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Trust and Reasonable Expectations – The Currencies of Getting Funded on Kickstarter in 2016? Part II
In the first part of this piece, we talked about the first five aspects of what we feel are most important to running a successful Kickstarter campaign. This time, we delve deeper into the people aspect of things and setting a funding goal.
March 9, 2016
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Reminder: GDC 2016 online registration closes tomorrow!
With just over a day left until online registration for GDC 2016 ends Wednesday, March 9th at 11:59 PM PT, conference organizers are encouraging anyone interested in attending to register now!
March 8, 2016
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Get a job: Respawn is hiring a Level Designer for an unannounced game
The studio that built Titanfall is looking to bring on a senior level designer to work on an unannounced project alongside the team at its office in Chatsworth, CA.
March 8, 2016
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Survey: Work-for-hire is the most common way indie devs pay bills
After conducting an informal poll of indie game makers last month, indie developer and Finji Games co-founder Adam Saltsman has published the results on his blog this week.
March 8, 2016
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Abstraction's Impact on Accessibility in Game Design
The Game Industry became a lot more accessible over the last decade, and part of that was a decision to abstract design and mechanics. Today's post looks at what that means and one of the best examples of it in action.
March 8, 2016
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Alt.CTRL.GDC Showcase: Baumgarten & Autio's Rotator
"Our controller is three big motorized steering wheels. The idea is to experiment with different ways the wheels can work -- maintain constant motion, reverse directions, wind up a spring, and so on."
March 7, 2016
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Sponsored: Porting a Unity game to Samsung Gear VR
ARM will be showing a demo for the Samsung Gear VR game Ice Cave at GDC in March. Here's an in-depth article on how one dev ported the game to VR using Unity.
March 7, 2016
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How The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human is like a Pixies song
"The Pixies song 'Tame' is just super quiet verses and then totally explosive choruses. We really wanted to achieve this polarized, dynamic effect in our game."
March 4, 2016
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Palmer Luckey: Oculus support will hit Mac when 'Apple releases a good computer'
"It just boils down to the fact that Apple doesn’t prioritize high-end GPUs. You can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top of the line AMD FirePro D700, and it still doesn’t match our recommended specs."
March 4, 2016
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Wargaming & Disney join EA, Activision in vacating E3 show floor
The trend of big game companies taking a pass on having a presence on the E3 show floor continues, as VentureBeat reports that both Disney and Wargaming will not have booths at the event this year.
March 4, 2016
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Get a job: Turbine seeks an experienced Android Engineer
The studio known for Lord of the Rings Online and the Infinite Crisis MOBA is hiring a senior Android engineer to work on mobile projects at its Needham, Massachusetts office.
March 4, 2016
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Nintendo fends off Wii Remote patent suit appeal
Nintendo has defended itself against a lawsuit that alleged its Wii Remote technology infringed upon patents obtained by UltimatePointer.
March 3, 2016