GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 22, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Red Rover Interactive is a new studio formed by multiplayer veterans who seek to shake up the survival genre.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The games industry moves pretty fast, and there's a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what's next without so much worrying about what came before. September of 2013 was absolutely packed with industry-shaking news, but there's really no competition for what we're going to talk about here, and that's Grand Theft Auto 5.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 24, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox On paper, a company announcing – in effect – that they're upgrading the modding tools for their online game should not be an industry-shaking event.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The game is closely followed by Sony's God of War Ragnarok, which is up to No.2 The action adventure game has been helped by the availability of a PS5 hardware bundle. The one new game in the harts is Spongebob Squarepants: The Cosmic Shake from THQ Nordic, which debuts at No.10. FIFA 23 is back at No.1 Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 10, 2024

The kind of games that have the least cut content are annual sports titles - they have the most stringent schedules and know exactly what they are committing to with each annual cycle, so they have significantly less wiggle room than a project with a longer schedule and bigger scope (e.g.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 24, 2023

Early impressions with the hardware itself have been positive, but it's hard to shake concerns over the expensive price tag , and the fact that only two titles out of the 37 confirmed for its launch window – Horizon: Call of the Mountain and The Dark Pictures: Switchback – are actually new and exclusive to the platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today, we dive into the critical components of game markets needed to make them fun, and applicable in web 3.0 How to Plan and Nurture Your Career in Games - with Sophie Vo and Mishka Katkoff (Rise & Play podcast) ✉️ Received this email from a friend? Designing Game Markets to be Fun Markets are increasingly a component of games.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For gamers and game developers alike, this is the season to dive into the world of horror games, immersing ourselves in atmospheres filled with suspense, mystery, and pure fright. As the leaves turn and the shadows grow longer, what better way to celebrate than by revisiting some of the most terrifying games ever created?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

In early 2021, Cukia Kimani , co-founder of South Africa’s renowned studio Nyamakop , and a close-knit circle of four friends embarked on an extraordinary challenge that involved making 12 games in 12 months. He recalls booting it up and as soon as he saw the magic within, asking his mum if people create games for a living.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you stay in the board game industry for long enough, you will hear your fair share of conventional wisdom. Conventions are good for promoting your game. This is not just because we’re experiencing an unprecedented shake-up in day-to-day life because of the coronavirus. Need help on your board game? Of that $1.5

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s no secret that one of the most critical parts of making a board game that will sell is making it gorgeous. Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do. Don’t micromanage.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It isn’t even to achieve game balance that is “good enough”. The real purpose of balance updates is to keep the game interesting to the community so they want to keep playing it. ALT Player churn over time is normal - even for a perfectly balanced game. We combine these changes with new content (e.g.

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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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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Game development is extremely iterative by nature. Many game developers create dozens (or even hundreds) of versions of their game before it is finally complete. Simple games need to be played at least 100 times before they’re considered complete. For more complicated games, that number is closer to 1,000 or more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Kooyman's experience in gaming spans 15 years and includes being part of the Miniclip executive team before it was acquired by Tencent. Keeping it real can be challenging when the fear of layoffs and job shake-ups is genuine. Now, he's committed to scaling Half Moon Studios, and they are starting with re-imagining the Picture Quiz.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 31, 2023

askagamedev : Whenever I look at any game’s online community, be it official forums, reddit, twitter, or some other form of social media, I’ll often see fans demanding the developers to tell them certain common things. I invariably chuckle and shake my head because I know that the devs are almost certain not to respond.

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Febucci

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

You can add text animations in your Unity games using my plugin called Text Animator. I was making my own game and I thought “it would be cool if, when this character is scared, the letters of his dialogue could visibly shake”. Get it from the Unity Asset Store or from Itch.io. Get it on the Unity Asset Store.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2022

askagamedev : Whenever I look at any game’s online community, be it official forums, reddit, twitter, or some other form of social media, I’ll often see fans demanding the developers to tell them certain common things. I invariably chuckle and shake my head because I know that the devs are almost certain not to respond.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The fact it seriously shakes up Canon and yet still follows it pretty closely is very nice. The post Synth Saturday: New Battlefield Chapters 1-5 by operation.meteor appeared first on Game Industry News.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

How to grow your games in diverse markets Many Western publishers focus their efforts on English-speaking countries because they are most familiar with these markets, which tend to command a higher average revenue per paying user. When we talk about the US and the UK in some of the more popular gaming categories, CPIs start to creep up.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you really wanna go nuts, try to define what a “game” is. I mean, Hidden Object Games barely even count as an activity. And yet, we know they are games, because they have “game” in the name. things about making and writing about games for 30 years is the patterns you get to see.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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Game Design Aspect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In this article, game designer Sande Chen delves into the parental guilt associated with app usage, as documented in the book, Baby, Unplugged. Hope you're having a good holiday and not working :) In the previous months, I've been following up on research about kid games, especially those for the preschool set. Happy Labor Day!

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Brand Game Development

MAY 8, 2017

A couple of weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure of playing 5-Minute Dungeon at the friendly local gaming store for the first time. This game got us rowdier than ever before and it was awesome! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Source ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Supercell CEO’s annual blog post is a personal, inspirational, and sincere communication method from the top brass of a major mobile games company. Supercell hasn’t released new games since 2018. Their live games portfolio is not growing. New Game Teams = “Startups” Supercell’s game leads were originally seen as “mini-CEOs”.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. But not really.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 26, 2022

I am old and slow, and the games industry moves very quickly. Turns out, a new set of guns were about to be released for the shooty-game Valorant. I wasn't able to find an estimate for the game's total revenue, but they are capable of earning a lot. But do people really grasp what this means for games pricing in the industry?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Games that have a huge fan base.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are the games that I’ve worked on. Spoiler alert: Civilization 3 and 4 are going to come up a lot in the presentation… I also do a podcast where I interview game designers about why they make games, so check it out if you have time for 4-hour interviews. So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game?

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Game Industry News

MARCH 2, 2023

He’s shaking badly enough that Raffi believes him to be undergoing withdrawal, but as it happens, he’s a Changeling. The post Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek Picard’s “17 Seconds” Episode appeared first on Game Industry News. Raffi and Worf are having better luck. They addressed the accent issue!

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Visual effects (VFX) compositors are in high demand in many industries such as film-making, gaming, and animation. If you cannot get an apprenticeship with a VFX studio, you may want to find an apprenticeship in a related industry, such as animation or games. A VFX compositor earns anywhere between $75,000 to $180,000 a year.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Stars at Night ” can’t entirely answer the question, but I still can’t shake the feeling that the story is meant to bring to a close more than just that debate. The post Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek Lower Decks “The Stars at Night” Episode appeared first on Game Industry News.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 5, 2013

It's currently in the top 50 of paid games and the top 100 in all paid apps in the first 24 hours. It's almost the perfect game.". Scurvy Scallywags is an enormous breath of fresh air if you've been spending a bunch of time with the current generation of match-3 games.". Jay is Games. "I This scream ten dollar game!".

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I Am a Public Figure When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), Game designers, writers, comic artists. If hit with the wrong email at the wrong time, she will be thrown off her game for a day, or three. No, it WILL vary. I am acting as a public figure.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Card Battlers represent only a tiny portion of Strategy Games in the Western market. Keep in mind that we’ve excluded games that generate majority of the revenues from Asian markets. We’ll discuss our old card battler predictions, our new predictions, new card games, and the state of card battlers in 2020 prediction below.

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