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. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.

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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. If you like a demo in the festival, wishlist it. Trying To End the Career On a High Note The Queen's Wish trilogy is probably the last all-new game series I will write. August, 2022.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Write down everything they say and keep a good attitude even if you disagree. Create a feedback form and online demo, then advertise and offer prizes. You can make your game testable online by either creating a print-and-play game or a Tabletop Simulator demo. Run online demos or live-stream your game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2019

Godot demos. This first goal is already funded , with over €21,000 at the time of writing. we will cover all the main features, and release all the videos and companion demos under a permissive license. We're doing much work there, and we're working on guidelines to help everyone write accessible, clean, and scalable GDScript.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Harvest Island Demo. Sometimes it’s not always that and the siblings get along, but I’m using my own experience to write Will and Samantha’s stories. . Harvest Island Demo. With the release of the new trailer, I decided to release the demo version of the game. Harvest Island Demo.

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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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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Geneforge 2 - Infestation Demo Available! It's a biannual event where indie developers can make demos of their games available for a week. Around 1200 demos this time. We had a demo in the fest. We're leaving the demo up for another week at the link above if you would like to try it! But it's less utterly hopeless.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch. If the prototype gets approved, the team ramps more and builds an entire playable demo that demonstrates all of the major game systems at work. This is primarily because development costs only grow as the project progresses.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NOTE : At the time of writing, however, PiMiga4 is NOT yet officially compatible with the Raspberry Pi 5. Absolutely stuffed to the brim with classic Amiga games and demos For many people, the Raspberry Pi was the best Amiga to own in 2020, especially for plugging into a modern TV and for compatibility with game controllers.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I can’t reproduce the issue with the demo above. mrphusiro could you write some codes to reproduce the issue? And i didn’t find codes to delete the rigidbody.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

You may check generative-ai-demo-on-miro on GitHub. 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. Figure 2: Split prompts for image generation.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge.” I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge. Play the Axe Ghost demo now on Steam. What’s the biggest lesson learned from this project?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

” “Our goal is to build our games holistically where music, interaction, art and writing all inform one another and iteratively improve throughout the development process. Nirvana Noir is ‘coming soon’, but you can already try out the demo.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

This recap post / viewing guide covers only the first half of the series (episodes 01-17) and I'll try to write-up the second half later. Tim Schafer also has to refresh his writing workflow; should the blockout dictate the script, or the other way around, or how do you manage that back-and-forth?

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

微信公众平台 一键发布STEAM/WINDOWS插件，支持STEAM API/WINDOWS API，编辑器内预览，一键发布，H5游戏通用 Hi，我是property。由于学业繁忙，我已经很久没有写文章了。距离我的公众号上一次发表文章已经整整三年了。 New writing However, the content is in Chinese and requires translation software to read it The main points are as follows Why go on STEAM?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I was literally turning 26 when I somehow got the idea in mind that I needed to either write a book or invent something to help pay for business school. So I started writing a book on how to fail well. Anyway, I started writing a book on how to fail well and then I thought… having barely gotten into the book, “I need to fail more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 3, 2025

In practice, we looked for artists who loved to draw outside office hours and programmers who had a history of self-taught and demo scenes. Special thanks to Joe Burridge , Play Ventures Talent Partner for providing feedback on this write-up. Check out his excellent podcast, The Talent Game.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consumer protection is pretty obvious: with so many games coming out, there is no way for somebody to try them all, play the demos, or print out the print-and-play games. There is also a Tabletop Simulator demo, located here: [link] If you accept, you don’t have to mail it back when you’re done. Keep or return, it’s your choice!

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hi, I am writing a simple shader for spine, and use ts code to animate that shader by setProperty function. Here is my demo TestShaderSpine.zip (5.3 The same logic work with sprite, but not Spine. How can I make setProperty work inside a tween?

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Cocos

AUGUST 2, 2023

Hi, I am writing a simple shader for spine, and use ts code to animate that shader by setProperty function. Here is my demo TestShaderSpine.zip (5.3 The same logic work with sprite, but not Spine. How can I make setProperty work inside a tween?

