Free demo of Rise Eterna War is now available!
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Free Steam demo available for deck-building RTS.
AWS to showcase tools for breakthrough gaming experiences at GDC 2025
AWS Games
MARCH 13, 2025
Experience first-hand how Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games helps build breakthrough gaming experiences at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 17-21, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Visit the demo-packed AWS booth (#S927): Engage with purpose-built solutions from AWS that span the entire game development lifecycle.
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Two brothers behind MystiveDev build bodycam survival-horror Chasmal Fear
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 3, 2024
This approach allowed them to create a compelling gameplay loop and build a captivating story around it. As MysticDev prepares to release the demo of Chasmal Fear during Steam Next Fest in February, the Mojsovski brothers picked a couple of streamers to help playtest the game. “We’re
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The Constructors with a demo on Steams’ Next Fest!
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Creators of The Tenants show their estate building simulator!
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How to Make a Tabletop Simulator Demo of Your Board Game
Brand Game Development
MARCH 2, 2020
I’d like to explain to you exactly how to create a demo of your board game on Tabletop Simulator, but first let’s discuss what I perceive as its five main benefits: 1. It makes it easier to build an audience before you have a physical copy of the game. How to Make a Tabletop Simulator Demo of Your Board Game.
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Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies
Cocos
JUNE 14, 2023
A dev, Night by Night 00, shared his work on building warpable and wearable materials for games. Though not fully complete, the demos already show a lot of progress, and the developer is selling their findings on the Cocos store for Chinese developers. Try it out now (Note the demo is in Chinese): ClothDemo for 2.x:
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Multiplayer resource roundup: Get the latest templates, samples, and demos
Unity Blog
MARCH 27, 2024
While multiplayer game development poses challenges, it’s never been simpler to build multiplayer games with Unity. Browse this curated list of resources to get familiar with the latest multiplayer demos, samples, and templates.
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Two engineers build the physics-driven engineering parody The Enjenir
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 9, 2023
With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways. What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It From the building mechanics, all the way to the third person character movements.
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SenAm Games is developing Al-Sirah, a game that educates young muslims about the Islam
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Hrnjadovic also believes that the game could build bridges between people of different beliefs. SenAm plans to build upon the 10-minute demo thats out now to try and release the game in Oktober 2026. The game is also very well suited to non-Muslims, who can learn new things about the history of Islam in a fun way.
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Insights from Xsolla Funding’s VP on Slowdowns, Self-Publishing and Smart Funding
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Find the fun factor in your game and build a demo around that Developers should do their homework before approaching publishers and investors. Find the Fun Factor When creating a game demo to pitch to investors or publishers, prioritize quality over quantity. Find the fun factor in your game and build a demo around that.
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A History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects #10: You are Invited to a Demo Party
Jesper Juul
JANUARY 3, 2025
Parties started taking place during the late 1980s especially in Northern Europe, meetings of almost exclusively boys and young men bringing their computers and CRT monitors to crowded rooms, sharing software, and later competing in making demos , audiovisual programs demonstrating skills. link] [link] Crest/Oxyrons 2000 Deus Ex Machina demo.
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How an 8-hour demo made wishlists for ‘Enotria: The Last Song’ by Jyamma Games skyrocket
PreMortem.Games
JULY 23, 2024
To release an 8-hour long demo of your upcoming game, like Italian studio Jyamma Games did with their soulslike Enotria: The Last Song , takes guts and confidence. The results for the extended demo turned out great in the end for the Milan-based team. Failing is ok The team feels rightfully proud of their achievements so far.
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How an 8-hour demo made wishlists for ‘Enotria: The Last Song’ by Jyamma Games skyrocket
PreMortem.Games
JULY 19, 2024
To release an 8-hour long demo of your upcoming game, like Italian studio Jyamma Games did with their soulslike Enotria: The Last Song , takes guts and confidence. The results for the extended demo turned out great in the end for the Milan-based team. Failing is ok The team feels rightfully proud of their achievements so far.
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Game ready: Building the ‘?hi’a lehua tree with SpeedTree, part 1
Unity Blog
MAY 5, 2023
Learn how to build the ‘Ōhi’a lehua tree using SpeedTree for your next game in this breakdown of our GDC 2023 demo.
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AWS GDC 2025 Highlights
AWS Games
MARCH 27, 2025
Throughout the show, AWS showcased how it empowers customers to deliver breakthrough gaming experiences, offering new ways for developers to build, run, and grow their games. Image 2: GDC 2025 attendees demo Amazon GameLift Streams. Learn more about the AWS for Games GDC 2025 demos.
