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Attend GDC Europe and learn what it's like to develop a game in public
Vlambeer cofounder Rami Ismail is coming to GDC Europe to talk about lessons learned from the studio's experience developing Nuclear Throne live on Twitch.
July 5, 2016
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The ethical decisions and factional politics of Stellaris
Lead designer Henrik Fahraeus explains how Paradox Interactive's Stellaris combines the tropes of grand space opera with the dilemmas and political skullduggery of the studio's historical games.
July 5, 2016
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Get a job: Be a Texture Artist at Telltale Games
Tales from the Borderlands developer Telltale Games seeks a Texture Artist to work on games alongside the rest of the team at the company's San Rafael, CA headquarters.
July 5, 2016
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This Week in Video Game Blogging: Innovative Storytelling
This week, our partnership with games blogging curation site Critical Distance brings us picks from their Senior Curator Zoya Street on how you can dust off the dried-out tropes and fascinate your players with new narrative experiences.
July 5, 2016
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Designing Dexterity-based Melee Combat for an Action-RPG
Traditionally RPGs use dice to randomize combat results. This post discusses how we used timing and player skill to the same effect without compromising the strategic options players expect from an RPG for our game upcoming game Unexplored.
July 5, 2016
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Android and Beyond!
A further update to our indie journey - discusses bringing our mobile title - Rapture World Conquest to Android with plenty of juicy stats
July 5, 2016
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The Good and the Bad of the Passion for Gaming in Chinese Internet Cafés
China's I-cafe industry is experiencing a major resurgence thanks to hard-core gamers, but with this resurgence in popularity has come cautionary tales of taking digital gaming to unsafe levels.
July 5, 2016
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Rococo VR: Dealing with ghosts in User Interface
Rococo VR was the first technical art demo that Black River Studios had created to start exploring Virtual Reality. Since the art style chosen was all Black and White, the user interface has met a legibility challenge: the ghosting.
July 5, 2016
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Popular YouTubers scrutinized over Counter-Strike gambling scandal
Two popular YouTubers have been implicated in a CS:GO betting scandal after it was revealed they own a weapon skin gambling site that's featured extensively on their channels.
July 4, 2016
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Josh Mosqueira ends spell as Diablo III creative director
Blizzard has confirmed that Josh Mosqueira has left his role as Diablo III’s game director after three years at the helm.
July 4, 2016
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Q&A: From game jam project to Super SteamPuff
We got a chance to talk with team from Weyrdworks Studio about their iOS game, and the Kuala Lumpur indie scene.
July 4, 2016
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Fig still awaiting SEC approval to pay out investment funds to developers
A new blog post from Fig's Justin Bailey confirms the company has updated their filing with the SEC, causing some delays for developer payments and offering an updated vision on Fig's structure.
July 1, 2016