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. What is a video game prototype, and why is it essential? It is the basis of high-quality game development.

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Yobob Games

APRIL 17, 2021

Harvest Island Demo. From my previous game version, the resolution was at 1280×720, shown at the bottom of the image. And with the new resolution, 1920×1080, the game became more alive. Feedback from Beta Demo. Opening the closed beta demo was a good choice. Harvest Island Demo.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Before you ask people to play-test your game, bear in mind the following advice. This is a great option if you want to observe gamers playing your game in-person or in real time.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Harvest Island Demo. I finally got to make a new trailer for the game. 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.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 4, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. By using color/contrast zones, stripping all text from the board, and generally making the game look pretty, I was finally able to coordinate play-tests through Tabletop Simulator.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

With the rise of the gaming industry and the increasing popularity of PC gaming, many developers are jumping into the field. However, game development is a complex process that requires careful planning and execution to achieve success. Think about the genre, setting, target audience, and gameplay mechanics.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 27, 2023

Vampire Hunters was conceived at the beginning of last year during an internal game jam held at Gamecraft Studios. The key idea was to use the gameplay mechanics from Vampire Survivors in a different genre. “We Gamecraft is placing a heavy emphasis on the weapon stacking mechanic, which sets it apart from other shooters.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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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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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. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box. Who is Carla?

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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. Evan Anthony: “Alternating between two timelines with such different visual designs, mechanics, and stories has been a real brain puzzle for us.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Tomasz Kaye had prior game development experience, with credits on Ibb & Obb and Chalo Chalo , but this time he went solo for his latest creation Axe Ghost. “It It wasn’t exactly a deliberate choice,” he explains, “I had a small game idea that I wanted to finish and publish, and it seemed doable alone.”

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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. Today, I am thrilled to share with you an amazing 3D shooter game project that I think you’ll love.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Although two games have significant differences in core mechanics, we found out, as a part of our Travel Town deconstruction, that the main reason for its take-off is a unique approach to LiveOps and monetization. The weekend events in the game also certainly have room for improvement. by Peak Games, the publisher of Toon Blast.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Escape From Hadrian’s Wall Demo out now! In my recent episode, Gray shed light on the current state of affairs in game development, from the migration of talent to new studios, to the challenges of leadership in an increasingly decentralized industry.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Escape From Hadrian’s Wall Demo out now! In my recent episode, Gray shed light on the current state of affairs in game development, from the migration of talent to new studios, to the challenges of leadership in an increasingly decentralized industry.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole. Other mascot platformers like Mario, Sonic, or Crash, might've had more complex platforming, but Psychonauts told an actual story with memorable characters and human warmth that's still rarely matched in games today.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon has found investment backing from the likes of Bitkraft, Delphi Ventures, and Mechanism Capital raising $13 million in a round announced earlier this year. ” IN OTHER NEWS Unity 6 announced At Unite 2023 in Amsterdam, Unity announced the next version of its game development engine, Unity 6, set for release next year.

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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. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I chose the City Sample Demo because it already looks amazing, and since the class lessons were in using the Take Recorder instead of environment building, this seemed like a win for my time spent and potentially having something cool for my portfolio. City Sample Demo 3D environment. REAL-TIME 3D COURSES

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

However, with the quality threshold of animated films matching the one of video game cinematics, he says, the gaming industry’s influence is being acknowledged more than ever. The reveal of UEFN’s capabilities was described as “a game-changer,” comparable to Steve Jobs introducing a new iPhone.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

demoed his technology around 2018, which is specifically around making 3D kind of scenes and world building with A.I.” ” In terms of legality, Chaumette expressed that large companies like Disney and Epic Games might not see AI-generated content as a threat, as it is not copyrightable.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 11, 2022

My Game is made in RPG Maker MV. RPG Maker has a very bad history of making bad games. And it’s mostly because it’s such a low entry into game development. There’s no programming involved and all the art needed is given to you to make games quickly. I regret making my game in RPG Maker MV.

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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. Tip #2: How to make an iOS Game?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. You can listen to our episode of the Game Raven Review podcast right meow! If you're just joining us, welcome!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures! link] Concept Art.

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Rindoku

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’ve been experimenting with different mechanics and completed the visual design for the second campaign. And it’s on this point that I’ll make the final announcement: we’re going to start recording and sharing our internal bi-weekly demos. It was a hefty design problem and it’s pretty much done.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

So monetization will be increasingly driven by a combination of ads and IAPs Fireside chat: Tel Aviv, Helsinki, and Istanbul – building blocks of a thriving gaming cluster Affan Butt, Aream & Co; Joakim Achren, Elite Game Developers; Chris Petrovic, FunPlus; Elad Kushnir, angel investor.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? This guide comes in three parts: How do you test game mechanics?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2019

Finally, I can show the current light mapper results in the Sponza demo: This image uses real-time direct lighting (regular Godot light nodes) and a light map for the indirect light bounces. Perfecting prediction mechanism. Bottom: 2 bounces of indirect light. Next steps. Exposed controllable variables to user. What's left.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

It improves the visuals and the performance of game simulations and provides more realistic, interactive, and immersive gaming experiences. AI art makes games look and feel more natural and life-like while recreating new digital gaming environments and worlds with real-time lighting.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Then, our Producer, Allie, went in and optimized the player character's Jogging and Sprinting movements in the Kristala game build. link] Will then moved on to address a series of additional tasks to help us get ready to package the first build of the demo for Play NYC. In the clips below, you can see the Dodge issues in action.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

Now he’s ready to take talking games to the next level with his new project Dead Meat. It’s an interrogation game where you actually talk to a suspect and try to get a confession. When we showed the demo at EGX, the average playtime was forty minutes and we were having to kick people off to let others have a go.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In hindsight, we missed the mark in some areas, and nailed it in others Genre / Mechanic: I don’t believe abstract analogs in an crafting system works. Players fundamentally understand combining bread and cheese to make pizza in a cooking game. We instead let our mechanics and motif alone determine who we thought would play our game.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

Renee Gittins , indie game developer of Potions: A Curious Tale , faced severe harassment after the release of her game on Steam earlier this year. When EA unexpectedly dropped their back catalog just hours after her game’s release, it derailed Gittins’ carefully planned path to success. This is her story.

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