Report: Nintendo is introducing external developers to Switch 2
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The demo reportedly featured a revamped version of Breath of the Wild.
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Attracting investors and publishers with the right kind of game demos
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Disclosure: This article has been written as a part of a paid cooperation with Xsolla Game demos are as important to a successful game marketing strategy as trailers and advertising. They enable developers to establish a connection with their target audience early on, while turning interested players into buyers.
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Minigames Revisited: How Developers Are Continuing to Tap into Trends and Drive Engagement
Game Refinery
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
To stay ahead of the competition, studios are exploring innovative strategies, like enhancing ad creatives to attract new players and introducing fresh gameplay features to keep existing players engaged and invested in their titles. Magic Cauldron follows Wordle’s template, with similar mechanics but featuring potions instead of words.
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AWS to showcase tools for breakthrough gaming experiences at GDC 2025
AWS Games
MARCH 13, 2025
Experience first-hand how Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games helps build breakthrough gaming experiences at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 17-21, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Visit the demo-packed AWS booth (#S927): Engage with purpose-built solutions from AWS that span the entire game development lifecycle.
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FUMES demo 0.05
Indie DB
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
New features being developed for the game alongside the first demo release.
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Unite 2023: Deepening our commitment to game development
Unity Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The Unite 2023 Keynote features developers sharing stories and games, new product demos, and updates about support for developers.
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Gatera Studio’s ANTRO turns beats into gameplay
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 24, 2025
What started as a passion project quickly turned into a full-fledged game and after years of development, ANTRO is set for release later this year. One of ANTROs defining features is its music-driven gameplay. We lacked an experienced developer on the team, so we improved many of our processes through trial and error, de Pedro admits.
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Godot XR update - February 2025
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 6, 2025
Announcing the Meta Toolkit extension We are pleased to announce the release of the Godot Meta Toolkit , a GDExtension plugin that exposes Metas Platform SDK and provides other tools to simplify and accelerate XR development on Metas platform. Lets take a look at the features available in this release! You can download version 1.0.2
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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Are Driving Player Engagement With Race Events
Game Refinery
JUNE 15, 2023
The rise of hybridization in mobile games has resulted in game developers experimenting with new gameplay mechanics and features from other genres to drive engagement, something that’s often done via limited-time events. Some developers have added extra mechanics to their race events to keep things fresh and rewarding.
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Sulfur is a unique FPS/Roguelike “we’re proud of our creative weaponry and stupid jokes”
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Swedish indie developer Perfect Random promised in their early access roadmap to add multiplayer once they reach that number. All credits go to Art Director Simon Post, who has spent 15 years developing a unique vector art style that set the stage for Sulfur’s unmistakable look. Sulfur is out now in Early Access on Steam.
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Unity Asset Store – Features, Best Practices and Our Experience
Logic Simplified
MAY 28, 2024
Any game developer who wants to build and enhance a Unity game can do so using its 3D models, audio files, animations, scripts, plugins, and so on. Its vast and ever-growing library of high-quality resources speeds up the development time to create amazing games and interactive gaming experiences.
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Insights from Xsolla Funding’s VP on Slowdowns, Self-Publishing and Smart Funding
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
He has helped numerous developers close deals and accumulated a ton of invaluable experience in the world of game publishing and funding. “I I get to travel the world and help indie game developers succeed.” In the meantime developers are forced to get really creative”, says Berenbaum. I am super lucky in the role that I have.
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Fly into the unknown with Void Sails by Ticking Clock Games: “We’re self-funding our debut”
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Void Sails by indie developer Ticking Clock Games is a single-player action-adventure RPG that takes players on a thrilling journey through mysterious worlds, where they captain a flying ship across uncharted space. ” When asked about the feature of the game they’re most proud of, Casals has a tough time picking just one.
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How an 8-hour demo made wishlists for ‘Enotria: The Last Song’ by Jyamma Games skyrocket
PreMortem.Games
JULY 23, 2024
To release an 8-hour long demo of your upcoming game, like Italian studio Jyamma Games did with their soulslike Enotria: The Last Song , takes guts and confidence. The results for the extended demo turned out great in the end for the Milan-based team. The look of the game has been a very challenging part of the development process.
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How an 8-hour demo made wishlists for ‘Enotria: The Last Song’ by Jyamma Games skyrocket
PreMortem.Games
JULY 19, 2024
To release an 8-hour long demo of your upcoming game, like Italian studio Jyamma Games did with their soulslike Enotria: The Last Song , takes guts and confidence. The results for the extended demo turned out great in the end for the Milan-based team. The look of the game has been a very challenging part of the development process.
