Is It Good or Bad to Spend Too Much Time Playing Your Own Game?
You did it: you launched your game and now it’s available for anyone to play! Everyone, including yourself. That’s amazing, […]
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6 Tips For Marketing Your Mobile Game
Thanks to Gummicube for this awesome guest post! While mothers across the world can complain about the time their children spend on
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Indie Insider #39 – The Underground King, the Final Steam Greenlight Game
This week’s guest: Alex Nae and Alex Nechita, developers of The Underground King, perhaps most notable for being the
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One Easy Technique for Improving Your Game Via Simple Research
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about market research, and how I, as a game producer, can use data available
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Indie Insider Podcast #25 – David Mullich, Veteran Game Producer and Designer
On the twenty-fifth episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with David Mullich, an industry veteran who
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Indie Insider Podcast #21 – Ryan Hewer, Founder of Little Red Dog Games
On the twenty-first episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with Ryan Hewer, founder of Little Red
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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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Beating the Clock: Inclusion of Real Time in Video Games
Anyone who’s played the recently-popular mobile dating game Mystic Messenger knows its main MO for setting itself apart is by
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It’s a Trap! Avoiding the Agony of Artificial Difficulty
Maintaining a good balance of challenge for players may be one of the toughest tasks on a developer’s plate. A
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Clustertruck’s Challenging Minimalistic Design: A Step in the Right Direction
Clustertruck has a simple premise: Travel through a level as a bodiless entity bunnyhopping across the top of trucks at
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Plague LLC: Getting Your Game to Go Viral
Guest post by Natalia Kushnir There are roughly 1.2-1.3M gaming apps available on the app store but out of that over
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6 Crucial Questions to Ask Before Choosing Your Game Engine
Just as video games are diverse, so too are the game engines we use to make them. The act 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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Let's Talk About Non-Traditional Games With Nathan Meunier (This Book Is A Dungeon)
Nathan Meunier just launched his title This Book Is A Dungeon with us as his publisher! We’re super excited to
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JeromeASF: A YouTube Phenomenon in the Age of Indie Games
We had the privilege of getting in touch with JeromeASF, a popular YouTuber, and decided to ask him a few
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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: The Visual Novel Narrative
The ever-present mechanic I’ve noticed in many Japanese games is Visual Novel dialogue and storytelling. It’s used in games such
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Amp Up Your Game Design: Progression Mechanics
I find that one of my favorite things about video games is the fact that they make me feel as
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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