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5 Dominant UX Design Principles Which Are Here To Stay

Logic Simplified

MAY 22, 2024

The Origin of UX Design The origin of User Experience (UX) design can be traced back to the 1940s, when Human Factors Engineering, or Ergonomics, emerged. This is when information architecture and interaction design became essential in UX practice. With UX taking centre-stage, could user-centered design be far behind?

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UX Data Technology Content

Doing this on anon for obvious reasons but is there any chance of getting hired as an entry level game dev in 2025? I’ve been unemployed for nearly two years since graduating from uni and I’m just getting rejection after rejection from game companies. All the posts are looking for senior devs, team leads, or managers. I have friends who’ve given up on the industry entirely. Is there any hope? Or am I fighting a losing battle here…

Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2025

New studios do start up, but entry level positions are rare since most of the new studios are looking for funding and they need the core senior dev team to build enough of a prototype to sell the idea to the money people. Create art assets, build gameplay systems, create game content, do stuff to level up and grow your skills.

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Dev Simulation UX Prototyping

The Basic Fundamentals of Game Design

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this article, we'll explore some key building blocks of game design fundamentals. UI/UX in Game Design User interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) are two critical aspects of game design that are often overlooked. Similarly, a good UX design ensures that players have a smooth and enjoyable experience while playing your game.

Game Design

Game Design Game Designer UX Mechanics

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

However, building a well-optimized multiplayer game comes with several challenges which any Unity game development company worth its weight will know how to overcome. Optimization Strategies: Static Batching unites several stationary game elements into a single GPU drawing operation (such as terrain together with buildings).

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values. You can also try the Web editor or the Android editor for this release.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds. macOS: Mono universal build, GDNative Framework, notarization. Promote object validity checks to release builds. This has a theoretical performance cost for release builds, but it was found not to be significant. Large files support (> 2.0 Frame delta smoothing.

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UX Feature Culling Mesh

The Secret Behind Building a Great Mobile Game

Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. Building a Riveting Mobile Game. When you are able to find out the answer to all these questions, you will definitely be able to build a mobile game that is simple and easy to use.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Build

Customer Experience Optimization: Enhancing User Journeys on Your Magento Store

Logic Simplified

JULY 2, 2024

Customer Experience Optimization or UX optimization ensures a business does that and increases customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. A website's user experience or UX plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Contrary to good UX, a poor user experience can negatively impact a company's reputation and finances.

UX

UX Mobile Mobile Software

Tips that Will Guide You to Build Successful iPad Game Development

Big Games

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amazing UX/UI. Make the UX/UI understandable for the users. . You can build an action game or a strategy game with a fascinating storyline that enhances the characters and objects of the gameplay and the players become addicted. The main aim should be on building the best game and decide on the monetization strategy later. .

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Game Development Game Developer Build Development

Why Endless Runner Games Are So Popular

Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Logic Simplified is a Unity Game Development Company with the finest, most creative game concept artists, 2D and 3D game designers , and UX designers. As a top game development company , we build interactive, human-centered, and exciting games and make your dream project a reality. Happy running!

Games

Games Mobile Mobile Gaming Mobile

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this guest post, some members of the Moonwards team give us insights into how they approach building such a complex project with Godot. Moonwards is the experience of building a world together. We have Archetypes, we have decoupled Entities, and simple, predictable building blocks. Yes, we know that’s awfully ambitious.

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Build NPC Sandbox Console

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They work closely with game designers as well as developers to build a well-designed and visually attractive game. Environment artist An environment artist creates a fantasy game world by adding buildings, landscapes, colorful backgrounds and props that match the game design.

Game Design

Game Design Game Designer Art Prop

How Much Does It Cost To Develop a 2D Online Teen Patti Mobile Game App?

Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

As a leading mobile 3D game development company, Logic Simplified receives countless queries requesting information on building game applications, the most popular one being, how much does it cost to make a game, like an online 2D Teen Patti mobile game, including how much does it cost to hire a game developer.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Development

Top WordPress Trends to Watch in 2024

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 12, 2024

Top WordPress Trends - The Five Pillars to a Strong Online Presence Whether you want to build a blogging site, business website, or a highly complex eCommerce website, WordPress is the go-to option to fulfill all your needs. It is one of the most popular and widely used CMS that develops user-friendly and competitive websites. WordPress 6.1

Content

Content Platformer Agent UX

Hello, can I ask how difficult is for developers to add accessibility features to games? I am aware it probably varies by type. Recently, I asked if a sound only minigame in one video game could be reworked to add visual cues, as I am deaf. Lot of other fans harped on me its too much work for little gain, too difficult, that it takes away precious developers time, etc. So now I wonder how complicated such thing actually is and how devs view it. Thank you.

