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Playground fights led to the sister’s power house Blind Bend Studio

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Seeing that was hard and I always found myself in the middle of a fight beside her. She’s a Technical Artist and she’s good at development as well as environmental art. During the period of the residency, they got to partner with Ghanaian-based studio Leti Arts to create a comic book version of Blind Frontiers.

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The Art of 2.5D: How It’s Redefining Game Design 

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This makes it ideal for fighting games, Metroidvanias, and RPGs. Many developers leverage art production services to create bespoke assets that enhance visual storytelling while maintaining performance efficiency. enhances gameplay clarity, maintains performance efficiency, and enables unique art styles. Genres That Thrive in 2.5D

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How to Fight “Tired Mode” as a Game Dev

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This week, when trying to provide art directions to James, I remembered an additional pitfall that is an especially prescient and intense problem for self-publishers. How to Fight Tired Mode. Speaking of avoidance, the best way to fight Tired Mode is to never fight it at all. The board art is nearly done.

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Solo developer Voidmaw on creating Katanaut: “Done is better than perfect”

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Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. Ive always loved creating things, and game development felt like the perfect mix of art, storytelling, and problem-solving.

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COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

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The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. years of development.

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Playground fights led to the sister’s power house Blind Bend Studio

PreMortem.Games

Seeing that was hard and I always found myself in the middle of a fight beside her. She’s a Technical Artist and she’s good at development as well as environmental art. During the period of the residency, they got to partner with Ghanaian-based studio Leti Arts to create a comic book version of Blind Frontiers.

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Nightshade – An AI Tool For Artists from Glaze Maker

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GameFromScratch.com Nightshade – An AI Tool For Artists from Glaze Maker The rise of generative AI art tools such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are incredibly powerful but not exactly beloved by artists whose work might be powering these machine learning models, generally without permission.

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