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Yet Another Game Audio Hiring Article
How can you better prepare yourself for the marathon of getting hired in this industry? While aimed at game audio, this article includes practical techniques and tips that apply to any creative field.
June 26, 2017
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Video game music systems at GDC 2017: what are composers using?
In the GDC 2017 audio track, several divergent systems for interactive music implementation were presented. Video game composer Winifred Phillips explores some of these systems, while also sharing interactive music case studies from her own projects.
June 26, 2017
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Video Game Deep Cuts: You Don't Know Jack Bandicoot
This week's longform article/video highlights include a history of the You Don't Know Jack developers, two pieces about Crash Bandicoot - both original and remaster - and lots more.
June 25, 2017
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The Challenge of Defining Your Design
Inform both your players and your own design by knowing how to define your game to yourself.
June 23, 2017
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The Many Questions Of Genital Jousting
Genital Jousting is a popular and somewhat shocking game about penises penetrating each other. The developers weigh in on why they are making it and their anxieties about possibly making a bad sex game.
June 23, 2017
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System Design in Practice
A tangent-free, short (for me) practical example of applied system design on a fundamental game element: projectiles.
June 23, 2017
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Gaps of the Imagination
Our senses can only capture sliver of reality. We must constantly fill in blanks in our knowledge to properly create a mental image of the world. This processes of filling in gaps is really important to understand and to exploit when crafting games.
June 23, 2017
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Another One Bites the Dust: Dynasty Feud Postmortem
In this blog post we share our thoughts on the development of Dynasty Feud and why we think the game did not work. We comment on several issues, from the current state of the industry to how our marketing went wrong, plus some more useful tips.
June 23, 2017
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Should your Engineering Lead be fired?
Here is a checklist that represents the minimum bar of what else you should expect from your Engineering Lead.
June 23, 2017
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Top Kickstarter Tips From Kickstarter's Video Games Expert
I talk to a ton of people who are planning to launch game projects on Kickstarter. Here's what I tell them.
June 22, 2017
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Game Cities: The Urbanism of Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park: The Town. A look at a novel approach in open-world city design (and planning) for 2D adventure games.
June 22, 2017
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The Recipe AKA Game Design Doc (GDD)
To make The Mixture you need to know what effects will it have - same with the game. Define what it will be about, from the basics, keep it simple. To create a game you need to have The Recipe - a Game Design Document.
June 22, 2017