Real Programming

AUGUST 17, 2023

How do parents keep them motivated to learn coding online after the school day is out? Fun and Play is Everything RP4K is here to make coding classes for kids fun, first and foremost, and we do that by making the sessions revolve around kids making their own video games. They’re just meant to convey what coding is like to beginners.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 31, 2024

We made a pilot trailer and concept art that served as a main aesthetic code for the art style. Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 13, 2025

Skillz is betting that a developer will crack the code for a genre that hasnt yet been optimized for competitive, real-money play. Today, Skillz is a public company with over $300 million on its balance sheet, operating in a sector that has exploded in value. But going public wasnt without its challenges.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 24, 2023

As the conversation progressed, the trio delved into the challenges of finding a balance between creativity and management, a common struggle for game developers and company founders alike. Yet, the decision to relinquish personal involvement in the coding aspect was not without emotional toll.

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Real Programming

AUGUST 2, 2023

To non-programmers, it may seem like there is one single thing called “coding” that people do to power their favourite apps, websites, and video games. Centre Stage Versus Backstage Perhaps it’d be easiest to explain the difference between front- and back-end coding by way of analogy. Please read on for a closer look!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

We made a pilot trailer and concept art that served as a main aesthetic code for the art style. Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction.

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Real Programming

DECEMBER 7, 2022

At RP4K, that mostly means learning how to write code in Python. RP4K instructors start with regular shapes for all objects in the games children code but let them customize to discover sprites and pictures. They’ll even learn concepts like the Pythagorean theorem. Students can learn at their own pace while coding a video game.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Understand Blockchain and NFT Concepts in Gaming As initially stated, NFT games are based on the blockchain concept. Solidity is one of the fundamental programming languages used to code smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Here are some fundamental activities involved in NFT game development: Creating the game concept.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

It also walks through a coding copilot reference example, which enables you to use AI Workbench to create, test, and customize a pretrained generative AI model on your platform of choice. Mistral : Fine-tune a Mistral 7B large language model (LLM) on a custom code instructions dataset using QLoRA PEFT. What is NVIDIA AI Workbench?

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Game Dev Unchained

AUGUST 24, 2023

This episode is sponsored by [link] ⁠ 56% off subscription 20% for one-time purchases with my code GAMEDEV20 In the ever-evolving landscape of game development, the pandemic has stirred an unexpected debate about working conditions and what the future holds for those in the industry. Does this make the ambitions of Gen Z any more audacious?

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Brainstorming is the key element before a developer dives into coding or designing. Voice actors breathe life into characters, and developers write thousands of lines of code. Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Free Sign Up What is a Script Breakdown: Core Concepts and Purpose Just like how a talented actor brings life to the screen, a script breakdown plays the starring role in bringing a screenplay to production. Script Breakdown Colors and Marking Systems Implementing a structured color-coding system is a vital asset in production planning.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AWS provides tools such as AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to automate horizontal scaling and distribute traffic across multiple resources. For instance, manual scaling involves directly inputting changes through a console, command line interface (CLI), or infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

In 2019, they approached Logic Simplified to build a crazy and fun cooking game with a similar concept to Cooking Craze, but with unique locations and classic restaurant dishes. After various iterations, we achieved the perfect balance of the freemium model, social scalability and sheer cooking mastery. Freemium Model.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2024

That’s where a game-changing concept can significantly simplify the technical aspects of bringing your game to life: a managed game backend solution. And leveraging cloud services for setting up a load test environment is a cost-effective approach.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Our experienced testers work closely with game designers and developers to examine every part of the game’s concept, mechanics, and user interface. Why is pre-production testing important?

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. In fact I have two new concepts for teleportation tech, which is kinda funny because of how they evolved out of the same idea.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Garrison encounter distribution samples, color-coded by category. RIF Installers were already a prefab to begin with, one which (without precedent anywhere else in the game) were actually inserted via a separate hard-coded method, so let’s add it as an encounter instead. Some concepts: More enemies could show up?

