GAMEDEV, Wlad Marhulets
GAMEDEV, Wlad Marhulets
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GAMEDEV
10 Steps to Making Your First Game Successful

Author: Wlad Marhulets

Narrator: Yong Yea

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2020


Synopsis

If you know nothing about game development, you're basically me before I started working on my first game DARQ. This book is for beginners and assumes no knowledge of game development on the reader's part.As a first-time developer with no prior experience in coding, modeling, texturing, animation, game design, etc., I managed to launch DARQ to both commercial success and critical acclaim. With $0 spent on marketing, it was featured in major media outlets, such as IGN, Kotaku, PC Gamer, GameSpot, Forbes, and hundreds of others. DARQ won numerous awards, such as The Best Game of the MIX / PAX, and received a user rating of 9 out of 10. DARQ was in the TOP 50 of the most wishlisted games on Steam before launch. It made it to the "Top Selling," "New and Popular," and "Featured and Recommended" tabs on Steam. Ultimately, DARQ became #42 Most Shared PC Video Game of 2019 (Metacritic). In this book, I describe how I did it. If you're an aspiring developer wanting to make a living from making games, this book is for you.The book guides you through a step-by-step process of making a commercial game. It teaches you how to learn all the necessary skills and covers various aspects of game development: mindset, preproduction, funding, business, law, development, marketing, PR, publishing, distribution, as well as pre-launch, launch, and post-launch strategies.Wlad's philosophy very much reminds me of what it was like in the early days of making games for Blizzard. - Mark Kern, former team lead for World of WarcraftI have read a few books on game development, but this one is, by far, my favorite - Forbes (Zane Pickett)


Reviews

Goodreads review by Colt A Bauman on January 02, 2021

Reignited my optimism of publishing my own game someday I chose this rating because the author's story is very inspiring, and he passes on a lot of sound advice from knowledge gained along the way. I'm not new to the world of game development (I majored in Game and Simulation Programming), but regret......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel on December 29, 2021

This is a great book specially for the ones curious about the process of creating a video game. Wlad covers the whole gamut when it comes to video game Development, going from game design to launch process. I have already created a game - called Goumi. Still, i have learned a lot from this book. I j......more

Goodreads review by Lucas on July 10, 2022

Excellent book for anyone interested in getting into game development, though I'd say the advice here is applicable to life in general. It's interesting to see how the author was keep their eyes on target and kept working till they reached their goal. This is a key thing I see a lot of indie devs (ga......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian on February 14, 2025

I expected to learn more about the technical part of making a game. The book is at a higher level and goes through the major areas that you have to cover and focuses more on marketing, PR, building a community, the legal aspects, and so on. I found it interesting and useful, but I insist that I would......more