Company blog from mod.io covering product updates, platform metrics and technical guides for adding mod and user-generated content support to games. Readers get news on UGC monetization and marketplace launches alongside developer tutorials such as Unreal Engine mutators.
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Developer blog on building OpenMU, an open-source MMORPG game server, covering architecture decisions, performance work and new features. Readers get detailed engineering write-ups with code-level reasoning and measured results.
Design Room publishes long-form oral histories of video games, built from interviews with the developers who made them. Covers famous titles and obscure ones, with original art collaborations and rare development assets.
An advice column by game developer Rami Ismail answering reader questions on the development, design and business of making games. Issues combine personal experience with practical frameworks on topics like shipping, perfectionism and decision-making.
A game developer's newsletter on multiplayer networking and game server hosting, with a focus on bandwidth costs. Issues mix personal industry history, such as work on Titanfall, with cost analysis of cloud announcements like AWS GameLift's free egress.
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