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Danielle Riendeau

Editor-in-Chief, GameDeveloper.com

Danielle is the editor-in-chief of Game Developer, with previous editorial posts at Fanbyte, VICE, and Polygon. She’s also a lecturer in game design at the Berklee College of Music, and a hobbyist game developer in her spare time.

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byDanielle Riendeau
Dec 30, 2022
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Danielle Riendeau's games of 2022
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Game Developer’s best of 2022: Danielle Riendeau’s top six games of the yearGame Developer’s best of 2022: Danielle Riendeau’s top six games of the year
byDanielle Riendeau
Dec 29, 2022
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Game Developer's best of 2022: The best games of the year
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Postmortem: My Hot Girlfriend
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A Note from the New Editor-in-Chief
Nov 29, 2022
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