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
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Beyond Dialogue: 5 Ways to Develop Plots In Games
Overview: Developing Plots Means Story Progression Plots without development are what? Tick, tock, tick, tock…That’s right, concepts! A plot that isn’t
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How Your Main Menu Can Completely Change Your Game
When we talk about games we truly enjoyed, we rarely if ever talk about the experience we received at the
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5 Tips to Managing Stress During Development
Sad truth: being stressed out is a normal part of being a game developer. Between the deadlines, unexpected problem solving,
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Game Development 101: Just in Time
Time is a strange thing. As the ages have gone by, we have come to understand time in ways completely
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Writing 201: How to Layer Dialog for World Building
“Hello,” the man says. The woman looks at him and smiles, “The past ten years of our marriage has been
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Could You Be Suffering From The Great Creative Insecurity?
It’s well-known that being creative is synonymous with being rather volatile. One minute, we’re letting the creativity flow and the
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The Story Of SanctuaryRPG: From Humble Beginnings To Semi Cult Hit
Gather round, children, and I will tell you the tale of Daniel (yes, the Daniel of Black Shell Media!), a
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3 Traits NPCs Desperately Need
It’s become this common thing in gaming where NPCs ramble on with seemingly no purpose, making players skip through the
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You Won't Believe How Drugs Can Improve Your Game
Depending on where you live drugs may either be a huge controversy or as normal as apple pie. Drugs have