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Square Enix Montréal design team on crafting beautiful gaming experiences for small screens Interview Nov 17th, 2020

Square Enix Montréal design team on crafting beautiful gaming experiences for small screens

PGbiz chats to the design team behind mobile titles Lara Croft GO and Hitman GO

PGC Digital: Zynga lead game designer Poornima Seetharaman discusses how to balance gameplay News Nov 13th, 2020

PGC Digital: Zynga lead game designer Poornima Seetharaman discusses how to balance gameplay

"Don't add complexity for the sake of it."

Why now is the perfect time for mid-size casual studios to open up to hypercasual Comment & Opinion Sep 22nd, 2020

Why now is the perfect time for mid-size casual studios to open up to hypercasual

Crazy Labs COO Guy Tomer explores how you could be making smaller games alongside your regular output

PGC Helsinki Digital: ZeptoLab on designing your game with live ops in mind News Sep 17th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: ZeptoLab on designing your game with live ops in mind

Starting with, does your game really need live ops?

POC in Mobile: KingsIsle Entertainment games designer Victoria Brown on the importance of networking Interview Aug 28th, 2020

POC in Mobile: KingsIsle Entertainment games designer Victoria Brown on the importance of networking

"The more connections and relations that you can build will help open up more opportunities in any job that you would want to pursue"

Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP Comment & Opinion Aug 14th, 2020

Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP

Zynga director of product Peter Rosetti on what it takes to bring Harry Potter to match-3

Code Coven's Tara Mustapha on how to get the most from your designers Interview Aug 13th, 2020

Code Coven's Tara Mustapha on how to get the most from your designers

"Creating elegant frameworks and common languages on a team gives everyone room to focus on the creative magic"

1 Why are people still playing Brawl Stars? Comment & Opinion Jul 9th, 2020

Why are people still playing Brawl Stars?

A look at the design choices that make Supercell's fifth game so enjoyable

Opinion: I completed Pokemon Cafe Mix in two days, and I probably won't go back Comment & Opinion Jun 25th, 2020

Opinion: I completed Pokemon Cafe Mix in two days, and I probably won't go back

A lesson in making sure you have enough content for your puzzle game

Interview: How Outfit7 started a virtual pet revolution with its new game Interview Jun 12th, 2020

Interview: How Outfit7 started a virtual pet revolution with its new game

"What's been wonderful is that the final product is actually very similar to our first concepts"

13 Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire? Comment & Opinion May 25th, 2020

Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire?

A first-time player tries to explain the battle royale's appeal

A major lesson from hypercasual for the rest of the industry: Launch fast, test the core gameplay, forget the rest Comment & Opinion May 15th, 2020

A major lesson from hypercasual for the rest of the industry: Launch fast, test the core gameplay, forget the rest

Skunkworks CEO James Cramer details some of the lessons he's learned

Remote Working: How Rovio's design director Timothy Coolidge is operating from his 10-year-old son's bedroom Interview May 13th, 2020

Remote Working: How Rovio's design director Timothy Coolidge is operating from his 10-year-old son's bedroom

"In the space of a few weeks, I sold everything and took the leap to join the games industry"

Five things to consider when designing hyper-casual games Comment & Opinion May 4th, 2020

Five things to consider when designing hyper-casual games

Hyper-casual publishing experts, JoyPac, share key things any developer should know when creating hit casual games

as Indie Spotlight: Steet Lamp Games co-founder on the difficulties of breaking into games in India Interview Apr 29th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: Steet Lamp Games co-founder on the difficulties of breaking into games in India

Mahesh Athirala details how he started the award-winning studio.

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