Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Interesting tidbit. Last quarter, Thimbleweed Park did 3x as well on Switch than Steam and overall has done better than Steam. It's hard to tell if we did really well on Switch are just badly on Stream. Probably a little of both. Steam sales were never where I thought they should be. The Apple number is a little misleading due to the Mac App Store and iOS being lumped together.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Creating board games takes an enormous amount of time and effort. The simple fact is that there are a lot of distinct tasks that have to be handled to turn a game from an idea into reality. This is why I urge each new board game designer to share the workload , delegating tasks to a team instead of doing them all alone. When it comes to delegation, it helps to define some roles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2018

We released Godot 3.1 alpha 3 last week, and it's now time for another alpha build, 3.1 alpha 4. We plan to have a last alpha build within one week, and then we should be ready to move into the beta stage, where we only merge critical bug fixes until the branch is stable enough for the final release. Contrarily to our 3.0.x maintenance releases , which include only thoroughly reviewed and backwards-compatible bug fixes, the 3.1 version includes all the new features (and subsequent bugs!

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 18, 2018

After dad died, trying to be useful, we looked through his office. ‘Office’ is underselling it – there was so much equipment that it could equally qualify as a workshop or even a lab. It had the special kind of ordely chaos of a place filled with a thousand incredibly specific things, meticulously organised by type, when you don’t know any of the types.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Interesting tidbit. Last quarter, Thimbleweed Park did 3x as well on Switch than Steam and overall has done better than Steam. It’s hard to tell if we did really well on Switch are just badly on Stream. Probably a little of both. Steam sales were never where I thought they should be. The Apple number is a little misleading due to the Mac App Store and iOS being lumped together.

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The Astronauts

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So this tweet by Arseny Kapoulkine got me interested: One of the most annoying changes to C++ that happened in the last decade for me personally is the introduction of initialization-using-curly-braces and people starting to use it all over the place. There are rare cases when that might make sense, but seriously, int count{ 0 };? Now, I love the curly-braces initializers in C#, but I haven’t used them in C++ much.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Last month we announced the GodotCon 2019 in Brussels (4-5 Feb 2019), as well as a contributors-focused Godot Sprint (31 Jan & 1 Feb 2019) and our stand at the FOSDEM 2019 (2-3 Feb 2019). We have a few updates since then: We found a venue for GodotCon and the Godot Sprint: it will be at the Ludus Académie , like last year (Quai du Commerce, 48, 1000 Brussels).

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