Ask a Game Dev

JULY 6, 2023

Prototype Artist - an art generalist who specializes in putting together usable art for a game prototype. They know the quick and dirty hacks and key knowledge to get what’s needed into the game and working, rather than focusing on finishing out production quality assets.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week with Highways & Byways , I’ve been making little improvements to the game to make it more usable and easy-to-understand. Need help on your board game? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

Others are close-knit and local, but still lots of fun. It should come as no surprise that many game creators go to conventions to pick up customers. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Some are gigantic like Gen Con, Essen, and UKGE.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Second, what goes into making tabletop games? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Back in the heat of the summer of 2017, I wrote two articles about this A Crash Course in Games and A Crash Course in Game Development.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

To get the Start to Finish series going, I’ve spent some time discussing games, game development, and the amount of careful messaging that is needed to create and sell a great game. At this point, you may be beginning to have some healthy doubts about the benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing a game.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 28, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Creating board games can be an expensive affair. In fact, minimizing costs is one of the most compelling reasons to create a game and send it to a publisher instead of self-publishing. ” Maybe.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Ikpeme’s love for game development only intensifies, despite the demands of his full-time role as a Business Intelligence Analyst at a multi-award-winning Nigerian bank. Lazy afternoon “When I joined the industry, I noticed that many game developers try to do everything—coding, animating, designing, and writing.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Straightforward because there is actually a 50-70 million Euros fund dedicated to supporting the German games industry. It can pay up to 50% of the game development costs incurred in Germany. The challenging part was that a metaverse game didn’t really fit well in the mold of what the German institutions feel a game is.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. In April of this year, I did an autopsy on my first game, War Co. Click here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Welcome to the third developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! My name is Cheese, and I'm an Australian independent game developer/Linux porter/freelance generalist based in the small island of Tasmania. I've been making games in some form or another for over thirty years now.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Around 4 years ago, I was learning how to program (in order to do natural language processing) when it suddenly dawned on me that I had probably learned enough to be able to make a game. I prototyped a little top-down Zelda clone and showed it to my friend Jeff one night while we were hanging out at his apartment.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

So to get his advice and learn his secrets, we sat down to hear his story and journey as a solo-game developer. I always wanted to make games – I even did small projects when I was a teen and carried on while studying computer science. Oculus was also running a game jam at the time, which I entered.

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

Its core team has developed the game since 2018, even though the studio was officially formed in 2020. Made by fans, for fans, “Predecessor” was born out of the ashes of “Paragon,” a MOBA game developed by Epic Games from 2016-2018.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 16, 2024

Why is Selecting a Gaming Partner So Important in 2024? Choosing a gaming quality assurance (QA) partner is essential. This is because the cost and time of rectifying an error increase with each game development stage. So, what takes an hour or two at the prototyping phase may take days or weeks if done after release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

Which parts of the game development process did you enjoy the most while working on your project? Like many other game developers, I enjoy seeing the final product come together harmoniously. Which parts of the game development process did you find the most difficult to apply in your project?

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AWS Games

APRIL 8, 2024

To drive innovations in this fast-moving market, HUDstats prioritizes reliable, battle-tested resources that help it move quickly and prototype tools their clients haven’t yet imagined, which is why the company adopted Amazon Bedrock for generative AI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. There is a burgeoning community of Quest VR developers already publishing interesting Godot-based prototypes, and the stable 3.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Petrovic rounded out the panel by adding that Turkish companies must start to look outside local talent and look more globally, using Gram Games’ international offices as a good example. He added that a lot of the funding that has gone into PVE or play-to-earn games was flawed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! And naturally, those historical characters enable highly localized marketing campaigns. Card Battlers used to be a sub-genre led by Hearthstone. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 2, 2024

This warmth is a hallmark of Free Lives, the South African indie game development studio behind Playtopia. Before that, when she was a little younger she would sneak into her dad’s office to play MS-DOS games like Spacewar and Flight Simulator on floppy disks. This allows others to donate and help more people prototype.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

It is great for Unity beginners, or for small jams / prototypes with light dialogue requirements. However, it isn't in active development anymore, and maintenance since 2021 will be a bit spotty. // use "->" and indents for branching choices -> Alice is cool (choice 1) Alice: Thanks, I know I'm cool. -> Alice: No comment.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? We checked out a new local game store where we discovered Dominion.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re not afraid to invest money in developing proprietary software, in training our shipping specialists. We work hard on behalf of our clients to negotiate rates from national and local carriers.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Many board game designers are competent in every aspect of board game design, except for testing the premises of their ideas. Send a prototype to a play-testing service before launching a Kickstarter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

In game development, your initial implementation of gameplay is always broken, and needs iteration to improve. " As much as an engine might help a specific use case, truth is that success depends above all else on how feasible your development process is. Starting over, is the game commercially viable?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

I’ve written about the five levels of communication game developers must master. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Game development is a lot harder than you’d expect. How long does board game development take?

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Zugzwang by Robert Yang This post details my process and intent for making my new release Zugzwang (pronounced in German like /ts'OOK-ts'VAHng/ ) a tactical sex dungeon roguelike cum ritual game. I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago.

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