Being a Game Designer
Sometimes it’s hard to describe what your job is as a game designer. Yes, you come up with ideas that get turned into games, but you have to do much…
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Being a Game Designer
Being a Game Artist
In a game artist’s role description often the game part is ignored. A game artist’s role is (or at least should be) to not only create, but also implement the…
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Being a Game Artist
The Missing Role in Game Dev Teams
Having worked in multiple teams with various types of developers, I've noticed some continuously appearing issues in how the team works.A usual game development team consists of designer(s), programmer(s) and…
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The Missing Role in Game Dev Teams
You Don’t Need to Be Good at Drawing to Make a Good Looking Game
An art director's job is not to draw good looking art but to know and communicate what looks good. In other words, they need to "have the eye for it."…
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You Don’t Need to Be Good at Drawing to Make a Good Looking Game
Efficient Development
I often get asked how I develop games so fast with high quality. Usually I shrug my shoulders and give an “I don’t know” answer because it’s half the truth,…
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Efficient Development
From Zero to 15M Downloads, an Indie Dev Story
I’ve been an indie developer for two years now. My initial goal was to experiment, learn, and have fun as a mobile game developer, and for the lifetime of Part…
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From Zero to 15M Downloads, an Indie Dev Story
Breakout Ninja Launch
Breakout Ninja’s success was obviously a big surprise to me. I figured it’d likely do a bit better than Monkeyrama, but this was very unexpected. The original plan was to release…
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Breakout Ninja Launch