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How much to charge for VR games? Job Simulator dev wrestles with key question
While game prices change all the time, this particular price cut is interesting because it represents Owlchemy wrestling with a common problem for VR game makers: how much should a VR game cost?
April 20, 2016
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15 of Gamasutra's best articles over the last quarter
Hey readers! I realize that often some of Gamasutra's best blogs and articles get buried over the course of time, so I figure it's worthwhile to start highlighting some of our best recently-published articles.
April 20, 2016
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How We Tackled 3 Common Issues With Bringing AAA Mobile Games to Android
A synopsis on how Pocket Gems addressed three common issues when bringing our 3D multiplayer game, War Dragons, from iOS to Android.
April 20, 2016
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Interactive Music for the Video Game Composer
Interactive music systems are increasingly important in games. In this article, I discuss two music system prototypes that were revealed at GDC 2016. I also discuss a music system from one of my own released projects: the Spore Hero game (EA).
April 20, 2016
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Tagalong Trap Part 2 Creating co-op experiences
In our previous “Tagalong Trap” post we talked in general about creating cooperative games where both players perform active and meaningful roles. This time, we will go more into depth about specific ways of working when developing co-op games.
April 20, 2016
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Tips to boost your game performance in Unity Engine
Game performance is one of the most important aspects of game development (apart from reducing build size). While working on serious projects, the price of the code must be considered as well. (by price I mean whether it’s performance expensive or not)
April 20, 2016
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Pacing, flow and education: this week in videogame blogging
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Zoya Street on how game designers can think about user experience.
April 20, 2016
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Why More MMO's Belong on Console
Red Fox Insights' analysis on free-to-play games and eSports was not originally focused on console vs PC. However, after analyzing our data we realized that more MMO's should come to console based on: Proven Success and PC vs Console Spending Habits.
April 20, 2016
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Secrets Design in Rayman Legends
Let's take a look how Rayman Legends makes the process of finding 700 (i.e. a lot) captured teensies engaging.
April 20, 2016
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Q&A: The guns and dungeons of Enter the Gungeon
"The biggest challenges for making a procedural dungeon are 1) making it fun but fair, and 2) giving it a sense of structure. I like to say that we tried to teach our game to make Zelda dungeons."
April 19, 2016
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Autodesk acquires rendering outfit, Solid Angle
"Efficient rendering is increasingly critical for 3D content creation and acquiring Solid Angle will allow us to help customers better tackle this computationally intensive part of the creative process."
April 19, 2016
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New detailed rumors swirl around 'PlayStation 4.5,' aka 'Neo'
Video game news site Giant Bomb claims to have received a handful of concrete details regarding the PlayStation 4.5, or, as it's reportedly being referred to internally, the "Neo."
April 19, 2016