Game Industry Digest: September

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    Mobile direction

    Mobile games are a new art : how games become akin to books and cinema.
    How fundamentally different is the behavior of paying users from non-paying: GameAnalytics report .
    IOS 9 users spend more money on games.
    Sony blamed mobile games for the failure of the PlayStation Vita.
    Localytics: 58% of users “fall off” in the first month .
    Square Enix released Final Fantasy XIII-2in Japan on iOS and Android.
    NPD Group: 63% of children prefer mobile devices to computers.
    5 unusual observations regarding the mobile gaming industry.
    Mobile conversion is growing: Criteo statistics .
    John Romero announced the release of Dangerous Dave on iOS.
    Janzel Thorkington, Head of Appszoom Content Department: You are promoting mobile apps incorrectly .

    Audio

    Arrangement for the game Vertical Layers. Part One .
    Simultaneous genres in dynamic music for games.
    Power to Players: Music for user-created levels .
    Video:how great sound can help your game "feel" better.
    Starter kit for game audio : tips, tutorials, and code samples.
    Approach Half-Life music.
    The catchy sound design of the main menu.
    Sony: how to choose music for the project.

    Creating games

    Make an HD remake of the pixel game correctly .
    What should be the video game menu. The Ten Commandments for the Developer.
    One weird trick to write code better.
    Microtutorial : apply modular technology to wheels.
    7600 Infinity Blade Assets Now Available to Unreal Engine Developersfor free .
    3D game engine built using C ++, OpenGL and GLSL.
    Over 30 popular translations of game development tutorials.
    Best cross-platform development: key tutorials from Microsoft.
    The release of Super Mario Galaxy 3 is only possible after the release of the next console from Nintendo.
    Algorithm for procedural dungeon generation.
    Introduction to game design : basic concepts and principles of game design.
    Introduction to game design : game state, game particles, mechanics and other basic components of games.
    Creating an Exciting Game Story: Instructionsfor indie developers.
    The official release of SDKBOX for Cocos2d-x.
    French artist and game designer Nathan Lovato told how to improve the graphics of the game .
    Announcement of Blender 2.76 : new features of the program.
    The release of the Marmalade 7.9 engine .
    Silicon Studio introduced version 1.3β of the Paradox game engine.
    The Infiltrator project is open and available free of charge for Unreal Engine 4.
    Release CryEngine 3.8.4 with partial support for Visual Studio 2015, the new Height Map based on Ambient Occlusion and other features.
    Epic Games continues to use Unreal Dev Grants.
    BigUnreal Engine 4.9 release - stable build.
    AXMA Story Maker 4.0 release with audiobook development support. Valve

    News punished developers who offered free games on Steam for user reviews. Video game voice actors can start protests . Sony's PlayStation One celebrated its twentieth anniversary . Super Mario Maker is still number one in Japan . Lucy Bradshaw leaves EA . Twisted Pixel Studio is no longer owned by Microsoft . Rockstar was not impressed by the BBC Grand Theft Auto movie.








    Nintendo introduced the new president of the company .
    Nintendo patented a side-scroll controller .
    Kickstarter has been reincorporated as Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).
    In 2016, California will launch an attraction based on Mass Effect .
    Amazon hired lead game designer Guild Wars 2 .
    Chris Avellone joined Larian Studios .
    FarmVille creator Mark Skaggs breaks up with Zynga .
    Konami is ready to release new Metal Gear without the participation of Hideo Kojima .
    Gameloft shut down studio in Seattle.
    Games for Apple TV will require support for the console .
    Xbox Live Indie Games will be closed .
    Sperasoft has hired a former Rockstar Games director .
    Fiksu close office in the USA.
    The community manager Konami denied the company’s departure from the console market .
    Halfbrick were left without designers and are not going to hire new ones .
    The AniVisual Contest # 2: Fantasy Visual Novel Contest has begun .
    Sundog Software is once again the best in its field .
    Amazon announced the game bundle Fire TV.
    Android device users will be able to stream the game to YouTube Gaming.
    Zynga acquired the startup of their former employee.

    Video

    Game News A new horror game Calendula is trying to stop you if you start playing.
    At least the music in Mirror's Edge 2 will be what you need .
    Nintendo has confirmed the release of its first mobile game .
    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will appear on the PC on January 15 .
    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 is full of glitches .
    The developers of Halo 5: Guardians promise a frequency of 60 frames per second .
    SNK Playmore announced the release of King of Fighters for PS4 in 2016.
    EA forced to remove 13 women from FIFA 16 due to NCAA rules.
    First-person shooter Ghost in the Shell will appear on the PC in 2016 .
    The Slave Tetris minigame has been removed from Steam after resonating on social media.
    Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will not have campaigns on the Xbox 360 and PS3 .
    Plarium announced the transfer of the Alien vs. Predator franchise to the world of one of its games .
    SpaceX Falcon 9 Lander is an eight-bit video game of incredible complexity .
    The sequel Wolfenstein: The New Order will be releasedin two years ? Street Fighter 5 PC system requirements
    announced . 7 things to know about Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps. Naughty Dog showed early design by Nathan Drake from Uncharted. FIFA 16 or PES 2016? Both. The developers have decided on the release date of the new Hitman. Five Nights at Freddy's is developing a role-playing game . Update for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 "weighs" more than the game. Takeshi Kitano first appeared in the "frame" Yakuza 6. Announced release date for Prison Architect.








