Diary of a Game Developer: Reflections of a Jammer Newb
By:Mary-Ellen Fimbel For the last ten years my brother and a group of our college friends have been participating in our local 48 hour film festival. Which means that for the last 10 years I have been wanting to do something super creative and awesome in only 48 hours. But I had struggled to find…
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Game Devs: You Don’t Need Twitter for News, Marketing, or Networking
Before Twitter, people used to get their news just fine. Gamedev podcasts, videos, and blogs are more than enough to keep getting your industry news
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Top 3 tips to get into the game industry
By Willem Delventhal. The top 3 tips to help you break into the video game industry, developed with hundreds of graduates from the Indie Game Academy. — # 3: Apply now, and cast a wide net — I run into many fresh developers who stop themselves from applying for dream jobs for one reason or another.…
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What Google Stadia’s Demise Means for Indie Developers
By: Jay Rooney Google’s shocking-but-not-really-that-shocking decision to pull the plug on Google Stadia is like bankruptcy, or societal collapse, in that it happened two ways: gradually, and then all at once. Since the ill-fated cloud gaming service’s announcement, Google had clobbered Stadia with one self-inflicted would after another, from its baffling choice to use three…
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