Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

How you divide your time between making games and living "real life" ? Dividing my life between making games and real life is a struggle. I had worked at Lucasfilm for 8 years and learned a lot, not just about game design and programming, but also marketing, PR, and production and I felt like I needed to try it all for myself.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). x point releases (which we are now intending to do more often, allowing several releases per year). Additionally, Godot 4.0

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 28, 2023

Top image: Stray Gods by Summerfall Studios, trailer by Derek Lieu Twitter is not a good place to advertise to potential customers, but it is good for connecting to people in the game industry like scouts, publishers, streamers, press, etc. Get to the point Seriously though, show what the game looks like when it’s being played.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 17, 2018

How you divide your time between making games and living “real life” ? Dividing my life between making games and real life is a struggle. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren’t interested. I work on a Mac exclusively.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 18, 2022

C++ is the most effective and widely used programming language for creating video games. It’s also the language Unreal Engine, arguably the most popular game engine in the world, uses too. In this post we’ll cover in depth the differences between C++ for software development and C++ for Unreal Engine game development.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

I’ve talked about how board game developers can get big on Twitter and use Facebook to its fullest potential. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This represents an enormous opportunity for board game developers like yourself. Click Submit.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

I am very exited for both of these games. Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer all have games coming out. Before we begin, a couple of points: Some of this I've written about before, so I apologize if I'm wasting your time. It's called Game Play! This next year is going to be very interesting. My brain is full.

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Filmustage

JUNE 7, 2022

Be one of the first to test the new functionality - click here for more detailed information. Many viewers point out the similarity of this picture with a novel: the lighthearted narration, the creation of an inexpressible atmosphere of Spain, and an extremely fascinating story of tangled relationships.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 23, 2022

The onboarding period is the delicate phase where the player’s relationship to the monetization mechanics of the game is often decided – for better or worse. Let’s find out what kind of interesting monetization features aimed specifically at new players can be found in top mobile games from East to West!

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, you can subscribe here. Now it’s up to you to fill it with a great game & matching business case.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 30, 2009

I am very exited for both of these games. Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer all have games coming out. Before we begin, a couple of points: Some of this I’ve written about before, so I apologize if I’m wasting your time. It’s called Game Play! This next year is going to be very interesting.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

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

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I’ve been dabbling at creating my own game for ages, starting with RPG maker back when the only english version was not officially available. While Unity might not be as efficient, it played better with my system, and I found this really nice tutorial for a tactics game on theliquidfire.com , who knows what that site is.

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Catnip Games

AUGUST 7, 2022

The navigation mesh was a separate layer of points and links with its own custom editing mode. I converted the navpoints into regular game entities. Now the only custom code is the test mode (move origin/destination points around, editor draws the resulting path). Finally, I upgraded all the editor icons.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I don’t think anybody would expect anything less from a guy who created a board game called Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game?

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Game Errors

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Larian Studios’ latest RPG, one of the most anticipated games and the second biggest Steam launch in 2023 , BG3, is undoubtedly stunning looking and a rich game. The Cheat Engine is an open-source memory scanner and debugger which is used for cheating on modern video games. exe and click on it and then click on Open.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lights are one of the most important part of any game. With lights you can create a different athmosphere and make your games look stunning. Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. Next we have the Point light. Before we start talking about Directional light, let us add it in our game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2018

Currently, Godot is pretty comfortable for doing 2D cutout animation , with several games in development making use of this feature. This was recently added to GitHub head and, while overall 2D editing is a bit unstable right now (due to a massive reorganization of the 2D editor), it will be soon be possible to fully make use of this feature.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 7, 2018

The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). Animation editing was one of the first distinctive Godot features. Key editing in inspector. A bit of history.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 20, 2025

This will hold our anchor points. The two constants for ShowKey and HideKey will store the text string we add to the anchor points on each panel. Be sure that you add “await” on the call in the Exit() function, or it could cause the game to freeze when entering the new state.

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Cocos

MARCH 25, 2024

I do know that I saw this person selecting multiple nodes in the hierarchy at various points and making blanket changes to all of them at once. At some point our animator was no longer able to enter animation editing mode from within prefab edit mode… he would click enter animation editing mode over and over and nothing would happen.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

Session-based multiplayer games are a popular form of online game, as they provide players with a quick, engaging experience that they can jump into at any time. However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

However, a look at Madonna's ad for BMW M5 shot by Guy Ritchie reveals many of his signature directorial cues - head-banging clip editing, daring shots and angles, slowing down and speeding up the image as well as his trademark visual humor. The numerous techniques used by Ritchie can be grouped into one category called "clip editing".

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In video games, the small effects add up to making your game look stunning. And popular games like Batman Arkham Asylum have this effect: Other notable games that have this effect are Mortal Kombat – which they implement when the characters perform special attacks on each other. What Is a Shader?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Tile atlas editing. The first mode allows editing the atlas properties and creating/removing base tiles, the second one allows selecting and editing tiles properties, and the last one is to paint properties over the tiles. The view is not constrained anymore and panning can be done with the right click. TileMap layers.

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Game Errors

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s one thing for a game to spit out an error or two every now and then. But it’s a totally different issue when the game keeps crashing every time you start it. FIFA 22 crashing is one of those nagging issues with this franchise that even its most ardent fans are finding it hard to keep enjoying the game. Save it to your disk.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When just starting out in game development, it is very common to want to jump right in to making your dream game. To do your game justice, first develop some skills. With this approach in mind, this project is an ideal starting point for beginners. Click the “New Project” button. Getting Started.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. I've been working continuously making indie video games longer than, let's say, anyone. (The GDC free lunch was lousy, but hey, it was free.) So let's get to it: There are too many indie games.

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AWS Games

MAY 4, 2023

Building dedicated servers is challenging, and developers need the ability to quickly test and iterate on their games. The plugin makes it easy for Unreal Engine developers to use an Amazon GameLift Anywhere fleet to test their game server on a local workstation without the need to upload a build to Amazon GameLift.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Not being involved can make you feel left out, which is unfortunately the case when several people want to play traditional video games. Fortunately, advancements in gaming systems are helping solve this problem, especially in the field of VR. As a result, only one person can play VR games. What Are Asymmetrical VR Games?

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today’s game developers use analytics as a critical workload to deliver the best gameplay experiences possible for their players. Direct integration with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: Choose this option if you want to publish events from your games and services directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) without the solution’s API Gateway.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Breakout style games have an array of blocks along the top of the board for the user to destroy. Edit Blocks. You could edit them one by one, but that would not scale well, especially if you had dozens or more blocks to fix. Unity does actually have a feature that allows you to perform a bulk edit. Edit A Prefab.

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The Knights of Unity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There is a high probability that you wanted to create a database and make it editable with ease for either a developer or a designer. I personally have been using it in systems like holding items or skills data for my RPG game. This is a great way to hold data as it’s simple and robust, especially with multiplayer games.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Interesting fact: Did you know that science-fiction games like The Invincible often have intricate storylines and mechanics that can be sensitive to the slightest system changes, leading to launch problems? Overlays and Services Interference : Overlays from other applications and certain services can interfere with the game’s launch process.

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've been fascinated by board games that revolve around drafting for years now, and in early 2011 I wrote a post on the pillars that make these games click. 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.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Edited by Nathan Graves. In part one of our series , we discussed the importance of management and governance of your AWS resources for Game Development Studios. For more information on the AWS IAM Identity Center announcement click this link. Written by Adam Hatfield, Pawan Matta and Daniel Whitehead. Tagging AWS Resources.

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