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Mar 20, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Beth Elderkin
Beth Elderkin, Content Marketing Manager (GDC)Visai Games’ Venba won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 26th annual Independent Games Festival Awards on Wednesday. Venba is a narrative cooking game in which players experience life as an Indian mom who has immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Beth Elderkin
Venba is a narrative cooking game in which players experience life as an Indian mom who has immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1980s. …
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
gdconf.com | Beth Elderkin
The stage is set for another stellar day of talks, roundtables, networking, and more at the 2024 Game Developers Conference. The GDC Expo opens today, core sessions have begun, and the Main Stage is set for a live concert—along with the 2024 IGF Awards and Game Developers Choice Awards!The GDC Expo opens at 10:00am today, so be sure to head over there to check out our amazing sponsors and exhibitors.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Beth Elderkin
Game Maker’s Sketchbook, the annual celebration of art and artists in games, has revealed the official selections for its third year. "For a third consecutive year, we were blown away by the talent and artistry in all of the entries; the quality across the board made it a difficult job for our jurors, who we thank so much for evaluating all of our entries,” said Meggan Scavio, President of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
gdconf.com | Beth Elderkin
Game developers spend their careers creating main characters: Now, you get to be one. Following a standing-room only show last year, Extra Lives: The Live Experience is returning to GDC 2024.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
gdconf.com | Beth Elderkin
Boom! Tetris. Game Developers Conference organizers are thrilled to reveal that Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov is coming to GDC 2024 with Croatian developer Vedran Klanac to talk about a whole new side of the iconic puzzle game. Discover the untold story of Tetris Reversed, a lost prototype resurfacing after a decade.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Justin Carter |Beth Elderkin |Danielle Riendeau
Deck Nine Games, famous for crafting The Expanse: A TellTale Series, Life is Strange: True Colors, and other narrative-focused games, just announced it has laid off 20 percent of its staff. In a post on X, the studio said: "Like many others in the games industry right now, Deck Nine has been affected by the game industry's worsening market conditions. Today we made the difficult decision to lay off 20 percent of our staff. These people are amazing, talented, and awesome developers.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Justin Carter |Beth Elderkin |Bryant Francis
Spoilers from Alan Wake 2 to followOne of the many, many reasons that Remedy's Alan Wake 2 is an artistic triumph of a video game comes in the form of its mixed-media use of full-motion video.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Justin Carter |Beth Elderkin |Joel Couture
TheIGF(Independent Games Festival) aims to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize independent game developers advancing the medium.Every year, Game Developer sits down with the finalists for the IGFahead of GDC to explore the themes, design decisions, and tools behind each entry. Game Developer and GDC are sibling organizations under Informa Tech.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Beth Elderkin |Justin Carter
At a GlanceAn ex-producer for the studio also claims CIG is home to a "highly toxic" workplace culture. Staff at Star Citizen creator Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) have reportedly been laid off. These cuts, said ex-Turbulent producer Annie Bouffard, were "mass layoffs" excused as staff relocation. Per MassivelyOP, a number of alpha players on the space game learned several lead staff were no longer at the studio. These exits include live game director Todd Papy, who exited in January.
