Brand Game Development
AUGUST 31, 2020
If you find yourself reading this guide after you’ve funded a Kickstarter campaign, congratulations! After an enormous amount of work creating, testing, and promoting your board game, it’s time to send it off to the printers. How exciting! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 24, 2020
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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The GameDev Guru
AUGUST 30, 2020
Look at this flag almost everybody ignores… it will give you a few milliseconds of CPU performance for free: Unity Physics AutoSyncTransforms
Deconstructor of Fun
AUGUST 31, 2020
This analysis is written by Tim Smith , a seasoned games strategy and analytics lead. Both Eric Kress and Joseph Kim contributed to making of the analysis. Unity recently filed its intentions for an initial public offering. There’s lots of interesting information in its filing that sheds light on its financial performance, and raises questions around whether it can maintain rapid growth and also become profitable.
Mircosoft Game Dev
AUGUST 28, 2020
Howdy Godotters! It's time for a long overdue update on the status of the HTML5 export and the web version of Godot in general. Many of the improvements made for the Web editor's early prototype have been merged in the master branch and backported to the 3.2 branch. Support for SceneTree.quit() and drag and drop of files via the files_dropped signal are already in the upcoming 3.2.3 release.
Sky Betting and Gaming Technology
AUGUST 21, 2020
There has been a lot of work going on in Core Customer over the last few months to migrate our OIDC/OAuth2 identity service from our tactical container platform to on-premises Kubernetes clusters. I’ve spoken about our homebrew container platform (Corbenetes) before, but here’s the essentials. We built a container platform using Chef and Docker as a stepping stone to Kubernetes.
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 24, 2020
I’m a big fan of mailing lists. Sending email newsletters to well-targeted mailing lists is one of the best ways you can spread the word of your business and keep customers engaged. I spoke about the value of mailing lists earlier in How to Generate Traffic for Your Board Game Kickstarter or Website , but today I want to dive into the details you need to know to get started.
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The GameDev Guru
AUGUST 25, 2020
I know, devs will tell you not to use exceptions.
Deconstructor of Fun
AUGUST 25, 2020
Yesterday All my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday… - the Beatles Through changes announced at WWDC, Apple has flipped the table and reset the mobile advertising landscape. While the full implications are still unclear, and Apple may make adjustments before iOS 14 ships, it is safe to say that the changes will be monumental and that companies that fail to prepare for these changes will be at risk of being left behind.
Mircosoft Game Dev
AUGUST 25, 2020
In the past month, the excess donations accumulated so we are finally able to offer enough financial security to do an extra hire. Beginning November, Gilles Roudière (Groud) will be working full-time for the project, dedicated to 2D and general editor usability! Background. Gilles is responsible for the 2D editor in Godot, as well as some other areas such as the current filesystem dock and several improvements to Godot UI nodes.
Game Development
AUGUST 18, 2020
1.5 update. Just a quick post to let you all know that Drag Camera 2D pro just got updated to version 1.5. The latest update has been added to the unity asset store and has some bug fixes and an updated controller for the player example. This was to fix an issue with users with high refresh rates (60FPS +). I recently got a new high refresh rate monitor that can handle 165 FPS, before this I was only able to test at max 60 FPS.
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 17, 2020
In the last few years, live-streaming has skyrocketed in popularity. Through live-streaming, we can share videos of ourselves and our screens with a greater audience, who can communicate with us through chat. It’s tempting to think that the analog nature of board games would preclude live-streaming, but this is not the case. Live-streaming board games can be done with digital tools such as Tabletop Simulator or video cameras capturing gameplay on the physical tabletop.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 20, 2020
After posting the Delores code, I read a comment from someone who lambasted me for not using compliant JSON for the.wimpy and other data files. They are 100% right, I did not use compliant JSON for those or any of my JSON-like files. JSON was created by Doug Crockford, whom I worked with at Lucasfilm. Doug is a super smart guy and JSON is one of the best formats I’ve ever seen.
The GameDev Guru
AUGUST 15, 2020
Hey, I'm pretty bad at singing the happy birthday song. Will you help me out?
Game Design Aspect
AUGUST 12, 2020
In this article, game designer Sande Chen reports on Sam Barlow's presentation at PLAY NYC, in which he describes how the digital world is transforming the art of storytelling. Speaking at PLAY NYC on August 11, 2020, Sam Barlow , the mastermind behind the award-winning games Her Story and Telling Lies, explained the sweeping changes that have occurred in storytelling in his presentation, "The Death of the Container: What TV and Movies Should Learn from Video Games.
