Raph Koster wants developers to get back to 'the game of making games'
Game Developer
APRIL 26, 2024
Veteran game designer Raph Koster thinks there's a lot of room to explore what "fun" is in game design.
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Game Developer
APRIL 26, 2024
Veteran game designer Raph Koster thinks there's a lot of room to explore what "fun" is in game design.
Game Developer
APRIL 18, 2024
It includes a host of new diverse perspectives from top industry game designers.' This updated 5th edition brings deeper coverage of playcentric design techniques, including setting emotion-focused experience goals and managing the design process to meet them.
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Transcript of the uncut interview of game composer Winifred Phillips by Meena Shamaly, host of ABC Classic’s The Game Show.
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APRIL 10, 2024
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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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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. I still regularly engage in many outdoor games and board games.
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APRIL 15, 2024
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"It's been five months since the closure of Volition, but I'm grateful to post that a group of us have re-formed as Shapeshifter Games." "
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Arc plans to keep publishing indie games and be involved in titles previously published under the Gearbox banner.
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New embedded language support means Swift developers can try their hands at making games for Panic's handheld.
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MARCH 15, 2024
With ByteDance looking to duck out of games, Tencent has taken two of its subsidiaries off its hands.
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