Ask a Game Dev

JULY 6, 2023

Here are some of the lesser-known roles in the game industry that you may not have heard of: [ Technical Artist ] - an artist who writes code to help other artists realize their visions. Prototype Artist - an art generalist who specializes in putting together usable art for a game prototype.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mobile games are currently at the peak of their popularity. They continue to attract diverse audiences all over the globe, and game developers, for their part, continue offering unique and thrilling titles to suit any taste. . Game development companies catch the wave and try to please picky gamers with compelling mobile games.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Why did you become a solo developer? “I I don’t think there was any single moment that led to me deciding to become a solo developer. It was just a slow journey of learning different skills associated with game development allowing me to do most things on my own.” What are the biggest advantages of working solo?

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 10, 2024

Some cut content never goes beyond existence in documents, let alone a prototype. Most gets a few iterations on a prototype before the plug gets pulled, often because we can't find the fun in the idea within the time we've allotted to it. The other thing is that cut content often comes in various degrees of completion.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We used assets from the Unity store, which helped us to improve our camera. The game is obviously based on the many works of Jules Verne, but the story that it tells is an original one. Gonzáles shares how game development is a highly collaborative process for him. This is one of the things I like least about Unity.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This is a process I follow to ensure a game’s quality. This method may not be appropriate for every developer, every team, or every game, but it is one I like. Click here.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

It is great for Unity beginners, or for small jams / prototypes with light dialogue requirements. However, it isn't in active development anymore, and maintenance since 2021 will be a bit spotty. Dialogue System is an all-in-one node-based visual editor in Unity asset with ready-made samples for Mass Effect / Skyrim style dialogues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2019

On top of everything else, we're looking to create: Two detailed Godot learning paths , for beginners and experienced game developers. Great 3d prototyping assets to help you develop games faster. Professional 3d character and modular level prototyping kit. I think we can get all three of them.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This approach is usually integrated into games with lots of space and lets players drive the narrative of the game. Process of Level Designing and Game Development 1. Scripting Level designers use scripting tools to program certain game behaviors and rules in a level.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 23, 2024

We used assets from the Unity store, which helped us to improve our camera. The game is obviously based on the many works of Jules Verne, but the story that it tells is an original one. Gonzáles shares how game development is a highly collaborative process for him. This is one of the things I like least about Unity.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s likely that if you’re reading this right now, you’ve already considered the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing game art. Cost Efficiency Game Development Companies can greatly decrease their expenses by outsourcing game art production.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

This time we’ll unveil the most common reasons why studios choose Unity for creating a game for Android in 2023. When it comes to choosing a game engine for Android , the best solution you can ever find is undoubtedly Unity. Among other features, it has a vast marketplace of either free or paid prebuilt art and code assets.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

In game development, your initial implementation of gameplay is always broken, and needs iteration to improve. The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. How will development be financed?

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

How Unreal Engine is Used for AR and VR Development Let’s take the example of the biggest VR game pulled off to date, The Walking Dead Onslaught is Survios’. The different components of Unreal tech allowed the creators to create a feature-fed game while maintaining its performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

More importantly, we met people who are deeply involved into the game developpment community. Especially those from the Toulouse Game Dev association, which regroups both hobbyists and professional game developers in Toulouse. They even asked us to organize a presentation of the engine. Picture courtesy of Photo N7.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry. “In some ways, you can view it as a web browser,” Silkin suggested.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Welcome to another developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! This week, we are interviewing John Watson about the game Gravity Ace. Hi, I'm John, I'm a (mostly) solo game developer making games that I want to play. My first game was for the One Game A Month challenge.

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

Its core team has developed the game since 2018, even though the studio was officially formed in 2020. Made by fans, for fans, “Predecessor” was born out of the ashes of “Paragon,” a MOBA game developed by Epic Games from 2016-2018.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine team to showcase the engine’s capabilities of making heavy 3D games and boost community learning motivation. I hope to help everyone advance further in 3D game development.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab. When you want to create a new feature for your game it might just take a few hours to see it will work.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Anyone who is a cinematographer, game developer, artist, or those who are using Unity as a means to create complex behaviors and who have no desire to learn or continue writing code or detailing keyframes day after day. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. Importing assets is not just accurate, it is quick.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. We hope it will help you advance further in the journey of 3D game development. Don’t believe it? Keep reading!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

We hope that this makes our lives better with asset pipelines for 3D. The nature of 3D can complicate the import/export process of a game character. For example, creating a blockout or prototyping within Godot, then exporting as glTF to further edit in Blender, and finally bringing the geometry back into Godot.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 22, 2023

My employer assigned me to a small team that was building a new game out of an existing, though decommissioned, game base. The game had many constraints - minimal budget for new art assets and almost no tribal knowledge from the original team remained. That’s what preproduction is for.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

How was your experience building a VR game specifically? It's a lot tougher than making a 2D or a non-VR 3D game, that's for sure. Not because it's necessarily harder to program or harder to make assets for, but it's much, much harder to debug. The first prototype of FNFVR was made in around two weeks if I remember correctly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. But you might not know that he is also a published author , a venture partner at Play Ventures , a very active angel investor, and co-founder of the powerful Next Games. But not in the assets that much.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Meta’s venture into the metaverse coincided with Apple’s privacy changes and resulted in the loss of the platform as the number one ad channel for mobile games. FTX on the other hand was lavishly funding blockchain gaming while holding assets for some of the companies. Blockchain gaming, (aka Play-to-Earn, aka.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. 3D asset pipeline: glTF 2.0 Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest. 3D asset pipeline: glTF 2.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

He is also still a believer in web3, but would like to see more game developers using blockchain tech to offer something only enabled by web3 technology. He added that a lot of the funding that has gone into PVE or play-to-earn games was flawed. Video bumpers are also now an option.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. In April of this year, I did an autopsy on my first game, War Co. Click here.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Zugzwang by Robert Yang This post details my process and intent for making my new release Zugzwang (pronounced in German like /ts'OOK-ts'VAHng/ ) a tactical sex dungeon roguelike cum ritual game. I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago.

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