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How to harvest honest player feedback and design better levels
How to harvest honest player feedback and design better levels
What's the best way to harvest honest player feedback? Aside from relying on your playtesters, there are a few other tricks you can use to tap into a player's subconscious.
June 30, 2017
Interactive Fiction foundation formally adopts venerable IF Archive
Interactive Fiction foundation formally adopts venerable IF Archive
This means the Interactive Fiction Archive (a 25-year-old repository of IF games and tools) will be able to get formal support from the IFTF, a nonprofit which accepts both volunteers and donations.
June 30, 2017
Departed Oculus founder pledges thousands to dev of Rift exclusivity bypass
Departed Oculus founder pledges thousands to dev of Rift exclusivity bypass
Departed Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey has made a $2,000 pledge to the CrossVR Patreon campaign for Revive, a tool designed to get Oculus Rift-exclusive VR games running on the HTC Vive.
June 30, 2017
Dev builds a classic text adventure out of Wikipedia entries
Dev builds a classic text adventure out of Wikipedia entries
Freelance game dev Kevan Davis has published Wikipedia: The Text Adventure, a browser-based game that pulls assets directly from Wikipedia and presents them to the player in the guise of vintage IF.
June 30, 2017
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition – First game benchmark shows The Witcher 3 running similar to GTX1080 [UPDATE]
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition – First game benchmark shows The Witcher 3 running similar to GTX1080 [UPDATE]
June 29, 2017
343 Industries gives Installation 01 team its blessing
343 Industries gives Installation 01 team its blessing
June 29, 2017
Bluehole wants to offer cross-play between Xbox One and PC in Playerunknown’s Battleground
Bluehole wants to offer cross-play between Xbox One and PC in Playerunknown’s Battleground
June 29, 2017
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel releases on Steam next month, PC system requirements
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel releases on Steam next month, PC system requirements
June 29, 2017
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon releases on October 24th
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon releases on October 24th
June 29, 2017
Bioware will showcase new gameplay footage for Anthem at this year’s Gamescom
Bioware will showcase new gameplay footage for Anthem at this year’s Gamescom
June 29, 2017
Gaijin’s action MMOG, Crossout, has passed three million players in less than a month
Gaijin’s action MMOG, Crossout, has passed three million players in less than a month
June 29, 2017
NVIDIA GeForce 384.76 WHQL driver released, optimized for Lawbreakers Beta & Spider-man: Homecoming VR
NVIDIA GeForce 384.76 WHQL driver released, optimized for Lawbreakers Beta & Spider-man: Homecoming VR
June 29, 2017