Game Industry News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Generally, I’m a big fan of how Star Trek: Lower Decks handles its humor, but the seventh episode of season four called “A Few Badgeys More” left me feeling neither over- nor underwhelmed. However, it’s more believable that he simply got tired of being evil, which the show does a decent job of portraying. Is whelmed a possibility?

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 8, 2022

This is mainly because of doing a huge amount of development, bug fixing, and PR for our next game, Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor. Based on Steam achievement percentages , players are engaging with this game to an wild extent. (Not It's big news. I'll write a big thing about it eventually, because how can you not?

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. Basically, developers would be charged money per game install, no matter where that came from. It's the tool you use to make games. That are negative. What about demos?

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I know I will miss people, but I am going to try and focus on the people who had a hand in the video game industry in some way or another. It’s a pity he wasn’t particularly active in gaming, although gamers did get to enjoy his talents as the voice of the Grand Maester in Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. He will be sorely missed.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. You can have a brilliant idea for a game, but without the right skills, tools and resources, it can be near-impossible to tackle by yourself. Especially if we consider something as complicated and new as virtual reality. And so, I quit my job, and created White Door Games.”.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. I've been working continuously making indie video games longer than, let's say, anyone. So let's get to it: There are too many indie games. Well, nobody wants this many games.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad. If you are an artist in the game industry then you are faced with more opportunities than ever before. This is where, game techniques for years have been perfecting for decades and technology has caught up where the graphical quality is turning heads.

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Game Industry News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s a big deal and not just because they get to move out of their communal barracks and into larger, more private living spaces, though still not their own rooms but also because their duties change. The team behind Lower Decks could very easily have made the same choice, but they don’t.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Aboard the Dauntless , Dal does a poor job of imitating Janeway, but he certainly tries. However, this is a pretty big step for the Diviner. The post Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek Prodigy’s “Mindwalk” Episode appeared first on Game Industry News. Is that going to become a Macguffin?

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

I decided the time was right to get the game building on AppVeyor if for nothing more than just having a backup. The good news is AppVeyor builds both platforms in around 5 mins (running 2 parallel jobs like Azure was). The good news is AppVeyor builds both platforms in around 5 mins (running 2 parallel jobs like Azure was).

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Roblox CEO David “Dave” Baszucki is big on people interacting in visual social environments – most especially playful places like the game platform he runs. The flexible working world was born of a frenzied reaction to a sudden crisis but has remained as a desirable job feature for millions.”

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Rindoku

JANUARY 8, 2018

Happy new year! I haven’t done a great job at updating this blog but this all changes TODAY. You know, in the spirit of all good new year’s resomolutions. This is a pretty big deal and used up most of our programming time. First off, some great news. First things first. What the hell have we been up?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

The lessons are not typical: “hire slowly”, “play the infinite game”, “replace control with trust”, etc. Many games industry people’s response to Supercell’s approach and accompanying lessons is to consider Supercell as an anomaly. They were known for copying games and competing on scale and out-marketing competitors.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 10, 2023

Um, we have some bad news there." Bad news, right? Spiderweb Software makes fun rule-playing games and also has a mailing list and a Twitter and a Facebook if you want to learn when we do something big. It is one of the oldest story elements, dating back to ancient days when Oedipus was told, "About your mom?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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Game Industry News

MAY 4, 2023

Seven of Nine also gets to sit in the big chair even though her story, too, mostly serves to propel the Jack Crusher/Picard plot forward. The post Fan Collective Unimatrix 47’s Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Retrospective appeared first on Game Industry News. Kestra, apparently, is chopped liver.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. What I mean by that it is easy to pick up and play, which for a card game is no small feat. Most importantly, the game was and is performing! What’s the best way to describe Marvel Snap?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2018

If you are eagerly watching our Patreon page for news or following Juan on Twitter , you might have seen that we just reached our third Patreon goal at a very generous USD 7,500 per month! and a big part of the issues were actually fixed already in released versions of Godot, but nobody had taken care to close them. Merging PRs.

