Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game development is a collaborative process that involves various people with specialized skills. Understanding the difference between the two is vital if you are an aspiring game developer, a passionate gamer, or you are considering hiring a game development company to develop an immersive video game.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

However, developing games has become very time-consuming and expensive. Many ask if there is a future for these developers who spend years developing these games. Many ask if there is a future for these developers who spend years developing these games. 2D and 3D character development. 3D environment.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

They serve as the backbone of every engaging game, developing unique and innovative mechanics that differentiate the game from others. Work closely with User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) designers to improve the player interface. Many game development companies offer game development services.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry. “Not just in terms of cost, but also in terms of design.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

and is developed based on our in-house open-source Graph component from the Web UI library. To promote collaboration and innovation within the developer community, we have open-sourced the full set of source code for this plugin under the MIT license. This means developers are free to use, modify, and distribute this tool.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But I’m not here to talk about using action-based algorithms to accomplish product-related objectives (that’s a topic for another article); I’d rather discuss how to develop your team’s product mindset. Developers build a “proper” new architecture instead of using a time-tested solution. How can you develop your team’s product mindset?

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The process of developing a game doesn’t end with coding and design. Testing the end product is crucial to ensure it delivers a seamless user experience (UX) and meets the industry requirements & standards. Several testing techniques are used to test the game’s readiness for release.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

They offer developers a sustainable business model, combining monetization strategies while delivering a compelling puzzle experience that appeals to a broad audience. Hybridcasual puzzle games follow the hypercasual model closely with respect to user experience (UX).

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. Appealing UX/UI of A Game. To make the game innovative and fresh, you have to make few updations in the game at regular intervals, like adding content, levels, features, or characters.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Mobile gaming has experienced an unprecedented surge in recent years, with iOS emerging as a prominent platform for game development. For aspiring game creators, venturing into iOS mobile game development services can be thrilling and rewarding. This initial step is like setting the course for your game development journey.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Now she builds strategy for and sources leading-edge content for Oculus, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC in Games and Playable Media, wrangles a monthly column on science-fiction in videogames over at Amazing Stories and writes about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 16, 2022

UI, UX Artist - 1. Node Developer - 4. They wanted us to develop unique and captivating games for each grade level in every subject with age-appropriate content so that there is always something new to discover and encourage kids to keep coming back for more. Educational. App Platform. iOS, Android, and Web.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Interesting approachability / accessibility UX here. Felt like they had to cut down 50% of their planned content, which is never easy. Still, overall this was a very impressive achievement for just 3 indie developers. The game tries to lampshade this in the NPC dialogue, but the level design is louder.

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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. She has been a speaker at numerous game-related conferences, including the Game Developers Conference, NY Comic Con, PAX East, and SXSW.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

this Saturday June 12, 2021, we are headlining the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest and I also will be moderating IGDA GDSIG's skipped (due to the cancellation of GDC last year) roundtable, Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities. There was just so much more to talk about emotional touchstones in emergent narrative! Touchstones!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. Product UX and Aesthetics. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

All designers and content creators answer to him. Keeps a high level view of the game’s content and systems to make decisions to direct the different design subteams during development towards the ultimate goal. Builds tools for other designers need to create the content. Creative Director - Design lead.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. Our intention was to make a game dev simulator where the player would have finer control over the decisions of what to focus on during game development. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 version as much as we enjoyed developing it!

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Note that since that time Cogmind development has entered a couple different cycles, so while I once used that approach, the process has since evolved to fit different circumstances.). That I keep revisiting this aspect whenever I add new content shows that it is indeed an ingrained part of the vision. Difficulty.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

Small-team dev also tends to build more system-driven games because it's more dev-time-efficient than creating single-use narrative-driven content. The tradeoff is that system-driven content also requires significantly more UI to convey all of that information to the player.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

As such, we will start accepting budgets to do this from developers or companies that might be interested in implementing it. We discussed with the core developers about hiring GDQuest (who have plenty of experience working with the engine documentation, with Nathan being one of our main docs contributors) to work on this task.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

Dream Games, the developer of the massive Match-3 success, Royal Match , is still attempting to answer this (difficult) question. Meta Game / UX / UI Here’s where the interesting changes begin. Written by Laura Taranto and Ahmetcan Demirel , both senior product leaders with vast experience in casual games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Microfun has clearly cemented its success in the Western casual merge space, and subsequent launches showcases that Micofun is continuously refining both core gameplay and meta systems, as evidenced by the development of "Seaside Escape" and "Skyline Secrets." Let’s get to it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The main development effort then moved towards our future major version, Godot 4.0 (see experience (especially since we expect at least one year of development before 4.0 release, with a lot of new content and many updates to existing tutorials to match the 3.2 Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). feature set.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. They are industry players who can support the developers in their game development and publishing efforts, by offering resources that the angels and VCs don't usually have. How much content and polish?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

It’s gonna be the work, the creative work of millions of people who can each add their own elements to it through content creation and programing and design. And companies will be able to form to create content that builds out this world. Tim Sweeney: Developers… We’ve learned a big lesson over the past 15 years.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

DTLS support and ENET integration , developed by Fabio ( Faless ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). RichTextLabel: Add option to fit height to contents ( GH-33235 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ).

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