Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 26, 2018

It was bare bones, but it got the job done for the simple prototypes I was working on at the time. They did have Indie pricing where the first platform was free if your budget was less than $500K. Yeah, in the end, we spent way more than $10,000 on sound coding. The two big choices were Wwise and FMOD.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2024 it will be 10 years since I wrote the first lines of code and I never planned to spend more than 2 or 3 years on it!” Then the first wave of really successful indie games appeared on Steam, in the late 00s and early 10s. When I have an idea I consider viable, ideally I go straight to prototyping and develop the game from there.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. We made a pilot trailer and concept art that served as a main aesthetic code for the art style. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it. Video games have the ability to transport users to another place and time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The biggest strength of Godot is that, due to its design, it makes it really easy to throw in code that works (and scales to large projects) without worrying about the game architecture. If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. If it doesn't, don't touch it.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. The easy-to-learn language code is another aspect that makes the engine a top choice among developers worldwide. In Unity, you write code using the C# language, while in Unreal, you use C++.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

FNF is the most recent smash hit indie rhythm game (which is also open source!), And if you run into an error, you have to take off the headset, put it in a safe place, edit the code, and then rinse and repeat this process until you get it running stably. Friday Night Funkin' VR (FNFVR) is a VR recreation of Friday Night Funkin' (FNF).

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

Also, if you're an indie filmmaker or small company, the question of the price will obviously be a thrill. Celtx claims to be game-industry friendly, which clearly broadens its profile with story maps and rapid prototyping tools. Unfortunately, there is no color coding ability, so you can't highlight items.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 28, 2024

However, with AI, even small indie studios can produce high-quality games that rival those of larger, well-funded companies. “Procedural code is inflexible; it can do a lot of really cool variants of Gothic cathedrals, but it wouldn’t be able to switch over to Futurism easily,” he said.

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