Geekly Articles each Day
📜 ⬆️ ⬇️

What to read at your leisure. Gaming Industry News Digest for September

The first autumn month was intense both in terms of releases and interesting conferences. If you missed everything, I suggest stocking up on a blanket, tea, a warm cat and read what interesting happened in the gaming industry in September.



Making games

Teresa Munoz warns: game design must be distilled before use !
“The ability to speak and write is a skill vital to game devs,” says Chris DeLeon.
Cognitive article about the game mechanics from the portal acko.net.
Tanya X. Short (Creative Director at Kitfox Games) talked about procedural generation.
Vladimir Tolmachyov published an article about the state machine.
Creative Director of A-Steroids Ilya Eremeev shared with App2Top.ru experience in hiring game designers.
Top 10 game engines. Collect them all!
Create a game using Blend4Web. Part 4: Mobile devices . Part 5: Dangerous world.
Mathematics for Developers: Mathematical Analysis (video).
Create a cross-platform open source 3D game using C ++, OpenGL and GLSL.
Resource Manager gaming assets.
How to create cool 2D lighting effects in Unity: C # and JavaScript .
How to quickly make a small game using MightyEditor.
')
Instruments

The release of designer games Ren'Py 6.18.
INSTEAD 2.1.1.
Blend4Web 14.09.
Blend4Web SDK v14.08.

Mobile direction

Wolfgang Grabner spoke about the tricks that are used in mobile free-to-play games.
Why can your game be rejected in the App Store?
Swrve: 0.13% of players are responsible for 60% of the revenue from mobile games .
10 tips for mobile developers from Cap.
The marketing company Medialets has prepared a large-scale review of the mobile advertising market.
List of the best games in August according to Apple.
Eric Benjamin Seufert, a leading marketer at Wooga, shared his thoughts on why mobile marketing prices are rising.
If you plan to release the game in the Japanese market, make it mobile. In Japan, the mobile market is dominant.

Graphics

Real-time clothing simulation using b-spline surfaces.

Narrative design

“Emotional choice and consequences in video games” is not a very informative, but interesting article in Russian.
“You will behave well” is a more informative article about how players interact with the system of moral choice.
The branching system of dialogues and the work of the screenwriter. Part One: Introduction.
How to make a name for an indie game? Eliot Grant reflected on this topic in an article on gamedev.net.
An interesting article on electricphantasms.com: "Self-Consciousness, Interactivity, and Three Walls in Metal Gear."

Marketing

On gamedev.net, you can read a small article “Crowdtounding as marketing” . Ice-Pick Lodge covered this topic in more detail in the article “Your Kickstarter Project: A Practical Guide.”
“Community management is new marketing,” says David Reid. And on the gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com portal, the article “How to create a community for a game developer?” Has already appeared .
The Japanese sell video games to women through sex. No "yellow pages", just applying a popular marketing strategy to a female audience.
A curious article about marketing and the amounts to be spent on advertising appeared on the blog of the analytics company Fiksu .
Using the example of the Lapsum project, you can see what happens with Kickstarter campaigns without thoughtful marketing.

news

Windows 10 will be released in 2015.
Rovio introduced the female character in Angry Birds and plans to further balance the gender balance.
Warner Bros. developing its own digital distribution service.
The first three successful crowdfunding campaigns on the Crowdfunder website will receive an additional ÂŁ 5,000. Participation condition: a woman should be at the head of the project.
The company Zappos decided the first world problem: they will release pants with pockets to the size of the iPhone 6 and other large-sized smartphones.
Square Enix announced the creation of a "cloud" gaming company. The project is called Shinra Technologies.
Developers dealing with PlayStation will get free access to Unity Pro.
Square Enix has created a service for streaming gameplay from smartphones.
Kickstarter has updated Terms of Use for successfully completed but unrealized campaigns.
The GaymerX conference raised the required amount on Kickstarter and will be held next year under the slogan "Games for All."
Will travel to Texas - look at the new video game museum.
A short report from the GameStop conference held in California.
In Steam presented a new service personalization. Now you can buy and listen to the soundtracks from the games directly in the Steam music player. And you can also recommend interested their favorite games.
The eSports arena opened in the USA - MLG.tv Arena.
Blizzard has canceled a major project Titan. It cost them 50 million dollars or even more - analysts have not decided.
Four hackers were charged with hacking into Valve and Microsoft servers.
September was rich at the conference. The main gaming news and videos from the Tokyo Game Show are on alistdaily.com.

