Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2025

Just write about what you built, how you built it, and (when asked) talk about the challenges you faced and what you decisions you made. IP, release date, features or content you didn't work on, etc.). You can always put your experience on your CV, regardless of NDAs. For example, the last project I worked on is still unannounced.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Beyond Cutscenes : Todays dramatic content isnt yesteryears skippable cutscenes. Narrative content, on the other hand, is virtually unconstrained. Not an AI Story: While AI dramatically reduces content creation costs, its merely a tool which is well suited to untapped audience demand. Fake ads promise tension & drama.

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Cutscenes AI Content Mechanics 90

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

The creative elements of coming up with story and narrative bits that will work within the constraints of a word budget, screen space, and even linguistic and cultural context is excellent (and transferable) practice for building narrative game content. If you want to be a narrative designer, you should go for it.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A synopsis demands exactly this challenge, regardless of whether you're writing for a feature film or a multi-season TV series. Let's find out what makes film and television writing unique and how to create a synopsis that elevates your story. These objectives should guide how you write.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

It did well enough over long enough to get a sequel, but I'm still writing about the old original one. I'm getting over a flu and can't work up the energy to write a proper article with paragraphs and stuff, so I'll experiment with a quicker, looser format. Hades indeed has an enormous amount of content.

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Indy Writing Fantasy Fighting 71

AWS Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

Enhancing Miro with Amazon Bedrock The following is the process of creating a mood board in Miro using our Miro and Amazon Bedrock integration: Write a description of the desired image in Miros sticky note widget to create a prompt. You will then be able to create mood boards in Miro with the image generation capabilities of Amazon Bedrock.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here ).

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Why writing rules is different than other kinds of writing How to structure a rule book Making rule books clear and concise Your player’s first experience and your rule book Dealing with rule book skimmers Parting advice. Brandon: Both in consulting and in creating books, you’ve done quite a bit of writing.

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Writing Games Mechanics Balance 130

The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Aging, Remastering Indie Dev We will be releasing Geneforge 2 - Infestation to celebrate our 30th year writing indie games for a living. So big that even multi-billion dollar corporations are writing indie games now. On the other hand, writing new games is always a huge risk. Writing two is even harder. We're so cool!

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Indy Writing Games Dev 117

Jesper Juul

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On the occasion of my new book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer , I am writing The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects , posted weekly from November 1 st , 2024: It wasnt all great. You might expect that the bottleneck was reading and writing the floppy disk itself, but that was already plenty fast.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2018

As of the time that I’m writing this, that’s a little under a month away. Writing blog posts – at least my long-form Start to Finish posts – take a few hours each. If you run a blog or website, create a backlog of content to last you through the campaign. Write and send press releases. Click here.

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Writing Film Dev Editing 130

Brand Game Development

JULY 2, 2018

Dez: Goto.game has an amazing collection of content writers from all over Australia and New Zealand. During my playthroughs, I don’t take photos or write notes – I want the gameplay as organically as possible. Once I have played the game; the review is quite easy to write. Who is Dez? How long do reviews take?

Writing 130

Writing Games Art Dev 130

AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Known for popular game franchises including EA Sports FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, and Apex Legends, EA regularly releases new game versions to mitigate issues, make improvements, and add new in-game content. KVP uses the knowledge of the installed version and language of the game to generate smaller patches with only the changed content.

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Electronics Art Games Data 109

Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

– Mods can now add their own settings UI to the game’s settings-panel via a call to `GDT.addSettingsTab(title, content);` ( documentation ). In case you can’t find it anymore or the link doesn’t work please write a quick email to orders@fastspring.com (our payment providers) and they will resend you your link.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Digitalization has resulted in a glut in gaming content and increased marketing expenses. Large platform companies often initially subsidize third-party content creators to ensure widespread adoption of their technical standards. By charging for installs, Unity is imposing on the cost structure of, especially, smaller devs.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 26, 2018

There is nothing more beautiful to an online creator’s ears than “I want to help you create content for free.” ” If you can write articles or interview well, that will be massive asset to you when you’re gearing up for a product launch. The exposure you will get will be really beneficial as well.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 12, 2023

To achieve this, I believe in developing stories and worlds that evolve over time, building a strong artistic signature that is unique to me, telling personal and emotional stories that resonate with my audience, and branding myself in a way that makes me easily recognizable and distinguishable from AI-generated content. It adds value.

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Art AI Indy Games 104

Filmustage

MARCH 31, 2025

The entertainment industry witnessed a pivotal moment when script analysis tools powered by neural networks emerged, transforming how studios approach AI-generated content and copyright protection. Copyright Office has established clear guidelines - exclusively human-authored content qualifies for legal protection.

Scripting 52

Scripting AI Content Writing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In practice, this means that all further changes will be strictly regression fixes, so the content available here will be largely reflective of the 4.4 GUI: Optimize Font calculations by avoiding unnecessary copy-on-write ( GH-102132 ). As such, you can expect this to be our final beta release of the 4.4

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Beta Dev Bug Collision 72

The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 27, 2024

We put in a lot of new content based on the feedback of Kickstarter backers. In the old days, to make the economics of the business work, we had to write games fast. ” I must force myself to be content. It gets me off my figurative butt and keeps me writing. This makes the world seem a lot more fleshed out.

