Brandon Sheffield's Blog
Brandon is director of Necrosoft Games (follow @necrosoftgames or www.necrosoftgames.com), cloistered editor of Zam.com, editor of the Game Career Guide, former editor of Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra, programmer of the Game Career Seminar at GDC and advisor to multiple conferences and competitions, including GDC, CEGC, Digital Dragons, Reboot, and Sense of Wonder Night at TGS. Currently working on Gunsport (among others) www.gunsport.tv.
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on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:17:00 EDT
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As the Dreamcast turns 20, we got comments from developers of games like Shenmue, Space Channel 5, Samba de Amigo, Sonic Adventure, and more, to celebrate the short life of this innovative console.
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on Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:22:00 EDT
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A deep dive into the creation of Gunhouse, a puzzle-meets-tower defense game, as filtered through conversations with various game developers and regular human beings like Cliff Bleszinski, Rami Ismail, and Simon Carless.
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on Mon, 17 Jul 2017 03:43:00 EDT
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In a rare roundtable, Swery, Koji Igarashi, 4gamer journalist Masatoshi Tokuoka, and Necrosoft Games' Brandon Sheffield discuss the future of the japanese game industry.
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on Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:14:00 EST
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A lot of people don't realize how much you can do with an expo pass. I'm a big advocate for them, so here's a big explainer!
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on Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:50:00 EST
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As the US closes its borders, we lose out on opportunities for cultural understanding. Because of the border closure, no US citizen can attend the Tehran Game Convention, a huge potential stepping stone in our international game development community.
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on Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:36:00 EST
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Starting a video game is a lot easier than finishing it. There are a lot of reasons why things get put to the wayside, and in this 2016 retrospective, we discuss five things that we just couldn't finish.
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