Personalities and companies

Co-founder and CEO PopCap John Vechey (John Vechey) leaves his post after 15 years of work.
Rovio staff will be reduced by 16%.
Nintendo is 125 years old.
The developer of online games gamigo AG announced the purchase of casual game publisher Intenium.
German developer Wooga introduced its new financial director.
Ubisoft announced the opening of an office in Moscow.
Now Mail.ru is the full owner of VKontakte.
Microsoft still bought Mojang for $ 2.5 billion.
Mark Gerhard leaves Jagex for reasons that are not completely understood.
Screenwriter Saints Row went to Valve.

From twitter



















Apple Presentation

What can #AppleLive tell us about Apple 's new social strategy?
Some funny parodies of the news about the iPhone 6. And a little more banter over the bending phone.
Short data on new Apple products . For those who missed everything.
iPhone 6 set new, but already very familiar tasks for developers .

Console News

On October 14, the PlayStation TV system will be launched.
Microsoft at the last moment postponed the start of Xbox One sales in China.
Started selling Xbox One in Russia . Portal ru.ign.com collected all the information that may be useful before buying this console.
PlayStation Home is Sony's most successful mistake.
Managing Director of Wedbush Securities Michael Pachter believes that the end of the era of consoles has come.

VR news

Carmack spoke about the difficulties that await the developers of mobile VR games.
Jesse Shell has been working with VR for 20 years, and he has something to say about it.
Sony's Morpheus can change the direction of VR development . By the way, Yoshida claims that Morpheus is 85% ready.
The Oculus Platform Store virtual store for games and applications on the Oculus Rift was presented at the Oculus Connect conference .

Game news

Ugly Americans has become an interactive series for mobile platforms.
The development and marketing of Destiny took about 500 million dollars. What came of it is in this article.
Some pretty good videos: Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes ad, epic ad for the LoL World Championship from Riot Games.
8 cool trailers with the Tokyo Game Show.
Riot Games has created a promotional site for the presentation of the new character of League of Legends.
According to the game "Tetris" will remove the film. You do not think so. Not about the game itself, but precisely because of its motives.
FEAR Online will appear on Steam on October 17th.
The NBA 2K15 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 includes face scanning. Which already works disgustingly.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments has been released. You can read reviews of English-speaking and Russian-language media.
Review of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. From the portal eurogamer.net and portal ru.ign.com.
Review of Wasteland 2.
Review of Alen: Isolation . And here - in Russian. You can also watch a video about the history of all games on “Alien.”
Middle-Earth Review: Shadow of Mordor. In Russian about the game wrote the portal ru.ign.com.

It is interesting

The release of The Angry Video Game Nerd Movie on Vimeo.
William Aderson's blog on Gamasutra reflects on what to do when game development is no longer a fun thing.
SCUMM diaries: the story of one of the best game engines.
On the portal Gamasutra disassembled game teaser Silent Hills - PT
On the hobbygamedev.com portal, they tried to answer the question “When is it time to complete the project and move on to the next?”.
6 games that have become successful because they are interesting, and not because they are funny.
A minute of useful tips: how to record video in high quality on a very slow computer.
“Good games worth playing” is an article from Dan Adleman, a former Nintendo employee.
“Everything depreciates” - an interesting article about how important for developers is the threshold of entry into the gaming industry.
Interviews with indie developers: “What is indie?”.
Interview with the head of the development of Advanced Warfare, Michael Condrey.
An interesting article from the magazine "Hacker" about the 8 most interesting glitches in games.
Review of the Pixel Poetry documentary from eurogamer.net.
The economist.com portal tried to calculate why the development of computer games costs so much.
Interview with EA CEO Andrew Wilson and Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney at The GamesBeat.

Podcasts

Giant Bombcast: Release from 2.09 , Release on 16.09 , Release on 23.09 .
You can listen to several podcasts in the blog of disgusting men: a) Technique and artistry - Issue 4 , Issue 5 , Issue 6 , Issue 7 , b) Disgusting men - pilot, Issue 1.
Sergey Galenkin and Mikhail Kuzmin discuss the iPhone 6, Xbox One, the acquisition of Microsoft Minecraft and more in a fresh podcast . In September, they also talked about game localization , QA in game development , UGS, and the in-game economy.

Kickstarter

Vrvana raises money for Totem's virtual reality helmet.
Hunt the monsters and cook them in the Battle Chef Brigade game. Or just become a baker .
You can also give some money for another documentary about indie developers.
Almost collected the necessary amount of the game Fortune's Tavern - pixel simulator tavern in a fantasy setting.

Developments

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/239991/

More articles:


All Articles