by Alex Cicala | Aug 29, 2017 | Blog, Business, Marketing, Technology
Discord is a rising superpower amongst the available free voice chat clients. It allows for free voice chat between two people, a group, or within a server—similar to the days of Ventrillo and Teamspeak. It has risen in popularity greatly over the past year and is...
by Black Shell Media | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog, Guest Post, Marketing
This guest post first appeared on the Unreal Engine blog. Thanks Jess for letting us share it here. If you want to contact Jess about working in Unreal, email her: jess.hider [at] epicgames [dot] com! INTRODUCTION Hi! Jess here, European Community Manager for Unreal...
by Alex Cicala | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog, Game Design
Stories within video games are an element that takes up a decent amount of what a player will experience. Developers design gameplay to support a story while others will do the opposite, sacrificing the story instead. A middle-ground would be to find a balance between...
by Black Shell Media | Jul 3, 2017 | Blog, Business, Indie Insider, Interview, Marketing
Indie Insider Indie Insider #41 - Rocky Kev, Serious Game Devs Only Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 46:16 Subscribe Share RSS Feed Share Link Embed Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 46:16...
by Alex Cicala | May 6, 2017 | Blog, Game Design, Game Development
Throughout the evolution of video games there have been major milestones with the development of game mechanics. As video game development progressed, developers would emulate, tweak and refine mechanics other developers used. This is nothing to frown at as some might...