PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

Their first game, Genesis Noir, was already a moving work of art. This field of visual art emphasizes abstraction and graphic design to compress storytelling into quick digestible and fun chunks.” Nirvana Noir is ‘coming soon’, but you can already try out the demo.

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Yobob Games

APRIL 17, 2021

Harvest Island Demo. Feedback from Beta Demo. Opening the closed beta demo was a good choice. There might be some push against this idea, since the art is “mixed”, but as a developer, you take risk in creativity. . Harvest Island Demo. This new demo will be 20% of the game, but 80% polished.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 4, 2017

In the wee hours of the morning last Friday night, James Masino delivered the first serious draft of Highways & Byways board art. Tabletop Simulator Demo of Highways & Byways (Version Highway 4). The Art of the Paper Test: Catching Accessibility Issues Early (Dev Diary: 05/19/17) Why does accessibility in board games matter? (A

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole. Meanwhile, VR dev continues, as artists learn Unreal 4's art pipeline and do lookdev to figure out how to update the Psychonauts art style from 2005 to 2015. This "what's the purpose of combat?"

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Harvest Island Demo. As you watch the trailer more, the game’s art is beautiful. Harvest Island Demo. With the release of the new trailer, I decided to release the demo version of the game. And if you explore that little 15-30 min demo, you’ll be able to find a secret very early in the game.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Art Director Sally Luc believes that every team members origin and unique perspective on the world help shape something that goes beyond solely whats popular. This system reflects our key underlying value of unity in the game, as we uniquely weave the theme into our mechanics.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

Mechanical Hand The studio’s upcoming game, Atomic Picnic, is the brainchild of the company’s CEO, Camilla Slotfeldt. She drew a lot of the first concept art for the main characters. Like a mechanical hand and survival aspects inspired by the ‘ Roadside Picnic ’ novel.” .

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making its presence felt in a wide range of industries, including art and design. AI art — meaning art created with AI — is now a popular art form that offers many benefits and applications. But what is AI art? What Is AI Art?

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Logic Simplified

MAY 28, 2024

Unity Asset Store contains art packs and tutorials to help you get started as a creator, and advanced solutions for complex projects. By using pre-built assets, our game app developers save time and effort in creating assets, and focus on other aspects of game development, such as video game mechanics , level design, and user experience.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

demoed his technology around 2018, which is specifically around making 3D kind of scenes and world building with A.I.” AI in Art: Balancing Creativity and Ethics In the realm of digital art, AI technology is stirring up a mix of excitement and controversy.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. Whenever I demo or playtest, I make sure to get the email address of the person, so I can inform them when the Kickstarter starts.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Concept Art. Since embarking on the huge endeavor to completely revamp the entire Kristala demo, we've had our artists and modelers working hard to recreate some of the props and environmental elements that already existed in the original Dalamase demo level. Why redo everything again, you might ask?

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

This year’s major release was of course Beta 11 “Mechanical Renaissance,” in the works for 17 (!) months, and a massive set of new toys, challenges , revamped mechanics , and more. Cogmind Beta 11 release art, by Zyalin. So we’re done, right? Ready to do that Beta 12 map? WARLORD FOREVER!

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I chose the City Sample Demo because it already looks amazing, and since the class lessons were in using the Take Recorder instead of environment building, this seemed like a win for my time spent and potentially having something cool for my portfolio. City Sample Demo 3D environment.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 11, 2022

There’s no programming involved and all the art needed is given to you to make games quickly. There are complex design I have to think about when designing a game mechanic. Let me break down what that cumbersome of a job I had to do in order to get that farming mechanic implemented to the best of this engine could do.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

We really loved how the demo was looking at the end of 2020, but we thought it embodied a bit more whimsy than it did darkness, so we've officially embarked on a complete overhaul of the entire demo level, including character models, level design, environments, and more. Concept Art. Are you ready to get dark, dear friends?

