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Residual Play Artifacts
Residual play artifacts are objects, whether virtual or existing in real space, that are created by the player during the process of play.
May 11, 2016
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NDCS Workshop 2016
A summary of the recent game development workshop run by Guerilla Tea alongside the National Deaf Children's Society, hosted by Abertay University.
May 11, 2016
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Smooth Operator: designing a fluid and handy FPS movement model
A game design article that talks about the ways FPS developers can fine-tune and flesh out the movement model in their games, and make it smoother and more intuitive.
May 11, 2016
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A Brain Dump of What I Worked on for Uncharted 4
Here is a brain dump of what I worked on for Uncharted 4.
May 11, 2016
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A Method to the Madness: How to Facilitate the Brainstorming Process
I discuss a strategy that I have developed for producers and game designers to help facilitate the brainstorming process when a new team forms or begins a new project.
May 10, 2016
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Why aren't computer RPGs (especially MMOs) as much FUN to play as old-time D&D?
Computer RPGs (especially MMOs) appear to be a "grind" aimed at rising in level.  People don't enjoy the journey, they only enjoy the destination ("I'm 80th level!").  That's why there's a big market for sale of items and gold and even entire accounts.
May 10, 2016
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How to hack your indie game marketing
Marketing a game is the part of indie development that devs seem to fear the most. This article will lay out some strategies you can implement from before you've started creating your game up to the time of release, in order to market your game cheaply!
May 10, 2016
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Unity Native Plugins: A wrapper, for a wrapper, for a wrapper
Unity has an amazing ecosystem of developer tools in the Unity Asset Store. Unity assets are a great way for middleware providers to sell to developers. Native plugins are not easy to make! This article shows the complexity of creating a native plugin.
May 10, 2016
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How I failed at greenlight
After 6 months without success, it’s time for a mini post-mortem on my first Greenlight campaign. If you’re looking at trying to get your project through Greenlight, I hope the lessons I’ve learnt are useful to you.
May 10, 2016
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The Galaxy Is Yours: Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 2 has problems with its representation of race, gender and ethics.
May 10, 2016
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Calculating LTV for a Mobile Game - Methods for Different Stages
Calculating LTV for a game in design phases is different compared to the soft launch phase which is again different from the lauch phase. This post describes the calcualtion in different phases and suggests additional resources such as CLV calculators.
May 10, 2016
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Health 101 with Professor Yoshi’s Island
What is fascinating about Yoshi's Island's Health System is that every mistake has to be explicitly made up for.
May 10, 2016