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The indie survival guide to game development

Quote from blackdog

On 8/2/2016 at 8:21 PM, blackdog said: Oh that came up in my stream and I watched it Thursday night when I was supposed to be packing for my trip!

Very level design and I think from what of our own, I saw this talk come up yday, haven't had the time to watch yet

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I remember watching this, definitely one of the more important topics to debate. Not strictly talking as a level designer either, I think in general everyone's tools should focus on letting you stay in the zone as much as possible.

about music mainly but a lot of the ideas could apply wider

Very interesting brief dissection of the best scene in Sicario

Found this very interesting.

Little extract: "let's make a game where you have 4 piles of cards from one deck, facing down; every pile contains an ace. Starting from first pile turn them until you find an ace, when you find it you have access to the second pile, etc. Sounds super fun? Anybody? This was game of the year last year! Mechanically this is Gone Home. This is environmental storytelling".

Judging from the audience response, sounds like this can be quite an eye opener for everyone.

Completely off topic for Videogames but fun and interesting background on Die Hard's script

How to use open source to help your game development

I think this popped up on my stream, I think I recognise that multi-coloured slide, was going to watch as title is interesting

Oh despite having not finished it (yet*), this is one of my fave games

*was thinking of re-installing it in the past couple weeks… just couldn't decide if to put it on the Xbox where I almost finished it, or start from scratch on the PC (where I also have DS2).