by Katie Conigliaro | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Marketing
If you’ve been following the news around Pokemon Go, you know that Niantic has been struggling to appease an increasingly frustrated fanbase. With the most recent updates, it almost seems that the developers are determined to dive deeper into the hot water...
by Abhinav Narain | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Game Design, Writing
(Civilization V — Firaxis, 2010) “Games are a series of interesting decisions.” That’s what Sid Meier said to an audience at GDC, 2012. In fact, it’s a philosophy of game design he’s expressed repeatedly in some form or another. Essentially, the sentiment comes...
by Barbara PM | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Game Design
You have made up your mind. Making a video game has always been your dream and now you have the technical skills to achieve it. You have a great idea to put in practice and you start writing down some ideas, choosing the right frameworks, developing the physics… but...
by Tania Jensen | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Game Design
We love classifying ourselves. Thousands of personality quizzes exist on the internet, inviting us to figure out what our preferences say about us. If you’re a gamer who loves these kinds of things, then you may have heard of the Bartle Test, which, simply put, helps...
by Ryan Mather | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog
So you want to be a game developer and you don’t know where to begin. I’ve been there. A lot of developers have. It can seem daunting to look at the incredibly array of programs available and try to decide what works best for you. You can start with a...