DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2024

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you follow that link, you’ll see open world events occurring as the quest proceeds, done without zone or quest locking, etc. And we and other MUD designers were wondering how to get more of this stuff to happen without having to hand-code it all. It’s stuff that single-player game designers know how to do.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The above samples show encounters added to a variety of Garrison layouts, highlighted with a dev visualization overlay. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy. Garrison encounter distribution samples, color-coded by category.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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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