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Make Your Own Way: The Rise of Indie Content Developers
You've seen the Unreal Engine Marketplace and the Unity Asset Store. Many developers are making a living selling content there. Could that work for you? Here's a complete guide how to enter those markets and thrive as an indie content developer.
May 10, 2016
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Comparing MOBA Infused FPS: Battleborn, Overwatch, LawBreakers
Red Fox Insights takes a close look at the flood of FPS with MOBA elements landing this year: Overwatch, Battleborn and LawBreakers. Each has unique differences, but they also share defining similarities; including potential audiences.
May 10, 2016
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Feedback from Fans of the Genre
How a couple of reddit posts ended up setting the tone for Torgar's Quest, and lessons learned from talking to fans of the game's genre.
May 10, 2016
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How Kongregate Handled the Death of Unity's Web Player on Chrome
While browser games remain a popular format for game development, the technology behind browser games has been changing quickly. This post dives into how the browser audience on Kongregate.com reacted to the removal of Unity's Web Player in Chrome.
May 6, 2016
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Photoshop as game editor
In this blog post I want to show you how we optimized our workflow process by using Photoshop and Photoshop Generator.
May 6, 2016
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Testing for Success: Devising a Mobile QA Strategy
How to think about building a well thought-out mobile QA strategy to mitigate some of the resource burden and risk associated with that last, critical phase before bringing a new app to the marketplace.
May 6, 2016
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Bringing Industry into Education
In this blog I will share some insight into the way games education is evolving in universities to include involvement from game studios.
May 5, 2016
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The Future of the ARPG
Shares some thoughts about the ARPG, how it came to be, how it has evolved and what the future might hold for the genre.
May 5, 2016
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Fears of Apple's Paid Search Plans
A recent report from Bloomberg claims that Apple is investigating adding paid search to the App Store. Here, I react with some fears for how paid search will affect rank and file game devs and the mobile game ecosystem.
May 5, 2016
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The making of mobile game 'Photo Finish Horse Racing', part 1
After being laid off in a studio closure, industry veteran Ian Cummings set out to make a game for fun in his spare time. That little side project has now grown into the top horse racing game on mobile, and this blog explains what happened along the way.
May 5, 2016
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Emotional Connection Through Gameplay
Discussing how we have and can build up emotional connections between the player and AI through game play. Is taken from my portfolio http://maxpears.com/
May 5, 2016
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Trust your gut when raising money
How to choose investors, what to be careful of and how to keep your eyes open. Tips and tricks of fundraising.
May 5, 2016