Top 3 Marketing Tips Indie Developers Should Follow
So your game is coming along nicely and you are just about ready to start showing it off to the […]
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How to Talk to Fans- Things You Probably Didn't Know
A skill that is often lost on developers these days is how to interact with their fan base. There are
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Game Design 101: Six Approaches To A Great Game
With so many great game ideas rushing from your imagination it can be hard to pin down a point of
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Game Development 101: The Open World Sandbox
When describing a game most people usually go for one of four points of description- the story, the world, the
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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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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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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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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
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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