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How to optimise your Steam page as an indie developer?
Practical steps to optimising the Steam game page - from description to screenshots and tags. This article goes through some of the most successful indie games and analyses what their Steam pages do well.
March 8, 2021
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Rendered #3: Meshes and Metahumans
On Epic's plans for digital humans in Unreal and Microsoft's plans for digital humans everywhere else.
March 8, 2021
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Fifteen Lessons I learned from Bioshock Infinite
This is a stand-alone article recapping everything I learned from "Bioshock Infinite: A level analysis from a gameplay point of view", my previous publications series.
March 8, 2021
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LiveOps Essentials Part 2: The Cadence
A comprehensive guide to designing, planning, and implementing a winning LiveOps cadence for your game to maximize user engagement.
March 8, 2021
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TikTok guide for indie game devs
TikTok guide for indie game devs // Top 10 hands-on tips to make the tok tik, including examples of great accounts to follow
March 5, 2021
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Game Dev Digest Issue #84 - Learning, Tips, and Free Courses
Game Dev Digest Issue #84 - Learning, Tips, and Free Courses. The latest from the free weekly Unity3d/gamedev newsletter.
March 5, 2021
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Adding Strategy to your Tactics
In this article, Keith Burgun lays out a few ways to add "longer arcs", particularly when thinking about tactics games.
March 5, 2021
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps: Destroying Hope
A cohesive narrative is important to stories of all kinds, not just video games. Ori and the Will of the Wisps maintains this narrative cohesion for everything but one vital character.
March 5, 2021
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Leading a game writer's room
Writer's Room is a well-known technique used in movies, series, and other TV production, but just recently it started being applied to games. This post aims to convert some of it to a game's production.
March 4, 2021
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We're two devs who made an open world alien galaxy – Here's How
Our space adventure/survival game holds a galaxy filled with more than 1000 unique worlds, 20+ interactive space businesses, and various points of interest. I want to share our groundwork and approach for doing this with only two developers.
March 3, 2021
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How do you fund that game prototype? 2
One of the biggest issues in game funding now is - how on Earth do you get your prototype funded? Can’t do game discovery if you don’t have a game. We look into it!
March 2, 2021
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Game Dev Digest Issue #83 - How and Why
Game Dev Digest Issue #83 - How and Why. The latest from the free weekly Unity3d/gamedev newsletter.
Feb. 26, 2021