Game Design Announcements

• Online gaming dangers
• VR for Phantom Limp therapy
• So video game addiction in the US?
• oh forget those silly VR headsets - lets plug in.
• History of gaming is disappearing
• So pretty much 40% of all steam games were released this year.
• Javascript - and the internet
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• Turns out No Man's Sky isn't guilty of Marketing fraud
•  so maybe telegram games won't happen - how about facebook mobile games?
• more on games being used for real life
• Video: Nintendo on Game design
  
• Welcome to our new Chinese Game Company overlords?
• Are AAA titles in danger?

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• Is gamafication really coming this time?
• mind controlling Games but not robots
• Cheat at video games and go to jail? Granted there was a lot of money involved in this cheat
• Tips for building your first game This is a nice Article for first timers. I'm not sure I agree about not writing tests, but everything else seems like a good idea. (even putting localization off till your second game)
• For our self-proclaimed games skeptic: Video games are boring an interesting commentary - and perhaps and insight into why flappy birds, Minecraft, and Candy Crush did so well.
• Mobile games set to be even bigger money soon.
• Evidence that the 'reading nook' venue is real
• facebook challenges steam and right now its a piece of $%^ but so was windows when they first challenged IBM
• games to help youngsters relax since apparently abundant social media is a problem:time article locked to most folks
• making games and staying sane - could apply to any startup
• More on the screen actors guild strike against several games publishers
• 2k and irrational - the most popular games topic on hacker news in the last week
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• no more early review copies to reviewers-but yes to streamers. discuss.
• 'AAA' Games on Mobile
• so HTML5 games on Telegram
• VR overview
• outside look
• mixed reality
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• Fifa video games influencing the original
• article on HTML5 games
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• China also adding e-sports at the college level.
• Australian Game consumption leading to "screen addiction?"
• The Chinese ban overnight gaming by minors
• But it didn't work out in Korea a few years ago.
• Difficulty, failure and changing games
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• bye bye 4chan?
• So suing steam users for giving a bad review might be a bad idea.
• The dark side of the games industry (especially the AAA segment)
  
• Continuing the VR theme - many top steam games are VR
• so those brain training games - just move on
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• How much gaming is too much for children?
• Gambling and video games It's something that was discussed a couple of weeks ago.
• This article is popping up all over. Men playing games over getting jobs.
• Gamasutra's '7 habits of highly successful Game Developers'
  
• Game advertising practices investigated in Britain
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• Sean points us at a tutorial for making gifs/pngs with transparent backgrounds using gimp for those interested in making their own sprite images.
• Ernest's video rebuttal to the VR stuff.
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• One look at how VR will change games
• Riot Games (or League of Legends fame) showing the convergnace of game design just released a board game with all in house designers and developers. Here is an interview with the product manager.
  
• Casual Games are good for your health?
• A small amount of the right kinds of games is good for learning
• Another of the tentative forays into esport scholarships
• For class 9/14 get this zip file of images
• The last piece of evidence that games are now fully respectable of course this is in the UK where everyone codes.
• So now games are being used to train self driving cars
• So Steam made a big change to reviews recently
  
• Ernest pointed me at The game maker humble bundle going on now. GameMaker is a very popular game prototyping engine.