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Jobs in Games: ZeptoLab’s Jorge Rosado on how to become a game designer Interview Jun 4th, 2019

Jobs in Games: ZeptoLab’s Jorge Rosado on how to become a game designer

“I was naive enough to think that I would become a millionaire and would be able to afford a Ferrari with my very first game”

How marketing can be baked into game design News Apr 8th, 2019

How marketing can be baked into game design

"You can't spell marketing without design," says Those Awesome Guys founder

1 Adapt or disrupt: A practical guide to surviving in a golden age of games Feature Jan 28th, 2019

Adapt or disrupt: A practical guide to surviving in a golden age of games

Oscar Clark offers astute business and game design tips

The delicate balancing act behind midcore match-three Sega Heroes Interview Dec 11th, 2018

The delicate balancing act behind midcore match-three Sega Heroes

Finding core-casual sweetspot

Supercell: It takes more than one great idea to make a successful game News Aug 30th, 2018

Supercell: It takes more than one great idea to make a successful game

Studio veteran Touko Tahkokallio shared his granular approach to development at this year’s GDC

Miyamoto: Regrettable choices were made during the development of Super Mario Run News Aug 29th, 2018

Miyamoto: Regrettable choices were made during the development of Super Mario Run

Difficulty curve and fixed-price model could’ve been improved, claims the legendary designer

1 How to approach game design for Facebook Instant Games Comment & Opinion Mar 7th, 2018

How to approach game design for Facebook Instant Games

Chatterbox Games CPO Adam Telfer breaks down how to make games for chat apps like Messenger

How developers turn their ideas into reality News Jan 23rd, 2018

How developers turn their ideas into reality

Martine Spaans leads a panel on ideas and working with others

How Playables took its minimalist style further with upcoming game Kids News Jan 18th, 2018

How Playables took its minimalist style further with upcoming game Kids

Co-founders Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei on experimenting and working with others

From Japan with a local twist: The making of The Secret Police's RPG Dragon's Watch Interview Dec 15th, 2017

From Japan with a local twist: The making of The Secret Police's RPG Dragon's Watch

How a London startup improved the JRPG

From Commodore 64 to hyper-casual: David Darling on the resurgence of simple games based on elegant ideas Comment & Opinion Sep 12th, 2017

From Commodore 64 to hyper-casual: David Darling on the resurgence of simple games based on elegant ideas

The Codemasters Co-founder and Kwalee CEO on how design and development in the mobile space brings back memories and lessons from his days coding in the 80s

as Pokemon CEO claims it has only accomplished 10% of what it wants to do with Pokemon GO News Sep 7th, 2017

Pokemon CEO claims it has only accomplished 10% of what it wants to do with Pokemon GO

Tsunekazu Ishihara talks design philosophies and Switch releases

National Film and Television School to open new location in Scotland in January 2018 News Sep 7th, 2017

National Film and Television School to open new location in Scotland in January 2018

It offers game design courses too

Lessons from coin-op: What do arcades have to teach mobile games design? Comment & Opinion Sep 6th, 2017

Lessons from coin-op: What do arcades have to teach mobile games design?

A look at whether mobile developers could embrace arcade-like monetisation

2 as A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye Comment & Opinion Aug 30th, 2017

A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye

Exclusive currencies and limited gachas don't stop this game from being fun

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