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Building a "make my game musical" button
Creating custom tools to get my game to pop and lock to the beat
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Development craft, engines, and production stories.
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Game Development
You Can’t Shadow Drop a Delay
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-August 3, 2026
What Amazon's Tomb Raider Gaffe Can Teach Indies About How NOT to Announce a Delay
Game Development
Support or Sequel?
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-July 27, 2026
Four Tests for Deciding Where Your Next Dev Month Goes
Game Development
We Have Hit "Peak Roguelite"
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-July 23, 2026
A field note on what "Roguelite Fatigue" says about genre saturation, product-market fit, and why a proven formula is not the same as a safe bet
Game Development
After Launch Day: What to Do When Things Go Right (And When They Don’t)
Spawn Point Marketing-July 20, 2026
[BONUS] Ready Check #13: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
What I Wish Every Studio Knew Before Greenlight
Spawn Point Marketing-July 13, 2026
Ready Check #12: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
The Hard Reset
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-July 9, 2026
Xbox's Brutal Layoffs Were the Entirely Predictable Endpoint of Microsoft's Many Strategic Missteps
Game Development
What's on the flipside of the game dev marketing rulebook?
Is there a secret map to success?
Game Development
What Does “Launch Ready” Actually Look Like?
Spawn Point Marketing-July 6, 2026
Ready Check #11: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
Three Simple Steps to Launch Readiness
Spawn Point Marketing-June 29, 2026
Ready Check #10: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
Managing the emotional rollercoaster of game development
Morale swings in production are predictable and can be reasonably managed
Game Development
Canceling a game in production
How to analyze the situation, make a pragmatic decision and act on it if needed
Game Development
When You Wish Upon a List
Spawn Point Marketing-June 15, 2026
Ready Check #8: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
When Everyone Does a Little Marketing, Nobody Does Effective Marketing
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-May 18, 2026
Ready Check #4: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
Poor performance is not a game engine problem
Frame rate is almost exclusively a development process outcome
Game Development
All Killer, All Filler
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-May 13, 2026
Mixtape's Press Problem: When Polish Becomes a Liability
Game Development
The Scorecard, Explained: Why These Six Categories and Why These Weights
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-May 4, 2026
Ready Check #2: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
Early Marketing IS Game Development
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-April 29, 2026
How Pizza Tower found its groove and its players.
Game Development
Why Most Game Launches Fail Before the First Trailer Drops
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-April 27, 2026
Ready Check #1: The Launch Readiness Series
Game Development
Why Eastern Studios Are Eating Western AAA’s Lunch
Spawn Point Marketing by Jay Rooney-April 20, 2026
And what the indies watching from the sidelines can learn from it all
Game Development
The game developer's career Ikigai
How to be deliberate about your career path in game development
Game Development
The Engine Beneath the Magic Kingdom: Disney isn’t looking to buy Epic for Fortnite
Disney isn’t buying Epic for Fortnite. It’s buying the operating system it’s already built on.
Game Development
How to close a video game
A practical game development guide to switch from doing to shipping
