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Best practices for designing an effective user interface
Double Eleven's Edd Coates shares the essential components to designing accessible and effective UI for video games
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How to be a better character designer
At the Yorkshire Games Festival, Lucy Kyriakidou explored visual storytelling, body diversity, and how to improve your art skills
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Making terms and conditions more accessible to users
Sulake discusses how to make something that epitomizes "boring" into something that adds to the user experience
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The black art of platform conversions: The release candidate
Sponsored article: Abstraction Games details the penultimate stage of the adaptation process -- the release candidate
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GoldenEye, Mario and how to succeed in the world of nostalgia
There's a huge market of 30-somethings eager to replay the games from their youth, but getting it right can be hard
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Azure PlayFab: The world's biggest dev tools you've never thought of
Microsoft's James Gwertzman tells the GamesIndustry.biz Academy about his mission to help developers succeed
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Piracy: Does it matter?
People will try to steal your game in huge numbers, says Butterscotch Shenanigans' Adam Coster -- treat it as a design constraint
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Dealing with delays: A guide to production optimization and crisis management
META Publishing's Alessandro Cossidente explains how to avoid setbacks, and how to cope when it does happen
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Using player-avatar relations to make more engaging and successful games
Avatars can be the key to offering more intense and satisfying game experiences, and inspiring loyalty among players
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How to enable cross-progression between generations and platforms
AccelByte's Raymond Arifianto gives a crash course on how to implement platform-agnostic cloud save features
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Maximum safety, minimum cost: How to launch your game on a new platform
Focusing on the Epic Games Store, Reto Moto's Jean-Marc Broyer dives into launching a PC game on a new platform
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How to bring blockbuster brands to the gaming world
Outright Games on three key principles that can bring success when working with major licenses
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The black art of platform conversions: The tailored port
Sponsored article: Ensuring players experience the game they love as though it was designed for their platform of choice is not easy to achieve -- but that is why Abstraction Games puts so much effort into "tailoring"
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Key questions to ask before hiring a QA vendor
Keywords Studios' Adam Rush provides indie studios with the answers to the most common QA questions
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What are the biggest changes impacting the games industry?
At the NG20+ conference, Rami Ismail looked back at a decade of games industry and how it can inform indies' decisions going forward
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How to build your back-end in the cloud
Linode's Will Blew explores the options available to developers who want to use the cloud to host their back-end
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"The time is right to re-evaluate open worlds. We can do better"
In his Develop:Brighton talk, Ubisoft Reflections' Chris Jenner suggested ways to achieve world-scale emergent gameplay
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The black art of platform conversions: The challenges of integrating and recreating engines and platforms
Sponsored article: Abstraction Games takes another deep-dive into the straightforward port process
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How to efficiently create a winning demo
Art Of Play shares its tips on how to build a demo using the right tools, communication methods, and teamwork, in record time
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How Unreal Engine is helping artists achieve their next-gen potential
Sponsored article: Epic Games discusses its next generation development tools, which are designed to make the creation of high-quality 3D content simpler than ever
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VR lessons from Arizona Sunshine's success
Vertigo Games dives into the strategies behind its virtual reality hit, and how it paved the way for future projects such as After the Fall
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The black art of platform conversions: The (not so) straightforward port
Sponsored article: In the second part of a series dedicated to platform adaptations, Abstraction takes a deep dive into the first part of the production process, the "straightforward port"
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Tools to identify bottlenecks and performance issues
Coconut Lizard's Robert Troughton goes through the right toolset to keep a development team happy and working efficiently
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What is the best game engine: is Amazon Lumberyard right for you?
The GamesIndustry.biz Academy's in-depth guide to Lumberyard, a 3D engine powered by Amazon Web Services
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Lessons in community building from EVE Online
At Devcom Digital, CCP Games' Tryggvi Hjaltason offered advice on creating an environment that builds meaningful friendships