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The Realistic Guide to Pricing Indie Game Marketing
You’re getting ready to launch your next game and you want to know how much you should be prepared to spend on marketing. This article breaks down about what that’s going to be in terms of your own time, and in terms of outsourcing it.
March 27, 2017
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Is Early Access Worth It?
I've come to the end of my Early Access period and I'm wondering is it worth it, or is Early Access dead?
March 27, 2017
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Building a Scalable Online Game with Azure - Part 4
In the previous part of this series, we learned how to persist state to a scalable database. Next, we'll be creating the frontend, a small Universal Windows Platform game that accesses our backend.
March 27, 2017
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Living the Dream - from Hardcore Gamer to Successful Creator
In this two-part blog post, I tell the story of one gamer’s (mine) road to becoming a successful indie developer, taking a love of games and turning into a full project. I discuss funding, crowdfunding, recruiting developers and more.
March 24, 2017
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Once upon a time... Epistory, an atypical typing game
A bit of a post-mortem, a bit of marketing article, a bit of art. We were lost but ultimately found our way, it was the best of time, it was the worst of time. A retrospective of the development of our typing adventure game Epistory.
March 24, 2017
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GDC 2017 UX Summit - Overview
Brief overview of the GDC 2017 UX summit sessions.
March 24, 2017
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Traversal and the Problem with Walking Simulators
How do you keep the player focused during times of traversal, and avoid turning your game into a walking simulator? This new blog post discusses traversal as more than simply "empty travel time".
March 24, 2017
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Thoughts on one-shot game trailers
Last week, David O'Reilly released the trailer for his game, Everything. True to the title, the trailer tries to encapsulate all that the game has to offer in a single stretch — that's ten minutes long. Something about this works...
March 24, 2017
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Deconstructing: The Music of the 8 Dungeons of Link's Awakening
The music of the 8 dungeons in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is the subject of this Deconstructing article, where we'll take a look in detail at a work of music and break it down into its disparate parts.
March 24, 2017
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Rethinking History at GDC 17
Historian Bob Whitaker writes about his experience at GDC 17.
March 24, 2017
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Valuable but not profitable: Garden Wars Postmortem
Garden Wars can be summed up as a definitely-not-profitable project, that almost pays for itself in other ways (but not quite). Here are the top 8 reasons why development was tougher than it should have been.
March 22, 2017
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Post-Mortem: Gorescript Classic
This article aims to explore the full history of Gorescript Classic, from the development stages to its initial release, to getting played by John Carmack himself, then headlined on HackerNews, and finally achieving lasting popularity on Chrome Web Store.
March 22, 2017