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We've released 4 episodes about Game development:
101: Mechanics of Death Stranding
Sefran has been itching to talk more about Death Stranding ever since he started playing it; in this episode we discuss some of the interesting mechanics in the game. This episode is pretty spoiler free, so if you haven't played Death Stranding yet, don't worry!
078: No Man's Sky Beyond (Expectations)
In this episode we take another look at No Man's Sky, in particular its rather unique development cycle, and how Hello Games have handled its infamy.
034: Unity Whispering
In this episode of Octal FM we're joined by Louise Swift, a software developer & fellow nerd who recently worked on a project using the Unity game engine.
- Louise works for No Mayo Digital
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009: Molyneux management
Jalada and Sefran explain why community management is so important in the development and maintaining of video games, from the perspective of video gamers.
- 7 Days to Die developer blog
- Examples of less-than-ideal pre-launch management: Spore, Fable, No Man's Sky.
- "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided silly preorder scheme scrapped"
- Diablo 3's significant Loot overhaul patch, dubbed 'Loot 2.0'.
- "Final Fantasy 14 killed by Square Enix’s stubbornness, reborn by a new approach"
- Elite Dangerous Galnet News
- id Software's open-sourced game code on GitHub
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