Why Communicating with Players is Vital + 3 Simple Ways to Reach Out
If you’ve been following the news around Pokemon Go, you know that Niantic has been struggling to appease an increasingly frustrated fanbase. […]
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The 9 Types of Player Choices (with Examples)
(Civilization V — Firaxis, 2010) “Games are a series of interesting decisions.” That’s what Sid Meier said to an audience
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Is it Possible to Launch an Indie Game Without a Graphic Designer?
You have made up your mind. Making a video game has always been your dream and now you have the technical
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The Bartle Test: What is it to Developers?
We love classifying ourselves. Thousands of personality quizzes exist on the internet, inviting us to figure out what our preferences
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4 Great Ways To Start Building Your First Game
So you want to be a game developer and you don’t know where to begin. I’ve been there. A lot
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How Journalists Prefer to be Contacted
The fastest way to grow your fanbase is to get in front of someone else’s audience. Getting featured on Polygon,
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Rejecting the “New Norm” of Games Industry Toxicity
This post originally appeared on Nathan Meunier’s blog. Check him out! Making games is amazing. Making games is also absolute
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Four Games to Turn to for Inspiration
Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Even if we’re trying to work on that beloved pet project of ours, it’s
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4 Simple Ways Indie Game Developers can Connect with Players on Tumblr
If I were to ask you which social media platforms you regularly use to reach out to players, what
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5 Reasons Players Love Sandbox Games
More developers should be making sandbox games. Yes, that is a very forward statement, but it is also quite beneficial.
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Listen Closely: The Power of Dynamic Music in Games
Dynamic music is a golden ticket to immersion. It takes the immersion of audio to a new level—one in which
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Why You Want Tension, and Why Skyrim Doesn't Have it
It’s difficult to design space for players. When you go to create your perfect game, you might complete some of
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Growth Hacking: The Hidden Communities Developers are Missing Out On
There are 3.4 billion users on the internet. It seems like a lot of them should just happen to stumble
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Three of the Worst Gameplay Mechanics in Popular Games
We don’t live in a perfect world, and some video games remind us of this with some very questionable design
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War and Peace: What to Do Now That Your Game Has Launched
One of the biggest thrills in any developer’s life is launching their game. There’s a huge amount of excitement and satisfaction
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No Man's Leak: The Polarizing Effects of Game Leaks
With the recent No Man’s Sky leak, the gaming community has been torn asunder. Is it moral for a fan/player to
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5 Famous Cheat Codes in Video Game History
Almost every player has found a little secret inside the video game they are playing. A reference to a previous
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7 Popular Game Features that started out as Bugs
Gaming is rife with ideas, technology, and stories, but sometimes even unintentional flaws are the basis for new features or
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Reading Between the Lines: What Passive Storytelling Teaches Us – Part 2, Overwatch
Today we leave the minimal dialogue discussed in Part One that was used to create a meaningful narrative and instead take a
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Top 5 Digital Collaboration Tools for Remote Teams
In the ever growing internet age it is becoming more and more common for people living hundreds, even thousands of