THIS Is How You Should Respond to Early Access Critics
The first few hundred thousand hurdles of game development have been conquered and our game is out for early access! […]
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Understand Your Market If You Intend to Conquer It
When you get started in game design and dive right in, it can be a really fun and rewarding experience.
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Top 3 Marketing Tips Indie Developers Should Follow
So your game is coming along nicely and you are just about ready to start showing it off to the
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Inspiration: The Constant Search
There comes a point in game development when you think you’ve seen it all – all the tricks of the
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Match Queue Time Doesn't Have to be Dead Time
Often players use time in between matches as a segment in which they do not have to pay attention. Maybe
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Writing 201: Dialog for Voice Acting
Lots of writers love spinning yarns, weaving words, and waxing poetic. Many of us are guilty for being given a
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Networking Explained in Three Easy Parts
It’s a common thing to hear, whether you’re starting your career or already established: network. While portfolio building, finding work
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Prototypes Are Your First Step to Success
So you have arrived at your idea for the game you want to create. You have things written down all
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Do You Know What the Right Price For Your Game Is?
Figuring out the right price for your game can be difficult. There’s so much that may influence your decision: the
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5 Ways to Maintain A Professional Image on Social Media
Because this is the age of technology, where robots do Amazon’s warehouse work and 14 year old children have iPhones,
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Developer Interview: Matt Kazan
This past week I had the pleasure of interviewing Matt Kazan who is an artist at Ubisoft Toronto as well
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Verbing Adverbly: Three Writing Pet Peeves Deconstructed
“Gosh,” he galumphed as he suddenly stared daggers into the mirror. “I’m quite the white brown-haired male in his late
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You Have To Interact With Your Community- And Here's How
Whenever a game has a public presence, there’s going to be discourse between the developers and players. Often enough, players
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You Need These 5 Tips Every Developer Lives By
It’s no secret that the gaming industry is one of the most difficult to start, and maintain a career in.
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Developer Interview: Patrik Dekhla of Frictional Games
This past week I had the pleasure of interviewing Patrik Dekhla who works for Frictional Games, the developers of games
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BloodGate for the Blood God: An Interview with Daniel Jackson of Outsmart Games
Black Shell Media has recently partnered with Outsmart Games in order to promote their upcoming PC title, BloodGate. The game
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How to File a Company as an Independent Games Developer
— The following article was contributed by Zachary Strebeck, Attorney at Law– “Making games is fun!” That’s probably what
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Features that Your Game Really Does Not Need
More often than not, you’ve probably run into a scenario like this; you’re playing a game and you realize that
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Writing 201: Transforming the Tropish Character
It’s months or even years into the game development process and you’re struck with an incredibly haunting realization: your characters
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Confessions of a Procrastinator: How to Handle Large Projects
The clock has long since rolled past midnight and any hope of sleep has flown out the window, where the