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Neon Climber Postmortem - casual game DIY
The Fear and Loathing of one no-budget mobile game production. How we failed and why.
Sept. 8, 2020
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Building Cogmind's Ambient Soundscape
Describing the methodology behind bringing Cogmind's maps, machines and other sources of atmospheric audio to life.
Sept. 8, 2020
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Post Mortem on our Launch of Dungeons of Edera, an endlessly replayable Dark Souls roguelike
On August 28th I released my second game on Steam into early access, Dungeons of Edera, a roguelite action RPG, and I wanted to once again to share my approach to release and first week numbers, as I did with my first game, Hold the Fort.
Sept. 8, 2020
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Are the 'store wars' really upon us?
Unfortunately for everyone hoping that royalty percentages for third-party game studios will improve, I'm not sure it's going to happen soon. Theories - and plenty of other game discovery news - within.
Sept. 4, 2020
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India bans further 118 Chinese mobile apps: A blow for players, but an opportunity for competing publishers
Players will look to Free Fire, Call of Duty Mobile to fill the void created by the app ban.
Sept. 4, 2020
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Putting into play - The hidden art of pacing 2 (3)
The bridging of the gap between writers and designers continues by breaking down conventional structures and exchanging techniques. The trip traces the core to the engaging and motivating forces behind the building of experiences and feelings.
Sept. 3, 2020
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Dynamic Map Elements in RTS Games
There are tactics and strategy games where the map itself is able to be modified by players in a variety of ways: opening up new attack paths or closing them off, changing which areas of the map players care about and want to contest, etc...
Sept. 3, 2020
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Democratizing PySpark for Mobile Game Publishing
How Zynga analytics is leveraging the Spark big data platform to support game studios and publishing operations.
Sept. 1, 2020
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Keep Playing with Me - Finding Retention Influencers in Destiny
The era of social media gave birth to influencers, people that others tend to emulate in their choices and behaviors. However, this phenomenon also occurs in other types of social environments: games, for instance. Who are they? How can we find them?
Sept. 1, 2020
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Throwing Exceptions as Expressions in Unity - The C# 7 Way
Things have evolved in C# 7, but many programmers still haven't. Today, let's talk about throwing exceptions in Unity — the C# 7 way —.
Sept. 1, 2020
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We need to take Steam wishlist quality more seriously 2
When you’re in development on a game - whether you’re a small indie dev or a larger publisher - how do you know whether it’s going to do well or not? Steam wishlists help a lot - but how about wishlist quality?
Aug. 31, 2020
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How Traffic Works in Cities: Skylines
The most challenging part of development, let's explore the inner workings of Cities: Skylines citizen and traffic systems.
Aug. 28, 2020