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Crossroads Inn 2 - UI and UX

Indie DB

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In today’s dev blog, we’d like to share the main goals and inspirations for the UI/UX design in Crossroads 2. It's been a while since the announcement and we're ready to share some new details about the sequel to Crossroads Inn!

UX

UX Dev

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Normally our Beta 1 release notes summarize all the most exciting changes from the previous dev releases. You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values. Input Input saw a lot of incremental improvements and polish this dev cycle.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

UX/UI

The Art of the Game

MAY 24, 2023

Lately, I’ve been deepdiving into UX / UI – while I ‘can’ do graphic design, I’m much more of a get the idea out and its done. I might just be getting the hang of this dev stuff. The post UX/UI appeared first on The Art of the Game. Much neater!

UX

UX Art Mobile Gaming Dev

Why Gamification Makes Everything Else More Fun

Brand Game Development

JUNE 3, 2019

For that reason, I’ve brought in Sean Fallon, Founder & CEO of Smunchy Games and User Experience (UX) Designer extraordinaire. His background in UX has given him a keen sense of what motivates people to take action. Playtesting in this stage of game design is related to user research in UX design. A Practical Example.

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UX Playtesting Game Designer Game Design

You’ve said before that modern games, even single player, will track player data. What sorts of things are actually logged? What do you think are some of the things players would least expect to be tracked?

Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I think most players don't really understand how much tracking we do for UI/UX. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

Data

Data UX Dev Content

Hello, can I ask how difficult is for developers to add accessibility features to games? I am aware it probably varies by type. Recently, I asked if a sound only minigame in one video game could be reworked to add visual cues, as I am deaf. Lot of other fans harped on me its too much work for little gain, too difficult, that it takes away precious developers time, etc. So now I wonder how complicated such thing actually is and how devs view it. Thank you.

Ask a Game Dev

MAY 20, 2024

However, you're also right in that we on the dev side should be thinking about better ways of doing this - there isn't only one solution to these problems. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ They're not wrong in that building such things isn't free.

Dev

Dev UX Development Games

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). You can read more about it in the GSoC 2022 progress report. NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). You can read more about it in the GSoC 2022 progress report. NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 release, many contributors and users want a robust and mature 3.x

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Associate Development Manager Co-op/Internship - Summer 2025 (Sports FC QV) Game Product Manager Intern (Summer 2025) Music Intern EA Sports FC Franchise Activation Intern Associate Character Artist Intern Client Engineer Intern Visual Effects Co-Op Associate Environment Artist Co-Op (Summer 2025) Game Design Intern (Summer 2025) Game Design Co-Op (..)

Co-op

Co-op Game Development Game Developer Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 19, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Sync csproj when files are changed from the FileSystem dock ( GH-37149 ). C#: Replace uses of old Configuration and update old csprojs ( GH-36865 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

A friend of mine wants to become a game designer without learning any other disciplines in game dev, he seems very sure this is possible but his confidence comes off as “idea guy” to me. I like thinking about design as well and how it could all fit together cohesively but I’m worried he’s setting himself up for failure by not learning another discipline to go along with it. Am I correct in this thought or am I being an jerk?

Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

That might mean working on combat, quests, cinematics, narrative, itemization, UX, enemies, levels/environments, or any of a number of other specialties. Indie devs can't just come up with the ideas for the rest of the team to build them out; there just aren't enough people to handle that kind of workload.

Cinematics

Cinematics Game Design Game Designer Dev

Let’s say someone becomes a game developer, but realizes the gaming industry is not for them for whatever reason. What opportunities there for game developers, particularly designers, outside of the video game industry? I imagine one of them is your former job at the gambling industry.

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ You are correct in that it is possible to transfer that body of knowledge over to the other gaming industry that is casino machines. Beyond that, here are some other roles that game design skills could transfer to.

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UX Game Design Game Designer Educational

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

When mass layoffs happen, how is it decided who gets the axe and who gets to stay?

Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When the studio/game isn't getting shut down/cancelled, the (remaining) team/studio leadership generally divides the employees between a "keepers" group (usually devs who are deemed absolutely necessary for a product's ongoing development) and an "everybody else" group. These kind of decisions get made at the publishing executive level.

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UX Dev Studios Engine

How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 2

Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

There will often be lectures on anything from animation, illustrations, UI/UX design, game development, design, and self-publishing depending on the conference. But getting to know other devs or gamers that want to help you out spreading the game will help you later on. Let me know in the comments below, I’d love to hear them.

Advertising

Advertising Games UX Localization

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). beta 2 and beta 3.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ). Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

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. Interesting approachability / accessibility UX here. Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person RPG called.

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NPC Fighting Art Dev

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). beta 3 and beta 4.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I might make UX modifications to encourage the player to choose the right move to use in the given situation. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ We don't always have to go only forward or backward along the same line - we can go sideways too.

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UX Dev Balance Esports

It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

I might make UX modifications to encourage the player to choose the right move to use in the given situation. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ We don’t always have to go only forward or backward along the same line - we can go sideways too.

UX

UX Dev Balance Esports

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Games Industry Events in the UK and Europe 2023

OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

Are you looking to network with other devs or searching for advice on getting into the industry? This is a great networking opportunity for game devs in and around Guildford to create a better sense of community and inclusion. There are so many games industry events out there to choose from. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more.

Games

Games Mobile Gaming Dev Mobile

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. apply_theme().

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Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

WE SHOULD ALL DO THIS / STEAL THIS: Dev-owned wiki. The dev team "SureAI" operates the official Endreal strategy guide and lore wiki. and my notes are obviously going to spoil some of the game's structure, but all these spoilers are pretty vague and anyway I don't name any names. Anyway, here's my notes.

