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📢 Join our 1st Global Webinar!! Launching a game doesn’t guarantee success. Simply hoping people will discover and love your game is just a guess unless you have real data from actual players. This webinar will show you how to leverage data to turn your guesswork into informed decisions that drive real results. Webinar: How to Make Higher LTV for a Mobile Game? Date and Time: 9th July, 9 am UTC Venue: Online Webinar - Details to be shared via email Whether you're an indie developer or part of a large studio, this webinar will provide valuable insights to enhance your game development journey. Don't miss out! 😉 Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/gme3_J9H

As players become more discerning and gamedev timelines get longer, developers are looking for ways to boost productivity. We sat down with expert game creators to get best practices for increasing productivity during game development. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/dXmUNFsM

Great game designs give great fun. Great game economies give great sustainability. But great communities build unforgettable legacies for your games. The ultimate long-term goal of developing a strong community isn’t only to boost organic acquisition, improve retention or optimize informative communication. It’s also to take your game to levels beyond what we had imagined our initial designs could achieve. Empower your communities to make your game worth having and worth playing for decades to come. #gamedevelopment #communitymanagement #communitydevelopment

Hi everyone - let’s make those two weeks of constant creativity great! We have gathered for you some tips for a smooth start of a Game Jam. Here you go:   🌴 Start simple, don't plan a very complicated project. 🌴 Don't try to do a very complicated logic with your games. And If you feel stuck, ask for help in Discord: https://lnkd.in/eWdFZAjv   🌴 When planning, divide your time into three parts where around 60% of your time should be the main building with the features, 30% is optimizing the game, making changes, level design, and 10% leave for testing and bug fixing. 🌴 Make sure to have your project exported and test it in the export version as well 🌴 Upload your game to Itch.io and MANU marketplace https://manu.org/ when your game is in a good state, playable for backup reasons. Better submit half game rather than no game at all. 🌴 Don’t forget to share your progress in Discord - or with #MANUSummerJam tag on social media! Good luck and have a lot of fun!

When you need to playtest your game, where do you go? Maybe a Discord of friends, a subreddit thread, or maybe you just playtest it yourself. We have something more structured and reliable. Bring your game build to our next playtesting session coming up this week: 🗓 Date: July 23rd 🕒 Time: 3 PM Pacific / 6 PM Eastern 🌐 Location: See comments for our Funsmith Club Discord Server Our playtesting sessions bring you peer testers excited to play and share their insights! Single player, multiplayer, whatever you need help with. Every session is recorded so you can identify bugs, gauge player experience, and see where your players get stuck. Not only that but after every playtest, we have feedback hangouts to discuss what you can improve. It's basically like having a brainstorming session with a bunch of colleagues helping you iterate your game. If you know a friend or peer who could benefit from playtesting and professional feedback, mention them in the comments below. 👇 P.S. Also, if you don't have your own game but still want to playtest others' games to experience the process, you're welcome to join us!

You know our next event is happening in San Francisco, right? But, do you know why you should attend? Here's 5 reasons why ⬇️ 🔷 Connect with publishers, investors, and developers through MeetToMatch, included with your PGC ticket. Five-day access for meetings across the city. 🔷 Speed-dating style meetings with leading publishers.  🔷 Secure one-on-one meetings with investors in a quiet space. Perfect for game makers and investors. 🔷 Pitch your indie game to experts at The Very Big Indie Pitch. Real-time feedback, press coverage, and a chance to win prizes. 🔷 Showcase your indie game, pre-book a demo table, present your creation, and enter a competition to win a free expo table and conference tickets. Is that enough to convince you? If not, we have few more reasons coming up next! ➡️ Get tickets via comments section. #PGCSanFrancisco #PGConnects #GamesConference #GamesEvents #GamesCommunity

Big Game Jam Theme Reveal 🥳 We are excited to announce that the theme for this year's Big Game Jam is 🥁🥁🥁 "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." So now it's time to go and form your ideas and hopefully develop them into a demo. 🎉 We have created a form for you to register your team for the jam - https://buff.ly/3T7bHFS This will help us figure out who is in which team when you submit your game on Sunday! 📋 Tickets are also still available if anyone decides to join the jam late! https://buff.ly/49OlbMF 🎟️ All links are in our bio! 💫 Some important info: - Teams should have a max of 3 people - There will be prizes for the top 3 teams - Submissions need to be related to the theme in some way - The submission deadline is 4pm on Sunday 10th March - Submissions must be sent into the discord channel. You can host the game anywhere (like itch. io, google drive, etc) If you have any more questions, feel free to message the page or send your question into the jam discord channel and someone will get back to you!

🎮 Attention game developers and publishers! 🕹 We’ve revamped our submission process to better support your specific needs—whether you’re an indie developer looking for funding or a publisher ready to launch globally.   🔐 Private Playtest Submission Form🔍: https://lnkd.in/ggMb-F-H 🌎 Public Playtest Submission Form 📢 :  https://lnkd.in/gDJacdZD Need help designing a tailored playtest experience? Contact us at [email protected] for more information. Take the next step toward refining your game—submit today! #GameDevelopment #GamePlaytesting #UXResearch #GamePublishers #Playtesting #GameLaunch

So boys and girls. We here at LowKeyHighEntertainment have decided will be upping the stakes on our Patreon and eventual kickstarter. We’ve been working on a “pitch demo” it’s a proof of concept demo, that shows the fundamentals of the game and what it’s suppose to be. An “Alpha” if you will. It’s being developed so we can pitch the idea to investors to help fund our devs and the studio. But we decided why not let the public check it out too? So from when the pitch is completed, we’ll be releasing it on our Patreon and our kickstarter. From there we will be doing regular updates until the actual release of the demo “the beta”. The actual demo, there will be polls and a public discord where you can say what you like, hate and wish was changed. In which we will take that info and upgrade the demo 5 times (each part with a different story piece and different gameplay) once the demo is to the public’s liking, the full game will commence. But it all starts out with that initial support. We’ll be releasing this demo hopefully by the end of next month.

Investigating how studios are playtesting reminds me of stacking my Charizard with some really powerful attacking moves and no buffs, here's why Having no buff moves, or status effects and only focusing on attacking is a single strategy that's pretty good and get you to complete the main story line in any Pokémon game, you might get lucky with a burn with Charizard, but if you want to get competitive then you've got to get much more creative to stay ahead 🫡 As part of our own internal research we've been seeing the "only attack" strategy a lot at PlaytestCloud, it's lots of unmoderated sessions that ask similar questions. Fortunately with Rohan, Ugo Bui-Xuan and Gareth we have put together some innovative new plans as we want to help studios of all shapes and sizes start to get their strategies more succinct. Think of what we are putting together as the strategywiki of games user research 👀 We're calling them Research Advisory Packages, and they're designed to help folks out with all the different facets of game development, DM me if you want to talk about them some more. We've been seeing some great reception from our early adopters so far 💪