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Solo dev Rohan Nowell of Doggy Don’t Care “Just start building and ideas will come”
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
I also released the demo on Steam early (after invite-only playtesting) so I can gather feedback from real players. Just start building and the ideas will come.” The post Solo dev Rohan Nowell of Doggy Don’t Care “Just start building and ideas will come” appeared first on PreMortem Games. How do you deal with that? “As
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Building A Full-Stack Online Game Framework
Cocos
MAY 23, 2024
The developer “One Brick Two Hundred” wrote a frame-synchronized online game framework in TypeScript and used the framework to create an online game demo, which is free to share with you. That’s great news!
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Game ready: Building the ‘?hi’a lehua tree with SpeedTree, part 2
Unity Blog
JUNE 2, 2023
Continue learning how to build the ‘Ōhi’a lehua tree using SpeedTree for your next game, with part two of our breakdown of the GDC 2023 demo.
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Game Dev Glossary: Prototype, Vertical Slice, First Playable, MVP, Demo
Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 29, 2024
Demo - A stripped-down build of the game for exhibition, either for executives, tradeshows, or public-facing. Split into pre-release demo and post-release demo, with the post-release demo being easier to deal with. This can refer to the whole game or a specific chunk of work we’re doing (e.g.
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Solo dev Lente lives and works on a boat and that shows in her game Spilled!
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
For me personally, its not only development Im interested in, but also the process of building a community and business. I make something new, and I use that for building community and marketing. Play the demo now. How do you stay motivated through (years of) development? And these work together pretty well!
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Solo developer Voidmaw on creating Katanaut: “Done is better than perfect”
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 30, 2025
I started tinkering with small projects on my own, and over time, I realized I enjoyed the freedom of building something exactly the way I envisioned it. Play the Katanaut demo on Steam , full release later this year. It wasnt really a big decision. More like a gradual realization that I wanted to see what I could accomplish on my own.
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BitCake Studio builds online multiplayer game Atomic Picnic completely remote
PreMortem.Games
MAY 1, 2023
We can definitely say that it works wonders for the type of game we’re building. ” Play the Atomic Picnic demo on Steam. The post BitCake Studio builds online multiplayer game Atomic Picnic completely remote appeared first on PreMortem Games. We’ve used PUN, Chat, Quantum, and more.
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Ubisoft debuts NEO NPC AI prototypes | GDC 2024
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 19, 2024
Ubisoft has shown three behind-the-scenes demos at GDC this week on the potential of AI when it comes to building NPCs. Dubbed NEO NPCs, Ubisoft's efforts involves combining AI responses with narrative back stories and prompts designed to avoid making the NPCs appear 'soulless'.
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I’m a recent computer science graduate and finished my military duty, where I also developed a strong concept for my first game. Game development is my passion, and I’d love to pursue it full-time, but I’m unsure if going indie can provide enough financial stability at the start. Should I focus on funding and self-publishing, or look for a stable job in the industry or another field and keep game dev as a hobby for now? My friends think I could succeed as an influencer if I started streaming, but I’m also unsure if I want to specialize—programming might be an option.
Ask a Game Dev
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
You'll be able to earn the skills and experience needed to make your dream game real while building other games and seeing some best practices in action. You can even consider the day job as a means to earn some funding to build a demo that you can use to shop around for investors and further funding.
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The 2022 Everfree Demo has Arrived!!
Yotes Games
AUGUST 29, 2022
Come see the demo we spent the past year building from the ground up! ? The New Kickstarter Anniversary Demo is finally available on Itch.io! ? This here is the demo we just debuted at Everfree Northwest showing the brand new overworld and improved battle mechanics for the first time. Download the Demo!
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Fly into the unknown with Void Sails by Ticking Clock Games: “We’re self-funding our debut”
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
This approach has been key to ensuring that the game stayed on track during the 18 months that it took to build it. “Next up, we want to focus more on engaging with the community and building a stronger connection with players. ” Void Sails will be out on 1 May 2025, play the demo now on Steam. ” he emphasises.
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Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies
Cocos
JUNE 14, 2023
A dev, Night by Night 00, shared his work on building warpable and wearable materials for games. Though not fully complete, the demos already show a lot of progress, and the developer is selling their findings on the Cocos store for Chinese developers. Try it out now (Note the demo is in Chinese): ClothDemo for 2.x
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AWS gears up for action-packed Gamescom and Devcom 2024
AWS Games
AUGUST 15, 2024
Historically, it’s also been a forum for launching new game development offerings, making partnership announcements, and debuting compelling technology demos. The demo illustrates how the technology can make NPCs more dynamic and intelligent to enhance the player experience.
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Zofia
Indie DB
JANUARY 19, 2023
This first person RPG indie discusses updates to their demo build
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In a crowded market, Pioneers of Pagonia demo boosts fantasy game’s profile
Game Daily
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Pioneers of Pagonia is a fantasy city building and economy management game from Envision Entertainment. A recent demo was released on Steam, in anticipation of an early access release in December. GameDaily spoke to Wertich about the game, and the success of the demo. Are there other downsides to releasing a pre-launch demo?
