AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Featured sessions include Leveraging AI in Live Service Games with AWS for Games Global Business Development Lead Shayan Sanyal from 2:40-3:40 PM, and Reimagining Game Dev in the AI Era featuring Andrei Muratov, AWS Head of Game Analytics from 10:50-11:50 AM. Reserve your spot for the all-day event. Experience, exploreand PLAY!

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 10, 2024

The kind of games that have the least cut content are annual sports titles - they have the most stringent schedules and know exactly what they are committing to with each annual cycle, so they have significantly less wiggle room than a project with a longer schedule and bigger scope (e.g.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Working in Mixed Reality, I met many ex game devs and artists, who I learned from and was greatly inspired by. Although we weren’t making games, the tech for Mixed Reality was identical to making games, so I picked up a lot of technical ability with Unity, game dev, shaders and more.” It’s made a huge difference.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

The idea for New Heights emerged as a personal prototype, driven by the desire to create a game focused on exploration rather than violence. There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. It creates awesome content that is often better than handcrafted. It is great to see that it’s working out so far.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I have prototypes of the game going back a few years, but I started really working on this iteration in November 2024. Ive gotten more comfortable with the features and workflow now, so Godot was the first tool I reached for when I started prototyping my museum! Its also my first real 3D game. The museum can be visited in VR.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In the same week, I’ve released a blind play-test version of Highways & Byways and ordered a physical prototype. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I like knowing as much as I can about a project and the specific content I’m working on. For example, we did a lot of rapid prototyping for the Highways & Byways board on our own project together. When all else fails, stick to rapid prototyping until you find a rhythm that works for everyone. Feel free to ask below.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. ” does not give them same context as “In playtests we found that a turn-based paradigm fits the prototype best, which answers questions raised about the prototype’s gameplay last week.”

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 6, 2023

Prototype Artist - an art generalist who specializes in putting together usable art for a game prototype. Monetization Designer ] - a designer who focuses on the kind of content we can offer players who are interested in paying, how we offer it to them, and how we can provide them the value they are looking for without offending them.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. 2: I did not order a prototype prior to manufacturing from the same company that printed. 9: My social media approach was untargeted and used suboptimal content. Board game and card game content.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We might acknowledge the leaks exist, but we don't talk about the content of the leaks publicly and we adjust our planned information rollout to take the leaks into account. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Brand Game Development

JULY 2, 2018

How can game devs make reviewers’ lives easier? Dez: Goto.game has an amazing collection of content writers from all over Australia and New Zealand. How can game devs make reviewers’ lives easier? Not to mention, with prototypes that don’t come in a box, a picture of the box art makes life so much easier.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

I sometimes use blank cards or write on prototypes if I need to iterate quickly, but that typically only happens at conventions. Carla: There’s making the review prototypes themselves. Stellar Leap took more than two weeks to put together 11 prototypes. It’s targeting. Got any war stories from your game projects?

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

If your project goes beyond typical game dev needs, or does lots of experimental stuff with text or proc gen, or dips its toes into interactive fiction, then Ink is probably a better choice. It is great for Unity beginners, or for small jams / prototypes with light dialogue requirements.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

Chai was the first game on the workshop to have a custom environment akin to the Tabletop Simulator DLC’s (downloadable content). Tabletop Simulator can be used to prototype your game with hundreds of people remotely with the freedom to change and customize on a whim. The Unheard-of Benefits of Tabletop Simulator.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 22, 2023

The combination of constraints - small team, minimal budget, reusing an old game - essentially dictated some kind of system-based randomization-centric core gameplay in order to create enough content for players to feel they were obtaining sufficient value from the game. That’s what preproduction is for.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Having a full-time job ate into Sergio’s personal dev time. And that resulted in the first prototype of Dreadhalls. So I try to target the few websites that specialize in VR content, plus social networks where the VR community gets its news from. Keep in mind, being a solo dev doesn’t mean you’re completely alone.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

It’s been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. After days of brainstorming and discussions, we settled on the idea of making a game dev simulator. We were inspired by Game Dev Story on the iPhone (made by Kairosoft) and wanted to make a game in that genre with our own spin on it.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. Plans for a new IP Mordhau has a really dedicated player base, and the dev team at Triternion wants to be there for them. “We

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2019

We're looking to fund three stretch goals to bring more content to everyone. Great 3d prototyping assets to help you develop games faster. Professional 3d character and modular level prototyping kit. A modular level-design kit to efficiently design and prototype 3d gameplay. Thank you kindly for your support. :).

