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Take care of yourself: A tip from the 2014 Game Career Guide
In this edition, Frog Fractions developer Jim Crawford offers some advice for indies and student developers: take care of yourself and your team, so you (and your game) don't fizzle out!
Dec. 19, 2014
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Get a job: Volition is hiring a Senior Systems Designer
The makers of Saints Row are looking for an experienced designer to take on a senior systems designer role on a third-person action game at the company's Champaign, Illinois studio.
Dec. 18, 2014
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Get coding advice from Insomniac, Riot and Ubisoft at GDC 2015
Insomniac breaks down AI design for open-world games, Riot shows you how to scale like League of Legends and Ubisoft details Unity's trick of AI recycling at GDC 2015.
Dec. 18, 2014
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College students in Sheffield, UK gain access to dozens of PS4 dev kits
Sheffield Hallam University has opened the world's largest PlayStation educational facility, complete with 34 PS4 dev kits, adding to their existing suite of PS3 and PS Vita dev kits.
Dec. 18, 2014
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Gamasutra's Best of 2014: Alex Wawro's Top 5 Games
As the temperature drops and the game industry continues its sleepy shuffle through the holiday season, many of us turn to reflect on a simple question: what the hell was this year in games all about?
Dec. 18, 2014
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Free game dev tool GameAnalytics raises $5.5M, eyes paid services
GameAnalytics, which offers free analytics services to game makers, has raised $5.5 from investors new and old as it shuffles its executive ranks and prepares to launch new, paid services.
Dec. 18, 2014
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Gamasutra's Best of 2014: Kris Graft's Top 5 Games
Look past the conflict in 2014, and you'll see an incredible amount of great games for all kinds of tastes.
Dec. 17, 2014
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Submit your games!: A tip from the 2014 Game Career Guide
In this edition, Rami Ismail of Luftrausers developer Vlambeer offers some advice for indies and student developers: step up and submit your game to every festival and award show you can!
Dec. 17, 2014
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Get a job: ArenaNet is hiring an Audio Programmer
The folks who brought you Guild Wars 2 are looking for an audio programmer with production experience to help develop audio tech and tools in ArenaNet's Bellevue, WA studio.
Dec. 17, 2014
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Video: How Save the Date wins hearts through nonlinear narrative
As part of the GDC 2014 Independent Games Summit, Save the Date creator Chris Cornell spoke about the specific techniques he used to build a surprisingly emotional nonlinear narrative game.
Dec. 17, 2014
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Forge of Empires dev sees record growth after moving into mobile
German social game studio InnoGames reportedly doubled its revenue in the U.S. this year and hit a record overall annual revenue total of $100 million as it began porting its browser games to mobile.
Dec. 17, 2014
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Puerto Rico awards its first tax incentives for game development
San Juan-based Space Rhino Games is the first studio awarded under the U.S. territory's new scheme, which offers a 40 percent tax credit on projects $100,000 and up.
Dec. 17, 2014