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Building Social Success: Zynga's Perspective
by Christian Nutt
[11.04.09]
Zynga's business development VP Hugh de Loayza talks in detail to Gamasutra about not just what makes social games successful, but why developers like Brian Reynolds, who left Big Huge Games for Zynga, are attracted to the social games space -- besides the potential profits.
[3]
Business, Game Design, Interview
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Small Developers: Minimizing Risks in Large Productions - Part I
by Troy Dunniway
[11.03.09]
Experienced game developer and manager Troy Dunniway, a veteran of studios like Microsoft, EA, Insomniac, and Ubisoft, discusses some of the major risks involved in transitioning from a small to large development team and how to identify and avoid them.
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Business
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Valve's Writers And The Creative Process
by Kris Graft
[11.02.09]
In a rare interview, Valve writing lynchpins Marc Laidlaw and Eric Wolpaw talk in-depth on the narrative structure and pithy quips behind critically feted games like Half-Life 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead 2.
[11]
Business, Game Design, Visual Art, Interview
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Sony's Software Strategy: Shuhei Yoshida Speaks
by Thomas Puha
[10.30.09]
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shu Yoshida took over from Phil Harrison last year with a strong mandate -- Gamasutra talks to him about strategies for the motion controller, relationships with third parties, changing attitudes for PSP game support, and much more.
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Business, Game Design, Interview
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Ancients Reborn: Launching League of Legends
by Chris Remo
[10.28.09]
As Riot Games' League Of Legends launches, Gamasutra talks to co-founder and president Marc Merrill and lead creative designer Shawn Carnes on the company's business model, usability concerns, breaking free of the grip of publishers, and more.
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Business, Game Design, Interview
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The Design of StarCraft II
by Chris Remo
[10.26.09]
StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder talks in-depth to Gamasutra on the inevitable difficulties that come with updating a 10-year-old game while trying to steadfastly avoid feature creep, as well as the state of the PC platform and a plethora of design tuning specifics.
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Business, Game Design, Interview
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Working by Torchlight
by Chris Remo
[10.23.09]
Runic Games' Travis Baldree and Max Schaefer talk to Gamasutra about next week's debut of PC action RPG Torchlight, plans for an MMO incarnation, launching into 2009's PC market, community empowerment, and essential design concepts for the action-RPG genre
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Business, Game Design, Interview
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Kill Polygon, Kill: Violence, Psychology, and Video Games
by Michael Thomsen
[10.22.09]
It's true, many video games have violent elements in them. But what does that mean? We talk to Silent Hill producers, abstract indie game creators and the Grand Theft Childhood book co-writer to look at the pluses and minuses of violence as a tool for expression in games.
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Business, Game Design
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NPD: Behind the Numbers, September 2009
by Matt Matthews
[10.21.09]
Gamasutra's latest comprehensive NPD analysis looks at the U.S. console retail figures for September 2009, with spotlights on the music game genre, hardware price cuts, Wii, console DLC and more.
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Business
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