PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration.
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 15, 2024
Years ago, at the annual Penny Arcade Expo games convention, I was showing off an advanced prototype of Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing. The newsletter is free but you can support the existence of LTPF with a small subscription fee. The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.
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PreMortem.Games
JULY 12, 2023
is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. prototype started gaining traction with nominations, awards and people posting YouTube videos.
PreMortem.Games
JULY 17, 2023
The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre.
Keith Burgun
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
I was focused hard during this time on learning as much as I could about game design, focused on “efficiency” and elegance in design, which is what brought me to crunchy rulesets like those of designer Eurogames and the indie Rogue-likes-and-company world. Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights).
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 1, 2024
As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. But that’s not all.
Mircosoft Game Dev
AUGUST 10, 2017
The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it. An Indie or Experimental Game : Steam, GOG, etc.
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