Ex-Humble Games staff form new publisher, Good Games Group
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OCTOBER 8, 2024
Humble will use Good Games to continue supporting games it had already published prior to restructuring its staff in July.
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Raph Koster wants developers to get back to 'the game of making games'
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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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Obituary: Alan Emrich, game designer and writer, has died
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JANUARY 10, 2025
Emrich previously designed tabletop and video games such as Master of Orion and Totaler Krieg, and coined the now famous strategy game term '4X.'
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Every Game Has the Community It Deserves
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FEBRUARY 12, 2024
If game designers are to have any success combating toxicity, we must acknowledge that our own design choices are often the underlying systemic cause, and that it is our responsibility to change them.
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Opinion: How will Project 2025 impact game developers?
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JULY 18, 2024
The Heritage Foundation's manifesto for the possible next administration could do great harm to many, including large portions of the game development community.
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Indie publisher Armor Games reportedly axes publishing team
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AUGUST 1, 2024
If true, it's unclear what that means for the games Armor's expected to publish. Ex-staff claim the publisher has eliminated its entire publishing team.
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70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability
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APRIL 16, 2024
With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.
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Update: Humble Games confirms layoffs amid 'restructuring', denies full shutdown
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JULY 23, 2024
Update: In a statement, Humble confirms layoffs at Humble Games but maintains that the publisher is still up and running. Update: Humble has now provided a statement saying Humble Games hasn't been shut down, but just restructured.
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Volition devs regroup as Shapeshifter Games after Embracer shuttering
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JANUARY 30, 2024
"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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Exploiting Fear to Create Good Horror Games
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MAY 8, 2024
Developers Jade Jacson, Steve Kirby and Kelvin Moore dive into horror as a genre, why we like to be scared and how game developers can exploit our deepest fears to create a wide range of scares.
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GOG expands preservation program to protect delisted games
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DECEMBER 2, 2024
The company's recent efforts to protect and update older games will now include titles that get delisted from its store.
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Creativity from constraints: developing new games from old IP
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MAY 2, 2024
A game's legacy is not just the nostalgia it will come to evoke after enough time has passed. Its legacy is also in the creativity it comes to inspire in the works that arise in its wake.
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Book Excerpt: Game Design Workshop, 5th Edition
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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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What the game industry must do to prevent occupational burnout
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APRIL 10, 2024
Game industry working conditions are improving, but occupational burnout still runs amok. Studios and workers have the power to slow it down.
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Book Excerpt: Game Economy Design: Metagame, Monetization and Live Operations
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive overview of game economy design. The reader will gain insights into the components that form a game economy, how these components are utilized to shape a metagame experience and how monetization is integrated into this.'
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Why art tests fail artists and the game dev industry
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OCTOBER 3, 2024
Art tests in game dev often harm diversity and fail to reflect real skills. It's time to rethink their use and adopt more inclusive hiring practices.
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Phoenix Labs lays off staff, cancels games in major restructuring
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MAY 16, 2024
Update: The studio behind Dauntless and Fae Farm has laid off an unknown number of employees and cancelled a game "mere weeks" away from launching in Early Access.
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W4 Games says Godot console porting solutions land in October
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Devs looking to port their Godot-developed game to consoles will have solutions as soon as October.
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The ascent of Indian video game development
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NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Indian video game development seems to be displaying more and more potential and exposure; we spoke to three different developers based in India about their current projects and their own experiences.
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Book Excerpt: Designing Games Meant for Sharing
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JULY 9, 2024
This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved over time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts.'
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Predatory tactics in gaming are worse than you think
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JUNE 24, 2024
I want to shed light on a tactic that involves collecting data as you play, feeding this data into complex algorithms and models that then alter the rules of your game under the hood to optimize spending opportunities.
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California Fire Relief Bundle is calling for submissions from game developers
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JANUARY 13, 2025
The charity bundle is being organized by Necrosoft Games to assist the California Fire Foundation.
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Book Excerpt: Great Games Need Great Leaders
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AUGUST 15, 2024
This book brings together the knowledge and perspectives of numerous past and present games industry leaders and practitioners to form a clear picture of how leadership operates in a game development studio.'
