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We need to talk about Steam & China  
by Gamasutra Staff [10.22.20]
What's going on with Steam in China, and what's going to happen in the future? Take a trip though the possibilities, the government licensing complexities, and more!
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What happened with Microsoft's Switch publishing experiments?  
by Gamasutra Staff [10.19.20]
This game discovery look examines an interesting area of research - how Microsoft playing nice with other platforms looks to have been an attempt to extend the Xbox ecosystem to those very platforms.
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In this 2014 chat with Nintendo, Gamasutra digs into what Nintendo was doing for independent developers and what sort of indie games it wanted to land on its platforms.
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The Talos Principle presents players with theological questions as well as puzzles. 'The Garden of Eden is a perfect fit for a story about creating a new intelligence,' says co-writer Jonas Kyratzes.
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Don't Miss: Crafting GoNNER's modular abilities  
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Switch game discovery - look on the bright side?  
by Gamasutra staff [10.16.20]
With Switch game discoverability, perhaps everyone's pessimist side has been over-exposed. So here's why you should dig releasing on Switch! (And more discovery news.)
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How to get on the good side of media & streamers  
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Analyzing a Twitter thread asking ‘content creators’ & media folks about the game promo-related practices that devs and publishers should stop doing. Plus lots more game discovery goodness!
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Game Dev Digest Issue #67 - The Re-create Issue  
by Mike Marrone [10.23.20]
Game Dev Digest Issue #67 - The Re-create Issue. The latest from the free weekly Unity3d/gamedev newsletter.
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We need to talk about Steam & China  
by Simon Carless [10.22.20]
What's going on with Steam in China, and what's going to happen in the future? Take a trip though the possibilities, the government licensing complexities, and more!
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Screen Space Reflections in Blightbound  
by Joost van Dongen [10.22.20]
SSR is a fun technique for creating detailed, dynamic reflections in games. This post shows how I implemented SSR into Blightbound and how it works. It also goes into the tricks I used to make it have good performance, have fewer artefacts and look good.
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From App Development To Video Games — The Journey to HordeCore  
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A chat with Portuguese developer Digitality Studios on the journey from app development to HordeCore, the studios' first commercial release.
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Data Deep Dive: 'Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale' on Steam  
by Simon Carless [10.21.20]
Want lots of real-world Steam data (wishlists, actual revenue?) on Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale, a deckbuilding roguelike title that recently launched out of Early Access. That's what we're giving you here!
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