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DeanBeat: The iPhone fairy tale comes true for Russia’s Cut the Rope developers
The iPhone fairy tale is becoming a familiar one for game developers: A small indie developer creates a hit, people love it, and it spreads like wildfire through the App Store. Tens of millions or...
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HTML5 versus Adobe Flash (infographic)
One of Steve Jobs’ last major acts before passing was to launch an attack on Adobe Flash. Mobile Apple devices began blocking Flash-powered content, and Apple even went so far as to prevent iOS...
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Move over MotionScan; new lip synch tech aims to revolutionize motion capture...
Last year, Australian company Depth Analysis took performance-driven animation to the next level with MotionScan—a technology that utilizes 32 high-definition cameras to capture an actor’s performance...
View ArticleScottish gaming studio Serious Parody raises funding for iOS games
Scotland-based game development studio Serious Parody has raised £1 million in funding to develop more games for its portfolio. The company’s first offering is an iOS game called Wrestling Manager. The...
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Funding daily: Pin a few millions to your Pinterest board
Happy Facebook IPO eve! Check out the companies getting funded today below. Click the links in each paragraph to learn more about the day’s funding news. If you’re hankering for more funding news...
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Working on generations of game consoles: a developer’s perspective
No console is perfect from a developer’s perspective. Each has its limitations, and each has its strengths. When Reddit user El_dorito asked game makers to describe what working with each major...
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4 payment trends that will shape the future of game development
GUEST: Jennifer Schulz is the global head of commerce at Visa. Nearly one in 10 Americans has purchased a digital good in the past year. Today’s gamers have an unprecedented range of platforms, payment...
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Sega teams up with Huddle so game developers can, uh, huddle on...
Sega mascot Sonic can cross a continent in no time at all. But that’s not the case with its game developers. So they have to collaborate using the cloud when they’re making games with teams that are...
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Unity Technologies forms alliance to create better games on Facebook
Unity Technologies is teaming up with everybody these days. Today, the San Francisco-based game development engine maker is partnering with Facebook to enable developers to create better games on the...
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‘Leveling up’ on Google Play Services means enhancing quality and utilizing...
When you think of the Google Play store, it’s easy to conjure images of piracy, poorly performing apps, and clumsy microtransactions. Google is keenly aware of these faults and — with its new...
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Don’t be a data hoarder: 6 metrics that aren’t critical for game developers
GUEST: I love numbers. I’ll play puzzle, logic, or strategy games until the cows come home. Numbers can also be reassuring. For this reason, developers tend to analyze all the metrics they can get...
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What the circus teaches us about game development
GUEST: After announcing a career switch from actress to game developer, friends and colleagues asked a very natural question: “Why?” My response surprised them. They didn’t expect to hear that I was...
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Incuvo's Createrria makes it easy to craft your own games on the iPad
Now you can create your own version of Angry Birds — and perhaps become more popular as a result. Above: Wojciech Borczyk of Incuvo.Image Credit: Incuvo Incuvo is unveiling a new free-to-play app...
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Why you should start your video game company in Canada
GUEST: Canada is one of the fastest-growing hotbeds for game development, and on a per capita basis, it is the largest gaming industry in the world, with more than 329 gaming companies employing more...
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Why games developers are uniting behind Unity
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with XIM. Dedicated consoles, smartphones, tablets, PCs — everything’s a game platform nowadays. This is great for the people playing the...
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How to realize game development’s ‘need for speed’
GUEST: The best action-packed video games are fast, timely, and seamless. But should the process of game development have as much gore as your favorite game? Unlike most software, gaming relies on...
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Autodesk’s Stingray may be a big threat to Unity and Unreal in the...
Ask any game artist what they’re packing in their toolbox, and I guarantee the vast majority will name drop an Autodesk application. Being a game artist myself, I can’t remember a time where I didn’t...
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Lara Croft Go developer on turning an action blockbuster into a turn-based...
FEATURE: I have a thing for spinoffs of twitchy action games that take a slower, turn-based aesthetic. One-offs like Metal Gear Acid and R-Type Command can provide a transparency, showing how the...
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Heroic Labs’s quest makes building mobile, HTML5, and Unity games easier and...
Years ago, it was probably easier for a developer to create a game: you just had to worry about building for game consoles — yes, you did have to deal with how it would play on the Nintendo, Sony...
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Stop copying and start innovating: Why you must define your own niche market
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Murka. Novelist Herman Melville once said, “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” While that may suggest...
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