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Get a job: Demiurge Studios seeks an experienced Game Designer
Cambridge-based F2P studio Demiurge is now owned by SEGA Networks, and the team looking for someone with a few years of experience to serve as a Senior Game Designer on a new mobile/PC F2P title.
May 15, 2015
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Going mobile the right way: A Crack Attack postmortem
Rare and Free Radical veteran Martin Wakeley writes a no-nonsense postmortem of Crack Attack, a mobile puzzle game that draws on his years of dev experience and love of smartphone games, too.
May 14, 2015
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Get a job: BioWare is hiring a Quality Analyst
BioWare's Edmonton office, perhaps best known for its work on the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises, seeks a quality analyst to test and measure player experience of the studio's current project.
May 14, 2015
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Video: Not My Story - Mistakes made in Kachina's development
As part of the Failure Workshop at GDC 2015's Indie Games Summit, Donut County designer Ben Esposito talks about the mistakes he made while developing a game that "used Hopi folklore" as its theme.
May 14, 2015
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Opinion: Instruction manuals are game mechanics
Instruction manuals for video games are seen as less of a necessity these days, but they still can give a game a bit more soul, even today. Katherine Cross explains.
May 14, 2015
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Watch a Republic Commando dev play the game and recount its creation
Heads up: Star Wars: Republic Commando lead programmer Brett Douville has begun livestreaming himself playing the game on his Twitch channel while discussing the ins and outs of its development.
May 14, 2015
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Former AAA devs raise $3.5M for a new mobile game studio in China
Directive Games, a mobile game studio founded in Hong Kong last year by ex-AAA devs from companies like DICE, CCP, Square Enix and Tencent, has raised $3.5 million to make "quality" mobile games.
May 14, 2015
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Space Engineers dev offers $100k and full source code to modders
Keen Software House is making a show of supporting modders by releasing source code for its game Space Engineers and setting aside $100k to fund development of mods based on the game or its engine.
May 14, 2015
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$200M in profits for Candy Crush maker, in a single quarter
Social game company King continues to reap big profits in the face of flagging revenues and an expanding game catalog that still revolves around its flagship title: Candy Crush Saga.
May 14, 2015
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Indie devs see successful Kickstarter sunk by fraudulent backer
A backer seems to have torpedoed one dev's Kickstarter by pushing the total over the funding goal with a €7k pledge, then being banned for fraudulent activity 31 minutes before the campaign ended.
May 14, 2015
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Attend GDC Europe to learn the business of nurturing amateur eSports
GDC Europe 2015 is just a few months away, and today conference officials are proud to reveal talks focused on the business of nurturing your game's community of players.
May 13, 2015
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6 musts for a perfect platformer, from the Yooka-Laylee team
Yooka-Laylee is a Kickstarter smash, coming as it does from a team of Rare veterans. With that in mind, Gamasutra asked for platformer development wisdom from the team.
May 13, 2015