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Starting Your Own Game Development Studio – One Year On
I’ve learned a lot in one year of starting my own game development studio and wanted to share my experiences and throw in a few tips along the way. Some tips may come as a bit of a surprise!
March 7, 2016
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Strategies in Audio and Music for Portable Games
How do we effectively create and deploy sound and music in mobile/portable games? Current strategies and trends are explored in this article, including tactics for addressing memory limitations, solving loudness issues, and hiring external contractors.
March 7, 2016
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How Steam key Reselling is Killing the Little Guys
Steam key reselling is killing indie sites like ours and indie developers as a whole. I’m hoping that at the very least gamers realize that turning to the gray market hurts people like us that are working hard to support the game industry and indie scene.
March 7, 2016
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When extra budget increases your visual quality
The difficulty of maintaining Art Direction consistency when project's scope and visual quality increase.
March 7, 2016
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Do we really need game testers?
Do we really need game testers when we move to a more Agile way of developing games? If the development teams own the quality of their product and do their own testing, is there really a place for dedicated game testers?
March 7, 2016
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A different type of time management for indie developers
A different type of Time Management for indie developers. How to apply some time management techniques to achieve your goals. My experience with these methods. I want to describe my own technique
March 7, 2016
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Game Design Framework: On the way to good Game Design
My article about production culture impact on Game Design, and the most common problems which game designer have to overcome during interaction with the team.
March 5, 2016
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9 Tips on Localizing Audio
In this article, we will share some tips on how to interact with recording studios and localization services, how to optimize and accelerate the process, and how to reduce the risks as well as the costs of audio localization.
March 5, 2016
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Privacy: How will GDPR and Privacy Shield Impact the Game Biz?
How will the new EU GDPR privacy regulation and the updated US-EU privacy agreement affect game studios? Unlike the US COPPA law, which only affected 'child directed' games, both regs will force game publishers to take active steps to protect privacy.
March 5, 2016
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Ultimate Chicken Horse: Pre-Mortem
Today I'm doing a pre-mortem, a sort of "what I've learned leading up to launch" for our game Ultimate Chicken Horse. I'd love to know if people had similar experiences, and I can compare this to when I write a proper post-mortem.
March 5, 2016