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The CORVID-19 edition

Grumpy Gamer

One of the changes I made to the engine was severing it from pixel art. It can still do pixel art, but it’s better at doing higher res formats and I implemented Spine for character animations.

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The CORVID-19 edition

Grumpy Gamer

One of the changes I made to the engine was severing it from pixel art. It can still do pixel art, but it's better at doing higher res formats and I implemented Spine for character animations. Most of the TWP engine is now back up and running and my new experiments with UI are 100% in script and so far I'm quite please with it.

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Aseprite Importer for Unity

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Aseprite Importer for Unity The Unity just got an importer for the popular Aseprite pixel editor’s file format, ase. Aseprite is a long running and very popular sprite editing package (we first covered all the way in 2017).

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It took 1000 hours to write my book Handmade Pixels

Jesper Juul

I must confess I had no idea, but writing Handmade Pixels took me 1000 hours over the course of 4½ years. I had already written a paper on independent games in 2014, but it wasn’t until August 2015 that I decided to write the book that became Handmade Pixels. This is what I learned from writing Handmade Pixels.

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Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

To test it out, select the Player Material and inside the Inspector tab select the Visible Behind Objects shader: This is how the shader looks like when we run the game: Game Object Visible Behind Wall But Pixelated. The properties on lines 5 and 6 will allow us to edit these values in the Inspector tab. 0.59, and 0.11 0.25 && col.r

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

stable: C#: Check that a.csproj exists before trying to edit it ( GH-56101 ). It is developed by Pixel-Archipel and scheduled to release in early 2022. Wishlist it on Steam , and see Pixel-Archipel's itch page for relevant links. Here are the main changes since 3.4.1-stable:

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Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

iXie gaming

Other Specialized 2D Tools Pyxel Edit For games that use retro pixel art, Pyxel Edit is a must-have tool. These lesser-known tools handle tasks like creating textures, editing images, and combining different elements, adding depth, detail, and finishing touches to the final creations.