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Loveshark's investment story: How the AR developer impressed the Oliver Twins
In the first of two parts, Philip Oliver shares how developers should approach investors
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Valve's advice for making your game thrive after launch
Discovery on Steam is vital for indie developers -- Valve's Sophie Mackey offers six ways to improve your game's visibility
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Valve's top tips for launching a game on Steam
The GamesIndustry.biz Academy delves into localisation, wishlists, game tags, and other tools to ensure the best possible launch on Steam
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How events being featured on Steam is changing games marketing
For the GamesIndustry.biz Academy, Michal Napora explores what events being featured on Steam can do for your game
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A guide to creating sound and music for mobile games
King's audio director Vanesa Tate discusses the five things you should think about when creating music for mobile games
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Ethical community management in a struggling world
Kitfox Games' Victoria Tran on the positive role of community management during times of stress and upheaval
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Three free tools to level up your prototyping
Joel Beardshaw explains how Ustwo Games makes the most of free tools for creative prototyping
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The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: A Guide To Remote Working
The team shares its own experiences of remote working as the world adapts to lockdown
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How to improve your understanding of games with teardowns
Nate Ross on creating good teardowns and the reasons why they're a powerful resource
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Who owns your video game?
An issue between the NFTS and its students has raised questions about IP ownership -- Sheridans' Tim Davies is here to help
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The best practices and design principles of VR development
VR developers tell the GamesIndustry.biz Academy about the golden rules and design challenges of making games for virtual reality
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How to transition from working from home to being a remote studio
Due to the coronavirus crisis, leading games studios are having to learn to work remotely. But how do you make a success of working from home?
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What's the secret to great PR?
Former Ubisoft and EA PR Lidia Rumley shares advice on not just promoting your game but also your business
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Six ways to improve your world building
Kate Edwards gives developers advice and tools to build fully realised game worlds
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Killing creative block with kindness
Gabby DeRienzo shares the process that helped her recover from burnout while working on Super Crush KO
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Tips for developers making a cross-platform game
AccelByte's Raymond Arifianto shares strategic and technical insights on cross-platform design
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Four steps to launching a VR game on Oculus
Richard Duck details the technical and content guidelines for launching a virtual reality game on Oculus
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Eight principles for making a game influencer-friendly
ICO Partners' David Ortiz Lapaz lays out ways developers and marketers can make games work for content creators
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How to pitch your indie game
TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik offers advice on how to win over publishers, press and more
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Marketing tips for indie developers who hate marketing
Chris Zukowski discusses the fundamentals of marketing for indie developers who don't know where to start
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Why culturalisation matters as much as localisation
Kate Edwards discusses how to approach culturalisation, and how to navigate sensitive themes so your game can reach wider markets
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The four pillars of good representation
GDC 2020: Proletariat's Tori Schafer offers key considerations for studios including LGBT+ representation in their games
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How to create a successful Patreon
Content creators tell the GamesIndustry.biz Academy about best practices when creating a Patreon page and how to grow your community
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Building Ori and the Will of the Wisps with 80 people working from home
Moon Studios' Thomas Mahler reveals the challenges and solutions to managing a distributed development team
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Creative Chronicles: A balancing post-mortem of Total War Three Kingdoms
The GamesIndustry.biz Academy partners with Creative Assembly to publish its Creative Chronicles video series, today focusing on strategy game balancing