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Get a job: Be an Art Director at Big Fish Games
Big Fish seeks an experienced hand to join the team as a senior art manager or art director and mentor, manage and lead a team of designers across its portfolio of mobile F2P game projects.
July 29, 2016
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Video: Designing the Spartan abilities in Halo 5: Guardians
At GDC 2016, former 343 Industries game designer Ryan Darcey offered insight into the process of taking the "Spartan Charge" and "Ground Pound" actions of Halo 5 from concept to final release.
July 29, 2016
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Why Bethesda should reveal Paid Mods 2.0 soon
Bethesda now has a more compelling business case than ever to resurrect its controversial paid mods system ("Paid Mods 2.0"), with its cross-platform mod system, Bethesda.net. But it has a narrow window of opportunity.
July 29, 2016
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A Theory on Pokémon Go's Location System
In this post we're going to try to crack open Pokémon Go and determine how and why each pokémon are placed.
July 29, 2016
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How Pokemon GO's Design Creates Systemic Crowds
Pokemon Go has the unique ability to create systemic crowds of players in real world locations. What are the components of this system, and how could it be replicated?
July 29, 2016
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Flat Kingdom post-mortem. 30 months of learning and shaping our first indie game.
Redesigning the main character of a game after launch is something very rarely seen in games, especially after 30 months of development. In this article we analyse the story and reasons behind this and other steps we took in Flat Kingdom.
July 29, 2016
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Hunt The Syntax, Part One
This series sets out the historical roots of the text puzzle and the influence it has had on the evolution of video games. It begins with the first text adventures, moves on to the representation of the quest within MUDs. Part one of two.
July 29, 2016
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Furi: some tough design decisions striving to make a memorable game
Following the launch of Furi - the boss rush game for PC/ PS4 - Emeric Thoa is sharing thoughts on some of the hard design decisions behind making a game that's not meant to please everyone but strives to create strong memories for its intended audience.
July 29, 2016
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Videoball, and the challenge of designing (and selling) simplicity
"It's about shapes and its about visibility. It's designed for legibility. Everything is designed for the eyes - for human eyes to be comfortable."
July 28, 2016
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Unity 5.4 sees a stable release, and a beta of 5.5 is in the works
Just a quick heads-up for Unity develeopers that the game engine company has today taken the "beta" tag off Unity 5.4 and made it available to devs as a stable release.
July 28, 2016
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Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar reflect on their work at Robotron: 2084 dev Vid Kidz
A fan at California Extreme captured video of veteran arcade game devs (and Defender co-creators) Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar delivering a postmortem of their work at Robotron: 2084 dev Vid Kidz.
July 28, 2016
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Ubisoft is taking a shot at the karaoke game biz with Just Sing
Ubisoft is dipping its toes into the karaoke game business with Just Sing, a game that challenges players to sing along (or lip-sync) to known songs from artists like Queen and One Direction.
July 28, 2016