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Report: Summer Games Fest trailers can cost devs up to $550K
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JUNE 6, 2024
Summer Games Fest's pricing structure for trailers is pricey, and can help (or hurt) smaller developers marketing their game.
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What are game developers getting out of Bluesky?
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NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Game developers are among the millions users leaving X (formerly Twitter) and signing up for Bluesky. What are they getting out of the platform?
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Book Excerpt: Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game
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MAY 16, 2024
'Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games (RPG) and to assess its lasting impact on the RPG genre and video game industry.'
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Rolling Stone launches game vertical with help from Saudi wealth fund
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MAY 22, 2024
RS Gaming has been launched in partnership with ESL FACEIT Group, which is owned by Saudi state-backed investment fund PIF.
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Amazon Games CEO thinks genAI can help make better ideas for games
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AUGUST 23, 2024
If genAI has any benefit to game development, Christoph Hartmann believes it lies in getting rid of the 'less boring' parts in the name of creativity.
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Game workers in Quebec are making a huge unionization push
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MAY 1, 2024
Game Workers Unite Montreal has joined forces with Canadian trade union CSN to help workers establish unions at major studios in the region.
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Epic Games cuts almost half of Bandcamp pre-Songtradr sale
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OCTOBER 16, 2023
Update : A spokesperson for Epic Games clarified to Game Developer that the Bandcamp layoffs aren't new, but part of Epic's previously announced reductions.
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Report: Godfall dev Counterplay Games has quietly closed down
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JANUARY 13, 2025
Beyond Godfall, Counterplay developed the now-defunct digital card game Duelyst, which released in 2016.
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Game composer Nobuo Uematsu will retire after Fantasian's console launch
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OCTOBER 15, 2024
After nearly 40 years of composing music for games (and Square Enix and Final Fantasy specifically), Uematsu has reached the end of the road.
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Humble Games' recent restructure is hurting devs and their games
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JULY 30, 2024
Developers Squid Shock and Stairway are unable to push console updates, and the former is resorting to Patreon while looking for a solution.
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Gamedev.world launching Global Games Fund to support devs in emergent territories
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APRIL 19, 2024
'Any developer, anywhere, and in any language, deserves access to funding structures and opportunities to make great games.'
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Game performers demand more support from studios over 'graphic' scenes
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AUGUST 19, 2024
Actors in the game industry claim they're often asked to perform explicit and intimate scenes without warning or appropriate workplace protections.
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Why you can’t objectively build great games
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NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Developers are always trying to find that winning formula for the perfect game, but it takes more than analytics to build an amazing game.
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Bridging history and gameplay: Lessons from historiographical video game design
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AUGUST 20, 2024
As a historian specializing in Japanese history, my journey into the realm of historiographical video game design has been transformative. This post chronicles that journey, highlighting key lessons learned and offering practical insights for game developers interested in integrating historical accuracy into their designs.
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U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation
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OCTOBER 25, 2024
The Video Game History Foundation decried the 'lobbying efforts by rightsholder groups' that have 'impeded' proper efforts to archive old games at libraries.
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What happens when a secretive blockchain company buys your game studio
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OCTOBER 22, 2024
Former employees of Phoenix Labs and Rumble Games say they were told to keep blockchain platform Forte Labs' purchase of their employers an absolute secret.
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Why is it so expensive to make games in the United States?
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JULY 23, 2024
It's becoming harder to sustainably run a game studio in the United States. What can be done to improve that?
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Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner working on 'most ambitious Godot game yet'
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AUGUST 7, 2024
The company has formed a strategic partnership agreement with Godot vets at W4 Games to support the open source engine.
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SAG-AFTRA can now call immediate strike if game companies refuse AI protections
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JULY 22, 2024
The union is attempting to secure better wages, working conditions, and AI protections for voice actors and performers within the game industry.
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ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online
Game Developer
APRIL 22, 2024
Libraries' attempts and proposed plans for archiving older games don't strike a chord with the ESA, which still thinks it remains publishers' burden.
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15 percent of Steam users played 2024's game releases
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DECEMBER 20, 2024
Most Steam players devoted their playtime to games from nearly a decade ago instead of titles released in 2024.
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