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National Parks Tycoon
Indie DB
DECEMBER 30, 2022
A demo for this park-building and management indie is now available
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How do you setup and save multiple build task?
Cocos
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Hello I was looking at the demo files. For example the Demo called “Aircraft Wars 3D” when you pone the Build Window “Ctrl + Shift + B” We can already found this saved Build Task. I’m trying to setup something similar but it always delete my custom task…I’m sure something is missing
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How do you setup and save multiple build task?
Cocos
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Hello I was looking at the demo files. For example the Demo called “Aircraft Wars 3D” when you pone the Build Window “Ctrl + Shift + B” We can already found this saved Build Task. I’m trying to setup something similar but it always delete my custom task…I’m sure something is missing
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How do you setup and save multiple build task?
Cocos
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Hello I was looking at the demo files. For example the Demo called “Aircraft Wars 3D” when you pone the Build Window “Ctrl + Shift + B” We can already found this saved Build Task. I’m trying to setup something similar but it always delete my custom task…I’m sure something is missing
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How do you setup and save multiple build task?
Cocos
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Hello I was looking at the demo files. For example the Demo called “Aircraft Wars 3D” when you pone the Build Window “Ctrl + Shift + B” We can already found this saved Build Task. I’m trying to setup something similar but it always delete my custom task…I’m sure something is missing
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Harvest Island Demo & The Behind The Scenes Trailer
Yobob Games
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Harvest Island Demo. This helps to build the feeling of the game being cute and wholesome. Harvest Island Demo. With the release of the new trailer, I decided to release the demo version of the game. And if you explore that little 15-30 min demo, you’ll be able to find a secret very early in the game.
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The Demo For Our New Game Is Out! Also, Terror!
The Bottom Feeder
JUNE 14, 2022
Several times a year, Steam has a indie demo festival. You can go over a grab a demo and try a few hours of our next game for free. You can go over a grab a demo and try a few hours of our next game for free. (I’ll If you like a demo in the festival, wishlist it. So I hope you try our demo. August, 2022.
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Collider/Trigger event problem in Windows/Android Build
Cocos
OCTOBER 9, 2023
github.com/cocos/cocos-engine Collider/Trigger event problem in Windows/Android Build opened 03:12AM - 10 Oct 23 UTC zhefengzhang Bug Needs Triage ### Cocos Creator version 3.8.0 ### System information Windwos 10 ### Issue … description [link] ### Relevant error log output - ### Steps to reproduce Downloading the demo and running it in a web browser (..)
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Do publishers have their own “quality control” standards? For example, do publishers have any “we will not release a game unless it meets X standard of quality based our own playtesters/etc” systems in place? If so, what happens when a game near release does not meet those requirements? Are games that clearly aren’t going to meet X standard usually cancelled before announcement?
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 24, 2025
Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches. If the prototype gets approved, the team ramps more and builds an entire playable demo that demonstrates all of the major game systems at work. At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch.
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Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres”
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
I had very little feedback up until the release of the demo. Or city-building games like The Settlers that I love so much, but tend to only play once – never really applying all that I’ve learned. When you put everything into a project and others don’t it just slowly crushes you.” And the biggest pitfalls?
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GDquest Kickstarter Stretch Goals, Free Tutorials and Demos
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 30, 2019
Godot demos. Two curated and polished guides to help you get started and build up solid skills with the engine. we will cover all the main features, and release all the videos and companion demos under a permissive license. Our new Godot course Kickstarter campaign was funded in less than four days! Free tools. 3d tutorials.
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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024
AWS Games
MARCH 27, 2024
AWS Demos Throughout GDC, AWS generative AI specialists were on hand to demonstrate how large language models (LLM) and generative AI services enable non-player characters (NPCs) to be more dynamic and intelligent in the Play and Learn Lounge. Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!, the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go!
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How much code is reused from game demos sent to publishers? Since developers don’t have much time to create a good architecture at first and have to rush things, do they have to rewrite things from scratch once it gets in production?
Ask a Game Dev
JUNE 10, 2024
If the development process is disciplined and things are proceeding to plan, the demos we show to the executives are not far removed from the final versions we release to the public because things are proceeding as expected. They know exactly what they are building and are very good at delivering it.
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Compiling Unreal Engine 5 Dedicated Servers for AWS Graviton EC2 Instances
AWS Games
JUNE 15, 2023
Flexibility is key, and AWS gives you cloud-based compute options to build game servers yourself, integrate existing tools, or even move to a fully managed service with Amazon GameLift. support building dedicated game servers for AWS Graviton. From the top menu, select Build and then select Build Solution. when prompted.
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