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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. The main design inspiration here is obviously Gone Home , with a central family-based ambient narrative, household duck homages, and gradually unlocked doors.

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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

Game Refinery

The Nerf collaboration turned Stumble Guys into a first-person shooter, with players wielding their own Nerf blasters in-game. Each partner event has a theme (like baking a cake, for example), with each team of two having its own target to reach (done by playing the game and building up event currency).

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Among Us VR dev talks about how to create immersive worlds

Game Analytics

Being able to actually play as an Impostor or Crewmate in first person was just so appealing to players.” So many games have that question baked into their core. Aside from making it first person, which was incredibly important, the next big one was adding spatial voice chat. Among Us VR is similar here, too.

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5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4 

iXie gaming

The Unreal Engine is a 3D game engine that was first developed by Epic Games in 1998. It was initially developed for first-person shooters and was first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game, Unreal. What is the Unreal Engine?

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The Story of Battlebit Remastered with Max Fink (theliquidhorse)

Game Dev Unchained

In an era where large studios often release glitch-ridden, half-baked games only to spend months patching them up, these developers offers a refreshing contrast. “I’m the last person to tell you if we did something right or wrong… I would never be someone that reviews my game.”

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The 2020 Holiday Shopping Guide for Board Game Lovers

Brand Game Development

The goal of Unstable Unicorns is to be the first person to collect seven Unicorns in your play area, also known as your Stable. Baking/Kitchen. So, I’ve become that person who decided to learn to bake during the pandemic. Unstable Unicorns – $20. Description from Etsy. Meeple Pillow – $20.

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Las Vegas On the Edge of Apocalypse

The Bottom Feeder

If you want to gamble, this is a great time to go to Vegas, because you will have a chance to be the last person to survive an apocalypse. Just be very careful about your timing, or you will be the first person to not survive an apocalypse.) Rebooting Sin City Months of shutdown have left the city with a topsy turvy feel.