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Pokemon GO and the good things that can come from a bad UI
Web and App development UX is about removing friction, games UX is about meaningful friction. Pokémon GO's confusing UX/UI is applying meaningful friction and is feeding into the dense social experience of the game. Here's why.
July 22, 2016
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Kentucky Route Zero and Play as Theatrical Performance
Kentucky Route Zero is a great place to look for creative ways of making meaningful player experiences. KRZ's solutions to this problem are very different than those offered by other games. The result is something that has a lasting impact on the player.
July 21, 2016
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How Android piracy is affecting a free game
Everybody knows Android piracy is a real issue, especially for game developers. In this post I’m going to discuss the piracy which affected my game during the first month on Google Play, the official Android store.
July 21, 2016
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Game Sequels
While many fans decry frequent game sequels, their use in the game design process cannot be understated.
July 20, 2016
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Pokemon Go media coverage is truly insane – analysis
Currently there is no way to miss Pokemon Go. In its short lifetime, the game is breaking records left and right like being the biggest mobile game in the US ever or attracting more users than services like Twitter or Tinder.
July 20, 2016
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How Pokémon Go Fails to Capture Learnability
Why does Pokémon Go need propping-up from the hundreds of how-to guides that have popped up this week? This article highlights how Niantic have broken or ignored principles for designing a learnable game.
July 20, 2016
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Being Indie in South America
What is like to be an Indie developer in South America? Good and bad things about it from an Argentinean point of view.
July 19, 2016
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Unity 5 and WebGL porting guide
So, you have been working on Mobile games for a while using Unity, and probably heard that with Unity 5 it was possible to port your games for the Web sans Unity Web Player.
July 19, 2016
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Rococo VR: how your whole design process can be fuelled by art
An approach to design process based on historical research, creating game aesthetics and mechanics based upon such a research.
July 19, 2016
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Canargy: the Slang of Empyrea’s Automata
This post is about a language I created for the game ChronoBlade, with some things about worldbuilding and game narrative thrown in.
July 19, 2016
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ADD & Game Dev (Part I): Making Games When You Struggle with a Hyper-Mind
Part I: An honest, personal look at how ADD affects game development.
July 18, 2016
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Is it time to start thinking of Pokemon as a language?
The wildfire success of Pokemon Go may be a good argument for thinking about game systems as a language, not just an architecture for play.
July 18, 2016