Amp Up Your Game Design: The Trope Of War
War may not be friend only to the undertaker, but also the game designer. War is a complex political, ideological […]
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How Altruism Has Turned LoL Into A Phenomenon
League of Legends ushers in the debate of whether “givers,” people who act selflessly, achieve more than “takers,” people who
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Crafting Strategy RPGs
What defines a role-playing game? This is actually a rather common, and quite interesting question that serves as an easy
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10 Tips To Supercharge Your Video Game Music Career
1. GET A REFERENCE MONITOR Hearing your music from a good pair of reference speakers is normally the first step
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How To Piss Gamers Off: Poorly Implemented Stealth
I like stealth games, even though I’m horrible at them. It’s frustrating, but I still have fun — despite how
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Why We're Living In The Golden Age Of Indie Games
The term “indie game” is associated to some with hipsters and bleak art games, but often they are wonderfully imaginative,
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Advanced Camera Use
Each camera perspective can be used and warped in different ways to accomplish different goals. In genre terms, survival horror
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Pixel Art As Impressionism
Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso; these old dead guys have lead me to a better understanding of video games. These famous
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Want To Be A Great Game Dev? Make A Survival Game!
Okay, so maybe it’s not really that simple. But from Castaway, to Lost, to Lord of the Flies, wilderness survival
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Character Development
In almost every society, coming of age is important. The way it’s acknowledged may change based on culture, of course;
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How To Spice Up Your Indie Game: Abstraction
For an industry characterized by an Italian plumber that stomps on the heads of cartoonish representations of Kappa, we’re pretty
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How To Jazz Up Your Indie Game: Even More Choices
Choices are common in life, as in video games. The power of choice in life is what truly defines each
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How To Supercharge Your Indie Game: Exploration
Creating new and fantastic locations to map out and traverse is what drives me to push past the annoyance of
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How To Use Psychology To Design The Perfect Game
Have you ever sat down to casually get a few minutes of gaming in only to find yourself a couple
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How Not To Be A Completely Evil Game Designer
About ten hours into any MMO, after much optimism that the game will somehow be different from others on the
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How To Jazz Up Your Indie Game: The Power Of Choice
Designing choice in games is a challenging task. It’s a topic that’s been thoroughly discussed by practically every industry pundit
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How To Get Your Indie Game Noticed By The Press
Just having a good game is not enough nowadays. With a booming and crowded industry, you need to have something
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7 Effective Marketing Strategies For Game Developers
Indie developers are mostly brilliant when it comes to constructing their game but when release time comes many are often
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7 Reasons Why Most Indie Game Developers Fail
It took a few years for the indie explosion to happen, but it finally happened, and games are flooding the
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The Death of the Modern Indie Game Developer
There’s a point in time known among the novelist branch as ‘The Death of the Author’. It goes like this.