Brand Game Development

JUNE 30, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week in the Dev Diary, I talked about how board game development is a long, ongoing process with a lot of different stages. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Need help on your board game?

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

As promised, to celebrate the release of the iOS and Google Play version of Game Dev Tycoon, we’ve now updated the Desktop versions of the game. We felt that the un-modded game lacked a few core topics that prevented players from re-making their favorite game in Game Dev Tycoon. Here are the goodies: Pirate Mode.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We're interested in any Godot-related topic. A 5 min presentation of your game would be welcome, and a 30 min talk or workshop is fine too if the topic is worth it :) Even longer workshops could be imagined (e.g. Note for Godot Sprint attendees: don't hesitate to also propose talks, workshops, dev discussions, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. After all, Supercell is our beacon of hope. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. So kudos to Supercell for proactive and effective PR!

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

This is a small step, but is leading to a day when remote teams receive a URL and a security authentication token to access a fully featured and persistent game development environment from anywhere in the world. Let’s explore a few of these areas further! Let’s explore a few of these areas further!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The sprint will be focused on discussing features and important bug reports with core devs, reviewing Pull Requests, discussing the roadmap for the next versions, writing documentation, etc. Winter is coming upon those of us in Europe, and it's time to plan our biggest yearly community meetup again, GodotCon Brussels ! FOSDEM 2019.

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Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

After the phenomenal reaction on our first day, things continued quite well, and by day six, we had an unbelievable rating of 5.0 After the phenomenal reaction on our first day, things continued quite well, and by day six, we had an unbelievable rating of 5.0 This particular story talked about losing 4-6 reviews a day.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2020

We value some topics covered in the proposal. Godot Engine is for the third time participating in the GSoC (Google Summer of Code) program. For the unaware, it is a worldwide internship program realized by Google every year, in which university students spend the summer contributing a project to an open source software.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

These predictions are written by Eric Seufert. Apart from running the one and only MobileDevMemo , he also runs a strategy consulting firm for media and consumer technology companies - Heracles Media. To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to Deconstructor of Fun’s powerful newsletter.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today was the day that we started production and I just wanted to share our progress with you so far. . I think both filmmakers and gamemakers get divided on this topic. In this tutorial I’ll walk you through my environmental design process for a game we plan on launching out of our studio soon. . Read the Full Tutorial ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As every day brings more news about massive fundraising rounds and eye-popping token valuations for blockchain games, it seems that crypto, NFTs, and play-to-earn are on every game dev's lips. Deconstruction written by Ethan Levy and Javier Barnes. Opinions shared are personal and do not reflect those of their employers.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Getting Started Getting Noticed Refining Your Approach Using Twitter for More than Just Tweeting Key Takeaways for Game Devs. Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. Talking to studio leaders, team leaders, directors, and indies I have come to believe that at least the topics of responsibility and regret really should be added to that list of topics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

The following is the list of topics discussed at our first meeting in late May 2020 and what was decided: RTL + font shaping. The proposal of what exactly needs to be done will be cleaned up in the coming days so we will make an announcement and start accepting budgets proposals to do it. for a light-hearted crash course).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 26, 2017

Now, now, that's enough self-gratification for a day, let's go back to our other topic: the Patreon rewards. Now, now, that's enough self-gratification for a day, let's go back to our other topic: the Patreon rewards. Astounding and invigorating. We want to thank you all for your incredible support! Source: GitHub.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

Something that recent events have revealed it’s still an unresolved topic. For example, pretty much all Web3 games are in the red these days for reasons that are outside their control: Because the market is red, players don’t trade. This is not financial advice, and the opinions are strictly his own. And newcomers don’t join.In

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

and future releases and many other technical topics :). and future releases and many other technical topics :). This post will be updated with a plan for when each talk should be in coming days. Update 2019-10-16: Here is the current schedule with time table: Link to PDF. Livesteam of the event is online on YouTube.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

At one point I helped King open their Berlin office, interviewing potential members of their initial dev team. Interviewing is one of the most important aspects of any developer’s job. Your employer and colleagues decided to put their trust in your ability to identify their next hire.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

It’s been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. After days of brainstorming and discussions, we settled on the idea of making a game dev simulator. We were inspired by Game Dev Story on the iPhone (made by Kairosoft) and wanted to make a game in that genre with our own spin on it.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Cogmind 7DRL!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This move shocked many within the industry and generated polarized opinions among experts. At the time, we wrote an early analysis about the entire deal covering the specific changes. Months later, we can finally determine if the removal of Brawl Stars ’ boxes was a mistake, and why. Where is that negative impact coming from?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 18, 2019

If you’re among them, it’s your lucky day! If you’re among them, it’s your lucky day! Building an online community can be daunting at first. The internet is already so noisy. You can feel like your voice isn’t heard and that community building is futile. Fortunately, this is not the case!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Make sure to listen to the podcast below to dive even deeper into Marvel Snap. Executive Summary What: MARVEL SNAP is a mobile CCG by Second Dinner, a new studio founded by veterans from Hearthstone. The company was originally funded by NetEase, but Snap is published by Nuverse (a subsidiary of ByteDance, of TikTok fame). It’s extremely engaging.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Although I already demonstrated much of the first new modal UI layout in an earlier forum announcement , I figure I could review those features here in order to provide closure to this series, plus cover some related dev topics as well as the second modal layout. The inventory! It’s gone!

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles. Written by Laura Taranto , Javier Barnés , and Anette Staloy. Is there a critical lesson that Supercell overlooked?

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

Both games experience heavy traffic which can be as high as tens of millions of requests/day. Introduction Document database is one of the fastest growing categories of nonrelational database that makes it easier for game developers to store and query data as JSON-like documents. We launched Amazon DocumentDB in 2019.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

Meeple Like Us is a series of ongoing notations regarding my work on that topic. Brandon: The following article is a philosophical guest post by Michael Heron. He’s the professorial mind behind Meeple Like Us , a board game review site with an academic focus on accessibility. His site is a good read, you should check it out!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

Indeed, even to this day, it holds a pretty impressive 7.2 It’s no secret that modern day board gamers are in love with the “cult of the new.” In many ways, the modern board gaming boom began with Catan. It is a phenomenal game that, when it came out in 1995, revolutionized the way we saw board games. Dune (1979).

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

It is Supercell’s more approachable take on the autochess genre. A genre that was all the rage back in 2019 but failed to grow beyond a niche. Why does this game matter? Well, Supercell hasn't launched a new game since Brawl Stars in 2018, so Mini becoming a hit would have an impact on the trend of the whole company. It was not. It was not.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Stay tuned to our socials for more updates from GDC! We'll be sharing them all week.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies. Google and DoF brought together the most influential gaming investors, companies, and talents in Istanbul!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Metrics reacted well to their holiday season update, which introduced new units and quests; but the boost lasted just a few days. This analysis is written by Hadrian Semroud , Javier Barnes and Krishna Israney. Opinions shared are personal and do not reflect those of their employers. Want to hear us debate Clash Mini?

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