Game Errors

JULY 24, 2023

There are many old Windows games available on Steam, Epic Games, and other prominent gaming storefronts. For example, Half-Life is a golden oldie released in 1998 and still available on Steam. However, compatibility issues can arise when users try to play PC games more than 10 years old on Windows 11/10 platforms.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

White Star Studio, a small and ambitious game development studio based in Shenzen, China, has captured the essence of ancient China in their game Thriving City. When the team first decided to make a sim management style game, they quickly settled on a city building sim. “We by Emperor Taizu of Song.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the success rate of the new games released drastically low, one can’t help but ask two questions: When releasing a game in 2024, which genre should I choose to make the most of it? To operate with representative groups, we compared games across top-level subgenres. However, My Hamster Story took off in the Asian market.

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Indie DB

MARCH 8, 2023

This standalone Half-Life fan-game experiences a revival

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

Virtual Reality (VR) gaming has taken the world by storm, offering players an immersive and unforgettable gaming experience. With technology constantly advancing, the gaming industry has been able to create some of the most amazing VR games in recent years. Beat Saber Beat Saber is a rhythm-based VR game.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 25, 2023

Gaming is very often used as way to escape from lifes troubles and unwind. And it’s no secret that games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing got many people through lockdowns and pandemic chaos. Idle games in general are great, it’s just watching numbers go up – You dont really have to do anything.”

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Video Game Market “ Savvy analyst Matt Piscatella walked online viewers through a ream of stats and information about how gaming has settled into a “new normal” in 2023, following the boom and droop of the pandemic, and its aftermath. Circana’s stats show some demographic curiosities when it comes to gaming.

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Designer Notes

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Chet Faliszek, who co-founded Stray Bombay and is best known for his work at Valve on games such as Left 4 Dead and Portal 2. Games discussed: Pong , Tecmo Bowl , Civilization series, Archon , M.U.L.E. This episode was recorded August 17, 2021.

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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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Designer Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Robin Hunicke, co-founder of Funomena and best known for her work on MySims , Boom Blox , and Journey. They discuss why HyperCard was so great, why AI development is game design, and how Steven Spielberg almost made Angry Birds for EA. Games discussed: Pitfall , M.U.L.E.

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Catnip Games

JUNE 12, 2022

Some enemies in the game will be immune to bullets and you’ll have to use grenades. Instead I shamelessly copied Half-Life and added a grenade dispenser! Of which you can only carry a few. What if you miss and run out? You’d have to restart the level. For a moment I considered loot drops.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

This week, I will test this broader industry hypothesis against our very own gaming industry. Over half of the respondents (57%) work directly on game development. Over half of the respondents (57%) work directly on game development. Likely both. The biggest group (37%) of respondents was working fully remotely.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. Is it the artwork in itself that is not selling the game? Exit mobile.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 27, 2023

It often takes up almost half the screen, but lets you kill enemies in every possible way you desire. Vampire Hunters was conceived at the beginning of last year during an internal game jam held at Gamecraft Studios. “One One of our goals was to capture the most iconic weapons in video game history. The solution?

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Game Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Two new research surveys were released this week, helping us to understand the ever-shifting nature of game consumers, their habits and their preferences across demographic sectors. Parents of teens are 46% more likely to play games with their kids. The top five games parents play with their kids are either wholesome, or creative.

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Game Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Still, inexplicable demand for a summertime Los Angeles showcase of future game releases has resulted in the tired marketing presentation called Summer Game Fest, hosted by the blandly agreeable Geoff Keighley. This event somehow managed to encapsulate much that is wrong with gaming, and that has been wrong for a very long time.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2023

million refugees, around half of whom are under the age of 18. Eray Ağaçdoğrayan , founder of Gyroscoping Games , is Turkish himself. There’s one tool that is perfect for showing the non-refugees the life of refugees, and that’s video games!” Gyroscoping Games was founded after a pre-seed investment round in 2021.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. It has remained a popular board game since, regularly topping out the Board Game Geek Hotness and showing up multiple times as a giveaway prize in Pangea contests. Everdell is a worker placement, tableau-building board game.

