🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter 32 - Forever Winter, Japanese Game Design Addictive, Valve Founder and History
# 🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter #3 Things: 1 🎮 Game news, 1 🔎 Interesting Find, 1 📱Social Post. Written by a Part Time Indie Game Dev
Hi There Gamers and Devs,
Here is 3 Things I read this week about Gaming and Game Dev.
#3 Things :
🎮Game news: Fun Dog Studio The forever Winter A Post Apocalytic Art book that comes alive.
📱 Social Post: Why Japanese Game Design is Addictive? Zelda 🗡️🛡️
🔎Interesting Finds: Forbes published an Article about Valve and its reclusive founder. Quite a surprise they are looking into the company legacy and how they lead in PC Gaming Distribution.
Lets Go!
🎮 Game News
Forever Winter
The Dystopian Artbook made real. Mecha, Survival and War.
Saw this on X / Youtube its been making the rounds on other places. I was very impressed with the setting and look of the game, has a lot of Apocalytic Survival Style gameplay.
World and Lore of the Game
Screenshot:
Wishlist on>
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2828860/The_Forever_Winter/
Epic Games Store: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-forever-winter-8b8280
Official Site:
https://www.fundogstudios.com/
📱Social Post
Why is Japanese Game Design addictive
Insightful video about what makes Japanese Game design uniqiue. I was quite amazed back then with the Wii and Zelda BOTW how it tackled the Open World Design making it less of a chore and rewarding.
Nintendo a history and philosophy of Lateral Thinking
Physical (Monozukuri), tactile nature of things
Game Psychology (Guiding the Player, through environment to advance the Story Legend of Zelda and giving rewards Dopamine)
Dogfooding Business The Japanese Way Make the Demo / Prototype and Test it out yourself, use your own product.
Storytelling (Japanese Games do place emphasis on storytelling, but it is also everywhere in Japan)
Notes on Zelda:
https://elaine-delrosario.com/blog/botw-analysispt1
https://www.pointnthink.fr/en/the-reinvention-of-the-legend-of-zelda/
🔎 Interesting Finds
Valve history from Forbes
Forbes made a short video on the history of Valve and Steam and its Founder Gabe. Steam has been riding the wave as the default standard for Digital Games distribution on PC Platform
It seems like Gabe Newell has been absent from Valve after the launch of the steamdeck, even though he owns a 50% of company ownership. Now I am not so sure he is absent totally, but he deservs a chill on his Yatch
With the new steam decks and other PC handlends like MSI, ASUS ROG allys coming onto the scene, I see that console uptakes will be slowing down. PC Gaming is set to expand through these platforms with Steam Leading. The market is project to grow to an estimated 68 Billion by 2030 (According to Forbes).
Maybe that is why so many steam games are releases each year.
Have a look at the short video from Forbes:
Original Documentary on Valve 25th Anniversary
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/1gds5fz/gabe_newell_has_been_missing_from_valve_for/
https://www.kbvresearch.com/gaming-pc-market/
Nice find about Valve!