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Death March Crunches: 10 Causes and Solutions
Early in my career, I'd been the victim and inflictor of extended crunch (death marches). I'm a slow learner, but eventually found many of the root causes and solutions to avoid it.
April 22, 2016
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Video: AI devs offer advice on how to design great NPCs
At the GDC 2014 AI Summit AI experts Rez Graham and Daniel Brewer shared case studies of how NPCs were designed and built for Electronic Arts' _The Sims: Medieva_l and Digital Extremes' Warframe.
April 21, 2016
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Get a job: Schell Games is hiring a Project Design Director
I Expect You To Die developer Schell Games is looking for an experienced designer to take a lead role directing others in a variety of projects at its studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
April 21, 2016
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Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on the risky business of virtual reality
"We didn’t set out from pricing first because we knew that getting VR right was going to be a big challenge. We had internal technical milestones that we wanted to hit."
April 21, 2016
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Report: Platinum Games president Tatsuya Minami has stepped down
Platinum Games president and CEO, Tatsuya Minami, has reportedly resigned, and is set to be succeeded by the studio’s chief administrator, Kenichi Sato.
April 21, 2016
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How Australia's indie scene is rising from the ashes of AAA development
A recent Polygon report sheds light on how some developers are banding together to try and make their own things instead of chasing after outsourced work from offshore publishers.
April 21, 2016
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People will soon be able to buy your Steam games with Bitcoin
Today a number of developers and publishers reportedly received a message from Valve that the company plans to augment Steam with support for Bitcoin payments in the near future.
April 21, 2016
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Armada is a new mobile studio formed by Remedy and Crytek expats
Investors have put $3 million into Armada Interactive, a mobile game studio founded last year by a group of developers that includes triple-A industry expats from studios like BioWare, Crytek and Remedy.
April 21, 2016
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Indies cook up 'no sale promise' icon for devs
"By deliberately not participating in the ‘culture of sales’, at least for a while, you risk losing out on revenue and visibility that those sales could have generated. To offset that risk you could draw attention to your ‘no sale’ promise."
April 21, 2016
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Star Ocean 5's producer on why traditional JRPGs are so hard to make now
"SO5, with its seamless gameplay, is created like an open world, but it's a scenario-driven game, so it wound up being a tremendous amount of work."
April 21, 2016
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Korean authorities arrest 8 for StarCraft II match-fixing
The popular strategy game has lead to a string of arrests after payments were made to players to throw games -- one in excess of $60,000.
April 21, 2016
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Microsoft financials: Minecraft's doing better as Xbox revenues falter
Today Microsoft released its financial results for its third quarter of 2016, the three-month period ended March 31, 2016 -- and Xbox revenues slumped while Minecraft drove game revenue increases.
April 21, 2016