has announced that its Carbon Development Platform is now open source. Players and developers can use the resource to create titles for free. Read more

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Game Developer

JULY 13, 2023

Having worked on Star Citizen with Turbulent Games for over a decade, Cloud Imperium Games has decided it's the perfect time to purchase the Montreal studio.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 13, 2024

Epic Games has announced new pricing for its Unreal Engine for developers outside the gaming industry. engine is launched in late April, Epic will introduce a new "seat-based" subscription for industries outside game development. As detailed in a blog post , when Unreal 5.4

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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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 16, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox During the pandemic, the margins in the mobile games market continued to grow, surpassing expectations. Game development professionals often regarded other business niches with disdain, citing superior financial metrics as the reason.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 18, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Discord Launch Game Development SDK Today at GDC Discord (check out our server here) announced they are moving into the world of game development, or more specifically game hosting, with the launch of the Embedded App SDK.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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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. AI affects game design The project’s trajectory shifted with the integration of AI tools.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 14, 2024

Game development is no longer just a one-man show – or even a one-studio spectacle. The seismic size of games these days means that the crafting of fantastical, virtual realms is easily a multi-team endeavour. ” Read more . ” Read more

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Payday developer Starbreeze is partnering with Wizards of the Coast to develop a co-op live service title for Dungeons & Dragons.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Final Fantasy XV director is aiming to do things differently from Square Enix and bring in young developers from outside of Japan.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This year, our deep dives and postmortems reflected not only the modern games that affect our current lives but also delved into game history and beyond.

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Game Developer

JUNE 15, 2023

PUBG publisher Krafton created another game studio, ReLu Games, which will develop games that use AI and deep learning technology.

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