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Rampant Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Not that all (or even most) of my gaming is in VR. I’m still retro-gaming regularly and I am really looking forward to the PC release of Persona 5 next month. While a lot of approaches and conventions have solidified for certain genres of games, there’s still nothing set in stone, especially as the tech keeps improving.

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OPM Jobs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You finally got that call, email or carrier pidgeon in with the news: You’ve been offered an interview at a game studio! So, how do you prepare for your first games industry interview and leave a great first impression? Games What games has the company worked on? You can look at the reviews for the games or forums.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Since its launch in 2018, Epic Games Store has spent bucket loads of money on giving away free games, in order to attract PC gamers away from Steam. Part of Epic’s attraction is its range of popular first-party games such as Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys. Success has been hard to come by.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

and Deconstructor of Fun’s latest collaborative report, we dive deep into a comprehensive analysis of the mobile gaming sector and which genres are defying the economic slowdown. Nevertheless, mobile gaming represents a whopping 61% of all games revenue , a number that would be even larger should we account for all the in-app-ad revenue.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nearly every industry will evolve courtesy of generative artificial intelligence (AI) – and the gaming sector isn’t an exception. Generative AI is one of the technologies with the potential to revolutionize how developers create games. How will it transform the gaming landscape? But what is generative AI?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 1995, the game formerly known as Settlers of Catan was nothing more than the obscure creation of designer Klaus Teuber. The board game market as we know it today did not exist yet. Catan was the first major hobby board game to come into existence. Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He started his career in advertising, but the world of video games always held his real interest. Making games was something that seemed very far from reality”, he says. Yet, with help from the internet and some classes in college, he realized that he too could create games. Why did you become a solo developer? “I’ve

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Played with Fire

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

What are VR games? Games designed for VR are different in many ways, but first of all they deliver an incomparably immersive experience in fictional 3D worlds. Today, this is possible thanks to modern virtual reality hardware and games created by VR aficionados! How VR games work? Where to buy VR games?

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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. Mwangi’s animated videos went viral on TikTok in 2022, amassing over half a million views and thousands of comments and followers. They hired him to create animations for an augmented reality game. He learned the ropes on the job.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The story gives us the background of Tarsus IV, introduces us to Kevin Riley, and generally demonstrates that even in the far-flung future people can and will fake their deaths to escape prosecution, but what I wish the story did in more depth is explore the effects of watching eugenics nonsense play out in real life on Kirk as a decision-maker.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Game analytics is a core factor in the life of every game developer, regardless of whether you’re an employee at a startup or an established corporation like Konami. No matter how big the development team is, game analytics will be incredibly valuable. It reveals how long users spend playing your game.

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The Art of the Game

AUGUST 6, 2021

The next one I can’t discuss much – I will say it was with a major VR platform and they offered me $75 Amazon credit to spout off about my half-assed approach to game dev and life in general. Despite the life altering consequences of Covid-19, I’ve been able to get a lot done.

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Game Industry News

JULY 9, 2023

Plot: The plot of this first episode, which happens to be extended to nearly an hour and a half long, is a doozy. At that point, well something happens and what looked to be a really interesting series about getting an upbeat second chance at life for someone who died unfairly became something much different.

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

You wouldn’t ask kids why they advocate playing tag, watching movies, or playing video games. Coding is Fun The live online coding classes at RP4K revolve around showing kids how to program and design their own video games — in other words, there’s fun at the heart of what we do. Things change when the subject is computer coding!

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2023

I can choose to license my likeness out for use in a video game or a movie or something and I can set the terms and conditions those creators must adhere to in order to retain my permission to use my likeness. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. As an example, collaboration events are used by more than 70% of the top 10% of highest-grossing games in the China iOS market.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image credit: DanielAlexanderSmith / Wikipedia For decades, Peter Molyneux was a regular fixture on the game media outlet interview circuit, his face gracing the cover of magazines or website feature splashes. Indeed, a Twitter parody account called Peter Molydeux regularly posts amusingly bats-arse game design ideas.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 2, 2023

Worf’s relationship with his own son has been fraught, so he can certainly sympathize with Raffi’s inability to find a work/life balance. Crusher’s assertion that Picard’s life is dangerous, and that he’s made dangerous enemies makes a certain amount of sense. I’m really looking forward to seeing what they accomplish together.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.

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