Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 29, 2024

The regular practice of posting to the blog has honed my skill at taking difficult, technical, and/or complex concepts and conveying them in an intuitive and understandable way. and (most time-consuming of all) edit each video together. My own personal ability to communicate has improved significantly since I began this blog.

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

This entails developing a game concept and storyline that will interest players and keep them returning for more. Setting goals and objectives : This aspect of your game development is necessary after you have a game concept in mind. This will help you create a compelling game concept that resonates with your target audience.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Below, I have lightly edited the original work from his blog and – in some cases – replaced images with ones from the production copy of Tasty Humans. So how do you do it? Need help on your board game?

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day. In multiplayer games, there is a concept called meta which are different strategies used by gamers against one another outside of the game. You can follow these steps to design a multiplayer game.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

It has been lightly edited for clarity and flow. Your theme is that critical in order to nail down some concepts first, before diving into game mechanics. This guide comes in five parts: Sean & Artists Finding Artists Reaching Out to Artists Getting Started with an Artist Parting Advice. Sean & Artists.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Creative AI technologies enable marketers to produce video and static content ready for deployment, significantly reducing the time designers need for re-edits, a major pain point for many teams. Given its mechanics, some might argue Hexa Sort is simply a casual game.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Concept Art. In our last issue, we introduced you to a bunch of new team members that recently joined our growing family, including our newest Environmental Concept artist, Harold. Right away, Harold dove into creating fresh, detailed concepts for each level area in the Kristala demo. Let's dive in.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Essential for photo editing, digital painting, and creating raster-based artwork. For realistic characters and settings, understand these concepts well. Show off the game’s most exciting features and unique mechanics in your artwork to attract potential players. Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator. Typography.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Edited by Adam Telfer. The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space. HDP chose a “collapse” mechanic as their core (similar to Lily’s Garden, Toy Blast, or Toon Blast).

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Once you’ve outgrown GDevelop and want to move on to other software, many of the skills and concepts you’ve learned will carry over into other game development environments. A quick search online can help you find hundreds of GDevelop tutorials on any topic or mechanic you want to learn about. GDevelop Beginner Tutorials.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The sample world map I put together earlier this year , now with DSFs and specifically highlighting all intermaps (redacted-level spoilers have been edited out) (full size here ). Strong theme : Intermaps are tightly designed around their own unique mechanics and theme. Today we’ll be covering a new type of intermap, the DSF.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Likewise, states like Pennsylvania (edit: already allow real money gambling) and Michigan are moving to allow real money gaming (RMG), further squeezing the free-to-play casino audiences while also potentially creating new opportunities for social companies to expand into RMG.

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Filmustage

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Post-Production: The refinement of visual effects in post-production, including editing and revisions, also incurs significant costs. These may range from makeup and prosthetics to miniature models, mechanical rigs, and on-set explosions. ?

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Video Editing AI art also finds uses in video editing and post-production workflows. It makes the video editing process faster and more efficient. Video editors can also use AI to go through the footage and suggest edits like cutting between various shots. Unlike DALL·E, Craiyon is open-access and free for users.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 17, 2024

Spreadsheets are great for the quick viewing and editing of large quantities of data, whereas other structures like “Json” can represent more complicated relationships. Note that this means you should try to avoid directly editing the generated assets, because a subsequent generation would cause you to lose any such changes.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Once the concept is agreed, I start thinking about how it could look, playing around with design layouts. Dyer often incorporates special touches to the books that set their titles apart, such as the Metal Slug book, where the collector’s edition slipcase played sound effects from the game.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Operational failures come from a problem in your plan’s implementation, but not necessarily the core concepts of your plan. Concept Design: The creation of initial ideas based on what hobby board gamers are currently interested in. Concept Design & Market Validation: Did the core concept of the game resonate with customers?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

You can see this reflected in the 9 and 10 scores of Board Game Geek, where people repeat some variation of “I really can’t explain it” and rattle off mechanics while trying to explain it. The concept is so absurd that Stanley Kubrick made a comedy movie out of it. Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition).

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our direct messages on Discord. Mechanics are how you bring the basic ideas to life. Rules are specific directions on how you regulate mechanics.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The concepts are the same, just the syntax is slightly different. The concepts and the principles are the same, the only difference is the syntax. Another thing that we do often is apps and video games is repeat a certain mechanic. Furthermore, it can also edit the functions of the parent class and change their functionality.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation over DMs in Discord. Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept. When designing the game itself, it’s more important to marry yourself to the experience than it is the mechanics of the game. Brandon: How I imagine teams as a solo dev.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

and try your luck at winning a FREE PS5 Disc Edition, courtesy of women-lead indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. This means that our artists have been diligently working on cranking out fresh concepts for existing weapons, armor sets, consumables, and other important goodies.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We saw that all our various asset concepts such as levels, prefabs, templates, or presets could be unified as they are all hierarchies of property containers. Layer edits (and commands) describe how we send diffs to synchronize one way or another Has the change to USD affected how you create assets?

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

One is sketching a scene or character concept very rough and with a lot of gesture on a piece of paper (or digitally) but in the following steps, when it comes to outlining the shapes, the sketch becomes sort of stiff and loses its dynamic. I bet those of you who are into drawing experienced this also once or twice while working on a piece.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

For example, Ky's skirt (left version before shadows edited; right version with edited shadow): Or Axl's face (top versions before the custom shadow map is applied; bottom versions after): On to the gameplay now. Roman cancel is the original though, and the better implementation of that concept by far. Why is it called that?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

While the game steps towards the vaporwave future with its concept art, Dislyte also looks back and draws upon ancient mythologies in its character design. Such gameplay can be coupled with monetization mechanics like gacha. First, the mini game “DJ Contest” borrows mechanics from rhythm games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

Recent Zynga Acquisitions: * Still Currently Rumored , To Be Confirmed (Edit: Now Confirmed ). Clash of Clans drew heavily from Backyard Monsters on social but improved the mechanics for mobile. Comparing Zynga vs. Supercell: Why? They often take existing categories and reinvent them with a specific eye towards simplification.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

and Michail Katkoff for edits and data. Gone are the days where a reasonable attempt at a core mechanic and a saga map were all you needed for 6 figure revenue. This should lead to more of a focus on product USPs, theme and mechanic differentiation rather than the wild fever dreams that have been propagated during 2019/2020.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Particularly when hard choices come from simple mechanics. Below, I have lightly edited the original work from his blog and – in some cases – replaced images with ones from the production copy of Tasty Humans. I knew I needed a mechanic that gave players a choice of one adventurer from several options.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation over DMs in Discord. It was designed around the concept of creating a version of a simple game that kids were already familiar with, that also incorporates physical activity as part of the game. Who is Garret? How long does board game development take?

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player. L of semen for each one. L gain, cop attacks inflict a -1.0

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