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

Content marketing is a great way to spread the word about your game. Reviews are tremendous at establishing trust and are relatively low-cost, often only costing the price of a prototype and shipping. The post How Much You Should Spend on Board Game Advertising appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 28, 2020

Many of the improvements made for the Web editor's early prototype have been merged in the master branch and backported to the 3.2 There is no update to the prototype Web editor yet, but stay tuned for more as GDNative support is coming to web and that's a matter for the next blog post. Howdy Godotters! References. Virtual keyboard.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. I tried to contact many of the devs to ask them what the reasons were and, in most cases, they were not technical but related to the scope of the project being difficult to manage. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? Well not really.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Especially those from the Toulouse Game Dev association, which regroups both hobbyists and professional game developers in Toulouse. Even if we did not manage to finish the tutorial in two hours, all participants left with a serious playable prototype, with a moving player and enemies. We're very happy about the interest it brought.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 27, 2018

The aim of CSG in Godot is for it to be used in level prototyping. Unreal has always offered similar boolean CSG, while Unity has recently acquired ProBuilder (which is a different type of tool, but still aimed at prototyping level geometry). This technique allows to create simple versions of most common shapes by combining primitives.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Generating procedural content in videogames can be challenging, completely random structures tend to turn out as a complete mess and therefore unusable. A Godot voxel world prototype by Zylann, using his own OpenSimplex module which can now be replaced by the built-in implementation. Procedural generation.

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Febucci

DECEMBER 6, 2020

I’ve decided to show the game straight from the prototype phase, and I hoped to incrementally gather people’s interest after it. As a new year resolution, I will be more present on social media with you all , even if I won’t be able to share new content for the game as frequently as before (for now, at least). Initial “success”.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

The first part of this so-called “Great Utility Update” began during Alpha 12 with a few fundamental mechanical changes, but since then the project remained on the to-do list until 1) even more content was added to the game, and 2) we collected more info about what items people were and were not using, and why. Exiles Prototypes.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 28, 2024

This is where AI steps in, learning procedural rules and relationships from images to generate diverse and adaptive content. The use of AI in procedural content generation also extends to character design and storytelling. “AI can help us explore creative possibilities that we might not have considered otherwise.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. It’s well-documented that the R&D process at Riot involves prototyping with small teams , which in turn could resemble the famous (Super) cell structure. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Documentation: More content, better theme. Documentation: More content, better theme. The same content is also available as the 3.2 Both the Class Reference and the tutorials gained a lot of new content during the development of Godot 3.2. Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, creating a blockout or prototyping within Godot, then exporting as glTF to further edit in Blender, and finally bringing the geometry back into Godot. The market-leading digital content creation tools worked against the Collada format adoption by including an incomplete and buggy exporter in their software.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. The discussion also addressed the challenges of producing quality content for VR. However, VR’s growth trajectory hit a temporary snag with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. .

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 6, 2018

. * Be sure to copy the entire folder and not just the contents of it. You will need to navigate to your Applications, open the Blender folder, Right click (secondary click) on the Blender application and Show Package Contents. This is useful if you are prototyping certain actions or control actions. Skip (-noexp) Actions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. I recently gave a presentation on how rapid prototyping and audience development will be used in the post-IDFA mobile gaming environment to “wag the dog” in terms of building scale for mobile games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Building upon the initial prototype , we've now reached a state where we're happy to release the Web editor in sync with the native version, so you can find the latest stable version on editor.godotengine.org. This is particularly useful for files which you intend to process yourself from scripts based on their raw contents (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

is that it's not officially supported by Autodesk software, which many use for content creation in the game industry. Ernest Lee for his continued support and information, along with helping me get to grips with Godot codebase and many many other things, including the first prototype for the importer :). But a caveat of glTF 2.0

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