Assassin’s Creed: What Could Have Been
[Warning: Contains Spoilers for Assassin’s Creed 2/Brotherhood/Revelations] As a fan, I feel that I was somewhat betrayed by the developer of […]
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Entering the Fray of Your Community – A Consumer’s Perspective…
With the ever-increasing numbers of people playing games, there is an increasing number of players who want to start a discussion
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WoW Legion & Why The Success Is REAL
It’s been a long time coming. It had to happen: the day that Blizzard released something that makes players resubscribe
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Sony Conference Highlights
Guess who had a really bad day today? That’s right: between Sony’s press conference, and Apple’s iPhone 7 announcement, Microsoft
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A Message from Bundle of Sticks Studios: Empires of Creation Enters Open Beta!
From alpha to beta, a game that communicates with its community. Against the grain set by big budget productions, one
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Happy Second Birthday, Black Shell Media!
They say that 90% of startups fail in the first year. Well, for the second year in a row, I am
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Why Players Are Getting No Man’s Sky Refunds
No Man’s Sky Or One Man’s Lie? It’s a classic case of overhyped games. Before No Man’s Sky’s release, Sony
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The Immersive Sim Genre: Offering Players Unrestricted Choice
The most rewarding challenge for any developer is to create a game that gives the player a large range of
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Catching the Worm: When to Take the Early Release Shot
There’s no doubt that no matter whether you play Pokémon Go or don’t, you’ve probably heard all the accolades and
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Hollywood Comes Home – 5 Methods to Adapt a Movie into a Game
From Assassin’s Creed to Sly Cooper, there’s a lot to talk about when it comes to new movies being adapted
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Can You Have It All? Applying the Bartle Test to Single-Player Games
Last time, we talked about the Bartle Taxonomy and how, even twenty years later, it still holds true for many
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I Have The Power! Abusing the Awesome Power of GIFs
This 13-second animation received comments like: “Holy s***. Guess who’s trying this later tonight? Don’t actually guess. I am” “So
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3 Things No One Warns You About Development
When speaking to a player—a non-developer—recently I was told, “I don’t understand why anyone would get out of development. Making
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Three More of the Worst Gameplay Mechanics in Popular Games
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Over the years with choices in game development, we learn what works
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Reading Between the Lines: What Passive Storytelling Teaches Us – Part 3, Five Nights at Freddy's
Here we are, the final part of this journey investigating how passive storytelling makes for very interesting gameplay experiences. It makes
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Game Jams: What you may not have realized
If you don’t know what a ‘Game Jam’ is, than this article will be a huge eye opener and hopefully
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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