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Climbing an impossible mountain: the struggles of making a game alone
An in-depth look into the emotional challenges of making a game by yourself. Using the game Hang Line as a case study, this article gives suggestions of how to make it through hard times as a solo developer and how to find the motivation to finish.
Aug. 1, 2017
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Kickstarter and Games – 2017 mid-year status update
Here is a mini-research on games on Kickstarter at the mid-year point. On top looking at the Games category and the video games and tabletop games sub-categories, I am also throwing in a few numbers on Kickstarter overall.
Aug. 1, 2017
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Video Game Deep Cuts: The Prison Of The Night Trap Kickmen
This week's highlights include an article series about gaming in prison, behind the scenes of Night Trap, & how satirical soccer game Enter The Kickmen got made.
July 31, 2017
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Documentation a Necessary Evil
I discuss why documentation is needed in the game development cycle and how it can be improved and improve the game dev cycle.
July 31, 2017
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How we developed Robust AI for DwarfCorp
Tthe strategies we tried for producing intelligent behavior in our base-building game DwarfCorp. State machines, action planning, behavior trees and sequential composition are discussed with examples and pitfalls.
July 31, 2017
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HTML5 Is Here
With 100,000 games over 10 years, Kongregate takes a look at trends in game development technology. Specifically, at the rise of HTML5 over Flash in both quantity and quality of games.
July 31, 2017
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Pricing games is hard!
One of the hardest things in game development, especially if you are self publishing, is deciding what price your game should be, so I opened up the debate on twitter and got some surprising results.
July 31, 2017
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Player motivation, part 2: Popular psychological models
As previously we discussed, process of writing/reading memory is really complex and involve hormones and neurotransmitters a lot. In this article I will give some examples on existing motivational models and their applications.
July 28, 2017
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Working with Git (for Games and… in General)
A story of version control on a large Unreal Engine 4 project, working with the command line, and general tips/tricks for git and git-lfs.
July 28, 2017
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How to make games – Making the transition from business apps and web development into gaming
Over the years I've known many business app developers who wanted to make the transition to game development. This article outlines some of the mistakes I've seen and ways to avoid them when making your own jump into becoming a game programmer.
July 27, 2017
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Should you play bad games?
Industry of game developing are growing really fast, and with mobile market growing even faster we meet practices and mechanics that are copied from each other, we see same games again and again in different forms. How can we break this chain?
July 27, 2017
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Love and Romance in Heaven's Vault
Our latest game, Heaven's Vault, might contain romances, but we don't yet know if it does. inkle has an usual approach to designing romances, which has more in common with falling in love than with game design, but it's a wonderfully emergent approach...
July 27, 2017