PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

He has helped numerous developers close deals and accumulated a ton of invaluable experience in the world of game publishing and funding. “I I am super lucky in the role that I have. I get to travel the world and help indie game developers succeed.” He is however quick to put things into perspective.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 23, 2024

My first edition copy, released 1982. This rare collectable is now worth … about as much as I originally paid for it. This is my first edition copy of Fringeworthy, out in 1982. It was one of my favorite games, the first alternate world RPG. This svelte blue book contained the entire game. The combat!

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. Not games writing mind you, but copy writing – for pitches, store pages, press releases, & everything else.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

The first four years were almost absolute happiness. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. Manzano endured the rough times though and managed to finish the game and release it on Steam. The games he finds on Steam nowadays are hardly worthy of the term video game according to Manzano.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He started his career in advertising, but the world of video games always held his real interest. Making games was something that seemed very far from reality”, he says. Yet, with help from the internet and some classes in college, he realized that he too could create games. Why did you become a solo developer? “I’ve

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. His latest game Three Minutes to Eight is a real tour de force, both in storytelling and visual flair.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

Fresh out of school Kaighen Finley started his own web & game development company Team iNtuition. Game development is a natural medium for my range of skills and interests”, he says and so he ‘pivoted sharply’ into game development after two years. I function well like that.”

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Joakim Achrén helps founders build successful games companies. He’s the lead of an angel syndicate specifically for games and an investor himself. In 2013, the investors asked for a data room when we raised the Next Games pre-seed. I was, “Doh, we are a new company, and there are no legal docs yet.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

launch of their debut game, The Anacrusis , after 23 months in Early Access. Co-founder Chet Faliszek , known for Left 4 Dead and Portal 2’s co-op campaign during his tenure at Valve, feels optimistic about the success of the game. “I hope we pull off a miracle and make enough to continue working in this world.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“As I travel across Africa creating games, there’s something everyone seems to agree on…” says Bethlehem Anteneh , a trained architect, co-founder of SOSTLab and the moderator of the She Got Game panel at Africa Games Week (AGW). Yes, the quality of the drink matters but the first inviting thing was the environment.”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 24, 2023

It took Fabrice Breton, a French solo developer at CowCat Games , 6 years to create Brok the InvestiGator. He created what he calls the first ‘Punch & Click game’, combining a classic adventure with beat ’em up and RPG elements. There’s no easy part when it comes to game development”, he says. “So

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 27, 2024

It's a remaster of Geneforge 2, one of our most popular games. This blog is free, and selling games is how we keep the lights on. I started it in 1999. I was young, full of energy, had made some money, and was determined to create something innovative and unlike any other computer RPG out at the time. Hope you like it!

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. But the end is here, the game is out now on steam. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.”

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 29, 2021

From time to time, I see board game creators on social media who have been working on the same design day-in, day-out for years on end. The first are people making a board game as a labor of love, who know they’re taking their sweet time on it, and they’re OK with it. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how much to spend on board game advertising. Need help on your board game?

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OPM Jobs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You finally got that call, email or carrier pidgeon in with the news: You’ve been offered an interview at a game studio! So, how do you prepare for your first games industry interview and leave a great first impression? It’s also more than ok to make notes during your interview, we actually strongly recommend it.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article originally appeared on his Substack Game Stuff. Specialist VC firms that fund game development are a relatively new phenomenon. Given these incredible tailwinds, it’s not surprising that mobile game companies have delivered the vast majority of gaming venture returns in recent years.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

First and foremost, I think it really depends on what your own goals and responsibilities are. What is it you want to do with your life? Is doing game design professionally what you really want, or would doing game design as an amateur hobbyist be enough? I wish you good fortune.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Solo game developer Graham Reid has just released his latest game Super Space Club on Xbox and PC. The game blends the frenzied chaos of an arcade space shooter with the soothing sounds of lofi hip hop and jazz. I started Super Space Club as a side project and I never really had a solid plan.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. The Witness fully commits to hundreds of puzzles at the scope of an open world game. You can solve some by brute force, or even guess what the puzzle is about.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“Art directors look for “skill level, originality, and the x-factor.” – Randy Briley, veteran game art director and senior lecturer at DigiPen Institute “ The gaming industry offers abundant opportunities for enthusiasts to turn their passion into a fulfilling career. Choose pieces that highlight your skills and style.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 7, 2023

