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The Game Awards adds new honors, including an award for 'live games'
The Game Awards adds new honors, including an award for 'live games'
This new award is interesting because it prominently highlights how important the care and feeding of live games has become in contemporary game dev, especially for big-budget studios.
Nov. 10, 2017
Nexon snaps up High School Story game dev Pixelberry Studios
Nexon snaps up High School Story game dev Pixelberry Studios
Online game company Nexon has made a deal to acquire California-based mobile game studio Pixelberry Games (High School Story, Choices) for an undisclosed sum.
Nov. 10, 2017
Get a job: Insomniac Games is hiring a Character Artist 3
Get a job: Insomniac Games is hiring a Character Artist 3
Burbank-based Insomniac Games is looking for a character artist to create models, textures, and shaders for characters and other key assets for its games.
Nov. 10, 2017
Video: How Criterion keeps dev teams happy and productive
Video: How Criterion keeps dev teams happy and productive
At GDC 2016, Criterion's Alex Mole speaks to how the studio built a process aimed at maximizing efficiency through a highly-motivated team with enough context to make good decisions all the time.
Nov. 10, 2017
Attend GDC 2018 to hear from The Long Dark's creator on storytelling in a sandbox game
Attend GDC 2018 to hear from The Long Dark's creator on storytelling in a sandbox game
At GDC 2018, Hinterland Games founder Raphael van Lierop will examine how it's possible to successfully marry a linear, authored narrative experience to an open-world sandbox.
Nov. 10, 2017
Translating Dialects and Accents in Video Games - The French edition
Translating Dialects and Accents in Video Games - The French edition
In video games, we get to meet characters who sometimes speak with very specific accents. The tricks used to translate and transcribe these accents in French depend on the tone, the genre and the audience of the game.
Nov. 10, 2017
Story vs Plot for Indie Games
Story vs Plot for Indie Games
Every game needs a story, but not every game needs a plot. And trying to apply a plot to your Indie game that only needs a story will land you in hot water, both mentally and financially.
Nov. 10, 2017
"Who Killed My Uncle?" Postmortem Part 2 - Designing For Your Audience
"Who Killed My Uncle?" Postmortem Part 2 - Designing For Your Audience
A postmortem on a WWII historical narrative game, discussing the importance of designing around players and their expectations.
Nov. 10, 2017
What is a community?
What is a community?
There is a poem by John Donne that I have always liked. It begins: "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of
Nov. 9, 2017
Network Automation – Now!
Network Automation – Now!
Why software automation support is needed in today’s networks Anyone working in network admin today knows that the network has long since blown passed the days of being managed as...
Nov. 9, 2017
#CiscoChat Recap: Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Social Entrepreneurship
#CiscoChat Recap: Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Social Entrepreneurship
Whether you’re a student with an idea for the “next big thing” or an organization looking to scale, technology is playing a huge part in making innovation possible.
Nov. 9, 2017
Cisco Digital Network Architecture – An Overview of the Architecture Tools and Vision
Cisco Digital Network Architecture – An Overview of the Architecture Tools and Vision
Cisco Digital Network Architecture - An Overview of the Architecture Tools and Vision
Nov. 9, 2017