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AWS GDC 2025 Highlights
AWS Games
MARCH 27, 2025
Nearly 30,000 attendees were welcomed to the March 2025 Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Convention Center with an official ribbon cutting by the Mayor of San Francisco. AWS also hosted insightful sessions featuring Epic Games, Netflix Games, Riot Games, Jackbox Games, and more. Image 1: AWS team at GDC 2025.
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Parallel Experiment by Eleven Puzzles: “Put your heart into it and players will notice”
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
But as the story developed, it took on a life of its own. True Cooperation One of the defining features of Parallel Experiment is its real-time cooperative gameplay. “Surprisingly, very few developers are truly exploring it. Play the demo now. That was it,” says CEO and co-founder Adrian Olczyk.
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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024
AWS Games
MARCH 27, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.
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AWS gears up for action-packed Gamescom and Devcom 2024
AWS Games
AUGUST 15, 2024
One of the world’s most anticipated games industry events, the conference brings together developers, publishers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers from around the world alongside the gaming community to celebrate industry achievements and discuss the trends shaping the industry’s future.
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Game Dev Glossary: Prototype, Vertical Slice, First Playable, MVP, Demo
Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 29, 2024
a specific system, a feature, etc.). Demo - A stripped-down build of the game for exhibition, either for executives, tradeshows, or public-facing. Split into pre-release demo and post-release demo, with the post-release demo being easier to deal with.
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Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely”
PreMortem.Games
JULY 29, 2024
Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. The English solo developer began his journey right after the Pandemic. Why did you become a solo developer? “I
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The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 24, 2024
The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay. Back in 2019, I was wasting time on Reddit and came across a short clip from a demo in r/indiegaming”, says Myllys. “I He’s also planning the overall game design.
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Harvest Island Demo
Yobob Games
APRIL 17, 2021
Harvest Island Demo. With this wide screen resolution, that meant I needed to add more features to the game to fill in the missive voids. Feedback from Beta Demo. Opening the closed beta demo was a good choice. Harvest Island Demo. This new demo will be 20% of the game, but 80% polished. And much more.
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Open ARPG and JRPG demos on GDquest
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
Over the past year, I've been working on open source demos to help people get the most out of tutorials. I also contributed some to the official Godot demo repositories. That's why we're starting to create open game demos at GDquest. We've already open sourced our Zelda-like ARPG demo from our Godot course as a proof-of-concept.
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Rollback Netcode on websocket with a Multiplayer Platformer game demo open sourced
Cocos
JANUARY 13, 2023
Rollback Netcode on websocket with a Multiplayer Platformer game demo open sourced at. GitHub - genxium/DelayNoMore: A Multiplayer Platformer game demo on websocket. Notable Features. Frame data logging toggle for both frontend & backend, useful for debugging out of sync entities when developing new features.
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[Video attached] Rollback Netcode on websocket with a Multiplayer Platformer game demo open sourced
Cocos
JANUARY 13, 2023
Rollback Netcode on websocket with a Multiplayer Platformer game demo open sourced at. GitHub - genxium/DelayNoMore: A Multiplayer Platformer game demo on websocket. Notable Features. Frame data logging toggle for both frontend & backend, useful for debugging out of sync entities when developing new features.
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Two engineers build the physics-driven engineering parody The Enjenir
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 9, 2023
They are both well aware of the irony of two engineers developing a parody engineering game, but that hasn’t stopped Cillín Farrell and Neil Mackenzie from devoting the majority of their spare time doing just that. As the scope of the game evolved naturally over time, the dev duo assessed each feature addition to the game very carefully. “We
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Video Game Prototyping and Its Importance in Game Development
Logic Simplified
JULY 27, 2023
Therefore, before developing the game's final version, you must test a prototype. This is one of the most crucial parts of game development that can boost the game’s overall quality and success. Video game prototyping is the process of developing a rough plan for your game. It is the basis of high-quality game development.
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GDquest Kickstarter Stretch Goals, Free Tutorials and Demos
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 30, 2019
Godot demos. On top of everything else, we're looking to create: Two detailed Godot learning paths , for beginners and experienced game developers. Great 3d prototyping assets to help you develop games faster. A Free video tutorial series covering the new features in Godot 3.1 , for the official docs. Free tools.
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In a crowded market, Pioneers of Pagonia demo boosts fantasy game’s profile
Game Daily
OCTOBER 31, 2023
The development team is led by The Settlers original creator Volker Wertich. A recent demo was released on Steam, in anticipation of an early access release in December. GameDaily spoke to Wertich about the game, and the success of the demo. GameDaily: Does the recently released demo capture the essence of the full game?
