GDC 2014: recommended sessiongamesgdcevent"2014’s Game Developers Conference comes at a thrilling time for game creators. It’s tough out there, absolutely, but at the same time there’s never been a better time to work in game development."
How clones, fear, sanitisation and free-to-play soured Apple’s iOS gaming revolutiongamesios"Where we once saw a promising new marketplace of fresh ideas, unrestricted creativity, and daring new ways to play, the App Store of 2014 is swamped with cash-guzzling junk, shameless knockoffs and predictable sequels. Games worth discovering still exist, but they mostly dwell on the fringes and in the shadows, while endless horror stories suggest that paid-for games are simply no longer profitable and are dying out.
▶ Henry Homesweet – Luke’s Atarimusicchiptune"Henry Homesweet presents four tracks in the Techno-Chip-House direction where the sounds of the Atari soundchip and the 808 drum machine appear together for the first time on his Dance repertoire."
▶ Format.DF | 56KBPSmusikchiptune"56KBPS Records celebrates its 5th anniversary with Format.DF, a compilation album where we present music from the first edition of Format DF, the biggest Chiptune festival to date in Latin America, that took place in Mexico City in November 2013, plus many tracks from our friends in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala and Spain."
Klaus Teuber, the Man Who Built The Settlers of CatangamesboardgamesIn the eighties, Klaus Teuber was working as a dental technician outside the industrial city of Darmstadt, Germany. He was unhappy. “I had many problems with the company and the profession,” he told me. He started designing elaborate board games in his basement workshop.
Ascii Birdgamestwinewtf"In a totally unrelated instance, I was having a chat with someone about Flappy Bird, and I bet them that I could make Flappy Bird in Twine. A day of learning how to use Twine later and here we are."
Das GTA der Zukunft – Bitte weiterfahren!gamesgta"Mit GTA 5 hat sich Entwickler Rockstar thematisch allmählich festgefahren. Vielleicht ist es also an der Zeit, sich einmal über alternative Szenarien Gedanken zu machen. Fünf Vorschläge für eine erzählerische Frischzellenkur."
Feature: Early Access & Co: Fertige Spiele sind Schnee von gesterngames"Beta ist nicht mehr gleich Beta. Während große Publisher wie Electronic Arts oder Bandai Namco nur ausgewählte Spieler in eine kontrollierte Umgebung einladen, um einen ersten Blick auf Spiele wie Titanfall und Dark Souls II zu werfen, finden Spieler in Indie-Betas häufig das komplette Spiel vor, lediglich in einem unfertigen Zustand."