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Unity: Why game development is like mountain climbing

Today Unity's VP of online services compared mobile games development to mountain climbing and explained what a crucial difference data can make to successful monetization strategies. "Game ...

"We wanted to explore that longing for absolute freedom": Cairn is a survival climbing game about human will, endurance, and sacrifice

Cairn's grueling survival framework is novel territory for developer The Game Bakers, whose past works include blood-pumping ...
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"Climbing is in itself a game, with rules everybody knows": Cairn's tense, strategic ascents are making our palms sweat

Big in 2025 | Going hands-on, and very carefully too, with this year's most compelling and dizzying climb 'em up, we speak to The Game Bakers about putting a piton in it When you purchase through ...
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Cairn might be the best climbing game I've ever played, and I wish it was released already

There's no UI in Cairn to tell me I'm in trouble, but I can see it in the way my protagonist, Aava, is shaking. Her knees are wobbling, and I'm high enough up that I'm really starting to wish I'd ...