Concepts, UX and Writing - Game Developers Network

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. By the 1970s, the concept of user-friendliness of technology gained momentum. This is when information architecture and interaction design became essential in UX practice.

UX

UX Data Technology Content

Upcoming Panel at SXSW Online 2021

Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Her writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus, MMO Hall of Fame inductee Wizard101, and the 2007 PC RPG of the Year, The Witcher, for which she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in Videogame Writing. Juliana is regarded as a pioneer in the world of spatial art/design. Matthew Farber, Ed.D.

Educational

Educational Education Writing UX

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values. Note: At time of writing, this does not replace Godot Physics as the default 3D physics engine. The Jolt Physics integration in Godot is considered experimental, and may change in future releases.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction.

Writing

Writing Educational Education UX

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. PRs: #62075 , #62910.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Upcoming CIMFest Keynote: Flavored by Authenticity

Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Her writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus and the PC RPG of the Year, The Witcher, for which she was nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild Award in Videogame Writing. Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction.

Writing

Writing Educational Education Game Design

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Often writes the least code overall among the engineers, but the code she writes is also the most mission critical because she has the best understanding of how everything fits together. Art Concept Artist : [ Iterator Extreme ]. Given a description, then comes up with different visual concepts that could meet that description.

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation Animation

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

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.

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

Happy 5th Steam Release Anniversary

Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

With that in mind we opted to go for a versatile cross-platform technology instead of what we knew and decided to write our game in HTML5. Below you see a much more streamlined progression from sketch to layout concept to final piece. If the Windows 8 Store would flop, what would we do? – We have released 58 updates to the game.

Simulation

Simulation Dev Prototyping Technology

Create, Share, and Scale Enterprise AI Workflows with NVIDIA AI Workbench, Now in Beta

Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

Benefits include: Free and quick install on the system of choice with an intuitive UX or CLI for project creation and management. Key concepts A few key concepts used in this example are outlined below. One entry of an instruction in the dataset is shown below as an example: Below is an instruction that describes a task.

AI

AI Beta Data Code

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

We recommend that new users start with our official Step by Step tutorial to learn the basic concepts of Godot. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. The same content is also available as the 3.2 For Godot 3.2,

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

2020 Predictions #8: What do the Kardashians and Casino Publishers Have in Common… CA$H!

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This analysis is written by Abhimanyu Kumar with special contributions from UX Reviewer ’s Om Tandon and Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid & Grit. 2019 Prediction #2: Existing top apps will incrementally improve live ops and content, and experiment with new meta concepts, additional currencies, and deeper/more complex social structures.

Mobile

Mobile Mobile Feature UX

Kyzrati’s Game Design Philosophy

Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

Game Design

Game Design Game Designer Balance Games

How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now it's moved to concepting. And they were about to build a game around the concept of Amazon of Atlantis until one of the engineers said, Guys, you've got it all wrong. And basically, it's a storytelling game where you basically write a story with the A.I. You need the UX to work. I need to write that piece of code.

Games

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