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Building Emotional Connections With Game Design
In this article, game designer Sande Chen follows up on the ways games can provide a truly emotional experience.
April 26, 2016
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Avoiding the Hoarder Trap in Game Design
Hoarding in game design shows a problem with the game's design and mechanics, and today's post looks at some alternative options for game designers.
April 26, 2016
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How Supergiant Games aggressively prototyped its way into Pyre
Supergiant Games newest game Pyre makes a big change from how its other games are played, we spoke to creative director Greg Kasavin about how they brought it to life.
April 25, 2016
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Get a job: Be a Gameplay Programmer at Insomniac Games 2
Ratchet & Clank studio Insomniac Games is hiring a gameplay programmer to work closely with its design and animation departments in Durham, North Carolina to build game systems and features.
April 25, 2016
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How could an AI take down the world's best StarCraft players?
“When the AI finds that the only way to win is to show strength, it will do that. If you want to call that bluffing, then the AI is capable of bluffing."
April 25, 2016
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Paradox lays out its plan to go public on the Swedish market
Paradox Interactive is preparing to end its 17-year run as a private company at the end of next month, when the company plans to make an initial public offering of roughly 15 percent of the company.
April 25, 2016
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Kamcord nets $10M in funding as it grows beyond mobile game streaming
Mobile game broadcasting platform Kamcord is expanding its remit this week after receiving $10 million in a round of funding led by multinational entertainment firm Time Warner.
April 25, 2016
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Desilets ends legal fight with Ubisoft, regains rights to 1666
Longtime game designer Patrice Désilets took to Twitter today to announce that his ongoing legal fight with former employer Ubisoft is over, and he's regained rights to his onetime game project 1666 Amsterdam.
April 25, 2016
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Steam expands its streaming movie biz with Lionsgate partnership
Valve bolsters its streaming movie business in a big way this week via a new partnership with Lionsgate that will see over 100 movies added to Steam's catalog, with more to come in the months ahead.
April 25, 2016
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Disgaea publisher NIS America cuts ties with Persona publisher Atlus
Up till now they've enjoyed a cozy relationship on both sides of the Atlantic, but it seems that is no longer the case.
April 25, 2016
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id cofounders start work on new FPS inspired by fast-paced shooters of the past
id cofounders John Romero and Adrian Carmack are teaming up to deliver a game inspired by classic shooters of their past.
April 25, 2016
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The first 4 days of Greenlight - What to expect
This not a post about “what you should do to get Greenlit in 5 days”. This is a simple report with a few thoughts from a small, relatively unknown team, on their Greenlight campaign.This is repost from our blog
April 25, 2016