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Indy Writing Content Internet 117

Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

From it, I went on to write Why the Highways & Byways Kickstarter Campaign Crashed & Burned , which remains one of the most popular posts on this blog, even two years later. I don’t think people write about failure enough. I got off the constant networking / content creation treadmill and dedicated myself to what matters.

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Writing Point and Click Media Prop 130

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In 2023 this increase in content cadence doesnt seem to have any positive effect on the games revenue that continues to slide until late 2023 when the marketing is turned on to 11. The team experimented with everything from esport to UGC and even went as far as removing gacha - only to put it back in. Will Squad Busters bounce back?

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Esports Clipping Beta Balance 80

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2022

ALT It’s actually pretty similar to how licensed characters are handled - when we have a lot of different designers and artists touching the same content, we need a design bible for game world’s lore and specific characters to establish important facts - visuals, personality, quirks, dialect, affectations, history, and so on.

Writing 52

Writing Dev Content Art 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Im working on my art and writing skills, so I think my next game may be something that includes more of a story. Id also like to add more variety to the museums layout, and maybe the ability to pull in more types of content from Wikimedia where available, such as audio and 3D models. Ill probably be participating in game jams too!

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Prototyping Cross platform Feature Development 67

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This adds parity with Ogg Vorbis audio tracks, and will be a welcome addition for users who want to load user-generated content at runtime (including non-game audio applications). Note: At time of writing, this does not replace Godot Physics as the default 3D physics engine. Support for OpenXR composition layers was added in Godot 4.3,

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking 106

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Airships: Conquer the Skies is still going strong on Steam and Stark keeps adding new content to the game to keep the community interested. I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” The game is successful enough for me to support myself. I can live comfortably, just not extravagantly”, he says.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

These are good primers to keep in mind as you’re writing your pitch and can generally help you understand the process of pitching.

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Point and Click Dev Indy Writing 104

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 9, 2023

ALT The primary issues with accepting external content submissions are legal. There would need to be some kind of legal agreement set in place to establish the rules (as well as potential damages if those rules are breached) for the use of that content that all parties agree to.

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Asset Content Dev Texture 52

Real Programming

JANUARY 29, 2024

Likewise, learning how to write code can help kids in several unexpected ways. Let’s check out some ways that content from our coding classes can be applied in real-life situations. For example, kids learn problem-solving when they do math, but thinking on their feet can help them in countless other situations.

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Concepts Code Technology Writing 98

Brand Game Development

APRIL 2, 2018

Based on my observations, social proof – how people react to content – is more important than keywords. That means their content is prioritized on social media and on search engines. Even people who curate content online are not immune to it. They rely on search engines and social media as sources for their content.

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Internet Advertising Media Data 130

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

Godot has a copy on write or 'CoW' feature for a lot of its data structures. Also please don't write this code :). Of course someone may take a a copy of a vector and modify it, or the original owner of the vector may want to write to it. So we were basically doing a 'copy on read' instead of a 'copy on write'.

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Writing Code Data Content 52

Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I write two blog posts per week, almost all of which are over 1,000 words. I’d like to conclude by linking you to You Are Not Alone – Pragmatic and Philosophical Tips for Content Creation. Hang out with your friends, your significant other, your family, your kids, or your pets. Your mental health is very important.

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Point and Click Dev Build Internet 130

Brand Game Development

APRIL 9, 2018

These two articles don’t share much overlap in content past this point. Try to help them make content, whether that be through an interview, a review, a live-stream, or even just a well-written press release. The mailer for this blog takes about 20 minutes per week to write and it brings in around 7-8% of my traffic.

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Advertising Media Point and Click Games 130

Cocos

MARCH 29, 2023

Many developers say that they can just become a UI Assembler and let GPT-4 write shaders for them. Why I write a mind map first? With ChatGPT’s help, it took me about 50 minutes to finish writing all of the game logic, and everything was working properly. I am both skeptical and anxious about this. Prompts: fun happy snake 4.0

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AI Shaders Terrain Development 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The job involves the following tasks: Auditing the documentation to find missing, low-quality, and outdated content. Improving the content's organization. Solidifying the workflow for core contributors and writing content guidelines. Removing outdated content. Triaging issues. Improving the getting started guide.

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Content Writing Code 52

PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

Writing games was always the impossible dream for me – like being an actor or an astronaut or a dinosaur. Eliminating things from your life until re-writing your world loading algorithm for a third time because Unity keeps making pointless API changes is by far the most interesting activity practically available to you.”

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Dev Asset Concepts Build 104

Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

In fact, at the moment I’m writing this article, it’s the third most popular website in the world, bested only by Google and YouTube. New game devs: don’t write off Facebook because it’s expensive. Making Early Content. The first is what I call Content Mix. What is Facebook Good For?

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