Blog: The search for meaningful work In this article, game designer Sande Chen discusses research on work-related motivation, in particular on "perceived meaning," to see how this research applies to the game industry.

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  Blog: Using ARPU to choose the right genre and market "Even though ARPU alone can't fully tell the performance of a game, it can reflect the potential of the genre in a particular market to some extent."

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  Autobiographical Memoir En Code finds game mechanics in daily life “Your first thought is that you cannot let the player express their decisions, because that doesn't feel autobiographical,” says Alex Camilleri. "That's something I worked on for a long time."

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  Get a job: Cryptic, Demiurge and more among Gamasutra Job Board listings From Cryptic Studios to Skydance Interactive to Demiurge Games, here are just a few of the many great job openings you'll find over on Gamasutra's industry-leading job board!

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1 Video: The Physics of Fun -- Vehicles in Saint's Row: The Third Volition's David Bianchi speaks at GDC 2014 about how he (effectively single-handedly) designed and implemented 90+ vehicles in Saint's Row: The Third in roughly six months.

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  Function is form: Moon Hunters and art books as game design The Art of Moon Hunters, a book that presents artwork from the Kitfox Games release, is a great extension of the title that a respects a crucial lesson so often forgotten in gaming: function is form. 

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  Don't Miss: Brian Fargo's lessons learned from making Wasteland 2 With inXile aiming to build Wasteland 3, now's a good time to look back at this timeless chat with studio chief Brian Fargo about lessons learned in crowdfunding development of its predecessor.

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  How the Olympic spirit brought Nintendo and Sega together "I still have trouble with this concept of this company that was our enemy that we fought tooth and nail against, and now they're buddies," former Sega exec Tom Kalinske notes in a new GI feature.

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  At VRDC you'll see how Chernobyl was authentically recreated in VR Come out to the Virtual Reality Developers Conference this November and hear the head of Polish studio The Farm 51 share how they authentically recreated the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in VR. It's nuts!

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  Now's the time to apply for the AIAS' inaugural 'WomenIn' game dev scholarships The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences reveals its latest scholarship winners and opens a call for applications to its brand-new "WomenIn" scholarship for women seeking careers in game dev.

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  All-new GDC Retro Play to debut at GDC 2017, calls for submissions Free submissions are open for GDC Retro Play, a brand new area at the 2017 Game Developers Conference that specifically focuses on showcasing retro consoles, computers, games and related memorabilia.

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6 UK advertising standards agency is investigating No Man's Sky "If we judge an ad to be in breach of the UK Advertising Codes, it must be withdrawn or amended and the advertiser must not use the approach again."

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  Sony is bringing this year's PlayStation Experience to California Sony's uniquely focused PlayStation Experience conference will this year be heading to Anaheim, CA, on December 3.

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  IndieCade expands L.A. festival with 42 new entries Determined to showcase the very best of the indie world, IndieCade organizers have added a heap of new titles to this year's roster.

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1 Blog: Delivering game releases like a boss We all want our employees to be happy, but as producers and founders responsible for making sure the studio stays afloat, how can we deliver our games on time without putting their feet to the fire?

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  Using graphics to express character and theme in Owlboy D-Pad Studios claims that their upcoming title Owlboy is "a love letter to pixel art." The team explains how they used art and animation to express character and theme in the game.

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3 You can now study EA's lost sci-fi shooter Battlefield 2142 If you ever wanted to see how DICE would make a science fiction version of its hit Battlefield series, now's your chance.

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3 Ubisoft buys publisher of notorious game clone 2048 Ubisoft now owns the company responsible for 2048, the clone of a clone of a clone of premium iOS game Threes that stirred controversy among developers in 2014.

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6 Blog: Applying 'The Lean Startup' strategies as a game dev Eric Ries' book 'The Lean Startup' offers smart advice, but it doesn't always apply directly to game development. But there are ways you can apply the idea of building a simple product for release.

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  Get a job: Be a Lead Programmer at Ubisoft Toronto Ubisoft Toronto (For Honor, Watch Dogs 2) is looking to bring on an experienced programmer to serve as a team lead on development of a multi-platform "next generation" game.

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  Together Alone: 'Pure untainted survival' in Near Death In Orthogonal Games’ Near Death, a “game about survival” centering on a pilot who crash lands near an abandoned polar research station, the main enemy--indeed, the only enemy--is Antarctica itself.

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  Humble dives deeper into game dev tool offerings with Clickteam bundle Clickteam has partnered with the folks at Humble Bundle to offer a pay-what-you-like bundle of its Clickteam Fusion game dev software and source code for games built using that toolset.

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1 Don't Miss: Koji Igarashi exploring what makes a great Metroidvania game Today is Castlevania's birthday, so why not celebrate by watching veteran Castlevania game designer Koji Igarashi examine the evolution of the 'Metroidvania' genre in this timeless GDC talk.

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7 'You shouldn't underestimate the value of not being technical' "Meaning, that you might be able to solve a problem in a way other people wouldn't consider because it's almost too simple," says veteran game designer Amy Hennig.

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  Investors put $4M into new game streaming startup LiquidSky Samsung and others have poured $4 million in funding into LiquidSky, a startup that aims to stream access to high-powered virtual PCs to mobile devices -- chiefly to play demanding PC games.

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