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How to better set up your game communities for kinder user experiences.
This week's roundup includes looks at standout new titles including Dicey Dungeons and Rad, an analysis of Patreon as incremental funding, & lots more.
In this 2017 GDC session, veteran voice director Khris Brown discusses how to approach to improving fight mechanic audio design while the player is in the heat of battle.
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Activision Blizzard has brought on its first chief marketing officer in David Messinger, a longtime employee of CAA.
Learn how to structure an effective subscription plan that benefits both players and game studios with the insights found in this guide.
How going "old-school" with game saves -- they're manual! -- created a sorely-needed sense of tension in Creative Assembly's first-person horror-shooter Alien: Isolation.
Soren Johnson, founder of Mohawk Games and designer on Civilization III and IV, curates his top 5 videos from the GDC YouTube archive in this new series of articles.
Veteran programmer Niklas Gray shows how we can add an index to bulk data to accelerate queries.
Check out these cutting-edge XRDC talks on how industry leaders are are applying AR/VR/MR tech to develop unique, exciting experiences that inspire customer passion and encourage social sharing!
The Russian company Mail.ru is expanding its My.Games video game business through the worldwide launch of a digital game storefront on PC.
Here are some reflections on translating the continuing series of Ancient Greek punishment games into the Bitsy game engine.
GDC's Simon Carless zeroes in on one particular part of game discoverability: one particular hidden gem of a statistic - Steam's follower counts.
The team at Cold Iron seek an experienced producer to join the team working on an Aliens game for consoles and PC out of their San Jose, CA office!
Klang has now raised a total of $37.42 million for Seed's development.
A detailed write up how the new Enemy AI works in my game, Dicey Dungeons! I tried to write it in a "popular science" style that's hopefully of interest to everyone, not just programmers.
In this 2017 GDC talk, Twitch's Mario Izquierdo exposes the math behind standardized ranking systems like Elo and TrueSkill to help you develop your own ranking system.
Cloud save support appeared on the Epic Games Store last month, but Epic has now expanded the list of games with the feature and explained why support is only trickling out.
AR/VR creators, take note: Your skills can make a meaningful difference in the world when you apply them to creating great teaching tools and safety systems; find out how at XRDC this October!
"We want to help enable a few more properly independent studios exist in the world," says the team. "Weird but smart money to weird but smart developers."
Attend XRDC in October to learn firsthand what it takes to design effective AR/VR experiences that can provide meaningful benefits to the healthcare industry and improve patient outcomes!
The makers of Pathologic 2 reinvented questlogs and codexes so that all aspects of the game were relevant to the story. Here's how.
Epic has opened a new studio In Cologne, Germany, that'll be led by the founders of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Turrican developer Factor 5.
Bloodborne and Mass Effect 3 composer Cris Velasco has founded a new "full-service audio production company" called The Audio Hive.
Unity has officially launched a pair of new classroom tools called Create with Code and Unity Teach to help teach game design and computer science.
This week's roundup includes looks at standout new titles including Dicey Dungeons and Rad, an...
How to better set up your (game) communities for kinder user experiences.
Shows how we can add an index to bulk data to accelerate queries.
Reflections on translating the continuing series of Ancient Greek Punishment games into the Bitsy...
In the interests of focusing on one particular part of game discoverability, I’d like to...
Press Releases
Amir Fassihi explains how one of more members of your game development team can serve a coaching role while fulfilling their own project obligations.
Jamin Smith presents a guide to branding your game, from establishing a direction and focus to building a style guide that ensures a consistent vision.
Louis McTague discusses the value of defining specific elements in level design, citing successful approaches he has taken in past projects.
Art Bully Productions was founded in 2008 by 3d art professionals who have years of experience in the video game industry. We pride ourselves on delivering AAA quality work at very competitive rates to developers of all sizes.
Streamline specializes in tech art and creative execution for video games through its integrated 2D, 3D and Animation services.
We are a 40-people game art production studio based in China, we've been serving the global game dev industry for more than 10 years, providing 2D Concepts, Illustrations, UI graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Animation (Key-frame & Spine).
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