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You all suck at networking
Okay, so perhaps not all of you suck at networking, a lot of you are pretty good at it, probably even better than I am. But I do see a lot of people asking questions about getting jobs, finding publishers, getting access to platforms and stuff like that.
April 4, 2016
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Comedic Sound for the Game Music Composer
A discussion of comedic music & sound in games, with advice from pop culture critic Christopher Gates, game sound designer Luca Fusi, and film sound designer Chris Scarabosio. Also: a discussion of my comedic music from The Maw (Twisted Pixel Games).
April 4, 2016
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Pitching Games: What Has Worked for Us So Far and May Help You Too!
In a matter of months, we have gone from never having pitched a game before to having our pitches win prizes. This is a guide on perfecting the art of showing your game to anyone. Written by Molly Heady-Carroll, Co-Founder of Arcane Circus.
April 2, 2016
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Why I canceled my Wii U game
After cancelling a small Wii U project following the firing of Alison Rapp by Nintendo, the developer discusses why, and the subsequent fallout.
April 1, 2016
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Adding visual variety using a few Photoshop-like tricks
We realized we needed to increase visual variety on our game, and instead of creating tons of new assets, we implemented and used some Photoshop-like tricks, which saved time and gave us a huge amount of variety.
March 31, 2016
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How Japanese Mobile Game Makers Go After Whales: 5 Popular Gacha Mechanics
Gacha, a mystery box mechanic offering random items to users, has been the top revenue driver in Japanese mobile games for several years now. This blog post sheds light on some of the most popular gacha variants used in Japan today.
March 31, 2016
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Breaking Chess, but just enough
This is the first part of my postmortem on my procedural Chess game, X: a game of YZ, created for the 2015 ProcJam. In this post, I talk about the design decisions I had to make and the motivations for the game itself.
March 31, 2016
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Performance Critical Editor Tools and Serialized Objects
I take a look at creating a Unity editor tool that requires high performance, how serialized properties can have surprising effects on performance and what I did to increase performance by over 20 times for my tool!
March 31, 2016
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Analyzing the Epic Card Game
White Wizard Games gave themselves an impossible challenge. Here's how they're dealing with it.
March 31, 2016
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Open sourcing 80 Days' narrative scripting language: ink
inkle recently open-sourced their narrative scripting language, as used in 80 Days and Sorcery! How does it work, and why did they decide to make it freely available?
March 31, 2016
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Sans voir: generating procedural chess pieces
This is the second part of my postmortem on my procedural Chess game, X: a game of YZ, created for the 2015 ProcJam. In this post, I talk about how I approached creating procedural chess pieces.
March 31, 2016
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Jessica Curry: A musical journey towards [Everybody's Gone to] "the Rapture"
In this article Pieter Smal discusses religious music in Jessica Curry's video game soundtracks with emphasis on 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture'.
March 31, 2016