Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Wherever the asset resides (local or remote), the system will locate it and its dependencies, then return it. . HUD Navigation System by Sickscore Games. HUD Navigation System (HNS) is the ultimate collection of the most common navigation concepts from various games. Once an asset (e.g. Cinemachine by Unity Technologies.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 14, 2023

Experimenting with track design Work on the game began in January 2020 as a basic concept that had the player piloting a hovercraft and clearing traffic with weapons in an attempt to escape the authorities. The idea was simple enough to keep the scope small for Young and a local programmer. “We But so did the workload.”

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Of course, the flip side of this is that having your game examined by serial play-testers, game designers, and the occasional publisher makes for a far better test than 10 or 15 with your family, online through Tabletop Simulator, or even at your local game store. I think fostering creativity is that important.

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the basics of WebGL game development, including its advantages, the tools needed to get started, and some tips for creating engaging and successful games. With its vast potential, game designers can create engrossing and immersive experiences that can be enjoyed by audiences around the world.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Our experienced testers work closely with game designers and developers to examine every part of the game’s concept, mechanics, and user interface. What is alpha testing?

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Game Designing

APRIL 30, 2022

Unfortunately, many game development processes require you to read pages and pages of documentation, but Kaboom.js is perfect for anyone interested in game development, but specifically those relatively new to the concept. makes all of this much simpler and offers a platform that makes game development accessible for novices.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

We didn’t yet know what reasonable limits to put on such a feature, as in what’s the absolute furthest it could go without compromising other parts of the game design. Back then I couldn’t nail down what would be the most extreme (but still acceptable) options. It had to wait. So it’s time to do that.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Deep games require knowledge, explanation, creativity, and cleverness. Such a model could also inform our discussions about game design, suggesting directions for design exploration and expanding our palette of analytical tools and techniques. How to avoid the trap of a local maximum in solution space?

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy. Some concepts: More enemies could show up? While some players enjoy puzzling out creative ways to get ahead, at the extreme end it eventually devolves into optimal tedium which is overall harmful to the experience.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Sometimes you might be able to edge an unlikely one into the game, maybe there’s some creative way to do it, or preserve the concept in some other way, but never at the expense of compromising on vision (or really many other parts of the philosophy we’ll be covering here!). I want my games to be challenging but fair.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. So this post will focus on my read of the general game design and player experience. Similarly, you can see where the core game design wanted to hit. What if vampires invaded Cape Cod (hmm, ok?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We checked out a new local game store where we discovered Dominion. Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. What’s the dfiference between mainstream board games and hobby board games?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

You can play single-character matches or team battles, just like in local play. Playing against friends in other fighting games can feel painfully outdated by comparison. And even in the current days of e-sports, tournaments obviously do not run on this 50-50 concept. No more UI than that is needed.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) and is likely to either become a player crutch or lead to tedious optimal play (a topic I covered in my game design philosophy article ). Do enemies follow through stairs? from one side of the map to the other).

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

One common strategy is to ask for far less money (and offer a smaller game) and then, if successful, go to a publisher or private investor and show them your success (basically, that people is interested in your game) so you get the rest of the money needed. Subsidies : Check with your local government. to finalize the game.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide. Back in 2012, John Mix Meyer wrote "Women aren’t vending machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out" to critique proto-PUA concepts like the friendzone. Then Patricia Hernandez critiqued Bioware RPG romances with this kindness coins theory.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Sound Design Intern (Remote!) Brush up your resume and focus on any game dev work you’ve done. Amateur game dev work counts! Tabletop game mastering counts! Amateur board and card game design counts! Game jam work counts! Technical Artist Intern (Remote!)

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

– a card game (print & play) that was primarily a study of implementing a card-flip mechanic (where cards had different effects depending on which side is face-up) that ended up being fun enough to at least make it publicly available. How long does board game development take? Hardly know a thing about making games.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

"Cruising Labyrinth," Andreas Angelidakis Lindell was responding to a specific social context: the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic that utterly devastated the gay male community in New York City, especially the local sex clubs and bathhouses. This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes.

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