Summer is a great opportunity to improve one’s skills, learn more about your craft, and increase your odds of a game studio finding you attractive. Plus, it’s a lot of fun to have some time to devote to ideas that have been bouncing around in your head.
Does Nintendo have the legal right to monetize Let's Play videos on YouTube? That's a tricky question, and it's not just a question of copyright law's fair use doctrine.
In addition to financial conflict-of-interest and our own preferences, the attitudes of our fans and followers, and the design of social media itself, also create obstacles for the spread of new and innovative designs.
To better understand current F2P market trends, it is valuable to think about control mechanisms instead of pricing. This paper attempts to explain current marketplace trends and predict where they are going.
4gency's founder looks back at a first year of lessons as a mobile/tablet developer. Lesson one shows how hard it can be to make money in the arcade genre with in-app purchases.
Why do people play Games? What is it about human motivators and fun? And why is happiness related to gaming?
This is a post about the connections between happiness, fun, motivation & games. Because in the end, we have always craved for games.
Game researchers seek to understand gaming in multiple contexts using an objective data set. Without access to the big data sets that most game companies, platforms, and ISPs collect we are stymied.
"Hemingway called it the Iceberg Theory. The art of implication. Just give people the little pieces they need to imagine up the other half of the game. It makes them more invested and it makes your work more adaptable and more rich." - Adam Saltsman
Tips for new audio designers composing video game music out of their comfort zone. Useful for producers as well, looking to put together design directions for their audio designers.
This entry focuses on Indian music.
