(Great Teams + Great Tools) x Creativity = Great Mobile Games

(Great Teams + Great Tools) x Creativity = Great Mobile Games

Great mobile games are built by great teams. Great teams build with great tools. When great teams build with great tools, creativity multiplies. And creativity is the fuel needed to find that addictive hook that leaves the user wanting to play just one more round.   Developer tools empower the creative and allow for a [...]

We Don’t Need No Stinking Platform (or Just Make The Game)

by Joey Lapegna The indie game development community is larger than ever, and every day new coders and creatives are living their childhood dream of making video games and joining the community. Although I’ve made little games my whole life and have followed the industry for years, I only recently was able to officially call [...]

Game Design Everywhere

by Michael Brown, Producer and Artist One of the wonderful things about working as a Game Designer here is the excuse I have to look at the world through a game design lens. What I’ve learned over time from peering through it is that we are constantly surrounded by potential new wonderful game ideas. We [...]

Emergent Game Design

by Adam Telfer, VP Game Development When was the last time you sat down and played your game and it was fun? Like REALLY fun. Like “This is the best thing since slice bread” fun? And not just coming from you, but from random users. In essence, that you had real confidence that your game [...]

Scrumban

Scrumban

A game’s original vision is often far different from the final execution. Game designs always start off simple, abstract, fun, but always seem to evolve into beasts that can’t be controlled. Mobile games have the benefit of being constrained by the capacity of the device, which forces games to remain relatively small and simple, but [...]