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When history gets interactive: Attentat 1942, Svoboda 1945 and historical research
How does working at a game with professional historians look like and why you should consider it too? We did it. Twice.
Feb. 13, 2020
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A game creator in an Artist Residency: my experience at Villa Kujoyama
This article is about the great experience I got the chance to live in 2019: becoming the first game creator to be selected at Villa Kujoyama, a French Artist Residency program. Let me tell you everything I did during 5 month in Kyoto.
Feb. 12, 2020
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Squeeze These Last Milliseconds With CPU Time Slicing
The common wisdom says "profile, optimize, repeat". Let me warn you: this won't always work. When you're done optimizing your low-hanging fruits, gains of 0.1 milliseconds/week become normal. This is when CPU Time Slicing can save your project.
Feb. 12, 2020
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Video Game Composers and the Importance of Research: The Music of Sports Scramble
Game composer Winifred Phillips discusses the role of music research in the game music composition process, from the context of her work composing the music for the Sports Scramble VR game from Armature Studio. Article includes video examples.
Feb. 11, 2020
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Kliuless #67: Elodie Games
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
Feb. 10, 2020
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How I made a game played in Notepad
And yet it hurt is a game that is played in Notepad. How is this achieved? What are the possibilities and challenges when making a game in Notepad? How long should you make a game with a gimmick like that?
Feb. 10, 2020
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Video Game Deep Cuts: A Pedestrian Mario Paint Pagan 2
The latest highlights include a look at the innovative title The Pedestrian, the people still composing music in Mario Paint, the odd 'dead MMO' setting of PAGAN: Autogeny, and lots more besides, from streaming legality to Valentine's Day gaming for coupl
Feb. 9, 2020
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On Failure & Funding: How my sci-fi adventure Aquamarine finally found Kickstarter success
As the Kickstarter for my sci-fi survival adventure Aquamarine teeters on the brink of success, I look back at how I got to this point and how my past failures made it all possible.
Feb. 7, 2020
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Ministry of Broadcast on Tinder-date publishing, dictatorship of narrative, and walls people like to build
Ministry Of Broadcast is a cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. Find out how the team behind it found the right publishers, tied gameplay and mechanics to the story, and made their game stand out in the crowded genre.
Feb. 7, 2020
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Five important realisations about game balance
This post discusses some of the most interesting things we've learned about balance during development and live operations of our competitive multiplayer games Awesomenauts and Swords & Soldiers 1 & 2.
Feb. 5, 2020
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Post-launch Steam data: Cultist Simulator in numbers
What a whole load of Steamworks traffic data taught me about marketing Cultist Simulator after launch.
Feb. 5, 2020
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What 'Dragons Love Tacos' taught me about game discoverability 2
Right now, my kid is a little bit obsessed with the kids book Dragons Love Tacos. I thought it might be an excellent starting point to examine why some things break out - and how you can stand out better with your game.
Feb. 4, 2020