Ask a Game Dev

MAY 11, 2023

Nintendo, Sony, EA, Activision, or whatever other publisher do not owe any particular influencer or media outlet preview copies of their games. That is the tradeoff to the publisher - their marketing department wants their advertising to reach the target audience for their upcoming games. Similarly, Kotaku chooses what they publish.

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Lost Garden

MARCH 12, 2021

(Note: This essay was originally published on Gamasutra.com in 2007. I’ve also included a workshop presentation on the topic if folks want to teach these ideas in their classes.) To help prevent link rot, I’m reposting it here with minor edits and fixed links. Moving Beyond Alchemy “…it was clear to the alchemists that […]

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Game Global

APRIL 14, 2022

Game Global events are open to game developers, publishers, service providers, and any other stakeholders related to the video game industry. An advisory board of professionals from the industry will help us pick the topics and select the best presentations, ensuring relevance. Game Global does not sell speaking slots.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Editor’s note: This article was written and published by Tenjin. You can find their original version here. New year, new insights into the most innovative segment of the mobile gaming market: hyper-casual games! So let’s dive in and explore what this report has to offer! since the last quarter (Q3 2022)!

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

And I’ve got a podcast where I let guest experts do most of the talking about a particular topic linking psychology and games – usually a researcher, somebody who’s published scientific research on the topic, or who works in the games industry and is applying research that’s being done by other people.

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Nvidia

APRIL 9, 2021

This year, Microsoft’s free Game Stack Live event (April 20-21), starting at 8am PDT, will offer a wide range of can’t-miss sessions for game developers, in categories that include Graphics, System & Tools, Production & Publishing, Accessibility & Inclusion, Audio, Multiplayer, and Community Connections.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

Jump to: January February March April May June July August September October November December January 2024 events and dates TBC Mobidictum Network 13th – 14th | Istanbul, Turkey A smaller-scale games industry event for up to 300 attendees, Mobidictum covers many topics across a full itinerary of speakers with plenty of networking.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 24, 2023

The topics discussed are entwined with the problems of today’s world. Art Director Wojciech Ostrycharz found inspiration for the art style on the covers of sci-fi books from when The Invincible novel was published. We emphasize it in our claim: Not everything everywhere is for us, which came directly from the book.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

In 2007, the Chinese government required publishers of online games to monitor playtime among players registered as minors, and to take punitive in-game action against those who played for more than a few hours at a time. It remains an open topic, with multiple conflicting findings.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But readers of this analysis should also understand that it is more than that: the annual blog post serves also as a CEO’s shareholder letter that Supercell publishes together with their financials. As a result, Supercell has fallen from the top-10 mobile publishers’ list. compared to 2022). Their live games portfolio is not growing.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

To discuss the first court rulings from the perspective of a mobile game publisher I sat down with non-other than the powerful Eric Seufert from Mobile Dev Memo and the extremely knowledgeable Chris Hewish , President of Xsolla. We got you covered with a shortened transcript of few of the topics discussed.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 30, 2017

Waiting is a big part of self-publishing a board game, as well as entrepreneurship in general. Remember that if you are making a game and publishing it on your own, you’re running a business. You can also peruse Reddit and Board Game Geek threads, since they tend to be gold mines of information on this sort of topic.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2022

In this article you will find information about the following topics: How console development works. Which alternatives exist to publish your Godot games for consoles. Godot is a free and open source (FOSS) game engine, published under the MIT license. The challenges that Godot faces for supporting those platforms.

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Hopscotch

JUNE 9, 2021

Seed Developers apply for an 8-week mentorship program in which selected applicants receive direct guidance from the Hopscotch team on topics like creating a compelling narrative and effectively “monetizing” your game. At the end of the 8 weeks, each kid publishes a game in which they can earn seeds.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Once your game is done, GDevelop lets users publish their games to PC, Web, and Mobile platforms. Because Gdevelop games can be seamlessly published online, new users can easily explore the creations of others. A quick search online can help you find hundreds of GDevelop tutorials on any topic or mechanic you want to learn about.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Note: While this CFP is published on Godot's blog, we want to outline that this FOSDEM devroom will be about Free and Open Source Game Development at large, and not focused on Godot Engine. The topic can be anything related to open source together with game development, be it tools or games.

