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The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

Radiator Blog

From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. In this post, I compare and contrast the original and this modern remake from a dev / design perspective. In a past era of game design, we complained when combat games had obligatory stealth sections -- now we have story games with obligatory combat sections.

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How To Draw Pixel Art

DameDev.tv

You can also check out Reece’s pixel art game Monster Tribe on Steam. Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. Smaller and more focused games may hand craft the pixel art to be more visually appealing.

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How do open world games manage to feel so big? When you sit and look at them they’re usually just a couple km per side, but they feel like a whole country at times. What’re the tricks?

Ask a Game Dev

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ Your brain is being shown many things that have all subconsciously meant "big" to it before, so it assumes that its internal rules are still correct and the thing is big.

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How to Create Video Game Atmosphere

Game Designing

Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts. Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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10 Best Free Space Games To Play in 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON

Similarly, like many of the other games on this list (like Planet Calypso), Star Trek Online has a strong social element to it and the game takes shape based on your preferences and game play decisions. The game world is huge and you can pretty much do whatever you want. Want to Make Video Games?

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Unity Environment Design Tutorial: How I Built This World in 24 Hours

SOVEREIGN MOON

This process was inspired by a Picasso quote, where here states that: The Importance of Play & Experimentation When Designing Environments. Now in the world of indie game design, I find it beneficial to take a similar approach. Time Chunks: The first game element I play with is time. Want to Make Video Games?

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