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

might be more ideal from a size and visual balance perspective, but doubling is more feasible for retaining the actual aesthetics, both in terms of cell alignment and pixel accuracy, and might also provide us with other benefits later. It will be done :) It’s time to experiment! Something in between 1.0x

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Filmustage

MARCH 13, 2025

Key Elements to Identify Production requires categorizing various components into specific groups: Cast and speaking parts Props and set items Effects and action sequences Wardrobe and makeup needs Transportation and technical gear Standardized color codes provide consistent identification across teams.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I think the only way to understand this bubble – and to identify whether there is real value to be had here – is to understand the components, and then evaluate each scheme, investment or idea based on whether it benefits from the underlying opportunities from these four concepts, or whether it is simply a confection of ideas with no true substance.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Although I saw that Civ 5 ’s 1UPT had become the mainstream conception of a tile-based 4X game, Old World actually went through roughly a year of development WITH stacked units. 1UPT, on the other hand, helps balance some of the extremities of the Orders system by making it more difficult to kill a unit via stacking.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Use code “NAAVIKDOF” at checkout and you’ll receive a -10% discount for the first subscription year. That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important. That also means it is the strongest lever in Sky Mavis’ hand to balance the SLP economy during times of token inflation / deflation.

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Real Programming

APRIL 22, 2025

Your child just finished their coding class, and suddenly, theyre speaking a new language. At Real Programming 4 Kids (RP4K), coding doesnt stop when class ends. Our project-based approach helps students connect coding with creativity, logic with action, and math with meaning. Collision detection. Time gets tight.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Although we've tasked our newest concept artist and character modeler, Pete, with trying his hand at the textures for our main Anagativan characters (which you can see later on in this issue), Shelly spent the first half of this sprint finishing up her own textures. o [link] Concept Art. Check it out! Programming. What do you think?

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Would you create a lobby, then set the rules of the chat, then either create a password or friend code and invite a chatter, then place yourselves into virtual seats for your chat? And even in the current days of e-sports, tournaments obviously do not run on this 50-50 concept. Notice that this isn’t just about poorly balanced games.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I was really unsure any of this would work at all, since internally it’s quite complex and therefore hard to gauge what outcomes are possible and whether they’d really fit into Cogmind, which has a pretty strong focus on design balance. The first iteration simply averaged together the stats of all the input items.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Do you have a concept in mind?” Example : Imagine I have a solid concept for a “Match-3 with a social metagame”. In the book, “ Dream Team ”, the author Shane Snow illustrates a concept called the Zone of Tension. A team is a constant balance to maintain. Industry peers asked me: “What games will you make?” “Do

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. The game says you must kill her first, like this, always -- and if she always dies so early, that means her concept doesn't get to interact with anyone else. You're trading health for ammo / convenience.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Moria’s descendant Angband also included ego items ( over 100 properties), but expanded the concept of randomized items even further by adding the option to activate “Randomly Generated Artifacts,” abbreviated “randarts.” The first roadblock actually has nothing to do with game design at all, but architecture.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

Until recently, marketplaces and creators determined the creator royalty together and adhered to this standard as a kind of social code. However, we are missing the forest for the trees when we try to stick to a couple of high-level concepts instead of seeing the larger picture.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Roman cancel is the original though, and the better implementation of that concept by far. Some new slightly different set of combos is possible, and that can be balanced around, but when it comes to having basic competence at using the feature and understanding what's going on, it's a big improvement. But really, who cares.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. When it comes to heroes Puzzle Breakers has the same concept as E&P. Tiles deal damage to enemy characters depending on the colors of tiles and enemies (rock-paper-scissors balance).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) Naturally there’s also then the need to be able to reuse that data, which requires more supporting code. While on the subject of realism, it also makes plenty of sense you can go back to collect resources left behind earlier.

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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

The weapons-as-tiles concept made positioning and movement interesting enough to me – and I ended up doubling down on that with how weapons worked (see Healthbars). This meant coding 36 different upgrades, at least 18 of which had to be redone as hex types were replaced or redesigned. This took f **g ages to make. Conclusion.

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