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Twitch Affiliates will soon reap the rewards of paid subscription tiers
Twitch is beefing up the benefits it offers to streamers that partake in its Twitch Affiliates program and making the streaming platform more profitable for those that qualify in the process.
June 27, 2017
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Why Introversion had no choice but to make Scanner Sombre
A short defense of Introversion's decision to make Scanner Sombre, despite the "obvious" choice of a Prison Architect sequel.
June 27, 2017
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Indie Post Mortem - Captain Kaon – Part One
After a long four years I've finally finished my game. Come this way and I'll share the highs and lows of development.
June 27, 2017
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The memory optimization struggle in Unity3d
A few (several) words on how finally deciding to use Unity AssetBundles saved us from an abusing the players RAM memory.
June 27, 2017
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Mechanics - Depth Knows Best
I talk about how it is better to invest in the depth of a mechanic over having 100s of mechanics. Showing how it is important to give players a chance to learn and grow with the mechanic.
June 27, 2017
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Mario + Rabbids, Wolfenstein II among 2017 E3 Game Critics Awards noms
This year Ubisoft's Mario + Rabbids Battle Kingdom, Monolith's Middle-earth: Shadow of War, and MachineGames' Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus came out on top, with four award nominations each.
June 26, 2017
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Nintendo plans to produce 'significantly more' than 2.3M SNES Classic Editions
Nintendo says it plans to produce more SNES Classics than it did for the NES Classic Edition last year, but that it doesn't plan to sell the retro console beyond 2017.
June 26, 2017
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Video game music systems at GDC 2017: what are composers using?
In the GDC 2017 audio track, several divergent systems for interactive music implementation were presented. Video game composer Winifred Phillips explores some of these systems, while also sharing interactive music case studies from her own projects.
June 26, 2017
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Chat with the developer of twin-stick shooter Nex Machina today at 1PM EDT
We're chatting with one of the minds behind Resogun and now Nex Machina on the Gamasutra Twitch channel today at 1PM EDT.
June 23, 2017
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3 months after launch, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds sells 4M copies
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, a game which is still in Early Access, has now sold over four million copies, according to lead developer Brendan Greene.
June 22, 2017
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It's a me, M-AR-io recreated in AR
Developer Abhishek Singh recreated a life-size Super Mario Bros. level for Microsoft’s Hololens, and took to New York’s Central Park dressed as the plumber himself in order to test out how the 2D platformer fared in AR.
June 22, 2017
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New VRDC VR/AR Innovation Report reveals the HTC Vive is devs' top target
This data-rich survey of VR/AR/MR professionals suggests that the HTC Vive is still the most popular headset to develop for, and that interest in platform-exclusive experiences is rising.
June 22, 2017