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Designing for Difficulty: Readability in ARPGs
How do you make action combat feel fair when players face insurmountable bosses? Lessons from Elden Ring, Sekiro, Death's Gambit, and techniques used to increase difficulty without sacrificing readability.
April 19, 2022
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Nintendo Switch: the state of player discovery
Hey Switch players, how's it going?
April 14, 2022
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Techniques for Modular Game Music (Composing for Lineage M: GDC 2022)
In this article series, video game composer Winifred Phillips shares the content of her GDC 2022 lecture, "Composing for Lineage M: Modular Construction in Game Music." Topics include one-shots, interchangeable components, cohesive pacing, tonal center.
April 14, 2022
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"Why Is It Like That?" – Dr. Carly Kocurek on Games Research and Gaming's Techno Masculinity
Dr. Carly Kocurek and I discussed the pervasive view of games as being made by and for men, the practices of documenting video game history, how her interest in research brought her to video games, and much more in this wide-ranging interview.
April 13, 2022
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Instruments Of Destruction's 'build & smash' launch - deconstructed
The tools of foul play.
April 12, 2022
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Meaningful and Creative Ways for the Game Companies to Support Ukraine
Pay tribute to Ukraine, a game market worth $300 million, with localizations, LiveOps, and freedom fighting narratives.
April 12, 2022
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Crushed: Inside Capcom's Marketing Feud with Acclaim and Mortal Kombat
A former Capcom USA senior VP talks Capcom's friendly feud with Acclaim, the cultural differences between Capcom USA and Capcom Co., Ltd., in Japan, and Street Fighter versus Mortal Kombat.
April 11, 2022
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From 400 to 20,000 wishlists with 1 video: How Tiktok can make your game go viral
How I used TikTok to promote my game The Matriarch and gain 20k+ wishlists.
April 8, 2022
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How Townscaper Works: A Story Four Games in the Making
Townscaper, the procedural town-building toy, has been a huge indie success story. I explain how the game can generate towns so easier and gain further insights thanks to my interviewing its creator Oskar Stalberg.
April 7, 2022
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The best - and worst - ways to pitch media for game discovery?
A great conversation with Kate Gray, as part of GameDiscoverCo's new podcast.
April 7, 2022
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Storytelling in Games and Interactive Media. Chapter 3: Freedom of Choice
In the last part we talked about a story's setting and structure, drawing similarities to other media such as screenwriting. However, film is not an interactive medium, and as such not subject to the topic of this third part: player agency.
April 7, 2022
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Nightmare Reaper: doing a 1.0 Steam release the right way
Some impressive results from the splatterpunk FPS.
April 5, 2022