Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Quest Design Text, reward, spawn, balance, level, pace, pacing, word, budget, localization, loc, narrative, item, itemization, dialogue, branch, spawn, difficulty, player, multiplayer, encounter, placement, place, trigger, chain, pre req, pre-requisite, condition, scripting, faction, seasonal, event.

Game Designer

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same. In this blog, we will discuss the difference between game art vs game design and how each plays a unique role in game development. Who is a Game Designer?

Game Designer

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

25 years old, fresh out of script writing studies and feeling detached from society. I felt like an imposter most of the time I was working on the game. He came close to abandoning the project when he had to throw out the 600 pages of the script. The process of writing the 300,000-word script took me 20 months.

Scripting

DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Industry veterans Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Taryn McMillan as they talk about the benefits of Visual Scripting, why you want to learn it even if you already know C# and how Taryn’s new Unity Visual Scripting course can help! Taryn started learning game development with GameDev.tv

Visual Scripting

Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

Software

PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2023

AI affects game design The project’s trajectory shifted with the integration of AI tools. “To produce a point and click game, and to document the creation of a partly AI-generated game.” So, the AI does affect the game design, but mainly by its limitations”, Kemppainen says.

AI

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.

Games

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.

Visual Scripting

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.

Asset

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.

Cinematics

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.

AAA

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.

Mechanics

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.

Art

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.

Asset

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.

Engine

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.

Concepts

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.

Scripting

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the thirteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. This week, I want to zero in on the subject of making the perfect board game rule book.

Writing

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.

Film

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!

Prototyping

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

Cross platform

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.

Game Developer

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.

Bug

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?

Visual Scripting

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.

Development

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.

AI

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?

Asset

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.

Scripting

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).

Sandbox

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.

Cross platform

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.

Point and Click

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This game engine requires minimal coding knowledge to build mobile games – instead, it offers a visual scripting system and supports third-party solutions such as Bolt. This enables developers to create game logic without extensive coding experience. Unity’s interface is simple, making it developer friendly.

Mobile Gaming

SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to move a game object without having to have any knowledge or coding whatsoever using Unity’s Bolt visual scripting tool. . Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life without having to know how to code or draw.

Visual Scripting

iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2023

Player-Centric Design: Rapid prototyping enables developers to collect insightful user experience input while integrating prospective consumers in the testing process, making sure the game appeals to its target demographic. Notable among such tools are Unity and Unreal Engine.

Prototyping

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Visual Scripting. It is now possible to fully script Godot using C# , using your favorite IDE and the latest version of the language.

Render

Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. These characters are designed to integrate seamlessly into both the virtual and real worlds. Other known issues with traditional NPC interactions often come from rigid scripts and predictable behavior.

NPC

AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Every aspect of the game’s development has been thoughtfully considered, from ensuring each card has a rich backstory to using a low carbon footprint blockchain and efficient cloud-based technologies like Amazon GameLift on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Studios