How To Choose The Right Game Marketing Strategy
Even if you are designing your own game, you do need a good and reliable promotional strategy to create buzz […]
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How To Get YouTubers To Try Out Your Indie Game
YouTube is one of the best ways to promote a game nowadays, because it’s a free platform and anyone can
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What Did The Gaming Industry Look Like Back In 2012?
[Note: This article was originally written in 2012] I love seeing the evolution of our industry. Video games were once
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Are Video Games Art?
Games are art. No, wait, let me quickly qualify that! Games, can, be art. If a game designer chooses to
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The Negative Perception of Business in Indie Games
This article is adapted from a Gamasutra article written by Nicholas Laborde. My name is Nicholas Laborde, and I am
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Amp Up Your Game Design: The Visual Novel Narrative
The ever-present mechanic I’ve noticed in many Japanese games is Visual Novel dialogue and storytelling. It’s used in games such
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Progression Mechanics
I find that one of my favorite things about video games is the fact that they make me feel as
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Designing For Handhelds
The standard platforms for game design are either PCs or home consoles, both of which normally exist within private, stable,
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Do Video Games Steal Mechanics From Sports?
There’s no denying that sports have had an important influence on video games. And not just in the form of
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Even More Camera Theory
The camera remains one of the most integral parts of game infrastructure. We all know how bad camera controls can
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When Game Design Goes Horribly Wrong: JRPGs
No game is perfect, there’s always something to pick apart. JRPGs are my guilty pleasure. I love the long convoluted
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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