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Progress Bar Illusions by John Biggs on December 31, 2010 Tags: progress bar, video I always wondered why OS X progress bars had an odd ripp...

Elder Game: MMO game development » What’s a QA team without a spec? What’s a QA team without a spec? A goddamned nuisance and a waste of tim...

Lessons Learned: The cardinal sin of community management Yet few products these days can succeed without their online community, and the in...

How the PK Mafia Ruins Business « MMO Tidbits No, I don’t mean gankers. The PK mafia I refer to is that school of game design which believe ...

Selling MMOs « MMO Tidbits Outline This is a long article on a complex topic. An outline may help you skip to the “good parts.” * Big La...

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World Of Goo Sale Offers Fascinating Results | Rock, Paper, Shotgun 2D BOY have published details of their World Of Goo First Birthday exper...

GAMESINDUSTRY.COM | Graphs Germany German National Gamers Survey 2009 | Graphs Please find below all freely available graphs of the German N...

InformIT: The Purpose of Agile Planning > Chapter 1: The Purpose of Planning Estimating and planning are critical to the success of any s...

Developers should 'incentivise fans to market for you' | Game Development | News by Develop The solution was to present the player w...

Free to play gamers will pay for power-ups and self-expression, but not for new content | Games Brief The survey of 2,425 respondents identi...

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Gamasutra - Features - Postmortem: Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider: Underworld Very interesting article, mostly because Eric Lindstrom men...

Gamasutra - Features - Generating Cash For Premium Flash A couple of useful comments about flash games and how to use microtransactions for ...

Scrum Impediments Laszlo Szalvay of Danube talking about "impediments" in the context of Scrum: "In the Scrum method of agile...

ICO Partners » Blog Archive » Localise and shine: it may be easier than you think A nice article by Thomas and Diane which covers all aspect...

Fully Distributed Scrum - Agile2009, Schoonheim & Sutherland, Xebia India TBD case | Xebia Blog Guido Schoonheim shares a case study abo...

Scrum for Team System - Process Guidance A good FAQ, should work nicely in combination with "scrum in 5 minutes" by Jeff Sutherlan...

The Agile Playground | Agile 2009 Tobias Mayer shared some games and exercises at the Agile Conference 2009 which aim at providing a deeper...

First Things First: Prioritizing Requirements Karl Wiegers provides some advice on the topic of prioritizing the backlog and he throws in a ...

Refactor Your Mind » complexity Another good posting of Tick Tonoli regarding the reoccuring topic of estimating by using abstract storypoin...

For those who are looking for a nice index of game development related companies which are located in the UK: UK game developer locations An...

I came across Rick Tonoli`s Blog and found a couple of very interesting articles. Still working my way through his postings, i'll prais...

13 Scalability Best Practices | High Scalability The guys at http://highscalability.com released a list of 13 best practices about scaleabi...