PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

Wikkl Works , a Netherlands-based game studio, is working hard on the climbing game New Heights. The 5 person studio, founded by Guido Boogaard and Finn van der Heide, created a climbing system that mirrors the intricacies of real-life climbing. It is great to see that it’s working out so far.”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 24, 2024

So, we spent a lot of time prototyping, researching, and testing until we found our formula. We really are an indie studio in the classical sense. Indie game studio Odd Meter has been around since 2009, initially focusing on architectural computer graphics. Currently, there are fewer of us.”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 21, 2023

Both studios say they regularly analyze game dynamics, including downloads and revenue. AZUR have provided extended commentary on the matter: “We rely on internal analytics, test hypotheses across thousands of prototypes, and monitor various ongoing projects. Do you do any testing of the new mechanics before creating a game prototype?

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

Prototype is ready! But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). Using this method, I tried to reach a new level of visual coherence in the prototype. Watch the new trailer for GenoTerra right here: 96.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The four person team at Black Salt Games founded the studio at the end of 2020 after working together at another studio for over a decade. They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. Dredge was one of three prototypes they created.

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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.

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Captain Velvet Meteor was the second game released by the cross-continental indie gaming studio Momo-pi.

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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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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

Years ago, at the annual Penny Arcade Expo games convention, I was showing off an advanced prototype of Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing. The newsletter is free but you can support the existence of LTPF with a small subscription fee. The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 16, 2024

From 3D architectural renderings to product prototypes and virtual environments for games and movies, 3D visualization is used across various industries to visualize ideas, streamline workflows, and communicate concepts effectively. It allows artists to bring concepts to life by adding depth, texture, and realistic lighting to their designs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 22, 2023

At GDC yesterday, Young Horses' studio head John Murphy looked back at Bugsnax's six years of development, the challenges to follow up on the success of 2014's Octodad: Dadliest Catch, and the lessons it's taking to its next project. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game. The original 8 member team that built the prototype at Rubika – school for Game design and animation in Valenciennes, France- all went their separate ways after graduating.

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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 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. The four person team at Black Salt Games founded the studio at the end of 2020 after working together at another studio for over a decade.

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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. The four person team at Black Salt Games founded the studio at the end of 2020 after working together at another studio for over a decade.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 25, 2023

A friend told me to give it a go again last year, so I started working on a prototype.” In the past, I had been part of a 3-person studio that began developing a horror game back in 2015. I started working on a prototype project during my free time, which eventually evolved into Ontotis.” years of development.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2024

What's more likely to happen is that they fund initial prototypes for several new game ideas, then approve the more promising ones and cull the rest. Most publishers won't fully fund projects from inception to completion unless they are well-established franchises (e.g. Call of Duty, Pokemon, Madden, etc.).

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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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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

” does not give them same context as “In playtests we found that a turn-based paradigm fits the prototype best, which answers questions raised about the prototype’s gameplay last week.” ” A Tool, not a rule As always, BLUF is a tool – not a rule.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Development studio Gametopia has translated their love and admiration for the works of the author into an original tale, told through a pixel perfect point-and-click adventure. At first glance a normal indie game studio, but the co-founders live and work continents apart. The influence of his work on our culture is enormous.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Prototyping, testing and analytics. Hyper-casual games are all about prototyping and iterating your games to hit certain KPIs and targets. How to do fast prototyping and what you need to know. Top hyper-casual studios and publishers to follow. A list of systems and meta-features most used in hybrid-casual games.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. Coming of age story Mojiken Studio is based in Surabaya, Indonesia and has been around for over ten years. It started as an outsource studio that focused primarily on illustration. ” “In 2015 we did a game jam at Mojiken Studio.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Another demonstration will allow lounge visitors to play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2024

However, experimenting with prototypes required specific expensive equipment. She showcased her prototypes to her supervising professor outlining the benefits of immersive technology for engineering students. I also got to mentor upcoming studios at the Games for Change Africa Festival.”

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Farrell and Mackenzie form the two-person indie studio Peaty Turf. What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways. As long as it works.

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2024

So far I haven’t done any prototyping either as I feel it would have taken too long to validate my ideas that way. During hectic times (like release), it would also be nice to be able to share tasks to maintain higher output over a short period of time.” What’s your creative process? “It’s

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Their slogan, “creating games, stories and adventures that shift perspectives,” echoes back to the meaning of the studio’s name, where magically transforming things aligns with altering people’s views. During that hectic pitching season that lasted two months, I teamed up with Thabo from Space Salad Studios.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Based in Vancouver, Canada, The Brew Barons is their debut title.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. Then I try to make sense of that entire doc and see if I can make a coherent fun core design out of it. This usually takes the shape of flowcharts with crudely drawn screen sketches. From there I take it step by step. Develop, test, develop, test.”

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 20, 2023

Archviz has become increasingly popular in the architectural and adjacent industries, with many studios and firms using it to visualize all types of projects before construction begins. Automotive industry — building digital prototypes. Product designers — building digital prototypes, and for marketing purposes.

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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. Since then, the team has grown steadily to 40 people and opened offices in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 31, 2023

I’ve never seen a community member anywhere close to being correct with conjectures about how well a studio or game is doing financially. Here’s what we are prototyping/thinking about doing. We’re not going to give anyone outside the company that sort of information just to prove you wrong.

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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. Tech-wise, it's a vertical slice "learn Unreal 4" project, a big shift from a studio that used to roll its own in-house engine.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Prototyping and Iteration Tools Look for prototyping and iteration tools to quickly test and modify game elements. appeared first on Hashbyte Studio. User Interface and User Experience Intuitive Interface A user-friendly & intuitive interface is essential for efficient game development.

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