Mighty Action Heroes is a new battle royale game for mobile, offering Web3 capabilities via blockchain-tradable, collectible NFTs. GameDaily: Tell us why you decided to make a Web3 battle royale game? Simon Davis: We made a game for Apple in 2019 called Butter Royale. It was a shooter – food themed and very cute.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Jamie Madigan Jamie Madigan is the host of popular podcast The Psychology of Video Games , and the author of multiple books that look into why people play games. The book also asks if games can make you smarter. Why are games designed the way they are? In what ways do they affect us when we play?

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s about allowing players to lose themselves in more than just a game, but a new world. You have to build VR experiences the right way to make this happen. This goal is always top-of-mind for Schell Games. In this interview, we spoke to Schell Games’ Vice President of Product, Charlie Amis, to learn their story.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. You can have a brilliant idea for a game, but without the right skills, tools and resources, it can be near-impossible to tackle by yourself. His first title, Dreadhalls , hit over 60,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch. Here’s what he had to say.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s a tragicomic adventure that really makes you feel for programs that have their code erased and replaced on a regular basis, all in the name of technological progress. The game is the debut of Swiss indie game studio Naraven Games. Compelling puzzles And so the team built the game around the story. Absolutely!

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you like weird, retro indie games or RPGs, it’s worth a look.) Video games function best as power fantasies. This is a statement that can generate controversy, though fifty years of video game history show that it is true. We've seen debates about whether video games can be art. What This Article Is Not.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2023

The big, fun news in the gaming world recently was that it looked like Wizards of the Coast (WotC for short, owned by Hasbro) was going to drastically change the Open Gaming License for Dungeons & Dragons. Yeah, I know. First I'll try to summarize it. First I'll try to summarize it. You can even sell it.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I kept thinking the story was about how she was a complex character with nuance, but then she’d kill like 80 first graders and I stopped caring about her motivation. My wife and I finished the main story of Diablo IV and started the endgame just as the number of people who played went right into the dumper.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

People often see her gracefully gliding on water as she oversees the South African-based Africa Games Week (AGW). Let’s meet the younger version of ‘our swan’ and explore her recent surf further downstream into the island of video game events, an adventure that began just a year ago. “I don’t want to!”

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 30, 2023

Felix Wong is a specialist games lawyer for over 12 years and currently working at Level Up Partners. He has been on the legal team of companies like Epic Games and helped Fall Guys-creator Mediatonic with their explosive rise to fame. Make sure that you really stand behind that Milestone schedule as far as possible.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I have to confess, I wasn’t expecting where Prodigy decided to go with Dal R’El, but I think it works really well, given what Prodigy is all about, thematically speaking. If you haven’t seen Prodigy’s fifteenth episode of season one titled “Masquerade,” you should do that first before finishing reading this column.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

Videogames, at least the kind I’m talking about (RPGs, adventure kinds of somewhat narrative videogames, Zelda games, Elden Ring, etc), have essentially three “places”: Outside – Hyrule field. Most of the game is Outside, just running around in a grassy area or a snowy mountain.

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Cocos

MARCH 6, 2023

大家好, hello everyone, I am a blind developer who had recently got interestedi n game development. Before I go further I want to clarify some things: Blind people use a special program on their computer called a screenreader that is used to read on-screen text, such as forum, file structure or C/C++/Lua/Whatever code.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There's two major pieces of advice I have. For people who have not yet broken into the industry , reach out to devs and learn what you can from them. Ask them questions if you don't understand something and try to figure out what they mean if they answer you. You should be looking to these devs as people to learn from.

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