2020 In Review
Rami Ismail talks 2020 trends, the closure of Vlambeer, and his mobile game of the year
Part of our 2020 in review series
Company Profile
Vlambeer
Website www.vlambeer.com
About Vlambeer is a Dutch indie game studio consisting of Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman.
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Articles featuring Vlambeer
Farewell
Indie studio Vlambeer is shutting down after 10 years
The developer's upcoming title Ultrabugs is still on the way though
Crunch
Minit developer encourages developers to share games made without crunch
Indies take to Twitter to share games developed without excessive overtime
Big Indie Festival
Indie is dead. Long live indie
Vlambeer's Rami Ismail discusses the history of indie games and what it means today
Developer Wisdom
Vlambeer and Mag Interactive set to speak at Develop: Brighton 2018
The developers conference will take place from July 10th to 12th
Gdc Awards
Gorogoa grabs a brace of awards at GDC
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild bags a hattrick, Vlambeer co-founder wins Ambassador Award
Everything's Hard
The grass is not always greener on PC and console, warns Rami Ismail
Sage advice from PGC Helsinki
Opinions And As*holes
Rami Ismail on how developers trained gamers to have unreasonable expectations
The bar's set too high, but we're to blame for setting it
Hot Five
Fallout Shelter falls out, Supercell shuts Smash Land, and Rami Ismail talks truth
A glance at last week's top stories
Learning Fast
Rami Ismail on the mistakes that cost Vlambeer $1.3 million
Everyone's wrong, and that's great
Can Do Better
Why Rami Ismail is against the current implementation of F2P
It's not true to the spirit of video gaming
Gdc Europe 2014
What a pitch: Rami Ismail on talking to the press, publishers, platform holders and players
Finding the value proposition in your game
Stateside
Early access needs to be a premium proposition, not a borked beta test
Carter Dotson on following the Vlambeer model
DevGAMM Moscow 2014 expands with Unity, Vlambeer, Facebook and Wargaming
For mobile and online companies on 15-16 May
Gdc 2014
Vlambeer talks Nuclear Throne, taking to Twitch, and demystifying game development
Why it's good to let gamers keep an eye on you
We're out to find the Man Utd of the Dutch dev scene: Reinout te Brake talks GameOn's 10 million development fund
iQU founder rebutts Rami Ismail's criticisms
Vlambeer pours cold water on GameOn's 10 million development fund
Could hurt stability and creativity, says Ismail
The Charticle: Just how powerful is an Apple Game of the Year award?
Tracking Ridiculous Fishing, Device 6 and Badland
Stateside: Taking Ridiculous Fishing F2P would be a 'disaster'
Vlambeer got it right the first time
Tearaway monopolises GDC Awards 2014 nominations
Vita believe it
Holidays Hot Five: QuizUp cashes up, Clash of Clans crashes out, and what's going to happen in 2014
Top five Christmas stories
2013 In Review: The developers' take
Vlambeer, Halfbrick, Simogo and more on last 12 months
PocketGamer.biz's The Year That Was: Big publishers lock down the App Store, microconsoles fail to impress, and all eyes look east
The past 365 days in bite-sized portions
2013 In Review: Vlambeer's Rami Ismail
'Without Ridiculous Fishing, Vlambeer might not exist'
The Room, Ridiculous Fishing and Badland up for Satellite Awards
XCOM and Warhammer Quest also in the running
F2P games sidelined as Ridiculous Fishing and Badland win Apple's 2013 accolades
Reveals iPhone and iPad games of the year
Apportable shows its cross-compiler chops in new Humble Mobile Bundle
7th collaboration for bringing iOS games to Android
Opinion: Not all clones are created equal
Why I hate some, but am happy to play others
Vlambeer's Rami Ismail: Developers can't afford to live in fear of clones
Open up and test games amongst wide audience
Clone wars: Why Vlambeer refuses to call time on open development
Ismail on its not-so-secret ingredient for success
Vlambeer: Free-to-play is teaching gamers to 'pay not to play'
Trend is a worrying one, says Rami Ismail
Vlambeer vows to fight back against 'terrible' Luftrausers clone
Rami Ismail speaks out
What's in the box? Making of Super Crate Box for iOS
Bouncing back from creative fragility