PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

Image: pikisuperstar on Freepik Newzoo’s Global Gamer Study 2023 is a true treasure trove of interesting facts about the people out there that hopefully end up with your game in their hands. Did you know that more than half of all people with an internet connection play games? Or that 87% of players spend money on in-game items?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2024

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 My favorite is Kenya at 50.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Twenty years ago Rohan Nowell made a game for a high school project and it was then that the seed was planted. However, it took another 15 years for his debut game Swoopy Boi to come out. The mobile game about a Magpie that swoops down and attacks pedestrians was successful enough for Nowell to keep developing games. “I

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Real Programming

APRIL 28, 2024

Video Games Are Everything When kids play, they don’t even realize they’re learning. Whether at the playground during recess, free time set aside in class, or when kids are among each other after school, they learn much about the world while playing. RP4K understands that, and frankly, we agree with kids! Summer should be fun.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 11, 2023

During a fireside chat-style opening keynote at Develop:Brighton today, Charla was asked about the blurring lines between the two ends of the spectrum when it comes to games publishing, and he observed that players don't place as much emphasis on the distinction. For consumers, we actually need to separate it less and less. Read more

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Jesper Juul

APRIL 11, 2024

Presenting The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola. How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work. Board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 15, 2024

An intriguing tale full of twists and turns -and multiple endings- plays out in this fully narrated cyber-noir thriller. The creator of Let Bions Be Bygones (LBBB) is indie game studio Bohemian Pulp , the brainchild of co-founders and life partners, Đorđe and Jasmine Marković. “I decided to make a game that I can do by myself.

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Jesper Juul

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20th Anniversary notes on The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gameness. What is a Game? What is a game? What is a game? Many people had already tried to answer the question and I had read many previous game definitions. What is a game? Written November 2023.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

I played Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The charm of this game is off the charts and is the main thing that makes me love it. There’s just so many creative, brilliant, fun to look at, surprising situations – the dev team had a ton of fun making a lot of the game. Overall, I want to first say: it’s really cool!

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Holiday seasons typically brings a lot of spending, both for new games and for in-game spending on lifestyle games that people like playing. People like buying things for themselves and giving in-game cash shop currency as gifts to their friends because they like playing the game and want to enjoy it during the holidays.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Kyon Edelenbosch, Mark Lohmann, Matteo Karkazis and Mark Benis are not your typical game developers. They call themselves Bonte Avond , ‘a game studio of 4 musicians who make bizarre, funny and heartfelt games’. Bonte Avond’ is the last night of (summer)camp where guests perform humorous plays or songs for each other.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. So, here are the standings before the final game between Barbados and Grenada.

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Game Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with the sequel to a game I covered a while back called Bubsy for this Retro Game Friday. Plot: The plot of the sequel has almost nothing to do with the first game. There are no alien space invaders desiring Earth’s yarn for themselves. This week we jump into the classic title called Bubsy Two Fur.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In VR horror title Titanic: A Space Between players find themselves entangled in a bizarre time-travel mishap. After we spent a few months playing around with lighting, we realized that we had reached a place where it was convincing enough to start adapting our assets to a more realistic style. Sounds familiar?

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 20, 2023

Think about a non-platforming game where jumping isn’t super important but still allowed. How often do you think players who play those games press the jump button? It gives players an additional action to do while wandering around the world and it provides an outlet for them to express themselves.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For mobile games in particular, managing the authentication and authorization of your players can pose some unique challenges. Some of these challenges relate to the use of mobile devices themselves. These credentials could be used to take non-permitted actions, for example, directly accessing APIs used by the game.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. But I have a whole lot of my own personal skin in this game, and I've been writing and speaking on this exact topic for a long time. Our next game!

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Based in the heart of Edmonton, Canada, Inflexion Games is gearing up for the release of their debut title Nightingale. A shared-world survival crafting game set to hit PC Early Access early next year. ​​”For us, it’s almost the beginning of the journey. We’ll continue to grow and expand the game in the months and years to come.”

