PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But as the story developed, it took on a life of its own. ” Once a concept is chosen, it goes through a prototyping phase where function takes priority over form. “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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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

This is primarily because development costs only grow as the project progresses. At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches. Any game with a really long development cycle (e.g.

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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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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m a solo game designer/developer of strategy games on both analog and digital platforms! Need help on your board game? Emelie: Thank you for having me!

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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. 2 Godot learning guides for beginners and developers. Thank you kindly for your support. :). Free tools.

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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 engineers turned game developers, Farrell and Mackenzie are well aware of their artistic limitations.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, in Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game , I released Five Levels of Communication through Game Development. We’re doing rapid prototyping. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. The board game review process is one of the most important parts of game development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Click here. Why Get Reviews?

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2024

The vertical slice is a big milestone in a game's development because it shows the entire game coming together in a cohesive play experience. Because it's a showcase, the vertical slice is an excellent demo to pitch to executives and publishers. Call of Duty, Pokemon, Madden, etc.).

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

As far back as solo developer Sandro Luiz de Paula (aka ansdor) can remember he always wanted to be a game developer. Solo developed games have much more room to be experimental and weird, and I love that.” Why did you become a solo developer? “I It’s the total creative control that drives him.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Rather than generating complete results with only high-level user guidance, this prototype shows how AI can function as a brush in the hands of an artist. If you missed the live show, see the prerecorded version of this demo. Empowered by NVIDIA technologies Several NVIDIA technologies come together to enable this prototype.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer! Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. Debug output of the prototype implementation. This is Joan speaking. A bit about me. finish line.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

For the development of Math it Right 3D Adventure I’ve used the following Unity packages. The Addressable Asset System allows the developer to ask for an asset via its address. It is both designer and programmer-friendly allowing for quick prototyping and implementing of unique behaviors. Unity Technologies Assets.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We used Fracteed's demo to showcase the engine, along with Zylann's Wallrider. Especially those from the Toulouse Game Dev association, which regroups both hobbyists and professional game developers in Toulouse. Big thanks to Fracteed and Zylann for their demos. Passing the word to Gilles Roudière himself. Gilles' perspective.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. However, it becomes difficult for a developer to choose one software from many. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Obviously, some or all of these might change over the course of development. All of that music and a lot of the conceptual development will be a thing inside of this larger game now.) Supporters get early access to stuff and will certainly be the first to get access to a playable prototype once it’s ready.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

It's been a while since the last progress report, and there have been lots of changes in the development branch that you might not have heard of yet. Thanks for your contributions, and we hope to see you stick around and become core developers! will offer in terms of Web exports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 29, 2020

This DOES NOT mean that Godot will move completely to the Web, nor that the Web browsers version will be the recommended way for professional development, but it will be an additional option for cases where it might be useful (again, pick the education sector as an example). The prototype branch (still based on 3.2). Known limitations.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2021

Additionally, we are working on a series of "server" export options , to let developers further reduce the memory and load time footprint by replacing specific assets with "fake" files that only contains metadata. Anything more complex than that, and you will need a function so you can base your logic on the RPC caller.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 29, 2019

Collabora showed off their Monado OpenXR platform with a demo using an early OpenXR plugin for Godot made by the people behind OpenHMD. One of the more interesting projects to come out of this is Torch , an AR prototyping tool worth checking out. You can follow the development of this interface here: [link]. Watch this space!

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2024

It's good to remember what a vertical slice is - it's a functioning version of all of the systems we plan on having in the game working together so that it is representative of the final game experience. MMORPGs tend to come with a lot of expected table stakes features, which means our vertical slice needs to have those features.

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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. Godot exposes the internal glTF data structure to allow creating extensions as game developers wish. From @HugoLocurcio 's Godot Reflection demo. Thank you so much!).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 24, 2020

It's been a very fruitful year for Godot on the Web since the announcement of the first web editor prototype. Most notably, audio samples can now be imported correctly, so the demo project now contains audio too. The year is almost over and it's about time we give you some news about the Web Editor and the HTML5 export.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 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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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

Therefore, I have decided to implement this prototype using the Prefab approach. Click “Run Away” to skip the fight and demo branching options. Demo Let's provide a quick demo to verify that our EntryPanel can correctly display an Entry. It has everything we did in the previous lesson ready to go.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine team to showcase the engine’s capabilities of making heavy 3D games and boost community learning motivation. I hope to help everyone advance further in 3D game development. Ok, without further ado, let’s get started.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. Before doing a full item-by-item review, I started with two special categories of unique build-defining items: aliens artifacts and Exiles prototypes. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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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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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Add(TearDown); } Demo Well… there isn’t anything “new” in this lesson, but it’s probably a good idea to play the demo and make sure nothing has broken. Summary Refactoring is a part of the development and maintenance of every large project I have been on. Add(SetUp); ITearDownSystem.Resolve().Add(TearDown);

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 1, 2024

Even in our prototype it will already be useful to make sure the heroes populate on the board in a consistent pattern. We will want to modify it to have four “Hero Positions”: 0, 0 0, 1 0, 2 0, 3 Demo You should now be able to play the game with a full hero party. Get(this); } set { IPartyOrderSystem.Resolve().Set(this,

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Filmustage

MAY 17, 2022

Working on films such as "Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980) as well as "Piranha" (1978) helped develop Cameron's critical understanding of art direction and special effects practices. Cameron's early work suggests the tension in which he was developing his creative and technical approach, but what comes next is the most interesting part!

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I probably left them in by mistake from one of my previous prototype passes. Demo Play the game until you reach the Encounter. If you find value in my blog, you can support its continued development by becoming my patron. Go ahead and open the script and delete them. Visit my Patreon page here.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Encounter Scene We need to do a little extra setup in our Encounter scene so go ahead and open it: Add an instance of the new Action Menu prefab to the scene as a child of the root Demo game object. Play(); Demo Play the game from the LoadingScreen. Save the scene. Just three easy steps! Visit my Patreon page here.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Game developers and artists can also use AI upscaling to enhance a game’s graphics and image quality. Although humans still produce the finished design, AI art speeds up design stages like brainstorming, idea generation, conceptualization, prototyping, and client pitches. Art Many new artists are experimenting with AI art.

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