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How Much Money Will Your Mobile Game Make?
Learn professional techniques used to forecast the potential revenue of F2P mobile games including key performance indicators, how to estimate the size of your market, and actual genre based metric values you can use to get accurate sales estimates.
Feb. 13, 2017
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Fast Following Clash Royale - the Case of Star Wars: Force Arena
Netmarble launched their Clash Royale inspired Star Wars game just under a month ago. On paper, this game sounded like a sure shot but since launch, the game has all but disappeared from the top charts. This post answers to why the game failed.
Feb. 13, 2017
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GDC 2017: How video game composers can use music to build suspense
Video game composer Winifred Phillips presents extra research & scholarship gathered for her GDC 2017 talk: Homefront to God of War: Using Music to Build Suspense. This info (not included in the talk) is useful for designers wishing to enhance suspense.
Feb. 13, 2017
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Making an Indie Game About Indie Game Making
A solo developer's struggle with creativity, depression, and finding a unique voice.
Feb. 13, 2017
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Shader deep-dive #3: Obtaining an animated look from a hand-drawn image
This shader breakdown will explain step-by-step how to transform a static image into an animated, hand-drawn sketch.
Feb. 13, 2017
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Why pop culture characters may be essential to maintaining VR's growth
If you're a developer looking to pitch the owner of a pop-culture franchise, you may want to heed this insight on what they're looking for in the VR marketplace.
Feb. 10, 2017
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Learn effective storytelling animation techniques for VR today at 3PM EST
If you're working on a virtual reality game, you can get some animation tips for your game's characters from veterans of Telltale games and Pixar today at 3PM EST.
Feb. 10, 2017
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What are the defining qualities of a good side-quest?
Game Informer spoke with a handful of developers to discuss the different methods they use to create attractive side-quests and how those quests are plotted out within a game.
Feb. 10, 2017
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Layoffs hit Activision-owned Infinity Ward, Beenox, and others
A number of companies tied together under Activision Blizzard have fallen victim to a round of layoffs that hit 5 percent of the Activision Publishing workforce.
Feb. 10, 2017
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New York sues Time Warner over throttled League of Legends speeds
A lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General is seeking damages from Time Warner Cable over misrepresented internet plans and deliberate bottlenecking of online streaming and gaming speeds.
Feb. 10, 2017
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Gabe Newell opens up about Valve's VR plans
Valve founder Gabe Newell chats about the company's approach to VR, covering everything from its 3 new VR games in development to its plans for the Vive hardware and the future of the VR market.
Feb. 10, 2017
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Valve to replace Steam Greenlight with a fee-based game submission system
Heads up, devs: Less than five years after launching the service, Valve has decided to close down Steam's Greenlight platform and replace it with 'Steam Direct', a fee-based game submission system.
Feb. 10, 2017