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Game Daily

JULY 26, 2023

Pool is one of the most popular games in the world, as well as the basis for many successful video games and simulations. Now it’s coming to Web3 gaming, via Eyeball Pool from Eyeball Games. “We’re not taking an inferior product and just slapping an earning element on it and calling it a blockchain game.”

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As co-founder, Dean often leads his team to visit elders, historical sites, and museums, immersing themselves in the rich history of ethnic cultures. Around the same time, he delved into the world of video games, playing titles like GTA, Scarface, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Call of Duty, and FIFA. That game is now Hiru.”

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OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

We all remember the times where the focus of most AAA game studios seemed to be to fulfil the fantasies of cis men. Today, games are still not as diverse as they should be in the modern world. The games industry can do better than this. Transgender people play games and transgender people work in the games industry.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Lately, we see more and more games inspired by these social media trends making it to the top charts in terms of downloads. AppMagic investigates the rise and fall, successes and failures of these specific types of games. No wonder it scores so well as mobile games. In January 2023, the game generated 1.9M Think again.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 4, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I have play-testing on the brain. It was a gorgeous rendition of the disorganized mess of roads and states that I’d been play-testing with before. Need help on your board game?

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Kids who are hungry to learn computer programming need ample time to study, experiment, and play with the code. Once you grasp the fundamentals, kids can build things like their own games or custom Minecraft modifications. For example, keen students may decide to reach a certain phase in their game, website, or app as their goal.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. Let’s travel back in time with Mwangi, and explore what made him a TikTok sensation resulting in a massive fan base just a year into his video game industry debut. They hired him to create animations for an augmented reality game.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In order for us to provide support for a game or service, that game or service needs to generate enough ongoing money to pay for all costs associated with the continued support plus a reasonable profit. We're looking for sustainability - players keep giving us enough money that we can afford to continue making more of the game.

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Real Programming

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Even if they aren’t programmers themselves, every parent can help their children on their coding journey by doing the following things at home. Enjoy the Fruits of the Lessons One of the reasons kids get so excited to learn coding is that we put video games at the heart of what we do. That means you!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 8, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how to find an audience for a board game. Need help on your board game? How do you identify an audience?

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to Unity’s new Toxicity in Multiplayer Games Report , the percentage of players who report witnessing or experiencing toxic behavior increased from 68 percent in 2021 to 74 percent in 2023. Half of the players surveyed say they regularly encounter toxicity in games. This compares to 66 percent in 2021.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 25, 2024

This past weekend, I had the amazing opportunity to meet the incredible Armin Shimerman, who played Quark in the Star Trek franchise. The riots themselves deserve their own post, and as we get closer to the September date, I’m sure I’ll make that post. They do, after all, set themselves up as gods for the Vorta and the Jem’Hadar.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Live service games typically get shut down for one major reason - they are unable to find or sustain a sufficient player base to keep development going. Any live service game needs players playing the game and some number of them paying into the game. ALT Game publishers aren’t charities.

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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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Cocos

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

About Cloud Servers I asked the WeChat mini-game team about this issue, and they replied: “WeChat mini-games do not restrict the use of cloud services, but users have to confirm the connectivity of the services themselves”.

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iXie gaming

JULY 2, 2023

All Gamers dream of a world where they can just play their favorite game, all day every day, but very few get the chance to make those dreams a reality. Like all gamers, Gururaj’s passion for gaming started at an early age, when he played old traditional board games with his friends. But what brought him to iXie?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. They learn about their favorite characters and forge connections, which motivates them to keep playing.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

It was a fun cheap game that is still fun and cheap. It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero. Both about game design, and about the indie games biz as a whole. And the game looks competently made. A great idea.

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

Despite the hype surrounding certain buzzwords in gaming right now, it’s always worth remembering that technology isn’t always a primary agent of change. It turns out that giving thought to the well-being of fellow workers might be the most powerful part of gaming’s future. No-one buys a magazine for the ads.

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