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The challenge of finding enough playtesters
The challenge of finding enough playtesters
Finding playtesters who'll play your game weekly online is really difficult. But should you? This post discusses why you should not let the same people test all the time and how to find enough playtesters.
Sept. 4, 2018
Building a mod toolkit for Edge Of Eternity
Building a mod toolkit for Edge Of Eternity
From great tools come great creativity, this is our motto to create a modkit that will push the community forward into creating new awesome content for Edge Of Eternity
Sept. 4, 2018
A new notice from China’s Ministry of Education, and its impact on games
A new notice from China’s Ministry of Education, and its impact on games
On August 30th, China's Ministry of Education issued a notice aimed at preventing myopia among minors. The notice was issued because the increase in gaming and internet may be leading to higher rates of myopia. This may have a significant impact on games.
Sept. 4, 2018
Video Game Deep Cuts: That Donut Exapunks Mooncrash
Video Game Deep Cuts: That Donut Exapunks Mooncrash
This week's highlights include analyses or interviews on Donut County, Exapunks, Prey: Mooncrash & many more.
Sept. 3, 2018
Kliuless? Gaming Industry ICYMI #1
Kliuless? Gaming Industry ICYMI #1
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition marks the inaugural public version that I will publish broadly every week going forward too. Opinions are mine.
Sept. 3, 2018
Postmortem - Arbitrary Metric's Paratopic
Postmortem - Arbitrary Metric's Paratopic
How we took a game from concept to one of the top sellers on itch.io.
Aug. 31, 2018
50 things I learned from working in the game industry
50 things I learned from working in the game industry
A few years ago I wrote an article listing 125 things I had learned while working in game development. I’ve dealt with our game being a failure and the subsequent closing down of our studio. It’s been a few years so I learned a lot more.
Aug. 30, 2018
Here's how I made my computer write music
Here's how I made my computer write music
I'm working on a procedural music generator that composes music and plays it using digital instruments. It's already producing pretty interesting results in the early stages so in this post I share the basic ideas and discuss my approach to coding it.
Aug. 30, 2018
A Study Into Puzzle Design
A Study Into Puzzle Design
Puzzle design has evolved over the years, and we're going to talk about the evolution into iterative solutions, and the basic foundation of designing interesting (and fair) puzzles.
Aug. 30, 2018
Academics can no longer compete in game AI competitions
Academics can no longer compete in game AI competitions
Closed APIs and massive compute requirements are large hurdles for universities.
Aug. 30, 2018
Centuries Ago The Dark Lord: when and how to dump
Centuries Ago The Dark Lord: when and how to dump
Some folk write lore because it’s what they love doing, some folk write lore because they need it to fill the technical manual spinoff book, many because isn’t that what you do when you’re making an SFF game? Well, not always.
Aug. 30, 2018
Game UX Style Guide: Why do you need one?
Game UX Style Guide: Why do you need one?
Is it just me or are UX Playbooks, UX Pattern Libraries, UX Style guides not talked about enough and incorporated as often as UI style guides or brand style guides? Are these just buzzwords or do they really not matter? Or is there some kernel of truth an
Aug. 30, 2018