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Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which is Better for Android Game Development?

Big Games

It uses C# as its main scripting language, which is easier to learn and more accessible for beginners. Although it mostly employs C++, it also provides a visual scripting language called Blueprints that lets programmers construct intricate mechanics without knowing how to code.

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Getting developers started with GameMaker

GamesIndustry.biz

It’s been almost 25 years since Dutch professor Mark Overmars created GameMaker, a game engine primarily devoted to 2D graphics and sprites. While major engines like Unity and Unreal Engine also offer 2D tools in addition to cutting-edge visuals, GameMaker keeps things simple with its drag-and-drop visual scripting tool.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. As a narrative stop-gap, every boss unlock quest features mandatory scripted scenes where you listen to faceless blood ghosts re-enact the boss backstory while you jump on furniture.

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Dan Houser launches Absurd Ventures

GamesIndustry.biz

Houser is looking to have Absurd Ventures write stories for video games, live-action shows, animation, books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts. Read more

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Lesson 4: Creating and Using Scripts

Game Designing

  Summary In this Unity Scripts tutorial, we explain the main concepts that apply to scripting in Unity. You’ll learn how to use Unity with C# and the tips and hacks to optimizing your scripts. About Scripting Scripting is an essential ingredient in all games. Welcome to another Unity tutorial.

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Three Minutes to Eight developer Chaosmonger Studio “Multiple stories moving parallel”

PreMortem.Games

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. Overall, I’d say that coming from the film industry definitely helped the script-writing process for games”, he says.

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new jam game: Where's the beef

Radiator Blog

The concept is so simple that the Unity project has zero code / zero C# scripts. For all the zoomers / teens reading this -- "where's the beef?" was a popular catchphrase in a Wendy's ad campaign back in the 1980s. Just make the thing and let the activity breathe. So this is a game about literally finding beef and clicking on it. Very simple.

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