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How to protect your video game trademark
Once you’ve named your game and registered your video game trademark, it’s time to start protecting that mark. If not, you may end up losing your rights.
Aug. 18, 2017
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Can your game have too many choices?
Narrowing down your options is getting more difficult in this day and age. This is exactly what choice overload is about: there is just too much to choose from.
Aug. 18, 2017
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A Gentle Introduction To Steamworks
If you're just getting started with trying to implement Steam into your Unity game, it can be hard to know where to look. Here's a guide to easily get up and running with Steamworks in your Unity/C# game using the Facepunch.Steamworks library.
Aug. 17, 2017
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Making a game to make a game; It's like Kickstarter, but with more explosions.
[TL;DR We made a clicker game to support the studio financially and use it as a platform to keep 100k+ players updated about what's going on at Berzerk's. It's like a Kickstarter, but with more explosion]
Aug. 17, 2017
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In Case of Emergency, Make Burrito Bison 3
We broke the glass to get our secret weapon. Here's why and how we made Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre!
Aug. 17, 2017
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Full Steam Ahead: Bringing Tiny Rails to PC
In early 2017, Tiny Titan Studios decided to bring its mobile title "Tiny Rails" to Steam. Producer Glenn Stanway explores the process and challenges in bringing an Android/iOS game to PC and Mac.
Aug. 17, 2017
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Applying Data Science to Understand Your Players
How can you best use data science to maximize the success of your game? Adam Fletcher of Gyroscope Software gives an overview of what data science is, why you should use data science, how to use it, and some techniques you can apply to your game.
Aug. 17, 2017
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Reworking Piczle Lines DX from mobile platforms to Nintendo Switch
Creating a Nintendo Switch version of a mobile game logic-puzzler using Unreal Engine 4
Aug. 16, 2017
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Making decisions – Dual-process theory
Making decisions is essential to any game, no matter the genre or target audience. To play a game is to make decisions. While there are many different theories that approach decision making from different angles, I will focus on dual-process thinking.
Aug. 16, 2017
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Video game music systems at GDC 2017: tools and tips for composers
Several dynamic music systems were presented in the GDC 2017 audio track. In part 3 of her 3 article series, video game composer Winifred Phillips discusses the tools and tips offered in these GDC talks, while also sharing insights from her own projects.
Aug. 16, 2017
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Salmon Roll: The Upstream Team Design Notebook
Salmon Roll is a large-scale installation game for two players based on Ice Cold Beer (recently the inspiration for TumbleSeed) that will debut at Play NYC on August 19th. Here's how the game went from brainstorming to nearly finished in a matter of weeks
Aug. 16, 2017
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Exploring Motivation: Why People Play Games for Years
Retention is the most important metric for a free-to-play mobile game’s long-term business outlook. This post will highlight some game systems in Kongregate’s mobile publishing portfolio that successfully drive long-term player retention.
Aug. 15, 2017