[Official] Game Development Monthly - Issue No.1

Very good! Don't stop on first issues!

Maruno said:

What kinds of articles would people want to see in GDM in future? There's news (obviously), and also tutorials, guides, interviews, reviews, opinion pieces, hints and tips, competitions, publicising causes, and so forth. I don't imagine all issues will have all of these, because the Editor would run out of material, but are there some you would prefer to see, or some you think shouldn't be in GDM at all?

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Maybe some spotlight resources and articles that won't fit in neither of theses topics like the differences with ROM Hacking, Graphics vs Story vs System, games completed and the best demos.

FL . said:

Very good! Don't stop on first issues!Maybe some spotlight resources and articles that won't fit in neither of theses topics like the differences with ROM Hacking, Graphics vs Story vs System, games completed and the best demos.

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Spotlight Resources?

The actual Spotlight section is going to carry on as it has in the past few months. Cilerba is going to be taking it to it's own thread. So that section will open up for a new section.

As far as talking about the differences between ROM Hacking, that seems like it would be a 1 time article, which is fine.

There are not really very many Demos or completed games to be honest. It could run us into the issue of covering everything too quickly.

Just cover any releases that month of the issue. That's why I brought up Atomic's game earlier in the thread. It had a demo released in December. If there was none, just sate "No releases this month" or something.

Neo-Dragon said:

Just cover any releases that month of the issue. That's why I brought up Atomic's game earlier in the thread. It had a demo released in December. If there was none, just sate "No releases this month" or something.

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Exactly. There's no need to review anything; just list all the games that have changed somehow in the last month. Reviews are a separate matter.

Maruno said:

Exactly. There's no need to review anything; just list all the games that have changed somehow in the last month. Reviews are a separate matter.

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We are covering that in news. I guess I was under the impression that people were wanting reviews of the demos.

ЩѻƦḽᶑʂḽдƴƹƦ™ said:

We are covering that in news. I guess I was under the impression that people were wanting reviews of the demos.

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No, do reviews, I think he was trying to say that for any new demoes that you couldn't review, still mention them in a new release/news section.

DarkDoom3000 said:

No, do reviews, I think he was trying to say that for any new demoes that you couldn't review, still mention them in a new release/news section.

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I'm confused as to if you want reviews from older games.

I wouldn't want to see a review for a game that came out in June 2011 in a February 2012 issue of GDM.

I think only relevant information from that month (well previous month) should be posted. If there is a demo or release from a game in that month, mention it. If not, leave it out lol.

I like reading reviews. if possible, a review a month would be nice. idealy, the newer demoes would get more priority.

if theres nothing out, might as well review older demoes that never got reviews.

There will still be reviews for games, even if they have no demo. We will have a review section filling in for certain.

Much in the vein of what Maruno stated, Reviews are not really tied to releases and I think that is something to stray from, simply because you can do a review without a release, and a release is more so news where a review is something different.