Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

You fight to take the throne either through military conquest or economic prowess. Wiscon I’ve attended even early in development to test out ideas, check reactions, and see players interact with everything from paper prototypes to physical, professional printed game versions of State of Wonder.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. Years ago, at the annual Penny Arcade Expo games convention, I was showing off an advanced prototype of Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Melee – a unique fighting game that got a new lease on life as people exploited glitches and created a new form of completion. At that point, I’m getting close to a prototype. The post How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Brandon: Let’s take a video game example.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The Seize the Bean prototype has little sugar cube pieces to tell its story. is about scavenging the remnants of a very, very old war and using them to fight in an endless cycle of retaliation. The post How to Tell Great Stories Through Board Games appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Do not eat!

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Beta 11 is finally tackling this project, and we’ve already seen it manifested across propulsion , weapon mechanics , storage units , fabrication and more, but the comprehensive item-by-item review has only come to pass as part of the conclusion to this dev cycle. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

FNFVR lets you experience all the cartoony glory the game provides for yourself: you get to see all the wacky characters up close; you get to be in the stylized environments they're in; and, of course, you get to jam out to the awesome songs while you're fighting for your life to spend time with your girlfriend.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. He concluded, “I think there’s obviously enough space for these two to kind of fight it out.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ernest Lee for his continued support and information, along with helping me get to grips with Godot codebase and many many other things, including the first prototype for the importer :). Clay John for helping fix the Z-fighting issue with transparent layers from FBX in the NVIDIA bistro, and for doing the fix in the upstream engine <3.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

And every enemy you down makes an exponentially more threatening reply from the warring factions, who might take a small break from their own fights to hunt you down.” Players take on the role of scavengers, or scavs, that have no allegiance to the fighting factions. They’re a mere mouse in a maze, scrounging for scraps. Or die trying.”

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Carriers are competitive, fighting each other for business. Assuming the product concept is fresh and original, the next step is to have a prototype made by a tooling company. There are many factors guiding where the initial prototype should be created, local in the US or overseas. But there’s more to it than that.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. I tried to contact many of the devs to ask them what the reasons were and, in most cases, they were not technical but related to the scope of the project being difficult to manage. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? Making a prototype.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Our approved prototype has one player completing one quest in an environment where there are a few enemies and a handful of different guns and gear. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ Lets try a breakdown as an example of this.

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