Ask a Game Dev

MAY 20, 2024

They're not wrong in that building such things isn't free. These kinds of UX changes can be expensive if we decide to do it after the fact, but if it's something we decide is important to us from the jump we can compensate for those costs by creating efficient and smart solutions early.

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Dev UX Development Games

A classic trick-taking card game

Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

UI/UX Artist - 1. A popular trick-taking game that is perfect for building your card skills. The UI/UX must be designed in such a way that players can be absorbed in the game without feeling stressed. Interactive UI/UX. Our Team on Project. Project Manager - 1. Quality Analyst - 1. Tester - 1. Front-end Developer - 2.

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UX Games AI Feature

How Coin Master Disrupted Social Casino and Pocketed $100M

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. Similar to viewing a base and choosing where to attack in mid-core Build & Battle games, one can choose which opponent structure to attack. A successful attack would yield a variable coin amount.

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UX Mechanics Build Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Lots of documentation updates and UX improvements. Instead, browse one of our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Classical build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Mono build (C# support + all the above). installed to use the Mono build. x releases, but the focus for 3.2.1

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Bug UX Build Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 5, 2020

Lots of documentation updates and UX improvements. Instead, browse one of our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Classical build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Mono build (C# support + all the above). installed to use the Mono build. x releases, but the focus for 3.2.1

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Bug UX Build Feature

How Flying Sheep raised funds to make its ‘frictionless’ Web3 game Star Life

Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

But the team preserved, taking on work-for-hire, and building its own engine that could handle the kind of 3D browser games the company wanted to build for high profile brands like Lego and Dreamworks. The UX of everything to do with blockchain is still in a state where onboarding new players is very challenging.”

Point and Click

Point and Click Games Communications Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Automating LQA for video game localization

Game Global

MAY 4, 2022

Primarily, it focuses on linguistic testing and translation quality review but also covers UI/UX evaluation, compliance testing, culturalization, internationalization, functional tests, and more. Localization quality assurance (LQA) is the last stage in the game localization process. Which LQA process is right for your game?

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Localization Quality Assurance UX Games

How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 2

Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

Emelie: The second and third ones – small cons and event cons – are where I would start building my audience. There will often be lectures on anything from animation, illustrations, UI/UX design, game development, design, and self-publishing depending on the conference. Brandon: They are.

Advertising

Advertising Games UX Localization

It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In such situations, it's important to figure out why professional players are able to realize so much more potential with a particular class/character/build/etc. I might make UX modifications to encourage the player to choose the right move to use in the given situation. while more casual players cannot.

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UX Dev Balance Esports

It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

In such situations, it’s important to figure out why professional players are able to realize so much more potential with a particular class/character/build/etc. I might make UX modifications to encourage the player to choose the right move to use in the given situation. while more casual players cannot.

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UX Dev Balance Esports

Upcoming Panel at SXSW Online 2021

Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

This panel discusses how designers and storytellers can build in empathic elements that can be found and engaged with even when the larger narrative gets delivered out of order. Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX, and art direction and health (mental health awareness).

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Educational Education Writing UX

10 Tips on How to Make an iOS Game for Beginners

Big Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Let us unveil valuable tips and insights to guide beginners in building their iPhone games. Tip #4: Focus on User Experience and Interface Design Crafting an exceptional user experience(UX) and interface design is paramount to the best graphic games. These elements are the linchpin of a game’s success. Happy Gaming!

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile UX

Why Some Puzzle Games are More Addicting Than Others?

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Hybridcasual puzzle games follow the hypercasual model closely with respect to user experience (UX). This blend of puzzle-solving and metagame building keeps players engaged through longer play sessions while offering an incentive for continuous play. These games are intentionally designed to minimize friction for players.

