Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 9, 2024

Interior Night's founder and creative director will hold a session titled 'Crafting Multiplayer Story-centric Experiences: What Makes Interior/Night Tick', in which she will explore the studio's approach to development, design, and narrative, drawing on the studio's experience with its debut title As Dusk Falls. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. 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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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The second step is to find an opportunity and go for it - usually by taking a new job at another studio. In my experience, most promotions in a game design career don't happen internally. I figured I was ready to move up when my predictions were right most of the time. In career terms, waiting is stagnating.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Over the past twenty years, the scope, budget and audience expectations of games have inflated, and smaller studios are left seemingly locked in a cycle of diminishing returns on increasingly ambitious productions. Thrilling as a solo ten-hour-long campaign can be, linear content is expensive to produce.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 24, 2024

Team of Architects Svetlow mentions that the most challenging part of development was figuring out how the game should work from a game design perspective. “No No one on the team had ever made a game in this genre before. Many had not made any games at all! We really are an indie studio in the classical sense.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment. Many ask if there is a future for these developers who spend years developing these games. Isometric art.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

A mage, a hacker, and a barbarian walk into a bar… What sounds like the start of a joke is the ultimate vision for cyberpunk, blockchain collectible card game “Metropolis Origins”, created by game industry veterans at QXR Studios. However, balancing a three-faction card game is quite difficult,” Devine shared.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 21, 2023

What began as a casual endeavor gradually evolved into a fully-fledged studio as the game’s success solidified their path. Now, with the new game A Void Hope coming up on almost 3 years of development, Forslind finds himself juggling his roles as both CEO and Game Designer of his company called Elden Pixels.

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OPM Jobs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

” Kim Parker Adcock | Owner and MD, One Player Mission MEET THE MCV/DEVELOP 30 UNDER 30 Melissa Larsson | Marketing Manager, Square Enix Max Louis | Founder and Studio Director, MLC Lucy Hale | Brand Video Creator, Square Enix External Studios Vijay Gill | Producer, Rocksteady Studios Katy Wood | Senior 3D artist, Hyper Luminal Games Jupiter (..)

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. One could wonder if this makes Ryan a bold choice to lead the studio.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

There’s lots of little sci-fi easter eggs and ideas in the game.” Jack of all Trades Ryding has been working on games in his spare time for nearly 15 years, before officially forming the studio Never Games in 2019. I plan to support and expand the game for years to come.” “I’m

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 22, 2024

Welcome to the unsettling world of Zoochosis by indie game studio Clapperheads. The teaser trailer of the game, which featured a heavily mutated giraffe scurrying over the enclosure, received over 10 million views across YouTube. The game has since gathered well over 200.000 wishlists on Steam.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 13, 2023

In the following years the tool evolved through optimization and machine learning into a full AI-enabled character creator platform for game designers. The first two studios that have used the platform in their production are almost ready to announce their games.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Inside this special South African studio run by all-female creators, you’ll find Makhoba (Khadija) Kamogelo , also known as Kamo. A community manager and new game designer. She prides herself in creating a tribe around the award-winning studio’s title Dungeon Crawler. That’s one of the hurdles we face.”

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Game Designer Johannes Knop explains the success of the game by tapping in on the innate fascination of people for destruction. “ Cooperative studio Knop and his team members Till Freitag and Friedrich Beyer are still students at HTW Berlin. Most important part is that we have a lot of people that make games around us.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay.

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Game Wisdom

JUNE 13, 2023

Mimimi Games Developer Interview Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this perceptive podcast, I spoke with game designer Moritz Wagner from Mimimi Games to talk about the studio’s history, stealth design, and their upcoming game Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew.

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Jesper Juul

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To understand these games, McDonald draws on technical discussions by game designers as well as theoretical work about the nature of signs from structuralist semiotics. Interspersed throughout are design exercises that show how critical interpretation can become a tool for game designers to communicate with their players.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We We are building a historically accurate survival strategy game” Gorilla Softworks co-founder Deniz Şakar explains how the team has tried to accurately portray the challenges early humans faced while they looked for ways to survive and thrive. “We

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

In 2020 she decided to channel her decade-plus entrepreneurial experience into her current venture leaving everything behind to focus on gaming. Her Nigerian-based studio aims to use the power of video games to engage and get future generations ready to pursue careers in gaming.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. Combining the world of ice hockey with a roguelite may seem like an odd match, but for game designer Hugo Julien and his fellow co-founders Jean-Nicolas and Mathieu Fortin, it was a natural choice.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 28, 2023

Before joining Ubisoft, she served as game design director at The Coalition Studio. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft has appointed Katie Scott as president of editorial. Read more

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This was particularly important to the studio as the Roblox platform is extremely fast-paced. They would be updating their game every week, and finish the changes two hours before the deadline. “We They could check logical problems in the game design itself by using custom design events. Dive into your own games.

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 30, 2021

In this video from 2021 CIMFest, game designers and community managers discuss how to remove toxicity from game communities. Originally scheduled for 2020 GDC, this roundtable on Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities was canceled due to the pandemic.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. Similarly, Amazon Game Studio announced the termination of 180 jobs. And Digital Bros and Kongregate also joined the ‘ wave of video game industry layoffs.’

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

About the budget for the game: “It’s hard to say because me and my partner (Game Designer, Maciej Stańczyk) have done a lot of unpaid work. When a deal with an investor fell through after only four months, he found his studio in debt. And, with the game almost finished, publisher Polyslash picked up We.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1: Game Designer vs Game Programmer Summary In this video, we’re breaking down the jobs of game designers and game programmers, showing you how sometimes, they wear each other’s hats, especially in small teams. Now in a game development team, there are lots of other roles as well.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Game Design and contributes to multiple interactive game projects. Notably, she is an animator on the project Tom the Postgirl at Oopsie Daisies studio. They created videos, and I could see them playing the game. It was challenging but worth it.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

The Transformative Landscape of Game Development: A Deep Dive with Willem Delventhal As a digital ecosystem thrives and transforms at a rapid pace, a recent conversation with game designer and educator Willem Delventhal offered insights into the evolving realm of game development.

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Game Design Aspect

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Mary Georgescu is starting a new job as a game designer at Exploding Kittens. She received her MFA in Game Design from NYU. She is a co-founder of Eat Melon Studio , which was part of the 2020 NYU Game Center Incubator. The studio's storytelling game Nothing to See Here!

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