PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. The English solo developer began his journey right after the Pandemic. Why did you become a solo developer? “I

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

years of development. Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration. Cocoon’s development journey spanned a challenging 6.5 This prototype had many worlds, and a lot of the focus was on jumping between them.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. But that’s not all.

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Sirlin

JULY 22, 2015

Former Street Fighter designer / Evolution staff member / writer of competitive gaming guide is working on a new fighting game focusing on easy execution, great online play, and will be free to play." It's clear that we're cut from the same cloth and have similar experiences with competitive fighting games. Did you hear the news?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m a solo game designer/developer of strategy games on both analog and digital platforms! Editor Note: Protospiels are really good for prototyping.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. Years ago, at the annual Penny Arcade Expo games convention, I was showing off an advanced prototype of Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing. The newsletter is free but you can support the existence of LTPF with a small subscription fee.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. To make everything working smoothly during the massive online battles requires some very specific skills from the developers. It was this idea that pushed everything else.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights). I’m taking a page from games like Fallout 1 and 2 or Arcanum here, where an encounter means “you encounter something” It’s often a fight, but it’s also often that you find some NPCs, a wandering shopkeeper, or even a secret town or dungeon.

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It's a fighting game featuring the same characters as my Yomi card game and it's unusually easy to play. Even in its early prototype state, it was. Future Development We've kept the game under wraps for a long time, but as of today it's fine to post pictures, vids, streams, etc of the game. And that's just the start.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

Welcome to a Godot showcase developer interview! This week, we interviewed Ben Kurtin about his experience developing and releasing a VR recreation of the hit rhythm game Friday Night Funkin'. In fact, I know a few professional software developers who have been using Godot for their game projects for the same reason: it's easy!

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry. “Not just in terms of cost, but also in terms of design.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. Before doing a full item-by-item review, I started with two special categories of unique build-defining items: aliens artifacts and Exiles prototypes. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I've worked in games for a while now, building upon general software development experience from electronics and RF equipment. It is developed by Autodesk as a proprietary format and thus not a great philosophical match for Godot, but given its widespread use, we want to support it nevertheless. Research & development.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 1, 2024

Even in our prototype it will already be useful to make sure the heroes populate on the board in a consistent pattern. On the other hand if there are less “Hero Positions” than there are Heroes, then you just fight with a subset of your total hero party. Get(this); } set { IPartyOrderSystem.Resolve().Set(this,

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

Therefore, I have decided to implement this prototype using the Prefab approach. Or I supposed you could run away… * Click “Fight” to start a combat encounter. Click “Run Away” to skip the fight and demo branching options. It has everything we did in the previous lesson ready to go.

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Filmustage

MAY 17, 2022

Working on films such as "Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980) as well as "Piranha" (1978) helped develop Cameron's critical understanding of art direction and special effects practices. Cameron's early work suggests the tension in which he was developing his creative and technical approach, but what comes next is the most interesting part!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay goals and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Most definitely, this will mean decreasing returns per hypercasual developer. And achieving brilliance takes time.

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece. The choice of where to play early tiles can play a crucial role in how a city develops into the mid and late game.

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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.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. By being so demanding of ourselves, we have innovated services and developed software that has become the benchmark of the industry. We’re not afraid to invest money in developing proprietary software, in training our shipping specialists.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. What is Unreal?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

Matches happen in a map shaped like a rounded island , where the player is supposed to move to the sides collecting resources to build their teams and fight opponents, and progressively move to the inner circles as the match progresses. What it does is summon friendly units that are the ones fighting.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Today I'm reinstalling my development computer, so I can't do much programming. Compiling Godot takes increasingly more time, so I guess a new setup is one more way to accelerate Godot development. and nowadays I enjoy developing Godot more than anything else. Developing games is difficult. Motivation.

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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. Lets say it takes ten developers total to construct one environment How long will it take for this team to complete one entire environment? Lets try a breakdown as an example of this.

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