    Mangaka Junji Ito was supposed to work on Silent Hills .
    The Nathan Drake Collection will take over 40 GB on your PS4 hard drive.
    One of the rarest and oldest games about Sonic will soon be playable on PC .
    Rainbow Six Siege will not have a storyline campaign .

    This is interesting.

    Wilhelm Tat, Head of the External Products Department at Rovio: motivated advertising - yesterday .
    Your PS3 inside probably looks disgusting .
    How to transfer the genre of fighting game online: the three principles of Seth Killian .
    Video course "Mathematics for game developers."
    Nathan Altis talks about developing the original Super Mario game and Super Mario Maker.
    Games on discs will always exist .
    18 months of work as an indie developer: conclusions .
    Overview of the new features of 3ds Max 2016.
    Games as two-way communication .
    4 lessons to create games that I learned from over thirty years of software development.
    Video : creating artificial intelligence for Hearthstone.
    Game development on Linux in 2015.
    Why we created our own engine for our indie game Future Unfolding.
    Joy and tragedyflash programming.
    “Games as an art” is good for business .
    9 unreasonably rarely used game genres for your future project .
    What can nineteenth-century art teach developers ?
    Video : adding handmade details to the procedurally generated world of your game.
    Wizard's Lizard: Watch the HTML5 game on Steam.
    Video : parsing Journey decoration
    About the creation of the Crisis Mountain game in 1981 .
    Autodesk Maya 2016: Overview of New Features.
    Like else, Heart.Break () turns players into coders .
    Where have all flash developers gone ?
    3 steps to improve the graphics of your game.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about his participation in WWE 2K16 .
    Chartboost told you what 4 key metrics for shareware you need to track during a trial run.
    Leonid Sirotin on the crisis of the free-to-play system : how to survive in Kali-yuga.
    Master of Orion: how the legend was created .
    Ron Gilbert: How to properly plan your game budget .
    Instagram is an expensive way to promote games.
    Interview with the Microsoft Russia Evangelistabout the Imagine Cup, support for indie teams and the gaming industry.
    Apple TV as a game console : the opinions of journalists and representatives of the gaming industry about the new TV set-top box.
    The 7 deadly sins of a game designer.
    Project Manager Game Insight on the types of game developers : "adult", "festival" and others.
    App Annie: How to take screenshots of games and applications.
    A remake of The Legend of Zelda on Unreal Engine 4.
    10 current philosophical ideas taught by video games. And you didn’t know .
    Hearthstone Designer: 6 tips for anyone who wants to become a game designer.
    Which is faster: Metal or OpenGL ES?
    First impression : how to present your project to partners, investors, journalists.
    "ESports - the future of gaming monetization": the founder of NoobStars about which model can replace free-to-play in the near future.
    Overview of the game Mad Max from KitchenRiots.
    The network has a full playlist of lectures from DevGAMM Hamburg 2015.
    Eric Söfert talked about the "whales" and keeping users in shareware applications.
    Newzoo: The eSports market will reach $ 765 million by 2018.

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    Podcasts

    Podcast from VideoGamer UK : discussion of Forza 6, Mad Max, Until Dawn, and MGSV.
    VideoGamer UK Podcast : About Destiny The Taken King, Halo 5 Guardians and Metal Gear Solid 5.
    VideoGamer UK Podcast : About FIFA 16, Street Fighter 5, SOMA, and Konami's AAA Decision.
    Podcast from VideoGamer UK : Rainbow Six: Siege, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, Lego Dimensions and more.
    The state of the debate around video games.
    September podcast on the Hobby Gamedev resource.
    Siggraph 2015 and graphics in games.
    Sergey Galenkin about e-sports and Apple announcements.
    Sergey Galenkin podcast : from Kickstarter and Greenlight to the release and Steam Summer Sale.
    KitchenRiots podcast about Gamescom. Issue 12.
    Podcast from “Disgusting Men” : why it’s good to play FIFA 16 and NHL 16, why return to Destiny and much more.

    Crowdfunding

    True Detective: game creators have collected $ 30,000 through Kickstarter and disappeared .
    Etaria's Survival project seeks support on Boomstarter .
    Allison Road launched on Kickstarter.

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