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Postmortem:
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
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Mike Fridley
[07.30.13]
In this postmortem, reprinted from the April 2012 issue of Game Developer magazine, former Big Huge Games executive producer Mike Fridley walks through what went right and what went wrong with
Kingdoms of Amalur
's production leading up to a release that would sink two studios.
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When players buy your game before it's done: Expert tips on alpha funding
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by
Mike Rose
[07.30.13]
Interested in alpha funding? Find out what you need to know first -- from Dean Hall (
DayZ
), Chris Simpson (
Project Zomboid
), and of course Markus "Notch" Persson (
Minecraft
), among others.
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