PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

We are building a historically accurate survival strategy game” Gorilla Softworks co-founder Deniz Şakar explains how the team has tried to accurately portray the challenges early humans faced while they looked for ways to survive and thrive. “We It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed. The full sample for game server, game client and backend functionalities, including source code and deployment instructions, can be found in the AWS Sample GitHub repository.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

art, design, technology, physics, coding, music, maths, 3D, problem solving, empathy, and fun!” It’s very satisfying deleting a huge chunk of your old code. Feedback from playtest sessions with friends or players is really important. Although I never imagined I’d make a game, it turns out it’s basically the perfect job for me.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

This episode is sponsored by [link] ⁠ 56% off subscription 20% for one-time purchases with my code GAMEDEV20 Introducing a special guest Max Fink, one of the developers behind the steam sensation, Battle Bit Remastered. For aspiring developers, Max offers some advice, underscoring the importance of community building.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. . Further over to the right we’ll see the playtest buttons which allow us to play, pause or stop our game. Want to Make Video Games?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How to Venture in Your First NFT Game Development Here is a step-by-step guide to help you build your first NFT game: 1. Learn a Relevant Programming Language Building an NFT game requires you to properly understand a relevant programming language. As one of the latest technologies, blockchain presents new challenges.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Xcode Instruments If you’re building video games for iOS, Xcode Instruments can be an ideal testing tool to level up your game QA. To track down issues in your source code. PlaytestCloud PlaytestCloud enables you to playtest any video game on any platform, including iOS and Android.

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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. It’s the phase where anticipation builds up for the game’s grand entrance. Project leads ensure everyone stays on track.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Building multiplayer games can be rewarding and exciting for aspiring game developers. Here’s a quick overview of the entire process of developing multiplayer games, from pre-production to post-release: Concept and Design  Like any other game, the journey of building a multiplayer game starts by creating the game concept.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2023

In regression testing, the stability and integrity of the build are considered vital to ensuring that changes, updates, or fixes don’t affect the game’s functionality. This technique aims to locate the exact origin of a glitch or bug within the game build.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In simple terms, test automation covers all edges and branches of your game code. Different game types benefit from varying levels of automated playtesting. Your game’s code changes frequently during the development process. These scripts should be reusable across different game builds and versions. Reusability.

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Game Global

DECEMBER 20, 2021

When this happens, developers may find that once they come to localize the product, there are issues with code, the user interface, or imaging that present a problem to the localization process. And there’s more than just the language to consider. Culturalization has just as much sway as translation in the success of a localized game.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

I must say this has been an exciting time, having the opportunity to revisit everything to iron out as many kinks as possible, in many places adding new build possibilities or even whole new mechanics. Categorical Approach. As an example, by far the most sought after prototype was Lightpack 2.0,

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The other biggest new feature which took a while to build and finalize but will likely be seen by almost no one (:P) is the [M]ore button as applied to robot resistances. The most obviously different of the group is item info, which saved enough lines by moving its art off to the side. Sample part info as fit into a 45-row UI layout.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This minimizes redundancy and the time required to create new test scripts each time you build a game. This is never the case because some game tests, such as playtesting and ad hoc, cannot be automated. This ensures that tests are run automatically after code changes. Reusability of test scripts.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I considered a lot of options here, going as far as thinking of building a new generator from scratch (one that would make encounters much easier to implement), but I liked the established and consistent core theme of existing Garrisons and didn’t want to mess with that. Garrison encounter distribution samples, color-coded by category.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. Unlike other card games that are built around specific heroes or mana colors, Marvel Snap has a more flexible deck building system.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

NEM and its chaotic effect is a whole different ball game that can be great for some builds, but there’s always the chance it’ll mess you up, so it takes a special embrace-the-chaos sort of mindset to use.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

One of the things I’ve been focusing on a bit more in recent years is a revival of the greater game:non-game work ratio that Cogmind enjoyed in its early years when I was less interested in promoting it and more interesting in just building cool stuff. So Polymind is technically part of Year 10. All your base are belong to us.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Customer Stories Learn how game studios of all sizes use AWS for Games services and solutions, including generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), to build, run, and grow their games across the globe. Product Launches AWS for Games is a portfolio of purpose-built capabilities to help game developers build, run, and grow their games.

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

After the links I thought it might also be fun to directly include a printout of their final build state, as taken from the scoresheet itself. Sample reporting of runs in progress from the latest build currently in prerelease testing. But I didn’t want to bloat the size of the game just for that--didn’t seem worth it.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In fact, I was unsure throughout the entirety of building the system, which made it rather challenging to work up the motivation to power through a lot of what needed to be done (I normally need to see a clear goal to help with that!). Creating a construct and modifying one are two rather different processes. Construct Creation.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

He was trying to create a whole city on a very real Commodore 64, and the ideas of these two designers required very different types of coding. However, after playtesting, Hudson realized that his game’s meaning was the exact opposite from what he wanted: My game was telling players: You can’t have it all. Life is zero sum.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When we last met, we shared some exciting updates from our time exhibiting at Play NYC 2021, and shared all the work that went into ensuring the exclusive build we prepared for the convention was in tip-top shape and ready to be played. Also fixed logic error in the code. Concept Art. Take a look!

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? In my simulation code, men can have one of five sexual moods: Top, Bottom, VersBottom (Versatile), TrueVers, and Voyeur. For instance, Zugzwang's hanky code also gives a vital hint for predicting AI behavior. Lindell focuses on two aspects: wandering and visibility.

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