Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Board game conventions have a certain mystique to them. As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re giving away a copy on the Pangea Games Facebook.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

Yes, most games that dont pass muster get cancelled, and publishers cancel them as early as they can. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches.

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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? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2019

Since then, we kept working hard on: Game creation tutorials. 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. Thank you kindly for your support. :).

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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. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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. With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways. As long as it works.

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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.

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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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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. Need help on your board game?

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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. But that didn’t discourage him at all: “I wouldn’t feel comfortable working on a game if I had to just follow someone else’s ideas.” I wouldn’t have been able to finish my game otherwise.”

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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. It is important to understand the genre of your game.

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The Liquid Fire

JUNE 4, 2023

This is only a quick post so you all know I am still here and to give a quick preview of what is coming next… It may be a bit surprising, but I started tinkering with the SRD’s and got a fair way into a few different prototypes before ever actually playing Pathfinder.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Over the past year and a half I’ve been diving hard into a huge number of different RPGs: Nearly all the 1-player Final Fantasies, Dragon Quest, Trails in the Sky, the Tales games, Scarlet Nexus, a really cool Japanese GBA game called Magical Vacation, and a lot more. The working title of the game is Free Tiya Bannet!

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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.

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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. He had saved enough money to live comfortably for a few years while pursuing his game development dream. Why did you become a solo developer?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We used Fracteed's demo to showcase the engine, along with Zylann's Wallrider. Enthusiasts, hobbyists, and even some Unity users looking for an alterative to their game engine! More importantly, we met people who are deeply involved into the game developpment community. Big thanks to Fracteed and Zylann for their demos.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. The post-processing stack (v2) comes with a collection of effects and image filters you can apply to your cameras to improve the visuals of your games. . Use Unity Timeline to create cinematic content, game-play sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. .

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 29, 2020

Godot Engine supports exporting games to the HTML5 platform (i.e. Any modification towards reaching that goal will also improve the HTML5 export itself (given that the editor is made like a Godot game). After this necessary preface, let’s get to the news: a Godot Editor prototype running in browsers is being presented at this address.

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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. This camera is the one to roam the scene when the game begins.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

karroffel will be working on a few examples (will be uploaded to the GDNative-demos repository and creating documentation for the users of GDNative but also for bindings authors to make it easier to bring new languages to Godot! New customizable editor theme. will offer in terms of Web exports. or at the latest with 2.1.5.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A axmol is just a fork of cocos2d-x-4.0: A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) fmtlib: 10.0.0 ==> 10.1.0 FreeType: 2.13.0 ==> 2.13.2 llhttp: 8.1.1 ==> 9.0.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the emergent feature of Godot that users have discovered and really started to like is its ability to run on a headless Linux machine and act as game server. This seemed like a good idea at the time: RSETs were a fast way to prototype, and easily make your game networked… or were they? Finally, in Godot 4.0,

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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. The purpose of the vertical slice is to persuade the executives that the rest of the game is worth making.

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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. Each export type has advantages and disadvantages, so you should choose depending on the scope and target of your game: Regular : It is the most compatible acrosss browsers but does not support multithreading nor GDNative.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. Before doing a full item-by-item review, I started with two special categories of unique build-defining items: aliens artifacts and Exiles prototypes. That would be bad :P.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. The nature of 3D can complicate the import/export process of a game character. How did we implement glTF export?

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

Therefore, I have decided to implement this prototype using the Prefab approach. The “Select” method uses our injected IEntrySystem to change the game’s Entry to the target “entryName” that is serialized along with the asset. Click “Run Away” to skip the fight and demo branching options.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 1, 2024

” – Wayne, Wayne’s World Overview In this lesson, I would like to start migrating away from the “Solo Adventure” idea toward a game that supports a full hero party. Even in our prototype it will already be useful to make sure the heroes populate on the board in a consistent pattern. Give it a try!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

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. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 24, 2024

I did not feel the same about things like various game element systems that might want to observe events from each other. 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.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As I start fleshing out the “tactics” side of the game, where position actually matters, then I could also use physics to see what is within range of an attack or a cast spell. Because of the grid-based nature of my game, I position my sprites at whole number coordinate positions like "(2, 3)".

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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. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Download Godot 3.2

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The menu’s we have implemented so far would need to be interacted with either by touch (such as if we published the game to mobile) or by mouse click (publish web, Mac or PC). Play(); Demo Play the game from the LoadingScreen. Play(); Demo Play the game from the LoadingScreen. Save the scene.

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Filmustage

MAY 17, 2022

So he flips the game and shoots an action horror where the heroes confront an entire hive of xenomorphs because he always keeps the stakes high. Technical specialist Rob Legato assembled a prototype of a "virtual" camera from spare parts. And now imagine, all this was done only to record a 37-second demo for the studio.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Using an AI face generator also allows artists to create game characters, realistic portraits, and more. It improves the visuals and the performance of game simulations and provides more realistic, interactive, and immersive gaming experiences. Art Many new artists are experimenting with AI art.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

As the coronavirus lockdown continues, a lot of people are having a hard time getting their board game fix. The ability to play board games online, however, has never been easier. That’s because it’s easy to make board games in Tabletop Simulator, an inexpensive board game simulation tool available on the Steam store.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. Also, it makes working on the game extra interesting, because we’re trying to create a unique mixture of components that players haven’t seen before.

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