Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

then made me think of hidden object games, a genre with an audience that traditionally skews heavily toward women. This was a golden opportunity for my favorite game design trick: make a game that's literally about doing the thing , don't try to adapt it into a platformer or shooter or something! Very simple.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Godot Visual Scripting Tutorial For Beginners. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to use Godot’s visual scripting tools to create video games from scratch. . How to Use Godot’s Visual Scripting Tools. Introduction to Godot’s Visual Scripting Tools.

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Played with Fire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

2⃣ Mechanics Over Story in VR Games VR game design prioritizes motion controls, physics, and realism , often at the expense of narrative. Unlike traditional games, where cutscenes or dialogue drive the story, VR relies more on player interaction , making storytelling a challenge.

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Unreal Engine Here’s an overview of these two dynamic mechanisms that will help you understand what they are, how they work, and the merits they offer to Android programmers: Unity It is a popular game engine renowned for its cross-platform compatibility and intuitive user interface that supports both 2D & 3D game development.

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Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

Unlike traditional pre-scripted NPCs, AI-driven characters learn and evolve based on player decisions, making each playthrough unique. AI in Game Design and Development AI is not just improving gameplay but also streamlining game development. The future of gaming is hereand it’s smarter and more immersive than ever.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

These sorts of interactions have to be explicitly scripted. . High quality rigged low poly animals with amazing animations, stunning demo scenes, multiple textures, sounds and Wander Script. The post Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store appeared first on Jaunty Bear Games.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It's primarily a feature handled by game design and engineering. The designers figure out how the camera needs to behave for the intended player experience and then the engineers figure out how to translate those behavior rules into code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Many games still use this approach nowadays (after all, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it) but, increasingly, game design has been moving from “individual stages” to “open” or “continuous” worlds where the boundaries between levels disappear. Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging. Visual scripting.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

Within broader game design culture, the theme also invokes an awkward aspect of cultural appropriation and reduction. Or at least, that's how I justify my laziness with encounter scripting. After the complex scripting nightmare of my wave-based map Tell Me It's Raining , I don't even like configuring doors anymore.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

And so, we quickly realised the potential to form a bit of a ‘Super Group’ by bringing Game Design and AI Tech together. That’s why we need to work with talented humans to make our game a reality. That’s where Script Compass comes in.” “But there is also a wider significance to the hand-crafted art style.”

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Football Game Development Moss conducted over a dozen in-depth interviews with football game designers for the book. His research revealed just how difficult it is to create a great football game. It’s unlikely they’ll make another great football game again unless someone else threatens their bottom line.”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 22, 2024

When we founded Clapperheads, we were certain that we wanted to specialize in horror games”, explains CPO & Lead Game Designer Valentin Shchekin (Serbia). With our first game Sparky Marky, we needed to quickly make a game to make a name for ourselves, especially during such a challenging time for the industry.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

I assumed it was mostly for fans but after watching all 32 episodes (on 2x speed, skipping some parts) I've changed my mind and now I think it's essential viewing for all game designers / devs. Outside of game design, there's a growing tide against "design thinking" style methods, see "Design thinking was supposed to fix the world.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This sense of putting a player's abilities to use against a difficult situation in a game (challenge), and rewarding their potential for every challenge they overcome and every progress they make in the game (achievement), makes a player want to play. What is Level Design? Process of Level Designing and Game Development 1.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 28, 2024

Any game developer who wants to build and enhance a Unity game can do so using its 3D models, audio files, animations, scripts, plugins, and so on. Its vast and ever-growing library of high-quality resources speeds up the development time to create amazing games and interactive gaming experiences.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. . Introduction to Visual Scripting.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 19, 2024

State Machines A very useful pattern that you will frequently run into in game design is the State Machine. We’ll leave the script alone without being attached to any objects for the time being so we can copy things over from it if we want. With that in mind, we’ll organize accordingly.

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Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Impact of Game Engines Our gaming solutions company uses the most popular and powerful game development engines like Unity , Unreal Engine , Godot, Phaser, Construct, Cocos Creator, Babylon JS, and many others, based on the game idea and the requirements of the game development process.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When we founded Clapperheads, we were certain that we wanted to specialize in horror games”, explains CPO & Lead Game Designer Valentin Shchekin (Serbia). With our first game Sparky Marky, we needed to quickly make a game to make a name for ourselves, especially during such a challenging time for the industry.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

With each game we created, our quality improved and we were able to provide better functionality. Tabletop Simulator allows you to script functions within the game. This allowed us to take on more complex games and automate set-up. Something as simple as scripted setup can do wonders for your game.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game. Making it scripted felt too limiting, we wanted it to be dynamic. But while everyone was working at larger studios or freelance, the En Garde!

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

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. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren't interested.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. Or on a game with 1 winner and 99 losers.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Game development is the process of creating games. The term “game” covers various types, from the simple to the complex. The two most common types of game development are game design and programming. A game has a specific purpose: to be fun for players.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog explores the concept of game automation, its potential benefits, challenges, and its role in shaping the next generation of testing in the gaming industry. Understanding Game Automation: Game automation refers to the use of software tools and scripts to perform automated tests on video games.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 17, 2018

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. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren’t interested.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

includes various bug fixes for the Asset Pipeline, Physics, Editor, UI Toolkit, Graphics, Scripting, and XR. According to Unity's release notes, these changes will help enhance the game's performance and stability built using the Unity engine. Improved UI Toolkit rendering performance Also, Unity 2022.2.11

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

This was the case of third party scripting languages such as Lua, Python, Squirrel, etc. When we originally made Godot, we were completely certain that we wanted our main scripting language to be dynamically typed due to the high accessibility this provides. Why Visual Scripting? So then, again, why visual scripting?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

And while learning to use it, I realized it already had the necessary set of tools to pull out my game ideas. The node architecture with the concept of scene within scenes and the straightforward way of scripting with GDScript sealed the deal for me. I am probably not alone on this one: Game Design.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

AI-driven automated testing isn’t just about running pre-written scripts; it’s about intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and even generate tests on their own. Think of it as a superpowered QA assistant that leverages machine learning, neural networks, and other AI techniques to elevate game testing to new heights.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. Game designers would just be guessing. So, what can games simulate?

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As we progress through this tutorial series, I’ll be doing so with a focus on using no-code development tools rather than scripting to create games. Moving over to the right, you’ll see our workspaces , which we can toggle between to view our game or game scripts. Want to Make Video Games?

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iHobo

MARCH 16, 2022

I’d already had a fair amount of experience working with voice actors who had a background in TV and radio in Discworld Noir , which had talent like Rob Brydon, Nigel Planer, Robert Llewelyn, and the inestimable Kate Robbins, delivering lines from my script (the first one of mine to be recorded, actually). In the Studio.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Not a new idea, of course…Quests had existed in the earlier MUDs predating the whole LP/Diku/Tiny ecosystem… they were in fact implicit in the scavenger hunt model that went all the back to gathering items to put in a display case in Zork; and present in the design of MUD2 (it had eight of them by 1991, and you had to solve some to become a wizard).

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Game QA Automation helped in repetitive tasks, such as regression testing, freeing up human testers to focus on more nuanced aspects like gameplay experience and user interaction. Games are inherently interactive and often non-linear, making it difficult to script every possible scenario.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As we progress through this tutorial series, I’ll be doing so with a focus on using no-code development tools rather than scripting to create games. In today’s tutorial I’m going to introduce you to Buildbox, a beginner friendly no-code game engine that allows you to build beautiful video games without having to know how to program.

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