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Paul Kilduff-TaylorVideo games and creative business
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I Don't Care How Many Games Are Coming Out on Steam
This week at GDC, Valve's Tom Giardino - a perennial champion of indie games on Steam - revealed the following graph:
Predictably, there was some consternation around what this represents for indie development. This apparently isn’t reflec...
Binoculars and Microscopes: How to Fix Broken Projects
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Many projects struggle due to problems with vision, process or a dissonance between the two. Is it possible to diagnose these issues and potentially attempt to treat them?
Binoculars, skies and horiz...
10 Quick Yet Staggeringly Important Game Dev Tips Because It's November or Something (Warning: Low Engagement Potential - Advisable Substack Title Length Has Been Exceeded)
Owl. (Photo by Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash)
It is cold here in Belfast, and if you’re anything like me, the icy anxiety that prefigures the impending onset of the so-called Holiday Season has begun to seize you in its claws, whispering “Oo...
Will Attending Events Help Me Sell More Games?
Game devs delight in arguing about conferences and events: they’re either critical for developing your career or a useless indulgence that distracts from the One True Task of coding. Startup grindset weirdos also love to go on about how sur...
We Need to Stop Talking About AI
I present, for your consideration, a selection of game development AI-related posts I’ve come across recently:
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