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Game Global

MAY 4, 2022

Localization quality assurance (LQA) is still a top priority for video game companies, which also makes it a hot topic for us at Game Global. If the game is about to be published in multiple languages, every version should be tested by the appropriate native professional. Which LQA process is right for your game?

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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. Ethan: Most Western publishers have the majority of their revenue coming from English-speaking countries.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

And Cocos Creator benefits from its advantage of dual-core engine architecture (one core is for Native platforms written in C++, and another is for web platforms written in TS/JS), attracting many users for its multi-platform publishing capabilities. Today, I will share how to make it and use Cocos Cyberpunk as a case study.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Gaming culture has also changed, in the sense that publishers are far less willing to use creative figureheads as marketing fodder. Later in the interview with Parkin – in which Molyneux picks five of his favorite games, while looking back at his life and career – the conversation returns to the topic of media interviews.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gaming companies, both developers and publishers, have also aimed to capitalize on the vast amount of data and intellectual capital they have, in order to reinvent themselves and branch out into different ventures. This digital transformation wave affected several industries, from retail to healthcare, from hospitality to financial services.

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

The Future of Play In “ The Future of Play ” on Wednesday lunchtime, GDC’s main stage plays host to a potentially fascinating slate of topics that touch upon the changing interface between the games themselves, and the lives and well-being of the people who make them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

I'm sure others have written about the same topic, but this article is written from my own experience, in hopes of it being useful. Let's start over the process and make it right this time, from conceptualizing to publishing! so, you just make it and publish it. You can get a publisher, but most mobile publishers are scammers.

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Game Daily

MAY 12, 2023

Entertainment companies – including game publishers and developers – are already beginning the process of replacing human workers with cheaper AI. As you can see, it’s a hot topic. .” It’s a timely speech, with AI dominating headlines right now.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

As Fink elaborates, “We have some people sometimes we’re just too bad in some topics so we get help from outside… but apart from this, that’s pretty much it. Despite their lack of prior experience in publishing games, they’ve achieved tremendous success. “When did things change for us, you ask?

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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. When discussing the decline of the business, Ilkka mentions three topics: Firstly, it’s the end of the lockdown-induced hyper-growth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2024

In his words, the short-term goals lasting about a month, focus on tasks like building specific features or advancing certain aspects of publishing. If the conversation strays or gets too entangled in details, “grab the mic back” and steer it to the main topic. These goals are delegated to teams, ensuring accountability and progress.

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Game Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Meta] : What sets Rollic apart from other hypercasual publishers in these challenging and ever-changing times? Nihat : Measurement has been a very important topic for us internally, especially post ATT with limitations and delays in signals making it more challenging to optimize campaigns successfully. Text or Die and Crowd Evolution!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We published two games with Godot already, Deep Sixed in 2018 and Precipice in 2019. Whenever the topic of switching comes up, we look around and it's clear that this free, open-source, incredibly versatile engine meets all our needs and we can't think of a good reason why we would need to. Why did you choose Godot for your project?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Dev discussions around current topics, everyone welcome to chime in and see how FOSS gets made: Roadmap for future Godot versions: 3.2 / 4.0. Potentially other topics based on needs/interests. As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Don't paint with too broad of a brush for this important topic.” - Anonymous Developer from our survey Three-quarters of people who participated in the survey have been in the games industry for over five years while nearly half of the participants in the survey have more than a decade in the games industry.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 28, 2023

Nobody wants to publish books about giving 9th graders AR-15s. It's a big topic. Fantasy can also be used to disguise unappealing truths. If I wrote a book about high schoolers in Iowa getting para-military training with rifles to hunt terrorists, this could be a hard sell. Then I have Harry Potter and make a billion dollars.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the current Chief Business Officer and Board Member at FunPlus , an independent game developer and publisher, Chris has traversed through a myriad of remarkable roles. It's an excellent way to dive deeper into the discussion and gain a comprehensive understanding of the topic. Enjoy the podcast!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

The idea is to publish a brief of what was discussed in the meeting, so that the community and those donating can have more transparency on what funds are being used for (although remember that, in the end and whatever we decide, Software Freedom Conservancy's charitable mission ensures that our funds are solely used for the benefit of the project).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Puzzle Publishers in 2020 With this large sum of revenue, who is taking home the biggest share? This is clearly due to the publishers’ inability to not only innovate but keep up to the pace of the rest of its competitors.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This post was originally published on the Developer Zone. This post was originally published on the Developer Zone. Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices.

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