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How to Create a Successful Indie Mobile Game: Part 2
How to Create a Successful Indie Mobile Game: Part 2
Here comes the 2nd part of my How to Make a Successful Indie Game article. This time, I will tell you how to choose the right technology stack for your project & market a mobile game on a limited budget.
Oct. 27, 2017
"Who Killed My Uncle?" Postmortem - The Importance of Historical Research
"Who Killed My Uncle?" Postmortem - The Importance of Historical Research
A postmortem on a historical narrative game and why research is an integral part of the process in order to avoid misinforming your players
Oct. 27, 2017
The Philosophy of Grinding and how to Reduce it
The Philosophy of Grinding and how to Reduce it
Grinding in video games is something to be avoided, and in today's post, we're going to talk about the ways designers can implicitly and explicitly reduce it.
Oct. 25, 2017
Level Design: Do your research - Where's the toilet?
Level Design: Do your research - Where's the toilet?
This blog covers why research is super important and why as designers we should never skip this phase. One thing to consider as well when creating a level is where is the toilet?
Oct. 24, 2017
How we achieved high quality graphics and kept performance on Angest for GearVR (Part 1)
How we achieved high quality graphics and kept performance on Angest for GearVR (Part 1)
In this article, I talk a bit about how we were able to achieve high quality graphics in our recent released game Angest while keeping high performance.
Oct. 24, 2017
Day 32 of 100 Days of VR: Learning about Saving and Loading Data in Unity
Day 32 of 100 Days of VR: Learning about Saving and Loading Data in Unity
Today is going to be an exciting day. We’re going to work on something that we’ve never seen before in any of the tutorials: Saving and Loading data in Unity! Specifically, we’re going to save and load our high score from our game in Unity.
Oct. 24, 2017
7 Recommendations for Data Science Leaders
7 Recommendations for Data Science Leaders
Recommendations for building highly-effective data science teams.
Oct. 24, 2017
Video Game Deep Cuts: Single-Player, Paperclip or Chicken-Blocking?
Video Game Deep Cuts: Single-Player, Paperclip or Chicken-Blocking?
This week's longform article/video highlights include the death - or not - of single-player AAA games, the clicker game paperclip-pocalypse, and some crazy specific fighting game terms.
Oct. 23, 2017
Playful Teaching: How to Create Fun and Immersive Tutorials
Playful Teaching: How to Create Fun and Immersive Tutorials
Tutorials are infamous, both for developers and players. Devs don't want to spend production time on them and players want to skip them. But tutorials can be fun and engaging. The question is just how to achieve it? How do you create an immersive tutorial
Oct. 23, 2017
What the F&*K is a Gamerunner, and why do we need them?
What the F&*K is a Gamerunner, and why do we need them?
With the recent news of Visceral's closure, and with it the end of the Amy Hennig helmed Star Wars game, it seems like a good time to reflect on how creative control works in large studios.
Oct. 23, 2017
Bringing Galaxy on Fire 3 to Vulkan: Stats & Summary
Bringing Galaxy on Fire 3 to Vulkan: Stats & Summary
Blog series on how we brought our game to Vulkan. This is the last post where we show performance measurements and compare implementation sizes.
Oct. 23, 2017
Cognitive Biases to Watch Out For When Running a Games Business
Cognitive Biases to Watch Out For When Running a Games Business
This post talks about some cognitive biases to avoid while making games or running a game studio, and links to some good resources about biases as well.
Oct. 23, 2017