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.
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Are "Luck" Mechanics Destroying Competitive Gaming?
Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone, a digital card-collecting-game, is one of eSport’s newest icons. However, players of the game will quickly discover that
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Secrets To Getting Your Indie Game Viral
After months of going unnoticed, the game Flappy Bird suddenly and quickly soared up to the number 1 rank in
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Are Digital Video Games Clearly Superior?
Is it better to download a game, or purchase the actual physical copy? I’ll admit I am old school and
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Anyone Interested In Free Indie Game Marketing?
Are you game indie game developer with a game to promote? Are you planning a few updates to one of
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15 Articles Every Game Developer Must Read
You’re probably reading this because you’re someone who already makes games for a living, or someone who wants to make
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Are You Good Enough To Make The Next Minecraft?
The potential for fancy cars, lavish designer suits, huge mansions in California. Flying first class anywhere you want, anytime you
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10 Simple Mistakes Indie Developers Should Avoid
You’ve called up your programmer buddy, your artist cousin, your uncle who makes chiptunes in his attic, and your neighbor
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Have Indie Games Become Completely Worthless?
It seems as though people are willing to pay less and less these days for indie games. Studios that slave
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3 Ways To Run Your Game Dev Career Into The Ground
Are you considering starting your own game development studio? You might want to avoid the most common mistakes. There are