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Puzzle Mechanics Tile Games

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 19, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). How to test. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Reality, Upgraded: Navigating VR/AR Gaming with Alex Silkin

Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

For years, companies like Blizzard Entertainment have been building components of what now makes up the metaverse, offering immersive, communal experiences through their massively multiplayer online games. In contrast, Apple, whose forthcoming VR products aim to prioritize UX, was commended. It’s a very different user experience.”

Technology

Technology Games Concepts Platformer

My friend is making an arcade racer and I’ve been playtesting his builds for him. He didn’t go into it thinking it’d be easy but there’s a ton of things he didn’t at all realize would be a headache going into it. Obviously all games are hard to make but some are more apparent about their daunting nature. Which genres are deceptively difficult even if reasonably possible by a small indie team? What surprised you when you hit the big leagues?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

Building out the gameplay features is always a lot of fun, but you can only go so far by fiddling with variables and restarting. Whenever I build support into a game for different characters, cars, tracks, loadouts, etc. then each of those options needs its own way to choose that option from a list of available choices.

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Dev Build Content Feature

A friend of mine wants to become a game designer without learning any other disciplines in game dev, he seems very sure this is possible but his confidence comes off as “idea guy” to me. I like thinking about design as well and how it could all fit together cohesively but I’m worried he’s setting himself up for failure by not learning another discipline to go along with it. Am I correct in this thought or am I being an jerk?

Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

That might mean working on combat, quests, cinematics, narrative, itemization, UX, enemies, levels/environments, or any of a number of other specialties. Indie devs can't just come up with the ideas for the rest of the team to build them out; there just aren't enough people to handle that kind of workload.

Cinematics

Cinematics Game Design Game Designer Dev

2+ MILLION DOWNLOADS: MMO strategy game porting results

Moonmana

JULY 26, 2022

The key challenge was to integrate a new platform (MacOs) into the existing CI/CD pipeline of automated builds (all supported platforms: Windows, MacOS, IOS, Android & Web). . After that, we also carried out UI/UX adaptation for different MacOS resolutions. We composed a Team, consisting of: 1 Project Manager. 2 Engineers.

Platformer

Platformer Cross platform Games Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). How to test. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Known issues Preview panel does not support dynamic preview Development team Devs: Knox、Youyou Framework：VisualSJ PM：AndyTian UI/UX：派大星 Director：Jare

Shaders

Shaders Point and Click Asset UX

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

There's still more I want to add over coming days, but there's no reason to delay the publication of the beta 2 builds. macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures. Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Highlights. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). How to test.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Product Mindset: Why Does Your Team Need It, and Is It Worth Cultivating?

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This notion is followed by a fallacy that all you need to do is build an amazing team and then just step aside and let them do what they do best. Developers build a “proper” new architecture instead of using a time-tested solution. 4) Present features, review builds, and exchange opinions within the team in an open way.

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Feature Game Design Game Designer Content

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

This new RC 2 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. If all goes well, the next build should be 3.2.2-stable. It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 How to test. GLES2 2D batching. The fix made in the 3.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 This build also fixes a nasty crash on Windows for some projects using dynamic fonts with outlines, triggered by a buildsystem update ( GH-50790 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Game Art Studio: The Future of Game Development?

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This representation can be used in games to create everything from characters to buildings and even entire environments. Gaming art studios use UI/UX in their productions to create engaging and fun games for players. In this process, they use a computer program to make a three-dimensional representation of the world. Isometric art.

Art

Art Game Development Game Developer Studios

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). How to test. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the examination of personal narrative elements as methods of engagement in teaching and community building, most notably by contributing a level of accessible authenticity. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL).

Writing

Writing Educational Education UX

5 Dominant UX Design Principles Which Are Here To Stay

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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A classic trick-taking card game

How Coin Master Disrupted Social Casino and Pocketed $100M

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 2

How Flying Sheep raised funds to make its ‘frictionless’ Web3 game Star Life

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Automating LQA for video game localization

How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 2

Upcoming Panel at SXSW Online 2021

10 Tips on How to Make an iOS Game for Beginners

Why Some Puzzle Games are More Addicting Than Others?

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 1

Reality, Upgraded: Navigating VR/AR Gaming with Alex Silkin

2+ MILLION DOWNLOADS: MMO strategy game porting results

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Product Mindset: Why Does Your Team Need It, and Is It Worth Cultivating?

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Game Art Studio: The Future of Game Development?

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

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