The team at Expansive recently attended a session with games developer and analyst Ste Curran – Former Editor at Edge Magazine, Indie Developer at Zoe Mode, Games consultant with Agency and host of the One-Life-Left Radio show – The team came away with what is surely an essential list of ten things every games developer should know.
Ste Curran in particular was a veritable wealth of knowledge and has imparted onto us knowledge and practices that we shall all take forward.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
