by Yixin Li | Jan 26, 2016 | Blog, Game Development
Most people tend to occasionally get sidetracked while working. Sometimes they get distracted, but other times, they procrastinate instead of dealing with their work. Procrastination can derail many projects, from coding for your indie game project, to getting the...
by Yixin Li | Jan 20, 2016 | Blog, Game Development
Many games get their start as a brilliant idea imagined by a developer or producer. Unfortunately, a brilliant idea is as far as most games get, thanks to a lack of resources, planning, or will. However, if you do get past the initial set of psychological hurdles,...
by Yixin Li | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Game Development
Many would-be game designers have come up with the “greatest idea ever!!!!1111!!” Such ideas usually end up taking a smattering of concepts from the greatest of high intensity first person shooters, massively multiplayer dungeon crawlers, and complex strategy games-...
by Yixin Li | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Game Development, Marketing
One of the main concerns in the game development world is that as studios focus on using their products to make money, they sacrifice their happiness. You have to remember that creating games is an act of love, and you have to keep that in mind in order to obtain the...
by Yixin Li | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Game Development
Games and ideas in general can either be popular or unpopular. But it can be hard to determine what makes an idea popular and what makes it tiresome and boring. For your benefit, we at Black Shell Media have created a guide with some of the things that you will need...