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The Risks of Long-Term Game Development
Long-Term game development is becoming more common these days, and today's post looks at the pros and cons for everybody involved.
May 5, 2016
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Why You Should Always Register the Trademark on your Kickstarter Game
Due to a quirk in trademark law, a successful Kickstarter campaign provides you zero protection over the title of your game. There is only one way to protect a game title while crowdfunding during development.
May 4, 2016
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Building on the past: How RuneScape’s official legacy server avoided cannibalism and became an eSport
Mat Kemp, Product Manager for Old School RuneScape, examines how Jagex took a version of RuneScape from 10 years ago and made it relevant for todays’ gamers, and why other MMO companies should look to offer vanilla services for their veteran communities.
May 4, 2016
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Brainstorming in 5 Easy Steps: The Story of a New Game Character
This is a how-to story on the brainstorming process we used, at Sand Sailor Studio, for introducing a new character in the game we are currently developing: Black The Fall.
May 4, 2016
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How to make your own YouTubers' contacts list!
Two weeks ago I released the biggest YouTubers' contacts list on the Internet; over 1400 accounts with e-mails and social media. Today, I'm going to show you how to build one on your own!
May 4, 2016
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Stakes in Games
Consequence in games doesn't always have to be about permanent failures.
May 4, 2016
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How Rogue Legacy deals with Down-scrolling and Leaps of faith
The goal of this blog is to analyze how Rogue Legacy deals with down-scrolling in order to minimize “leaps of faith” or to play around them from a level design perspective.
May 3, 2016
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Puzzle Dependency Graph Primer
An introduction to Puzzle Dependency Graphs, an analytical technique which can be used to gain insights into the size, structure and complexity of a game.
May 3, 2016
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The Shoulders of Giants: LensManagers
In which I describe a programming pattern that permits shared control over any sort of game system (a stage curtain, for example) by any number of anonymous game entities.
May 3, 2016
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Your problems are not always what they seam: combining different meshes into seamless procedural characters
My current personal project, Bestiarium, depends heavily on procedural character generation. In this post, I discuss how changing my perspective on a problem led me to create a solution for combining several meshes into one smooth, seamless character.
May 3, 2016
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On the importance of showing gameplay video when demoing your Gear VR game
Every year Nacelle Games goes to the East Coast Game Conference. This year we had the chance to demo our VR adventure game called "The Island," and found out the importance of showing a gameplay video when demoing a game for the Gear VR.
May 3, 2016
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Making Meetings Quick and Effective
Everyone hates meetings! Let's work to try and make them a bit more tolerable.
May 3, 2016