The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. The answer is: Writing. Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. Our games are highly interactive novels with settings, characters, and stories that get people to actually give us real money.

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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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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When I did earlier remasters, I often redid things like the game system, because I thought my wiser game designer brain could make the old stuff better. Never forget that nothing ruins a good game faster than more game design. In return, you will get a game that, I believe, will be really quite fun.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists. It involves a mix of searching, managing, and writing good requirements.

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Designing a retro game. Today, digital downloads mean that indie game designers can sell their games directly to customers through digital storefronts like Steam. This includes graphics, audio and any other files needed to make your game work. Castlevania and Metroid.

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iXie gaming

MAY 23, 2023

There are opportunities that could interest you in every stage of this gaming lifecycle! If your interest lies in creating a world whose magic exists only in your head, the much-coveted position in today’s gaming market, Game Designer , is the right fit for you!

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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. What does a 2D animator do?

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And if the players take more than 3 clicks to get to the main functionality of the game, you have screwed the user interface and need to modify it. . Visuals play an important role in game design and they might restore or destroy the game’s look. Creativity will get more talking than graphic details.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Exceptional Graphics User experience is of utmost priority in mobile game development. The quality of the games basically depends on the graphics capabilities of the game engine. Also, it offers highly customizable rendering technology, enabling developers to create visually impressive mobile games.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games aren’t made by one person usually and definitely not in my case.

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Game Design Advice

APRIL 26, 2015

I’m a game designer. And I teach game design. I do believe game design is something you can study and learn and work to master. But lately I find myself questioning design as a way of understanding where games come from and what makes them work. I admire good design.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

A lot of game developers use it mainly because of its simplicity. Inside the Trello tool, you can create task boards with different columns, write your tasks onto cards and easily move them between the different columns. For instance, you can add a category for programming, level designing, free modeling, or books.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

By the end of this article, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to produce high-quality art for mobile games that captivates players and sets your game apart in a competitive market. This entails comprehending the game’s genre, intended audience, plot, and general theme. So, let’s dive in!

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the reasons why hyper-casual games are so popular is due to how quick and easy they are to make. Simple controls, artwork, and game design make it easy for any developer to pick up. There are other ways to build a game on a budget. This has kept the game alive for years. Another interactive fictional game.

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

Instead of spending time modeling every part from scratch, creators can spend more time concentrating on the in-game mechanics and the narrative of their games when they browse the asset shop.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1. -->. Marcel Admiraal is an engineer and game designer with a broad range of programming experience; most recently in developing artificial intelligence for human-machine interfaces.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

In other engines, you have to provide many shader variants, mix HLSL with a metalanguage, error reporting is terrible and writing shaders is difficult in general. writing shaders is very easy! Visual scripting is ideal for non-programmers, or for programmers exposing behaviors to game designers, artists, etc. In Godot 3.0,

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Art: The Ordinary Makes Greatness Though Lost Ark is mediocre in art design, it is mature and full. Mediocrity means there is no obvious innovation in art and graphic design. Fortunately, the art design of the game performs well. It fails to account much for Lost Ark’s outsized noise in the market.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Written by Richard Moss, the book takes video game football fans on a nostalgic journey through their childhoods, leaving them misty-eyed over memories of countless pixel-perfect goals scored. Bitmap Books owes its creation to Sam Dyer ’s journey from graphic designer to owner and publisher. “By

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

As the builder of the kingdom, players have the god like power to write the story for their cookies as a part of designing and changing the layout of the the space. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards. Interactive Facilities for Some Cookies.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ll also be writing responses for Will. Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I started the writing with humor. Graphics, video, and photography were all weak. At this point, I’d like to provide a guide on how to perform an autopsy on your board game project. Each autopsy write-up you do will be highly personal and distinctive, but these five steps will give you a rough guideline.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How To Design Your Game Atmosphere Atmosphere in game design is the sum of many parts. Having a clear idea of the atmosphere will help guide your decisions through the entire project, and help you to tie your atmosphere more closely to the other elements of your game.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

Making games is different to making anything else. It’s the combination of art, coding, music, sound design, graphic design, writing, acting, animation, sculpture, and then at the end you can play it! I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Making games is different to making anything else. It’s the combination of art, coding, music, sound design, graphic design, writing, acting, animation, sculpture, and then at the end you can play it! I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.”

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Six months into development, Coma accepted a job at Appeal Studios as a game designer, eventually becoming a game director. During his time there, he reconnected with a colleague from a previous game jam, Baptiste Remy, who shared an interest in making smaller indie games outside of work hours.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 12, 2004

Some people will tell you that Adventure Games aren't really dead, they have just morphed into other forms, or that other genres have absorbed Adventure Games. A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. Knock it off!

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity has created a large community and made video game development more accessible to game developers with various expertise levels. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. VR and AR games.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 11, 2004

Some people will tell you that Adventure Games aren’t really dead, they have just morphed into other forms, or that other genres have absorbed Adventure Games. ” A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. Knock it off!

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Endless Sky is a space game that anyone can download and play for free. From a graphics standpoint, Endless Sky is the most simplistic game we’ve included in our list. The game has simple 2D graphics and most of the storytelling is told through the use of simple photos with accompanying text. Endless Sky.

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The Knights of Unity

MAY 6, 2020

What are Hyper-Casual Games? While preparing to write this article, I’ve talked to some people from the gaming industry and I came to this conclusion: hyper casuals are nothing more than arcades from the ’70s and ’80s with beautiful graphics and almost unlimited access. Let’s take a closer look!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I consider how Godot's unique scene-node system, flexible graphics, scripting language, and open source code make it a promising alternative to standard agent-based modelling software. Talk: Implementing game programming patterns in Godot | Giovanny Beltrán. Tomasz Chabora (Poland) is a passionate game developer and gamer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

MMOs are mainly popular in the East and until writing of this article MMOs continued steady decline in the West. The reason for the decline seems to be a lack of key titles to draw player’s interest in these games. This game significantly cheaper production budget with assets being done in relatively low-quality 2D. Same Studio.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Gunther Rehfeld, author of the german book “Game Design und Produktion”  from 2014, mentions the importance of shapes in his chapter about concept art. He writes about how players must be able to determine if a creature is a friend or enemy just by its shape and from long distance. Critique helps.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. Despite being the lead developer of Godot, I have almost 20 years of experience developing and shipping games, and a decade of experience as technical consultant. Do not bother with design. to finalize the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And that's a really important point, is a lot of these companies that are engineering led, let's use Unreal as an example or id Software with John Carmichael, who I know reasonably well, you know, engineering led companies typically innovate on gameplay and on graphics from an engineering standpoint. I need to write that piece of code.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

Planeswalker Design. Around this time, Magic was going through somewhat of a creative reboot to make it more accessible and also better suited to supporting other potential media like books, graphic novels, or maybe even movies and TV. Aaron fought bravely for it but eventually saw the writing on the wall and gave in.

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