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I Make Board Games in Tabletop Simulator (A Guest Post)

Brand Game Development

As the coronavirus lockdown continues, a lot of people are having a hard time getting their board game fix. The ability to play board games online, however, has never been easier. That’s because it’s easy to make board games in Tabletop Simulator, an inexpensive board game simulation tool available on the Steam store. Need help on your board game?

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Unity GPU Optimization: Find Your GPU Timings With RenderDoc

The GameDev Guru

So you know your game is heavy on the GPU and you're ready to optimize it. But wait, where exactly do YOU start optimizing? Do you know which parts of your scene are causing your GPU performance bottlenecks? Well, I have a tool to help you with Unity GPU Performance profiling: RenderDoc.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

After refining our Godot 3.2 release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 merge window but have been further developed and backported since. We already had two betas , and here's the next round with Godot 3.2.2 beta 3. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ).

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Can Hay Day Pop Solve the Puzzle?

Deconstructor of Fun

This post is written by Laura Taranto , Product Management Advisor. Previously at Wooga, King, and Mind Candy. Opinions are her own and do not reflect any of her past or current employers! Edited by Adam Telfer. On March 16th, in the midst of a global pandemic, Supercell dropped a new game: Hay Day Pop (HDP). Turns out we all had some time to play it.

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The 10 Best Game Narrative Books We Recommend | Career Gamers

Game Writing Blog

The 10 Best Game Narrative Books We Recommend | Career Gamers : We’re superproud to be on Career Gamers’ list of Top 10 Game Narrative Books! “Slay The Dragon’s goal is to teach you how to go about marrying fun, thrilling and, immersive gameplay with rich characters and stories that drive the player forward.”.

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Safe Secure Browsing – Why use a VPN service?

Game Development

What is a VPN? A VPN is an acronym for Virtual Private Network. This means that instead of going straight to a website you go through a VPN server then to the website. Think of this like a road system. you want to get to number 10 example street. You would usually go down the main road and you would eventually get the 10 example street. What if a hacker had a road block on the main road?

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Python

Grumpy Gamer

I know you'll hate me for saying this, but Python is a mess. I love programming in Python, but holy crap-a-reno is dealing with all the modules a pain-in-the-ass-a-who. Then python 3 came out. Now I have a complete mess of modules on my machine. I have some modules that are system wide and others that are install just for me. I have no idea how it got so screwed up.

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historyofpants.com

Grumpy Gamer

Why do I own historyofpants.com ? I own a lot of stupid URLs.

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