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Key Scamming And Reselling: Indie Dev Hints
Key scamming and grey market key reselling is big business now. Indies new to Steam and other online stores can be overwhelmed by the requests for keys they receive. To protect yourself and your games from being scammed, follow these simple rules.
Sept. 14, 2016
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Report: Pokemon Go still #1 App Store earner despite 79% drop in paying players
Slice Intelligence says the number of Pokemon Go players who are making in-game purchases has declined roughly 79% from its peak -- but the F2P game is still the top-grossing app on Apple's App Store.
Sept. 13, 2016
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Marmalade is giving up on its game engine biz to focus on game dev
Marmalade Technologies, maker of the 2D/3D Marmalade Platform that powers mobile games like SimCity BuildIt, will cease updating the engine as it restructures to focus on game development.
Sept. 13, 2016
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How a Twitter fib led 2 studios to make a weird VR game about accounting
Crows Crows Crows cofounder William Pugh lied to Squanchtendo Games cofounder Justin Roiland about working at Respawn, so now they've made a comedic VR game about accounting together.
Sept. 13, 2016
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Submit your talks now for GDC 2017's new UX Summit!
Got a great idea for a 2017 GDC UX Summit talk? Summit leader (and Epic Games vet) Celia Hodent speaks about what sort of UX talks she's looking for, and why the UX Summit is valuable to all game devs.
Sept. 13, 2016
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Get a job: Be a Senior 3D/Prop Modeler at id Software
Doom developer id Software seeks to hire an experienced 3D modeler to take a senior role creating props and other 3D objects alongside the rest of the team in its Richardson, Texas studio.
Sept. 13, 2016
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Steam reviews are changing (yet again)
Steam just published a post with news regarding how ratings are displayed on the store page, something that is already affecting many developers. Here's what you need to know about it!
Sept. 13, 2016
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Surprising effect of Steam's latest review system change
Steam changed the review system (September 2016) to weed out the fake positive reviews from players who got a game for free in their account. This has some interesting effect on niche games that got sold in bundles.
Sept. 13, 2016
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Writing Diverse Characters: A Practical Guide
If we are to tell new, interesting stories in game, we need to consider whose stories we are telling as well. This blog post offers some tips on how to create diverse characters.
Sept. 13, 2016
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Pay gap looms large in IGDA diversity report
According to data from the IGDA, a pay gap between men and women, and white workers and workers of color, is one of the biggest challenges facing the games industry.
Sept. 12, 2016
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Playable build of canceled Warcraft adventure game surfaces online
A cancelled version of Blizzard's Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans surfaced online over the weekend, but was quickly removed by a DMCA request.
Sept. 12, 2016
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AIAS chief Martin Rae is stepping down to work in VR
The man responsible for steering the DICE summits for the last few years is heading off for new virtual horizons.
Sept. 12, 2016