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. As part of this drive, for months I’ve been creating over 100 new items, most of them including new mechanics.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

link] Concept Art. With the updated armor sets handed off to our 3D modelers, James then whipped up a few fresh concepts for some of the remaining items in the Kristala demo that needed to be replaced with newer models, including: Keys to unlock various gates and doors. Welcome signage for The Dalamase, the level featured in our demo.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

In last month's dev blog installment, we introduced you to the progress we'd commenced on the overhaul we're currently giving to the entirety of the Kristala demo—including characters, enemies, levels, and more. Concept Art. Right away, Harold dove into creating fresh, detailed concepts for each level area in the Kristala demo.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

UEFN comes equipped with its in-built game mechanics and physics, allowing creators to focus more on the gameplay and user experience rather than building a game from scratch. With a newfound passion for game development, the team put together a demo of their game and released it on Steam as an early access title.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

We’re picking up where we left off last week with How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game , so read that if you haven’t had the chance yet. Today, we’ll be focusing on testing game mechanics after you design them. A quick recap: game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overview My very first blog project involved creating mechanics for a Tactics RPG. For this demo, I will treat the values like elevations, where 0 is like sea level (water tiles), 1 is ground level (dirt tiles) and so on. Demo Go ahead and play the game starting from the "LoadingScreen" like normal.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

My brother Zhanko does the programming part, while my stronger side is 3D art and level design”, explains Bobby Mojsovski. The collaboration extends to game mechanics and gameplay loops, where player feedback plays a crucial role in shaping the final product.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

Getting a demo out well ahead of the release date allowed the team to receive feedback and make some changes ahead of time. According to Lead Artist Alex Ritchie the visual style was born out of necessity: “Because of the quick turnaround for prototyping all the art was simple to save time.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

Getting a demo out well ahead of the release date allowed the team to receive feedback and make some changes ahead of time. According to Lead Artist Alex Ritchie the visual style was born out of necessity: “Because of the quick turnaround for prototyping all the art was simple to save time.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

After over a year of exhibiting at various online game conventions, we can't properly tell you how stoked we are to be presenting an exclusive build of Kristala—featuring our revamped demo level—at this year's Play NYC convention. Concept Art. In the full version of Kristala, you'll be able to choose from one of six different clans.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

MYRTUNA CRYSTAL: As a mysterious clan of necromancers, the Myrtunans are gifted in the art of foresight and knowing. link] Will then moved on to address a series of additional tasks to help us get ready to package the first build of the demo for Play NYC. Their sacred crystal features an eye to represent this special Myrtunan gift.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Steam organises a recurring event called the Steam Next Fest : Steam Next Fest is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch livestreams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam. s soundtrack seems pretty fitting anyway for this fast-paced "die and retry" runner with a beautiful art direction!

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

When we showed the demo at EGX, the average playtime was forty minutes and we were having to kick people off to let others have a go.” Press B to express Doubt’, for example, is a classic case of mismatch between gameplay scenario and mechanical input. That’s why we need to work with talented humans to make our game a reality.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Overview This lesson is focused on adding some art assets to represent our combatants. A flag named flipDirection helps me know which way the art is facing so I can flip it if needed. Select the Demo game object and attach the EntityViewProvider component to it. Demo Create a temporary Demo script.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Since then, we've been laser-focused on our next big milestone: completing the entire vertical slice for Kristala.Which means we're inching closer and closer to the official release of the game's demo too. Concept Art. Each clan's capital city will have its own unique starting point. 3D Modeling. Green Potion: Cures poisoning.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to implementing death animations, Will also modified our new backstab mechanics to be more in line with the results we were looking for, then worked on ensuring our Stat system properly displays in the crystal menu and properly performs clamps. Concept Art. We're really diggin' these changes. Take a look! Level Design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In hindsight, we missed the mark in some areas, and nailed it in others Genre / Mechanic: I don’t believe abstract analogs in an crafting system works. My 4 / 5 ended up a 2 / 5] Target Demographic: We were wrong to assume our casual mechanics and style alone would bring in a female audience. So what ended up happening?

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

Frustrated with the traditional rewarding of slaughter in games, she developed a unique resource management mechanic that discourages unnecessary killing. I was able to raise enough money to hire contractors to help me with art and audio but I didn’t raise enough money to pay myself,” she says.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 14, 2024

I didn’t really know any people who were good at the other game-related disciplines, like art, level design etcetera, so I just tried to learn all those things by myself. Setting arbitrary deadlines if you don’t have any actual ones, like telling a friend to come over for a demo session.” You can’t afford that nowadays.

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