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It's more than luck: what devs should keep in mind when creating an 'indie hit'
It's more than luck: what devs should keep in mind when creating an 'indie hit'
"If you are not confident in being able to explain why the hits hit and why the others do not, you shouldn't be confident about your game's chances either," explains Ryan Clark.
April 4, 2018
Video: A Mortician's Tale dev offers a fresh view of death in games
Video: A Mortician's Tale dev offers a fresh view of death in games
At GDC 2018 A Mortician's Tale dev Gabby DaRienzo explores how games are innovating on death mechanics and shares some insight into how you can best explore death in your own work.
April 4, 2018
Gameplay Setbacks As A Tool For Creating Impactful Moments
Gameplay Setbacks As A Tool For Creating Impactful Moments
How Gameplay Setbacks can be used to create meaningful and memorable moments of growth for players.
April 4, 2018
Recap of our Roundtable at GDC
Recap of our Roundtable at GDC
Recap of our one-hour session at GDC in which we discussed the current hot topics of Game Localization with Developers, Localization Managers, Translators, Students, Academics, and Executives.
April 4, 2018
Improved Lerp Smoothing.
Improved Lerp Smoothing.
Using value = lerp(value, target, speed) to smoothly animate a value is a common pattern. A trivial change can make it frame rate independent and easier to tune.
April 4, 2018
Why Do You Run Slow, Fragile and Useless Applications and Are Still Happy?
Why Do You Run Slow, Fragile and Useless Applications and Are Still Happy?
Cisco offers best of breed solutions for both automation and analytics, but the biggest value is in their integration end to end.
April 3, 2018
US Govt Wants Nearly All Visa Applicants to Hand Over Personal Info
US Govt Wants Nearly All Visa Applicants to Hand Over Personal Info
US Government Wants to Expand Info-Gathering of Visa Applicants. It wants social media handles, phone numbers and more…from all travelers
April 3, 2018
Panera Bread Data Leak May Have Hit Millions: Report
Panera Bread Data Leak May Have Hit Millions: Report
Bakery chain needs to get better at incident response, claim experts
April 3, 2018
Google Bans Crypto-Mining Extensions
Google Bans Crypto-Mining Extensions
Chrome clampdown effective immediately
April 3, 2018
Grindr Under Fire for Sharing HIV Status of Users
Grindr Under Fire for Sharing HIV Status of Users
Grindr will stop sharing users’ HIV statuses after it was revealed they were shared with third-party analytics companies
April 3, 2018
Fake WhatsApp Riskware Points to Copycatting
Fake WhatsApp Riskware Points to Copycatting
The app steals information, photos, phone numbers and so on from a mobile phone.
April 3, 2018
Majority of Critical Infrastructure Orgs Unprepared for Attacks
Majority of Critical Infrastructure Orgs Unprepared for Attacks
60% of executives said they lack appropriate controls to protect their environments.
April 3, 2018