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The Trust Spectrum
The Trust Spectrum
Cooperative gameplay is growing in popularity. Based on extensive research, prototypes, and metrics, here is a design lens and framework for designing prosocial games that build trust between players.
March 17, 2018
Read Short Stories, Become A More Well-Rounded Level Designer
Read Short Stories, Become A More Well-Rounded Level Designer
For level designers looking to deepen their "well of inspiration." A call to read more short stories and some practical tips on how to do so.
March 16, 2018
Combining tower defense with a shooter - game design implications
Combining tower defense with a shooter - game design implications
The preconceptions you have about what the final product should look like often look great on paper, but do not fare so well in reality. We go on a journey through X-Morph: Defense development and look at the changes it went through over time.
March 16, 2018
What's up with the DMCA fight over defunct online games?
What's up with the DMCA fight over defunct online games?
If you've been paying attention, you may have seen press coverage of the ESA's opposition to a proposed change to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
March 16, 2018
UX Review: Golfclash's swing to success!
UX Review: Golfclash's swing to success!
How Golfclash leverages "Learning from your opponents" as an effective on-boarding tool, how "Psychology of Wager Systems, impacts casual gameplay and why "Timed Chest" in Golfclash and Clash Royale might be catching on.
March 15, 2018
Developing Skirmish Line: A Tale of Two Indie Developers
Developing Skirmish Line: A Tale of Two Indie Developers
For the past 2 years, I have been working on a game called Skirmish Line, inspired by the classic flash game: Mud and Blood 2. This is not a post-mortem about for the game, but rather a cautionary tale about developing games.
March 14, 2018
Building a Cash Flow and Budget Document
Building a Cash Flow and Budget Document
This blog post describes our cash flow and budget document that we use at Clever Endeavour Games, and links to it as well. It includes instructions and things to consider when making this kind of document or using our template.
March 14, 2018
Building the world behind Project Empires
Building the world behind Project Empires
Project Empires introduces new challenges for us to develop. From world generation to diplomatic actions between empires. In this article, we go behind the scenes and look into what makes Project Empires tick.
March 14, 2018
Decrypting video games events: which one is right for you?
Decrypting video games events: which one is right for you?
A look at how to choose which industry events to attend, alongside "cards" to summarize the key point of a few events.
March 14, 2018
Year 1: My full time indie developer life
Year 1: My full time indie developer life
In January 2017, I quit my web application developer job to become a full time independent game developer, following nearly five years of development on my first game. This is my year-long story of hopes and failures.
March 13, 2018
Video Game Deep Cuts: A Jump Scare Soda Machine
Video Game Deep Cuts: A Jump Scare Soda Machine
This week's best longform articles & videos include devs on the effectiveness of jump scares in horror game, a unique in-game soda machine documenting project, and lots more.
March 12, 2018
Real-Time Dynamic Cover System for Unreal Engine 4
Real-Time Dynamic Cover System for Unreal Engine 4
Create a robust cover system in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) that updates itself at real-time, responds to dynamic changes in the environment, uses multi-threading to parallelize computation and octrees to store data. Works with any kind of game.
March 12, 2018