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Coffee Stain put out a 13 minute explainer video justifying why they are using the Epic storeThis is an interesting 13 minute video justifying why Coffee Stain chose to go with the Epic store for the next game, Satisfactory. It’s interesting, not least because they felt they needed to put out a 13...
- Posted 6 years ago
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Benedict Evans’ annual technology presentationBenedict Evans of Andreesen Horowitz seems to be taking over from Mary Meeker as the “thinking person’s guide to the future of the internet”. His annual presentation, delivered at 100 mph, is very good. I was astounded...
- Posted 6 years ago
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Why localising video games into German is so hardI don’t think I have seen a better visual illustration of why design teams find it so hard to create a User Interface that accommodates the German language well. That’s always a rather surprising comparison. I can...
- Posted 6 years ago
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A vote to give the people say over the terms of Brexit.
I don’t usually put political stuff up on GAMESbrief. In fact, since I’ve been active as Design Director of Electric Square for most of this year, I haven’t been posting much at all. That will change soon,...
- Posted 6 years ago
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Dan Cook on Designing Friendships in Videogames
Dan Cook is a great designer, who has designed games like Triple Town, Steambirds Alliance and Realm of the Mad God. He is also very generous with his time and this thoughts, including at his blog www.lostgarden.com....
- Posted 7 years ago
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Raph Koster on the cost of games–and it’s not pretty.
Raph Koster, author of A Theory of Fun and game designer extraordinaire has published a deep dive on the cost of games over time. With a lot of data (although Raph is the first to admit that...
- Posted 7 years ago
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AppStore revenues will surpass global box office revenues in 2018
There is a fascinating analysis by Horace Dediu on the Asymco website. These are some of his thoughts: A few observations: Developer payment rate is now above $25 billion/yr. I’ve been notified via Twitter that this is...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Is conversion rate usually quoted daily, monthly or lifetime?
I got an email last week asking me the...
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