Mircosoft Game Dev
AUGUST 21, 2020
Godot 3.2.2 was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Some regressions were noticed after the release though, so we decided that Godot 3.2.3 would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Here's a fourth Release Candidate for the upcoming Godot 3.2.3 release.
Astral Clock Tower Studios
AUGUST 5, 2020
Hello, and welcome back to another issue of the Kristala game dev blog! We're really happy you're here with us, especially because we've got a lot of really exciting news and updates to share with you today. If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City!
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 17, 2020
For the last several years, wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns have redefined the rules of success in the board game industry. You no longer had to submit your game to publishers or raise a bunch of money to bankroll your own print run. People like Jamey Stegmaier, creator of Scythe and the Kickstarter Lessons blog , were able to create multi-million dollar businesses with less investment than those who came before.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 19, 2020
Good news everyone… I got my microSD card and Plex installed! Bad news everyone… The Plex server is running. I can watch video from another computer, but I can’t get my Amazon Fire TV to see the new Plex server. I used to run a Plex server on my Mac and everything worked fine with the Fire TV, but no-go on the Pi. I’ll dig deeper next weekend.
The GameDev Guru
AUGUST 9, 2020
Should you choose tight-fit or full-rect for your sprites in Unity? In this post, you will learn the difference between these two mesh types.
Greenheart Games
AUGUST 26, 2020
We are happy to announce that Game Dev Tycoon is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 8th. Our friends at Rarebyte , who are responsible for the amazing iOS and Android port, put the same attention to detail and care into porting it to Switch and the game just feels right at home on the console. We can’t wait for you to try it. Here is our announcement trailer : With the Switch release, Game Dev Tycoon will be available on PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android (mobile, t
Mircosoft Game Dev
AUGUST 3, 2020
As some of you might be aware, the refactor that I have been working on lately is now merged into the master branch. This is the work explained in previous progress reports. See other articles in this Godot 4.0 GDScript series: GDScript progress report: Writing a tokenizer. GDScript progress report: Writing a new parser. GDScript progress report: Type checking is back.
Deconstructor of Fun
AUGUST 4, 2020
Vinayak Sathyamoorthy. This is a guest post by Vinayak Sathyamoorthy , Group Product Manager at Reddit, an ex-Zynga Product Manager and an avid mobile gamer. Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. The game released worldwide just this past month (after spending well over two years in various stages of soft-launch) and is starting to rank in the Top 500 grossing charts on iPhone.
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 10, 2020
If you stay in the board game industry for long enough, you will hear your fair share of conventional wisdom. Board gamers like minis. Conventions are good for promoting your game. The list could go on forever. Some of this wisdom is true, and some is not. The veracity of advice you hear will change year over year, and even month over month. This is not just because we’re experiencing an unprecedented shake-up in day-to-day life because of the coronavirus.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 9, 2020
My latest weekend project. I'm going to build a Plex server using a Raspberry Pi. I'm tried of having to run Plex on my computer every time I want to watch something. I'm always amazed they can sell these so cheap. The 11 year-old me's head would have exploded. UPDATE: My plans have been thwarted by not owning a microSD card. I guess it will have to wait until next weekend.
The GameDev Guru
AUGUST 3, 2020
If you want smoother gameplay in your Android game, then this post is for you. Let's see how Unity Optimized Frame Pace can help you.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 8, 2020
My latest weekend project. I’m going to build a Plex server using a Raspberry Pi. I’m tried of having to run Plex on my computer every time I want to watch something. I’m always amazed they can sell these so cheap. The 11 year-old me’s head would have exploded. UPDATE: My plans have been thwarted by not owning a microSD card.
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 3, 2020
Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourteenth 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. In this article, I will be talking about how you create instructions that will allow manufacturers to create your game as a physical product.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 24, 2020
"The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone." - Roger Ebert. One of my favorite quotes and one I keep needing to remind myself of. No matter how blocked or stuck I am, if I just force myself to start writing or designing, it's not long before the ideas start flowing.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 21, 2020
After posting the Delores code, I read a comment from someone who lambasted me for not using compliant JSON for the.wimpy and other data files. They are 100% right, I did not use compliant JSON for those or any of my JSON-like files. JSON was created by Doug Crockford, whom I worked with at Lucasfilm. Doug is a super smart guy and JSON is one of the best formats I've ever seen.
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 20, 2020
Good news everyone. I got my microSD card and Plex installed! Bad news everyone. The Plex server is running. I can watch video from another computer, but I can't get my Amazon Fire TV to see the new Plex server. I used to run a Plex server on my Mac and everything worked fine with the Fire TV, but no-go on the Pi. I'll dig deeper next weekend.
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