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Threes devs double daily income with free version
It was Apple's 2014 game of the year on iPhone, but it was beaten in the free market by clone-game 2048. Now, going free proves a win for Threes.
July 20, 2015
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Video: Deconstructing the hand-crafted art and design of Gorogoa
Indie Jason Roberts speaks at GDC 2014 about how he built Gorogoa to be solvable no matter what language you speak by designing it to rely on players' natural discovery in lieu of guided tutorials.
July 20, 2015
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Get a job: Hi-Rez Studios seeks a Character Rigger
The studio responsible for Smite and Tribes: Ascend needs an experienced rigger to work with the modeling and animation teams at Hi-Rez Studios' Alpharetta, Georgia headquarters.
July 20, 2015
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Sponsored: A tower defense-style game in Unity (part 2)
In the second entry of this Unity tutorial, a Microsoft tech evangelist walks you through to process of creating a tower defense-style game.
July 20, 2015
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Rust devs do it again: Gender to be randomly assigned
After assigning players randomized races in March -- which was intended not just as realism, but also a social experiment -- a new update will assign gender randomly.
July 17, 2015
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Stephen Colbert goes Twine
Escape from the Man-Sized Cabinet captures the show's silly humor and showcases the increasing popularity of bite-sized text games for broad audiences.
July 17, 2015
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Video: VR design lessons learned at Valve's Vive game jam
VR enthusiast Mike Alger attended Valve's Vive game jam in London over the weekend and captured video of attendees sharing lessons learned from the experience for fellow devs who couldn't make it.
July 17, 2015
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_Doom_ception: Modders build playable Doom cabinet inside Doom
Video surfaced this week of Australian modder "The Zombie Killer" working on a Doom mod that allows you to play games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom...inside Doom.
July 17, 2015
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'Why bet on an IP like Mirror's Edge?'
EA DICE general manager Patrick Bach has been thinking about the risk and opportunity that come with making a game that lands outside of the Battlefield franchise.
July 17, 2015
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A minder for Molyneux: 22Cans' new CEO on trying to save Godus
Simon Phillips, joined the company this May to help save it from itself -- and in a new interview, talks about his relationship with Peter Molyneux and how the studio hopes to get back on track.
July 17, 2015
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Video: Iwata reflects on a changing game industry at GDC 2011
"The process of game development is the same for everyone. At Nintendo, it's just as stressful, just as frustrating," said Iwata at GDC 2011. "If there's a way to make it easy, we haven't discovered it yet."
July 17, 2015
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Get a job: Blizzard seeks an Art Manager for World of Warcraft
Got some artistic skills and leadership experience? Blizzard is looking for someone like you to be an Art Manager on World of Warcraft alongside the team in the company's Irvine, CA headquarters.
July 17, 2015