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On Warcraft movie, critical reception, and cultural heritage
Why I think the Warcraft movie is a big win for video game adaptations in the long run despite the negative critical reception.
June 14, 2016
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Educational Games: The Big Picture Part V
In this podcast, game designer Sande Chen discusses meta-gaming and educational analog games, especially edu-larps, which might be considered the precursor of educational VR.
June 14, 2016
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UX Deep Dive: Painful reality of building FPS experiences on mobile? - Part 1
A deep look at UX issues mobile devices throw up to recreate conventional FPS experience, and how mobile developers are trying to get around it.
June 14, 2016
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The Science & Craft of Designing Daily Rewards -- and Why FTP Games Need Them
With the cost of acquiring new users rising every year, free-to-play game developers should strongly consider adding daily log-in rewards. This post explains how to optimize this mechanic through long-established behavioral economics’ principles.
June 14, 2016
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Virtual Reality Development Tips
Virtual reality development tips. Broken up into Vive specific, general VR and philosophical tips.
June 14, 2016
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Level Design in Halo 5 Multiplayer: Plaza
A study and overview of the Halo 5 multiplayer map "Plaza", and how it showcases Halo 5 multiplayer's design strengths.
June 14, 2016
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Developers, MobyGames wants your (and other!) concept art, renders & more
Veteran game database site MobyGames is adding the ability to contribute watermark-free, hi-res promotional images of all kinds to the website. Here's how you can help preserve important historical images.
June 12, 2016
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Beyond the pitch: getting your team engaged and excited about a game development project
This article is a continuation of the Game Outcomes Project, which started in 2014 as an independent industry/academic partnership to investigate the factors the most strongly influence game development project success or failure.
June 11, 2016
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Don't Quit, Do Something Crazy
One year ago, Mighty Rabbit Studios faced a complete shutdown. Taking one crazy risk, they were able to come back from the brink of closure.
June 11, 2016
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Rise of Taiwan’s Indie Scene
A look at the state and growth of the Taiwanese indie scene and how it came to be.
June 11, 2016
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Lara Croft and the search for the Holy Grail
'Rise of the Tomb Raider' presented a clever turn on the Christian canon. In this article, Pieter Smal compares game mythology with the gnostic gospels, the legend of the Holy Grail, and historical Christianity.
June 10, 2016
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Load Testing with Locust.io
This post gives a brief overview of how Kongregate uses Locust.io to perform distributed load testing of our infrastructure on AWS. It explains how we defined and ran our tests, along with covering some common pitfalls that we encountered along the way.
June 10, 2016