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Nvidia launches new GeForce Now Priority subscription, as it nears 10 million members
Nvidia revealed a $9.99/month (or $99.99/year) GeForce Now ‘Priority’ subscription, replacing the introductory $4.99/month 'Founders' membership. Its free tier remains intact. Omdia's senior analyst George Jijiashvili assesses this announcement.
March 18, 2021
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Super flexible 2D animations through the Blightbound Skin Editor
This post discusses how we designed the Blightbound Skin Editor so that we can reuse 2D animations, swap gear, quickly tweak the looks of characters, add special effects and attach objects to characters convincingly.
March 18, 2021
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The Two Successes Every Game Studio Needs to Reach
Success is often hard to measure for game studios, especially indie dev. But for today, I want to talk about an important metric that every studio needs to hit, and sadly, most have yet to reach.
March 17, 2021
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How do you get 'More..' recommendations on Steam? 2
It's important to understand how and when Steam recommends your game to others - so we look at the 'More Like This' to understand its importance to today's Steam game.
March 16, 2021
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The Big List 2021: Resources for Game Music Composers
Game music composer Winifred Phillips shares an extensive list of online resources, including upcoming industry conferences, online communities, bulletin boards, and a round-up of audio software. Features links to free videos of conference sessions.
March 15, 2021
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Game Dev Digest Issue #85 - Platforms, Performance, and Tutorials
Game Dev Digest Issue #85 - Platforms, Performance, and Tutorials. The latest from the free weekly Unity/gamedev newsletter.
March 12, 2021
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Mobile Game Success on Kickstarter: 9 Tips for 2021
Learn 9 top tips for finding success on Kickstarter in 2021 - even with a mobile free to play game. The team behind Kinder World share a mid-mortem for their 220% funded project.
March 11, 2021
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Finding a suitable toolchain for animating Blightbound’s 2D characters
For Blightbound we wanted high quality animation, screen-filling bosses, crisp characters, high framerate and swappable gear. This post discusses why sprite sheets didn't work and what we used instead.
March 11, 2021
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How to speed up your hyper-casual game's launch at every step of the publishing process
To get your hyper-casual game to global launch faster and beat out competitors, here are six tips for speeding up the launch process at each step of publishing.
March 11, 2021
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Dissecting Discord: How to Set Up an Indie Game Discord
A breakdown of how we approach Discord as an indie games publisher.
March 10, 2021
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Deep dive: inside King Of Crabs' Steam F2P success
We check out King Of Crabs' Steam download, user & wishlist data, in a rare look behind the scenes of a free-to-play game on Steam.
March 10, 2021
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Cyberpunk 2077, expectation management & your game 2
For Cyberpunk 2077, obviously there was a major gulf between expectations and reality. But whose expectations? We look at how devs should manage pre-release hype for their game carefully.
March 9, 2021