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Browser Games vs. Mobile Games
Browser Games vs. Mobile Games: Which Should You Build?Mobile Game

Browser Games vs. Mobile Games: Which Should You Build?

Somewhere in every studio there is a spreadsheet with two columns, one labeled "Web" and one labeled "App Store," and a lot of confident arrows. The arrows are usually drawn…
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HTML5 vs. Unity WebGL
HTML5 vs. Unity WebGL for Browser GamesGame DevelopmentUnity Game Development

HTML5 vs. Unity WebGL for Browser Games

Picture a lab with two benches. On the left bench, a small team builds a puzzle game in JavaScript, and the first playable build is a few hundred kilobytes. On…
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Native vs. Cross-Platform Mobile Games
Native vs. Cross-Platform Mobile GamesMobile Game

Native vs. Cross-Platform Mobile Games

Every studio meets this fork in the road around the third meeting of a new project. One engineer wants Swift and Kotlin because "real" games are built close to the…
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Android vs. iOS Game Development
Android vs. iOS Game Development.Game Development

Android vs. iOS Game Development.

Every few years someone declares the platform war over, and every few years the numbers refuse to cooperate. Android owns the planet. iOS owns the wallet. Both statements are true…
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Custom Game Development Guide
Custom Game Development: What Businesses Need to Know?Game Development

Custom Game Development: What Businesses Need to Know?

A training manager wants new hires to practice a safety procedure without risking a real one. A brand director wants a campaign people play for ten minutes instead of scrolling…
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how long does it take to develop a video game
How Long Does It Take to Develop a Video Game?Game Development

How Long Does It Take to Develop a Video Game?

Ask ten developers how long a game takes to make, and you will get twelve answers, most of them starting with a deep sigh. The short version is that a…
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