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Cocos

JULY 26, 2023

Hi, I am writing a simple shader for spine, and use ts code to animate that shader by setProperty function. Here is my demo TestShaderSpine.zip (5.3 The same logic work with sprite, but not Spine. How can I make setProperty work inside a tween?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 24, 2023

While his creative process involves writing down ideas constantly, Breton admits to implementing many things ‘on the fly’, particularly dialogue and interactions. I write down ideas constantly, most often the best ideas come when I’m about to sleep at night. A demo/trial is available on all of them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Demo: A short guide to contributing to Godot's editor | Gilles Roudière ( groud ). Bring your computer and work on fixing engine issues or writing documentation under the guidance of core Godot devs. Workshop: 2D game workshop/demo | Leszek Nowak ( John Meadow ). Godot's code base is big, but well organized.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2019

This might open many possibilities in the future such as sharing direct links to projects/scenes in bug reports of the Godot Q&A , being able to run and edit demo projects directly from the browser, collaborative edition features. He will also write documentation and create demos and plugins showcasing the use of WebRTC and WebSocket.

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AWS Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We will walk through a demo to deploy a multiplayer game in your AWS environment. Managing your studio environments as code Infrastructure as Code allows you to define your AWS infrastructure similar to how you write application code. The entire demo will take 1-2 hours or longer depending on how long you play the game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

A similar effort will be done for the demos; most of them were also designed to showcase the usage of early Godot versions. Since then, many new features and usability improvements have been done, so some of those demos might have become obsolete, or might need to be modernized a bit. Useful links. Online class reference.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

We’ll include hands-on demo examples that illustrate USD scene construction in Python that you can try with a web browser at home, and show how to interact with USD files within Omniverse. We’ll show what USD is and how assets are constructed with it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We used Fracteed's demo to showcase the engine, along with Zylann's Wallrider. Big thanks to Fracteed and Zylann for their demos. This would make the presentation easy enough to edit and available to everyone: it allows you to write slides as JSON. Passing the word to Gilles Roudière himself. Gilles' perspective.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

I sometimes use blank cards or write on prototypes if I need to iterate quickly, but that typically only happens at conventions. Whenever I demo or playtest, I make sure to get the email address of the person, so I can inform them when the Kickstarter starts. Carla: There’s making the review prototypes themselves.

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Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

Though not fully complete, the demos already show a lot of progress, and the developer is selling their findings on the Cocos store for Chinese developers. Try it out now (Note the demo is in Chinese): ClothDemo for 2.x A dev, Night by Night 00, shared his work on building warpable and wearable materials for games.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. The goal for the next year or so is to make an absolutely kick-ass demo that we can put up on Steam, and from there hopefully we can get a budget from a publisher to make the whole thing.

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The Art of the Game

APRIL 29, 2021

After going through Demo Day for Launch Pad (and getting more than a little bummed about not getting a dev grant) I’ve decided to throw myself back into working on my game – which has been neglected for far too long. Either a whole book about me; or I gotta write one. And so he did. Next year??

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It turns out there's a mature technology that would allow us to create many translations with ease, to showcase interactive game demos, and lot more than that: the Godot engine itself. Traditional slideshow programs are not designed for that, so they were out of the question. That is how Godot Slides was born. Slides 2.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A new, smarter font substitution system is added: Each FontData has an associated list of supported scripts (writing systems) and languages. Right-to-left UI: Left-to-right UI: In most cases, UI mirroring should happen automatically, and do not require any actions from the user or knowledge of the RTL writing systems.

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 10, 2024

Fortunately, STOS, being based on BASIC, allowed me to make demos and games. In fact, I was early enough with ASP that I got published in magazines writing about it: C# When Microsoft smelled the Java brewing they released.NET and C#. STOS and the Atari ST rejuvenated my interest in programming.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2019

Two Free and Open Source game demos. Organized 7 Write the Docs events to bring Godot's built-in reference from 30% to 70% complete before the 3.0 Created the official demos for pathfinding, grid movement, Finite State Machines. Two beginner-friendly video series for the official documentation about 2d and 3d. Interested?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

This was a necessary change for many reasons: It's much, much simpler to write import/export code this way. debug settings, different bit depth, demo version of a game with less files, etc.). By then the stable version will be out and we will have a lot of awesome demo content. Beginning with Godot 3.0, Any PNG, JPG, etc.

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