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Harvest Island Demo & The Behind The Scenes Trailer
Yobob Games
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Harvest Island Demo. There’s a lot of changes that I had to make within the game before I could make a polished trailer and if you guys are keeping up with the game development, you can noticed the significant graphic improvements as well as the subtle details added. And so that is the trailer breakdown from me, the developer.
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Mystery investigation specialist EQ Studios “All our murder scenes are fictional”
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 8, 2023
But over the course of development, the narrative grew. Reflecting on the development process, Tomi acknowledges the challenges of guiding young team members tasked with creating their own game design. The key feature of Scene Investigators is the 70/30 formula, or hypothesis testing. Some started from a puzzle standpoint.
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My week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and what I learned
CG Spectrum
APRIL 3, 2023
The annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) was held last week in San Francisco, boasting 28,000 attendees ! It offers people opportunities to exchange ideas, learn from each other, problem-solve, and explore the latest advancements in and the future of game development. Meet Penny! It can be hard, but it’s worth it.
The Demo For Our New Game Is Out! Also, Terror!
The Bottom Feeder
JUNE 14, 2022
Several times a year, Steam has a indie demo festival. You can go over a grab a demo and try a few hours of our next game for free. You can go over a grab a demo and try a few hours of our next game for free. (I’ll If you like a demo in the festival, wishlist it. August, 2022. This week, Steam Next Fest is going on.
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Feral Cat Den is pushing the audio-visual boundaries of games with Nirvana Noir
PreMortem.Games
JULY 1, 2024
The sheer confidence of steering clear of the beaten track and creating something truly original, comes from experience gained outside the world of video game development. We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with.
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Game Development – New Resources from GTC 21
Nvidia
JUNE 4, 2021
Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. NVIDIA RTX enables developers to create breathtaking, interactive worlds with performance that exceeds gamers expectations.
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Ada Eden’s AI-powered 1001 Nights is a human story about narrative power
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
But AI comes in many forms, and some developers see it as a tool to enhance storytelling and create unique, immersive experiences, all while keeping a close eye on the ethical concerns surrounding its use. Meet Ada Eden , the development team of 1001 Nights. In their game, AI isn’t just a feature, it’s part of the narrative.
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Level-Up Mood Board Creation with Miro and Amazon Bedrock – Part 2
AWS Games
JANUARY 22, 2025
Over 80 million users worldwide leverage Miro to speed up product and service development with collaborative tools for diagramming and many other use cases. After the brainstorming and ideation stage, Miro can continue to be used at later stages of the product development life cycle, including day-to-day project management.
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Unraveling the Challenges of Building Successful Game Development Studios with Dino Patti & Tadej Gregorcic
Game Dev Unchained
MAY 24, 2023
Riding the Wave of Tech Evolution In an era defined by rapid innovation and evolution, the game development industry continually grapples with the pressure to remain on the cutting edge. Dino Patti and Tadej Gregorcic , both co-founders of Coherence , a platform aiming to democratize multiplayer game development.
Neo6502 Review
Retro Game Coders
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Neo6502 is a “Modern Retro Computer” – a brand new single board computer that features a real 6502 microprocessor – designed by Olimex. A great version of Space Invaders written in Basic Cross-development is possible even with basic by using the Python script to tokenize your basic listing ready for execution.
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Feature Request: Configure renderer resolution
Cocos
JUNE 6, 2023
Otherwise, I have proposed a feature request in our engine repo github.com/cocos/cocos-engine Add screen size and resolution APIs opened 03:47AM - 07 Jun 23 UTC pandamicro Feature Request Env: Native Module: PAL ### Use Case Screen size API is important for Desktop apps, and dynamic adjust … should be available at runtime.
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[Editor] Bezier Path Creator - 贝塞尔路径创建器
Cocos
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Video demo bilibili.com Bezier Path Creator - __bilibili Bezier Path Creator - , 3 0 0 0 0 0, bili_50294481672, CocosCreator3.8-2DcocostypescripttsCocos--Cocos. Features Direct Bzier Path Creation : Create Bzier curves directly in the scene view. Demo Features : Demonstrations of using various features in the extension.
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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish
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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How to create in a 2d context an ambient light
Cocos
JANUARY 28, 2023
Sorry, the engine does not provide this feature at the moment. However, we do provide a solution with a reference example that you can refer to github.com cocos-awesome-tech-solutions/demo/Creator3.6.0_2D_Light at 3.6.x-release x-release/demo/Creator3.6.0_2D_Light Cocos' Awesome Technical Solutions. x-release ·.
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