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An Introduction to Wargame Design: The Gygax Connection
This is meant to be the first article of a series dealing with design concepts imported from board and digital wargames, with subsequent articles detailing specific mechanics or games and comparing them to videogame genre approaches.
Dec. 3, 2019
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The $0 Marketing Game Guide 2
Unpacking some marketing strategies Kitfox Games has used for over 3 profitable games — and counting!
Dec. 3, 2019
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Kliuless #60: The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
Dec. 2, 2019
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How To Create An Action Game, As Taught By Action Game Professionals #1 - Samu Wosada (1001 Spikes)
I interview game developers at extremely irregular intervals. This time I was able to speak with Samu Wosada of 1001 Spikes fame and gain some insight into how he goes about designing games.
Dec. 2, 2019
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Atriox's Commander AI in Halo Wars 2
The 220 unique AI personalities in Halo Wars 2.
Dec. 2, 2019
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Steam Indie Game Sales Numbers - Battle Royale Tycoon
I've recently released my latest game, Battle Royale Tycoon, on Steam and here are the sales numbers.
Dec. 2, 2019
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Video Game Deep Cuts: From Shenmue 3 To Super Mario Poetry 2
This week's roundup includes a look at the long, long-awaited Shenmue 3, a book of poetry about Super Mario World, a great video on loneliness in games, Disco Elysium, Vader Immortal, and so much more.
Dec. 1, 2019
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Why Steam's discoverability improvements still may mean your game won't sell
With all the sourness about Steam and game discoverability that’s sometimes going on, I did want to note that I - personally - feel like the company is making an effort recently. But after all that, your game may still not sell.
Nov. 29, 2019
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What Does A Healthy Publisher/Developer Relationship Looks Like (With Real Contract Details!)
Squeaky Wheel shares details of their publishing contract with Maccima Games to help guide devs on future contract negotiations.
Nov. 26, 2019
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Unity Job System: Excessive Multithreading Might Hurt Your Performance
1 core, 2 cores, 4 cores, 8 cores, 16 cores! Who's got more? The more cores, the better. The Unity Job System will squeeze them all, right? Yeah, probably. But what if Unity was over-milking your CPU? Would that be a problem?
Nov. 26, 2019
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Video Game Deep Cuts: Half-Life: Alyx On Planet Stadia Zoo 2
This week's roundup includes a video & other notes on VR surprise Half-Life: Alyx, some very odd economy-related shenanigans in Planet Zoo, plus Apple Arcade games you missed, the latest on Google Stadia, and a whole bunch more besides.
Nov. 25, 2019
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How we combined film and comics to create the noir aesthetic of Interrogation
A written and visual history of the iterative process that we used to create the noir aesthetic of Interrogation
Nov. 25, 2019