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Marketing in Motion: A Year of Making Gifs
Your game is awesome and has a lot of cool things to show, but your gif should show off a single concept. Laser focus instead of flood light. If you’re showing a spell, cut off long casting animations. If you’re showing cool environments, don’t add noise
July 7, 2016
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The Power Fantasy of Doom
Today's post looks at how the latest Doom created an effective power fantasy that controlled the mood of the story.
July 6, 2016
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16 of Gamasutra's best articles over the last quarter
Hey readers! I’m back with another quarterly roundup of Gamasutra articles over the past quarter (April-June), as I continue my heroic efforts to excavate the best recently-published work.
July 6, 2016
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Meeple Centred Design
Board game accessibility as a topic for advocacy is in its infancy compared to video game accessibility. In this post, I discuss what can be learned from inclusive video game design, and put forward a plan for convergence through Meeple Centred Design.
July 6, 2016
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So Many Projects, So Little Time
Working full-time while making your game is probably the new norm, and there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day. However, these three tips helped me finish my first game and are now helping me with The First Tree.
July 6, 2016
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My Experience with Steam Greenlight + Greenlight Tips
This is just a post about my personal experience with the steam greenlight process as well as some tips and tricks I learned while going through the works.
July 6, 2016
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Doing Difficulty Right: Keeping Players Informed
It's easy to make a game hard; fill it with invisible platforms, non-solid walls and instant-kill hazards. But let's say you're interested in crafting an experience which WON'T cause players to rage-quit...
July 6, 2016
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7 Tips to 7-Day Game Jams
Game jams are tough, especially when they're in a timebox. Allocate time, prepare, and stay calm for an intense week of raw game development with seven tips for jamming.
July 6, 2016
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This Week in Video Game Blogging: Innovative Storytelling
This week, our partnership with games blogging curation site Critical Distance brings us picks from their Senior Curator Zoya Street on how you can dust off the dried-out tropes and fascinate your players with new narrative experiences.
July 5, 2016
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Designing Dexterity-based Melee Combat for an Action-RPG
Traditionally RPGs use dice to randomize combat results. This post discusses how we used timing and player skill to the same effect without compromising the strategic options players expect from an RPG for our game upcoming game Unexplored.
July 5, 2016
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Android and Beyond!
A further update to our indie journey - discusses bringing our mobile title - Rapture World Conquest to Android with plenty of juicy stats
July 5, 2016
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The Good and the Bad of the Passion for Gaming in Chinese Internet Cafés
China's I-cafe industry is experiencing a major resurgence thanks to hard-core gamers, but with this resurgence in popularity has come cautionary tales of taking digital gaming to unsafe levels.
July 5, 2016