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How to make F2P work?
Just how much money do players need to spend in your game to make the freemium model work?
March 15, 2016
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Mark's GDC Pre-Game Tips
Getting ready for GDC? Here are some thoughts about how to maximize your experience from a former advisory board member.
March 15, 2016
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When not to go to Early Access
A counterpoint to my previous post on Early Access. While the platform works most of the time, there are a few points that may dissuade you from using it for developing your game.
March 15, 2016
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Shiny: From Oculus Rift to GearVR
Changing the target platform for your game always requires some work. We ported Shiny our Psychedelic Neck Trainer from Oculus Rift to GearVR in Unity5 and want to share our experience. This entry contains several optimization tipps among other subjects.
March 15, 2016
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Why all deadlines are bad for quality
In this article I will explore why I think that deadlines should never be communicated to the development teams, and why all deadlines are basically meaningless anyway.
March 15, 2016
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Psycho-Analysis of Borderlands 2: Writing 'Froidean Dream Pigs'
Recently decided to revive and clean up a series of storyboard panels from a Borderlands 2 project that I worked on and present them in a 2D Storyboard Film format. Here's some insight into the process.
March 15, 2016
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App Stores, Steam, and Indie poverty: the Web as an alternative.
This article offers insights about Indie poverty in the app stores and Steam platforms. I have also make some analysis of sales and revenue of best and worst selling games in Steam based on Steam Spy data. Finally I propose the Web as an alternative.
March 15, 2016
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An Update about the China Mobile Game Market [Reports]
As we are moving to the end of Q1 2016, it is time to review the China mobile game market. While there wasn't any dramatic change of the China mobile game space, it reassured my point of view about RPG and Action Games will dominate the mobile space.
March 15, 2016
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Language and Mobile Development - A Postmortem on Terminology and Teams
A postmortem focusing on managing terminology and its effect throughout the development of Fuel's Ignite product
March 11, 2016
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Making the most out of the first-person perspective
A game design article explaining how developers can flesh out the first-person perspective and turn it into a tool that adds character and soul to the avatar while preserving the immersion factor.
March 11, 2016
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9 Tips on Setting Application Analytics
Setting custom events is a critical task because the events set in a right way make it easier to work with the product and demonstrate the challenges that the user is experiencing. I'd like to share some thoughts about it.
March 11, 2016
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GDC 2016 - our lecture recommendations for press.
For the benefit of press that might not have spotted them yet, and for those people who want to see some of the 'newsier' (and some of the worthwhile and less news-y) talks at GDC next week.
March 11, 2016