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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for the Games Industry

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe When it comes to competitive games to play with your partner, Mario Kart is hard to beat. The races are entertaining, the action is fast, and the bananas never get old. Portal 2 The co-op campaign in Portal 2 was one of the game’s many highlights.

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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

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Game Design and Development Process Let’s quickly walk through what it takes to develop a game from scratch. Each game project has 3 distinct stages- pre-production, production, and post-production. Research: Research is important to the game design process. The following steps are involved: 1.

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Upcoming Panel at SXSW Online 2021

Game Design Aspect

Excited to announce that our panel Creating Touchstones in Emergent Narratives will be part of SXSW Online 2021 under the track Transforming the Entertainment Landscape. Meet the panelists: Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the game industry.

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Upcoming CIMFest Keynote: Flavored by Authenticity

Game Design Aspect

Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities? Join us for a discussion on what strategies game designers can use to create safe virtual spaces that are enjoyable for all players. GamingSEL).

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Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

Game Design Aspect

Sande Chen Profiled as one of the Game Industry's Top 100 Most Influential Women and a 2020 Women in Games Global Hall of Fame winner, Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL).

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Tile Busters: Leaving The Reddest Ocean To Find A Blue Spot

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So, Spyke Games didn't need to invent an entirely new concept, but they managed to incorporate obstacles that were well-suited to the Tile Match game design. As a significant part of the entertainment industry, games need to keep their players entertained for as long as possible using various methods.

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A Crash Course in Board Games

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Let’s start from the ground up and talk about all the super simple basic elements that need to be understood to make great games. Remember that no marathoner ever finished a race before sweating and huffing through their first belabored mile many months – or years – prior. What is a game? You get the idea.

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