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Gamasutra - The Art & Business of Making Games

Gamasutra - The Art & Business of Making Games
RockYou's new strategy: Rescue games that other publishers don't want RockYou is taking over Digital Chocolate and Playdom titles in two separate deals that bring 3 to 4 million players -- and some of the games' developers -- into its direct purview. Video: Breaking down the seven-year development of Antichamber Indie developer Alexander Bruce shares what his development philosophy and what he learned in a postmortem discussion of the development of Antichamber given at GDC 2014. 'What's the best game dev educational resource you've ever used?' There's a lot of great educational resources out there that can help you refine your game development skills -- the trouble is knowing where to look.

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Artist Interviews Damon Bard has posted some huge images of his Kung Fu Panda II and How to Train Your Dragon maquettes on his web site here... Topic: Game Developer Magazine Intro to User Analytics by Magy Seif El-Nasr, Alessandro Canossa, Anders Drachen [05.30.13] An intro to analytics written by the editors of Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data, a compendium of insights from more than 50 experts in industry and research, which covers the most relevant questions: what to track, and how to analyze the data. Business/Marketing , Design , Game Developer Magazine , Console/PC , Social/Online , Smartphone/Tablet , GD Mag , GD Mag Exclusive Internal Indies by Steve Stopps [05.29.13] Are there lessons from indie development that can be utilized in a larger, established studio setting? In order to answer this question, Blitz Game Studios started a simple experiment: inviting five senior developers to form a team with complete creative freedom. Business/Marketing , Production , Game Developer Magazine , Console/PC , Indie , Smartphone/Tablet , GD Mag , GD Mag Exclusive

Pixar Renderman RenderMan 20 Now Available! Highlights of version 20 include a game-changing noise reduction technology that accelerate render times from 2x to 10x. RenderMan 20 also expands the creative choices available to artists and studios through numerous advances in usability including a physical camera, a Visualizer for navigating and inspecting large scenes interactively, expanded shader libraries and presets, and new volume rendering features. Internet Arcade : Free Software : Download & Streaming by Namco / Cosmodog favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) by Sega Developed by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Released Dec, 1988 Also For Genesis Published by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Perspective Side view Interface Direct Control Genre Action, Puzzle Gameplay Falling Block Puzzle Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description Tetris is one of many conversions of the famous block-stacking game.

Coder Corner » Archivio Blog » PEEL - public release 1.0 PEEL - public release 1.0 I am very happy to announce the first public release of PEEL - the Physics Engine Evaluation Lab. I briefly mentioned it on this blog already, here. Source code is included for the main program and most of the PINT plugins. That way you can create your own test scenes and check that everything is done correctly, and benchmarks are not biased. Getting started with GameGuru How to use The Game Creators' new tool aimed at hobbyists and smaller commercially-minded studios This series of quick tutorials will take you through designing a game with new development tool GameGuru. The tech is designed to be accessible, with no code required to build your own game. You can read more about it in our interview with The Game Creators here. For more information, visit the GameGuru website. There are also more tutorials available on the company's YouTube page here.

Download & Streaming : The Internet Archive Software Collection Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player software application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, with a software 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most streaming media, such as videos, music, podcasts, and videos from the Internet, as well as all common digital media files from local and network storage...

Unite Unite is your opportunity to learn how to get the most out of the Unity engine, to meet up with Unity engineers and fellow professionals and to get the full lowdown on our development roadmap. Empowering the community with more knowledge At Unite, you’ll learn from our engineers on how to mine Unity tools for more power and flexibility in your work.

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