How to Build a Grassroots Indie Community
This guest post by Nicholas Laborde of Raconteur Games originally appeared on Gamasutra. Community. This is the word that […]
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Learning from your Players
Playtesting is one of the most important things to do in order to bring a game to market. After all,
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Biggest Flops of 2016
Overview The year 2016 hasn’t been the easiest for America, but when it comes to gaming, it was a huge
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Developer Spotlight: A Tale of Caos: Overture’s Luca Porrino
Here at Black Shell Media, we find ourselves extremely lucky to build relationships with a wide array of developers from
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Addicted to Open Source: A Look at Godot & Xenko
I received a comment on a previous article where I listed a group of engines and tools ranging from paid and
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Indie Insider Podcast #15 – Richard Bartle, Father of MMOs
On the fifteenth episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with Richard Bartle, Co-Creator of M.U.D. and
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Blood, Sweat, Tears, & Cash: The Hidden Costs of Game Development
In my experience in book publishing, I’ve come across a number of would-be writers who were either too impatient to
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Learning from the Greats: The Metroidvania Sub-Genre
Once upon a time, the nostalgia bombs Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid gave birth to an entirely
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5 Steps You Should Follow When Publishing Your Android Game
Your development has finally come to an end. After months—or years—of hard work, your Android video game lies inside an
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4 Ways Developers Can Use YouTube
An amazing social networking tool is YouTube—albeit a much harder tool to use today as its user-base has exponentially grown.
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Developer Spotlight: .Age’s Michele Pirovano
Here at Black Shell Media, we find ourselves extremely lucky to build relationships with a wide array of developers from
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Indie Insider Podcast #14 – Jason Della Rocca, Co-Founder of Execution Labs
On the fourteenth episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with Jason Della Rocca, Co-Founder of Execution
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How Does a Developer Make an Addictive Isometric Action RPG?
Different genres of video games can be addicting to specific target audiences. Each genre is bound by certain parameters or
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The Effect of Being the #1 “Popular New Release” on Steam and How We Got There
We just launched Dungeon Souls, our most popular title, out of Early Access last Friday (12/02/2016). By the middle of
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Developer Spotlight: Acaratus’s Martin Kupski
Here at Black Shell Media, we find ourselves extremely lucky to build relationships with a wide array of developers from
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Indie Insider Podcast #13 – Mark Soderwall, Founder of IndieGameU
On the lucky thirteenth episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with Mark Soderwall, the founder of
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Fundamentals of Level Design: Where Does One start?
Level design in game development is an amazing experience. Creating the world in which a player experiences the game’s events
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The Basics of Building Incremental Marketing Pipelines
Think about the last time you bought a game. How did you go about it? You probably didn’t go from
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The One Developer Mistake Gamers Will Not Forgive
Video games are an art form. And like any other art form, developers could drive themselves mad attempting to erase
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Indie Insider Podcast #12 – Rabecca Rocha
On the twelfth episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with Rabecca Rocha, a freelance artist and