A Fast One | Gamedev Dairy #80

Hacks for learning, productivity, having work-life-passion balance and finally game development!

Today’s issue will consist only of recommendations as my workload for this week was… well, big. I’ll do better next time! 😉

Recommendations

• How Darkest Dungeon II's developers evolved their Early Access process

• Why you and your game will benefit from theme-driven design

• Mark Darrah explains why there is no idea guy position in a game dev company. Many people should watch this, many unfortunately won’t.

• Mark Brown on how Nintendo tackled Breath of the Wild’s Open World design.

• Funny video by Mark Manson on How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Starting Today)

• If you’re interested in AI (who isn’t these days? 😉) maybe you'll be interested in the AI Product Report Newsletter.

• Watch how Neil Blevins explains common composition types.

• Funding games on Kickstarter might not be hype right now, but it’s still doable.

• Puzzle Level Idea Strategies! MUST READ!

See you next week ;-)