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Kelsey's Pick: Slime Rancher You’re a thousand light years away from Earth and you’ve decided to forge new frontiers and make a fortune doing something unique to this strange and…

Cameron's first-hand experience with the course For the last two weeks, I was fortunate to attend an online training course centralized on community management mental health. The course runs through…

With the recent success story of Stray, a third-person cyberpunk-style adventure title that lets you see and interact with its world as a lost cat we thought it would be…

Cameron's Pick - Evertried This week I have been engaged in the world of Evertried, a beautifully crafted isometric, tactical rogue-lite where the player ascends a mysterious tower utilizing strategy…

Cameron's Pick - Carrion Carrion is a 2D Metroidvania with a unique reverse horror theme. You assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those…

Kelsey - What I Learned from Working My First Con I recently took a game I’ve been working on to a local con outside my city, Philadelphia. The convention is…

Kelsey's Pick - Mini Motorways I'm always in the market for a good management sim. From Banished to Sim City, Prison Architect, Oxygen Not Included, and everything in between, I'm always ready…

Ludonarrative dissonance is a slightly pretentious sounding term that is relatively new but incredibly important to keep in mind while designing your game. Coined in 2007 by LucasArt’s former creative…

Steam wishlists have become a key metric for developers and have quickly become an essential way for developers to quantify a game's potential on Steam. Here, we explore why Steam…

Cameron's Pick - Sunset Overdrive What do you do when a contaminated energy drink transforms most of the population into toxic mutants? Well, you embrace the chaos of a hyper-colorful,…

Cameron - Xbox + Bethesda FanFest (Melbourne)   This week I was very fortunate to be invited to the Xbox & Bethesda Fanfest event in Melbourne, where we were able…

Kelsey's Pick - Banished One game that’s drawn me back in during these unpredictable, pandemic-laden times is Banished by Shining Rock Software. It’s from 2014 but holds up just fine, and there…

With Steam Next Fest kicked off, we thought it would be a great time to discuss how to get the most out of your game’s Steam Page. There are a…

Sigil of the Magi hasn’t been released yet, but I’m already fully captivated. As a long-time player of Hearthstone (and an early supporter of Shardbound, which I will forever mourn),…

Kelsey's Pick - Gorogoa Gorogoa manages to tell a story without a single word in the actual gameplay. Some people say it’s less of a game and more of an interactive…

In #80 of The Iterative Digest, we explored the benefits of working with a game publisher, and now we’re following up by helping you find the best fit for you! (If…

Kelsey's Pick - The Talos Principle This 3D puzzler isn’t new, but its subject matter feels more relevant than ever. In The Talos Principle, you spend half your time solving…

  Game development can be chaotic, but there is some method to the madness. Here we can take a look at the 7 main stages of a game’s development: Planning The planning…

Cameron's Pick - Overcooked! All You Can Eat What do you get when you mix a few friends, chaos, and cooking? Overcooked! All You Can Eat, of course! I’ve been revisiting the…

The Iterative Collective is a video game incubator and publisher, so it's no secret that we believe publishers can bring a ton of value to your game. There are many…