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We. The Refugees. Ticket to Europe by Act Zero is a redemption for its maker

PreMortem.Games

This would make a great topic for a game, he thought. Napiecek had tried to break into the games industry for a while now, but no game company wanted to hire him. So, making a game about the refugee crisis could potentially establish him as a serious game writer. “I Jędrzej Napiecek was not in a good place.

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Get into Games: Essential guides to start your career in video games

GamesIndustry.biz

Over the next two weeks, GamesIndustry.biz will be exploring ways to find the right career in the video games business and how you can get started as part of our Get into Games special. Read more

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The Story of Oscar Esio and Africacomicade’s Community Impact

PreMortem.Games

During my stay, I had the incredible opportunity to witness Esio, the founder and program coordinator of Africacomicade , take charge of video game industry discussions at Lagos ComicCon and work the room at the tight-knit Xbox game developer community meetup at Microsoft’s Lagos offices.

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Building Hope shows what it takes to provide shelter for millions of refugees

PreMortem.Games

Eray Ağaçdoğrayan , founder of Gyroscoping Games , is Turkish himself. Refugees have been a main topic of news, talk shows and social media for about a decade”, he says. Refugees have been a main topic of news, talk shows and social media for about a decade”, he says. Some cold hard facts about refugees. At least 89.3

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Understanding the Great Video Game Recession. Or Not.

The Bottom Feeder

The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. Such pain makes it very tempting to either ignore the topic or retreat into soft, easy homilies. I’ve been talking about this topic since I had hair.

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Everything you never wanted to know about burnout

GamesIndustry.biz

Crunch, working conditions, and mental health have been topics of frequent discussion in the games industry for years. At last month's Game Developers Conference, a panel of personal and professional experts discussed the subject at length. Read more

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New loot box transparency guidance in the UK – is it game-changing?

GamesIndustry.biz

On 18 July 2023, the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced the latest set of guidance on the use of loot boxes in video games , coordinated by trade body UKIE and comes as the result of the Technical Work Group that DCMS convened at the end of last year. In particular, these include (among others): Read more

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