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Social Game Marketing and Cross-Promotion

Social Game Marketing and Cross-Promotion

Please help me feed my cows or grow a field of turnips. If these sentences don’t sound weird to you, you really need to start blocking your Facebook friends who launch these Farmville requests. Social network games are all the rage right now, but making a profit from them is easier said than done. 

Silent Extinction

Silent Extinction

We love our job so much we can’t stop coming up with cool game concepts even when we’re not at work. We entered the Global Game Jam with out latest brainchild and are quite pleased with the result, a puzzle game where you have to keep the spoken word alive in a world driven by mind control.

GC Lyon

GC Lyon

Meeting 40 companies in just three days seems like a daunting task but for a new company it’s a great way to create brand awareness. Half an hour isn’t much, but it’s enough to get our vision across and listen to some common issues developers run into with in-house prototyping.

Crazy Monkey Studios started production on ‘Undisclosed color puzzle game’

Crazy Monkey Studios started production on ‘Undisclosed color puzzle game’

At gamescom Crazy Monkey Studios successfully shopped around the concept for a puzzle game we came up with for them. Largely thanks to the playable prototype, publisher interest turned out to be high enough for the team to start full production on the game. We’ll share more details in due time.

Preparing for the GDC Europe and the gamescom

Preparing for the GDC Europe and the gamescom

After we tie up the last few lines of code for clients who want to showcase their prototype to publishers at the upcoming GDC and GamesCom events, it’s time to load up the truck with enough sausages and sauerkraut to last us through the German border, as we’re making our way to the events ourselves.

Festival of Games

Festival of Games

June 3-4, we attended the Festival of Games in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This event was a good opportunity to talk to other people in the game industry and spread the word about our rapid prototyping services. A big part of the Dutch game industry was present, as well as companies from all over the world. […]

Keep Your Crises Small

Keep Your Crises Small

It is always great to see one of your idols talk about how they became a success story. Ed Catmull of Pixar fame gave such a wonderful presentation at the 2007 Entrepreneurship Conferende at Stanford University that we have no other choice than to share it with you. Full video after the jump.   

Global Game Jam 2010

Global Game Jam 2010 Poster

Global Game Jam 2010

Hi! We’re PreviewLabs and we build game prototypes faster than anyone. To put our money where our mouth is, for our inaugural post we’ll give you a look at our participation in the Global Game Jam 2010, where we made a fun platform game from scratch in 48 hours straight. Enjoy!