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Midnight Girl by indie studio Italic is a cool cat – Cat burglar that is

PreMortem.Games

The point-and-click adventure unfolds in a stylish 1960s Paris that exudes both an inviting and eerie ambiance. Funny then that the game is made in Copenhagen, Denmark. Pedersen is the programmer and CEO of the company and Ryder takes on the roles of game director, graphics artist, musician and game designer.

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5 Lessons I Learned at a Play-Testing Convention (Protospiel Atlanta)

Brand Game Development

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario.

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How Many Blind Play-Tests Does Your Board Game *Really* Need?

Brand Game Development

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I even blind play-tested it at a game design convention. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

Do not bother with design. Don't apply design patterns or encapsulation for the sake of it. If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. A common excuse for this is teamwork and many programmers working on a game. What makes your game different?

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How Flying Sheep raised funds to make its ‘frictionless’ Web3 game Star Life

Game Daily

We believe for a Metaverse to exist, anyone should be able to access it anywhere, anytime, as easily as one click. So that is what we are designing the game around – high accessibility covering as many aspects of the term as possible. There were two problems with web3 gaming until now.

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My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

Welcome to My Elephant in the Room: An Old World Design Postmortem. Here are the games that I’ve worked on. Spoiler alert: Civilization 3 and 4 are going to come up a lot in the presentation… I also do a podcast where I interview game designers about why they make games, so check it out if you have time for 4-hour interviews.

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How To Play-Test the Rules 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 sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory! They explain, limit, and clarify.

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