Open World

Open World NPC Cutscenes Terrain

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2023

When I say depth, I mean “pick a specialty” - systems design, combat design, level design, UX design, technical design, etc. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr However, I get the feeling the depth vs breadth you mention and the depth and breadth I mean are different.

Concepts

Concepts UX Engine Engineering

Why Some Puzzle Games are More Addicting Than Others?

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Written by Ahmetcan Demirel , the maestro of product management and a podcast host ( Game Dev Diary ) from Germany! Hybridcasual puzzle games follow the hypercasual model closely with respect to user experience (UX). With a knack for puzzles, arcades, and simulation games.

Puzzle

Puzzle Mechanics Tile Games

My friend is making an arcade racer and I’ve been playtesting his builds for him. He didn’t go into it thinking it’d be easy but there’s a ton of things he didn’t at all realize would be a headache going into it. Obviously all games are hard to make but some are more apparent about their daunting nature. Which genres are deceptively difficult even if reasonably possible by a small indie team? What surprised you when you hit the big leagues?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

Whenever I do solo dev work, the feature that always takes the longest and tends to require the most work to get something playable by actual players is the UI. Small-team dev also tends to build more system-driven games because it's more dev-time-efficient than creating single-use narrative-driven content.

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Dev Build Content Feature

Happy 5th Steam Release Anniversary

Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

It’s been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. After days of brainstorming and discussions, we settled on the idea of making a game dev simulator. We were inspired by Game Dev Story on the iPhone (made by Kairosoft) and wanted to make a game in that genre with our own spin on it.

Simulation

Simulation Dev Prototyping Technology

[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Known issues Preview panel does not support dynamic preview Development team Devs: Knox、Youyou Framework：VisualSJ PM：AndyTian UI/UX：派大星 Director：Jare

Shaders

Shaders Point and Click Asset UX

The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

In addition, Keywords Studio offers UI/UX design, visual effects, animation, and more. Specialties: – Outsource art, VR Full-cycle, AR, External art / engineering development, art, partner, co-dev, and esports. Specialties:-. 1518 Studios. Art Bully Productions.

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Art Studios Animation Animation

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

UI/UX Designer : Puts things where you expect them to be, so you don’t have to get annoyed trying to make it do what you want. She makes sure that the dev team has access to the most up-to-date version of the game that is stable. This also includes practical duties like ordering food and procuring dev kits/cables/monitors/etc.

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation Animation

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Our architecture is also being designed to be a platform for game devs looking for a great place to test, experiment, showcase, or browse other developers' ideas. Our three lovely devs can explain - Karim, Yael, and Zach. Add-ons: the Logger Console and Doc Generator - by Zachary Shea, Programmer and UX design.

Build

Build NPC Sandbox Console

Reality, Upgraded: Navigating VR/AR Gaming with Alex Silkin

Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

This, Brandon argued, seemed like a move away from the experienced game developers who understand the importance of user experience (UX), a critical element in creating these virtual worlds. In contrast, Apple, whose forthcoming VR products aim to prioritize UX, was commended.

Technology

Technology Games Concepts Platformer

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Lots of documentation updates and UX improvements. Video: Workaround WebM playback bug after AudioServer latency fixes ( GH-35993 ). Windows: Fix UPNP regression after upstream update ( GH-35953 ). Windows: Disable NetSocket address reuse ( GH-36321 ). See the full changelog on GitHub for details. x releases, but the focus for 3.2.1

Bug

Bug UX Build Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 5, 2020

Lots of documentation updates and UX improvements. Video: Workaround WebM playback bug after AudioServer latency fixes ( GH-35993 ). Windows: Fix UPNP regression after upstream update ( GH-35953 ). Windows: Disable NetSocket address reuse ( GH-36321 ). See the full changelog on GitHub for details. x releases, but the focus for 3.2.1

Bug

Bug UX Build Feature

Tiles editor progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2020

My goal here is to improve the UX of working with tiles, making it both easier to use and more powerful. As you may already know, I now have been hired for a month to work on the TileMap and TileSet editors. So here is a first progress report on how things are going.

Tile

Tile Texture UX Editing

Tiles editor progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Aside from a lot of bug fixes and small UX improvements, all tiles-related classes are now documented. This is now fixed thanks to a new improvement to the inspector: This will allow exposing or moving out from dedicated editors a lot of properties. For example, items from an ItemList node could be moved back to the inspector. What's next.

Tile

Tile Collision Editing Alpha

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. We also discussed a proposal to further clean up the documentation and clearly separate more game-specific tutorials, as well as having a clearer way to link to content generated by our community.

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These speeds are in my dev build, which has a lower FPS than released versions, so I’m just looking at it for relative comparison.

Render

Render Engine Engineering FPS

Crossroads Inn 2 - UI and UX

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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UX/UI

Why Gamification Makes Everything Else More Fun

You’ve said before that modern games, even single player, will track player data. What sorts of things are actually logged? What do you think are some of the things players would least expect to be tracked?

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 1

Let’s say someone becomes a game developer, but realizes the gaming industry is not for them for whatever reason. What opportunities there for game developers, particularly designers, outside of the video game industry? I imagine one of them is your former job at the gambling industry.

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

When mass layoffs happen, how is it decided who gets the axe and who gets to stay?

How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Games Industry Events in the UK and Europe 2023

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Why Some Puzzle Games are More Addicting Than Others?

Happy 5th Steam Release Anniversary

[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Reality, Upgraded: Navigating VR/AR Gaming with Alex Silkin

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 2

Tiles editor progress report #1

Tiles editor progress report #5

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

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