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Game Industry News

APRIL 13, 2023

It’s not quite the master class that is Strange New Worlds , but it does a great job of making that nostalgia relevant. Geordi and Data have more bad news for Picard. First, Deanna gets to open the Big Red Door that’s been the focus of Jack’s nightmares, not Jack. Picard and Dr. Crusher watch Jack warp away.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

Last week, I wrote a blog post about how the video game industry seems to be entering a sad and painful period of contraction. I'm a tiny, tiny figure in a big world, my time is past, and I'm writing depressing things. What do we teach to aspiring game makers? Times to take big risks. A lot of people lose jobs.

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Mariner makes a great point that at the end of the day, Starfleet is a job. Not everything can be glorious-saving-the-universe level adventures or discovering a new development in science. The big Easter Egg is that they prank call Armus and call him a skin of evil. Some things have to get done , and sometimes, they aren’t fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2022 was incredibly eventful (as you can read about below) and we are looking forward to starting the new year with all of you in a few days! 2022 GAMES AWARDS: And the winner is… The Biggest News Item of 2022 Looking back, 2021 was truly booming in terms of game news. Blockchain gaming, (aka Play-to-Earn, aka.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 27, 2022

Janeway blips back in Dal’s quarters, where Dal is playing some sort of video game. Rok initially tells Dal that even though she’s big, she’s not dumb, but then, she never gets the opportunity to flex her intellectual chops until now. Time Amok” does a good job of highlighting just how long Rok was alone.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Later, Rillak admits to Burnham that she knew about the escape clause because T’Rina had notified her, which is why she brought Burnham down despite her initial misgivings that Burnham would be the right person for the job. The really big moment in this arc is when Burnham takes the first steps toward finding common ground with Rillak.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

I don’t cover it above, but Burnham makes a big leap forward in this episode. She steps back and lets her people do their jobs. The post Anomaly: On the Experience of Grief appeared first on Game Industry News. Grudge continues to be a queen. I don’t want planetary destruction to become a trope here.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

On the path to becoming a pro game developer the hardest thing is not learning how to make games, it’s actually the un-learning you have to do. If you take the wrong path, or you follow low-quality resources you’ll pick up bad coding practices, poor optimization techniques, and overall a bad structure for a game project.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg.

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Game Designing

JANUARY 23, 2023

When applying for a job , you were expected to submit your portfolio or bring it along to any interviews. This can make a big difference in the overall feel of your portfolio. The good news is, there are many different services at price points for any budget. Why Are They Important? This offers many benefits to artists.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Instead we predicted an evolution of these games on two levels - Hypercasual meta systems will deepen to drive stronger medium term retention Hypercasual monetisation would ‘hybridise’ to rely on both Ads and IAPs Fast forward 10 months, hypercasual downloads are at an all-time high - as you’ll see in the data ahead. So, let’s go deeper. #2:

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

A lot has been written, and there has been a lot of discussion about, the potential for a huge new gaming and virtual world paradigm which many are calling the Metaverse. Likely no introduction needed, but we are joined by Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games. We’ll be talking about the Metaverse. And just to get straight into it.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Somewhere in the late 90s, and certainly by the mid 2000s, it was decided that secrets are bad and games shouldn’t have them. What are secrets in videogames?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

This week, now that the big news on Rovio is confirmed, we look at the question on the industry’s mind — what’s next for the company under Sega? Japanese gaming giant Sega has confirmed that it’s buying Finnish Rovio in an all-cash deal worth $775 million. Rovio’s track record of launching games nearly every year is solid.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis is written by my friend, Buğrahan Göker who focused on 4X games, and Yours Truly. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Strategy games also represent nearly a half of all Mid-Core revenues.

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A bit of news: we finally have a release date for Star Trek: Prodigy ! He thinks to ask his clone’s permission, but when Mariner growls at him to stop, he does so gamely. As a reslut, Mariner spends a lot of time in this episode off of her game. She does tell stories that make him look like an idiot.

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