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. prototype started gaining traction with nominations, awards and people posting YouTube videos. And all lines needed to be recorded by voice actors.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This approach is usually integrated into games with lots of space and lets players drive the narrative of the game. Process of Level Designing and Game Development 1. Scripting Level designers use scripting tools to program certain game behaviors and rules in a level.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 23, 2024

But it was far from perfect, so we had to do a lot of little scripts to get the performance we wanted. Projects are developed by relying on third party solutions and this makes you even more dependent. The game is obviously based on the many works of Jules Verne, but the story that it tells is an original one.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. Or if you’re writing a store page or a video script, people click away in seconds.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

That’s because it’s easy to make board games in Tabletop Simulator, an inexpensive board game simulation tool available on the Steam store. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game development is a collaborative process that involves various people with specialized skills. The two most critical roles in this process are game artists and designers. 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.

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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. This is a more business-oriented aspect of game development that we rarely see, and frankly, an aspect we rarely associate with DF either.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

It's finally time for the long-awaited post about the new multiplayer replication system that is being developed for Godot 4.0. Below, we will introduce the concepts around which it was designed, the currently implemented prototype, and planned changes to make it more powerful and user-friendly. Allow for (almost) no-code prototyping.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

While quenching his curiosity Olamide stumbled upon Encarta Kids, an enchanting encyclopedia brought to life through games, puzzles, and quizzes. As he grew, his fascination extended to games such as Prototype, Need for Speed and GTA. Legends of Orisha: Blood & Water is currently in development.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

Jokingly reiterating the mantra that “a boring launch is a good launch,” the nDreams team worked in partnership with AWS to create a serverless test framework using AWS Fargate and make sure they reviewed every aspect of the game using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. PROJECT_NAME}/./${PROJECT_NAME}/ PROJECT_NAME}/ # Copy all *.sh

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Preferred Choice for AAA games Unreal Engine is well-documented and has great tools for the game development discipline that reduce the manual and resource-intensive tasks in game development. Its advanced 3D creation tools empower developers to build photoreal visuals for immersive experiences.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Welcome to another developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! This week, we are interviewing John Watson about the game Gravity Ace. Hi, I'm John, I'm a (mostly) solo game developer making games that I want to play. My first game was for the One Game A Month challenge.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. We hope it will help you advance further in the journey of 3D game development. Don’t believe it? Keep reading!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab. When you want to create a new feature for your game it might just take a few hours to see it will work.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. That is a huge plus when you’re talking about in-game development.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We need to draw in the many space engineers out there starving for the kind of space development they imagined when they chose their careers. Moonwards gives them a place to express those visions, but they will need help from game developers interested in providing the tools they need to do so in a game environment.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine team to showcase the engine’s capabilities of making heavy 3D games and boost community learning motivation. I hope to help everyone advance further in 3D game development.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Environment designer - Environment designers are 2D world builders working from a design brief or script to bring an imaginary or realistic universe to life. Splash artist - Responsible for a game's loading screens, splash artists help keep players immersed while a game loads. They focus on precise definition within each frame.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

Renee Gittins , indie game developer of Potions: A Curious Tale , faced severe harassment after the release of her game on Steam earlier this year. When EA unexpectedly dropped their back catalog just hours after her game’s release, it derailed Gittins’ carefully planned path to success.

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