Vlambeer's Rami Ismail: Developers can't afford to live in fear of clones
Open up and test games amongst wide audience
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Dennis Scimeca
About Dennis Scimeca is a freelancer from Boston. His weekly video game opinion column, First Person, is published by Village Voice Media. He occasionally blogs at punchingsnakes.com, and can be followed @DennisScimeca.
Articles by Dennis Scimeca
Clone wars: Why Vlambeer refuses to call time on open development
Ismail on its not-so-secret ingredient for success
Robert Bowling: Why Breach & Clear fell out of love with free-to-play
Model was 'getting in the way' of gameplay
How to understand mobile player behaviour, according to Pocket Gems
CEO Liu on mastering metrics
NimbleBit's Ian Marsh on the NimbleDo's and NimbleDon'ts of development
How his studio became a success
Halfbrick's Luke Muscat talks Tank Turn Tactics: The prototype the studio was forced to ban
Battling and backstabbing
Former Call of Duty man Bowling on mobile's 'terrifying' but 'proven' free-to-play future
And Robotoki's new IP
Owlchemy Labs' Alex Schwartz on going mobile because that's where publishers aren't
All about making great games
Halfbrick Studios on Kinect, plushies and why it travels half way around the world to meet the fans
Joining the line at PAX East
GDC 2012: Appy's Paul O'Connor on why developers need to follow the market and go freemium
#gdc The customer is always right
GDC 2012: Vector Unit's Matt Small on what console devs need to know about mobile gaming
#gdc Be fast, know your audience, do Android
GDC 2012: Cave's Mikio Watanabe dissects the Japanese retro mobile gaming market
#gdc Local opportunity for international players
GDC 2012: Tiger Style's rocky path to inventing new gameplay in Waking Mars
#gdc Less is more
GDC 2012: Yasunori Tonooka, the Japanese developer promoting cooperation, peace and local revitalisation via GPS games
#gdc All about your place in the world
Ian Marsh on why NimbleBit wouldn't sell to Zynga, why it won't sue, but will be quieter about games in development
I think our fans would prefer a new game to a lawsuit
Ian Marsh on NimbleBit's origins, keeping it small and development fast, despite the pressure of success
Strong foundations before the upwards elevator
Arash Keshmirian on combining the desire to feed core gamers' appetites with Limbic's burning need to explore new worlds
It's not camping down on Zombie Gunship
Halfbrick's Phil Larsen on the opportunities of a market that enables global blockbusters like Fruit Ninja and very profitable niches like Jetpack Joyride
There are more options today than ever before