Game Developer
| Game Developer | |
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| description | Computer games developer magazine |
| publishing company |
UBM TechWeb ( United States )
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| First edition | March 1994 |
| attitude | June 2013 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editor-in-chief | Patrick Miller |
| Web link | gdmag.com |
| ISSN |
1073-922X |
Game Developer was a monthly magazine from March 1994 to June 2013 on the subject of computer game development . The magazine was free for qualified professional game developers in the USA ; it was also available for a subscription as a print magazine and later also as a digital version. In July 2008, the magazine , which is mainly distributed in North America , reached 35,000 readers.
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Game Developer covered various areas of game development, including programming, art design, audio, quality control , game design and production. Industrial veterans discussed various topics in monthly columns. In the magazine, prominent people from the game industry wrote about books, tools and software packages relevant to game development .
An essential feature of the magazine was the "Postmortem" cover story, in which the development of a computer game that had just been published was described, along with five points each of what went well and what went wrong . These articles provided firsthand an open view of the lessons learned in the development process. The first post mortem was written by André Vrignaud for Dark Sun Online: Crimson Sands and published in October 1997. Game Developer has been honoring exceptional game development tools with the "Front Line Awards" every year since 1998. The winners of the past few years include software (such as Photoshop and VTune), game engines ( Unreal Engine ), hardware ( Geforce 3 ) and books ( Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice ).
The magazine was linked to both the Game Developers Conference event and the Gamasutra website . On the sister website, which functioned both as an online magazine for game developers and as a job exchange in the game industry, articles from Game Developer were published and individual issues of the magazine were offered for sale. In April 2013, the parent company UBM announced that the magazine would be discontinued with the June – July 2013 issue and that its contents would be incorporated into Gamasutra.