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Right now, millions of people are stuck in their own homes, trying to escape boredom and to find something stimulating to ...

Picture 1: Demo level viewThe world has been chaotic for a while now, but Jestercraft has been a busy bee nonetheless duri...

For the past couple of weeks we've been searching a proper art style for our upcoming VR (Virtual Reality) game: My Shadow...

It's been a month when we started to work with our virtual reality game project, My Shadow. If you did not know yet, we go...

New year with new challenges! Year 2019 was pretty much our first "active year", which was mostly identifying the "core of...

What are "hyper-casual games" and how should you make one? The whole "hyper-casual genre" is rather new, but trending topi...

Game development is at the intersection of technology and arts. That makes designing games hard since you need to design n...

For many Game Jams feel like a massive leap to unknown. An epic fight in which you need to prepare yourself for months, or...

How to get a publisher for your game and make an interesting game at the same time? I'm going to share my thoughts, tips, ...

To get stuff done, you need to get your hands dirty and actually do it. But to know what you're about to do is better to t...

As I'm writing this, it's Monday. It used to be one of the most stressful days of the week, it even affected the day befor...

Since I'm attending the Pocket Gamer Connects, Helsinki as a speaker this year I wanted to try and write my thoughts of mo...

Recently I've had a lot of great discussions with people who either are trying to build a sustainable game studio or plann...

One of the most important things in game development, is to understand the importance of scheduling.Games are one form of ...

Know your player! This time we discuss of the topic within a podcast! (If for some reason you can not see the embed link b...

After writing the post "Books for independent game developers" I ended up taking the Theory of Fun -book from the shelf an...

Testing your game is one of the most valuable things, you can do while making your game. Or to be exact, without it you ba...

This time I'm going to share couple of books, which have affected my design and/or business thinking within the game indus...

I just took a look into a nice article on Gamasutra which discussed about the"A "Hot or Not" genres on Steam. I wanted to ...

For some of our readers game jams may be familiar, for someone they may be familiar but don't understand why people are so...