PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

The Netherlands may be a small country, but there are many talented studios making amazing games. Like Sony Worldwide Studio Guerrilla Games that recently delivered the critically acclaimed PSVR2 title Horizon: Call of the Mountain. Dutch Indies Like Paladin Studios. Like subscription-based gaming platform Utomik.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Inside this special South African studio run by all-female creators, you’ll find Makhoba (Khadija) Kamogelo , also known as Kamo. She prides herself in creating a tribe around the award-winning studio’s title Dungeon Crawler. Initially, getting enough funding to run the studio was a challenge.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the game development studio Kefir is giving the Godot Engine project a USD 120,000 grant to fund further development of the engine. They're currently using Godot for internal prototypes and are considering using it more in the future. Thank you Kefir for supporting our free and open source game engine!

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc. Real-time 3D Game Rendering Unreal engine 3D modeling is great for scene prototyping. Top game development studios are using Unreal to create breathtaking visuals and innovative gameplay.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A sure proof of the concept or idea has to be generated to see how viable and feasible it will be for the gaming studio to develop the game. Prototyping Prototyping is not integral to the mobile game development process but has advantages. The idea of the game serves as the backbone of the whole game development process.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Platform Compatibility You should consider the platforms your game will be available on, such as consoles, PCs, mobile devices, or virtual reality. You must ensure that the free game design software you choose supports the platforms you intend to target, as each platform may have unique requirements and capabilities.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 25, 2024

This release introduces an expanded set of APIs and microservices on the NVIDIA Jetson platform to further accelerate the development and deployment of vision AI applications at the edge. The flexibility of the platform enhances development efficiency, with standard APIs seamlessly integrating with other applications and services.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. Dimensions: This platform focuses on AI-powered 3D asset creation. But that’s not all! And guess what?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

There has been a lot of talk about the future of Hypercasual games: how the market has been in stagnation, making studios slowly but steadily look for opportunities in the fraternal Hybridcasual. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

As co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Nigerian-based studio Dimension 11 , he provided leadership. He recently successfully released two balls and is currently solely focusing on Dimension 11 studios. As he grew, his fascination extended to games such as Prototype, Need for Speed and GTA.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

This time we’ll unveil the most common reasons why studios choose Unity for creating a game for Android in 2023. To make it a bit clearer, we’ve rounded up a few good reasons why to opt for Unity Android development : Simple cross-platform development. Unity supports 25+ different platforms in addition to Android and iOS.

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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. It was a quirky story-first 3D platformer with jokes that were actually funny. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Being a one-man studio, Sergio managed to produce, release, and publish two successful VR titles. While Cosmodread has had approximately 25,000 players on Steam alone and sold up to 250,000 units worldwide , across all major platforms. And that resulted in the first prototype of Dreadhalls. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Among such important pillars as experience, smooth development processes, and a strong team, using an outstanding platform cannot also be underestimated. Unreal Engine is an all-in-one platform that allows for the development of different game types, so each stage of the development cycle can be performed using it. Development.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Over the years, I've worked on projects that have used GoldSrc (Half- Life 1's engine), Serious Engine, Unity, SLUDGE, Adventure Game Studio, jMonkeyEngine, Blender Game Engine, and SCUMM/Remonkeyed Engine.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

At some point, Ora (one of the founders) had a dream about a field of breasts, and when she mentioned it to her son, who is the CEO of the company, he decided to develop a prototype. followers on TikTok) uploaded to the platform a video about this monkey playing with a Pop It.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Introduce yourself (or your studio) in a few sentences. My name is Leszek Nowak and I’m a part of independent studio 2Dynamic Games located in Kraków, Poland. Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Additionally most of our team was already familiar with Godot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

This week, we are interviewing the studio Fat Gem about their first game Primal Light. Introduce your studio in a few sentences. Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Primal Light is a linear 2D action platformer for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

With over 30,000 games, it’s the biggest platform to play all your favorite games. Tabletop Simulator alone isn’t exactly the prettiest platform. All the publishers and independent designers with whom I’ve worked have been wonderful about supporting the platform and my business. It’s entirely up to you.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory? Background on how ATT will change the way that ad platforms can target users can be found in this post and this post. More thoughts in this post.

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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. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Now cross-platform game development with Unity is possible. Or do the two platforms remain equal? But is there an ultimate winner?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Last week Tencent and Pokemon unveiled Pokemon Unite , a jointly-developed cross-platform MOBA for smartphones and Nintendo Switch. Tencent has various internal game development studios, but two stand out in particular as the most successful to date: TiMi and Quantum/Lightspeed. by platform, aesthetic, etc.),

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Seattle, USA-based studio Polyarc showcased the highly immersive nature of VR earlier with their popular puzzle platformer Moss. He explains: “Interestingly enough, when the studio was founded, there were two prototypes that were built. That ultimately became Moss as you know. We can do really quick revisions on that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

What we believe separates our market analysis from other great ones you have read is that the predictions are written by professionals working in gaming studios around the World and strengthened by feedback from our nearly thousand people-strong community of game industry veterans. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

Make sure you can describe it in a single sentence and make a prototype. But remember, prototypes are never perfect. Sometimes, the data can show that a prototype isn’t working as well as you hoped. So it might be different to the same data collected from another platform. But GameAnalytics is my rock.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. By September 2022 I had most of the design and lore elements of the game ready, including several prototypes, but it all looked terrible.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

The iCandy group also owns mobile studios Appxplore and Joyseed Gametribe as well as art and animation production house Lemon Sky, Html5 publisher Storms (which handles web distribution for games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride) and Hashcode, which specializes in blockchain law and practice.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “What started as a thesis project at the University of Southern California became a game development journey encompassing VR hardware and software development, to gaming for VR consumer platforms, and even dabbling in location-based VR experiences before COVID hit,” shared Silkin.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

We don't aim to compare them by functionality, because each platform prioritizes certain features or may complement each other. Filmustage Filmustage is the first cloud-based platform that provides access to an AI-powered script breakdown. But the most crucial is to understand what Studio Binder's key feature set offers.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

branch, we will keep maintaining it with relevant bug fixes and platform-specific changes in the coming months (notably with a 3.1.3 added support for exporting projects to desktop platforms (Linux, macOS and Windows). Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest. maintenance release).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And most recently, Travis founded Carbonated Inc, a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Do not fall in love with product, fall in love with building a really successful studio by shipping and learning as quickly as possible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Simply put, players of hypercasual games are simply switching from one short-lived game to another causing money to change hands largely between hypercasual publishers and the mediation platforms. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC. Riot’s card battler is very well executed cross-platform game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi. Nobody believed mobile shooters could be big in the west.

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