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Gutters In Video Game Design
Gutters In Video Game Design
The space between the panels is key to comic books. Asking the reader to interpolate between the images to get the full story is an integral part of the medium. This article goes over a parallel technique in video games and why I like it so much.
Nov. 6, 2017
2 Years of Gremlins, Inc.: demographics
2 Years of Gremlins, Inc.: demographics
Two years ago we released our digital board game Gremlins, Inc. in Steam Early Access. Today, we look back at this period and share our data about regions and languages used by the community.
Nov. 6, 2017
How we achieved high quality graphics and kept performance on Angest for GearVR (Part 2)
How we achieved high quality graphics and kept performance on Angest for GearVR (Part 2)
Second part of techniques and tricks used to achieve high quality graphics while keeping performance used on Angest for GearVR
Nov. 6, 2017
Miercom Agrees: Huawei is no Match for Feature-Rich Cisco
Miercom Agrees: Huawei is no Match for Feature-Rich Cisco
A modern-day enterprise Wi-Fi infrastructure has to be multi-faceted. It should be optimized, not only for high performance, but also in order for other
Nov. 3, 2017
Synopsys Set to Acquire Black Duck Software
Synopsys Set to Acquire Black Duck Software
Synopsys set to boost its application security testing portfolio with the acquisition of Black Duck Software
Nov. 3, 2017
Physical games continue to drive sales for Sega Sammy
Physical games continue to drive sales for Sega Sammy
Between this year and last, Sega Sammy has nearly doubled the number of video games sold during the first half of its fiscal year.
Nov. 3, 2017
Niantic acquires team behind social video app Evertoon
Niantic acquires team behind social video app Evertoon
The Pokemon Go developer says that the acquisition ultimately will assist it in building social systems for its platform and products.
Nov. 3, 2017
Blizzard has its own classic World of Warcraft server in the works
Blizzard has its own classic World of Warcraft server in the works
Blizzard has not announced when the server will go live, saying only that it is currently in development.
Nov. 3, 2017
The two-man team building Disc Jam as an eSports platform
The two-man team building Disc Jam as an eSports platform
“I'd like to say we had a marketing strategy targeting a key demographic. We were actually just playing a ton of old Pong-likes and saying, ‘Why aren't there more simple, PvP-first games like these?’”
Nov. 3, 2017
Postmortem: Building The Turing Test around a secret mechanic
Postmortem: Building The Turing Test around a secret mechanic
"Our most unique central mechanic could not be shown in marketing, reviews or previews because the mechanic is tightly integrated with the story." - David Jones, design director of The Turing Test.
Nov. 3, 2017
Get a job: Infinity Ward is hiring an experienced AI Engineer
Get a job: Infinity Ward is hiring an experienced AI Engineer
The team at Infinity Ward are looking to bring on a senior AI engineer to work on cutting-edge AI in "the world's premiere FPS franchise" at the studio's office in Woodland Hills, CA.
Nov. 3, 2017
At GDC 2018, For Honor devs share lessons learned sustaining a live game
At GDC 2018, For Honor devs share lessons learned sustaining a live game
At GDC 2018 For Honor creative director Roman Campos Oriola and game director Damien Kieken will tell the tale of their game, its post-launch troubles, and how they addressed them.
Nov. 3, 2017