PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. Godot doesn’t feel quite as chaotic as Unity did at times.”

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. So, almost two years ago I decided to fully embrace the indie path and became a solodev.” This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. “We

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Tom Francis

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I’ve been tweeting GIFs of a game I’m prototyping in Unity for a while now, codenamed Tiny Ex-Cons, and recently did a video blog about the core elements I’m hoping to combine if I go ahead with it. My prototype is too early to say if either of those systems will stick, I’ll happily scrap or change them if not.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. Publishers have all sorts of vetting mechanisms in place that keep you from going to market with a bad game. Of course, at the same time, indie board games are getting a lot better.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. Unreal is a better solution for big games, and Unity is more popular among indie developers.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.

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