PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I don’t write any code; instead, I handle data from our games or the market to guide the company’s direction. Lazy afternoon “When I joined the industry, I noticed that many game developers try to do everything—coding, animating, designing, and writing. I focus on data at Dash Studios,” says Ikpeme. “I

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

Making a Mobile Game in Unity When thinking about game development, most people associate it with a time- and effort-consuming process that requires lots of resources and dozens of specialists to be involved (if we are talking about serious projects, of course). Is Unity Good for Mobile Games? What features do Android video games have?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There are three reasons why I’m writing this article. Whenever we write critical posts about a game, the team seems to fire up to “prove Deconstructor of Fun wrong!” It’s well-known that our analysis of Call of Duty Mobile was printed on the wall of the studio to motivate the team to beat our early predictions. Down But Not Out!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 29, 2020

After this necessary preface, let’s get to the news: a Godot Editor prototype running in browsers is being presented at this address. Note: As of this writing, this prototype requires a recent Chromium-based browser or Firefox Nightly. The prototype branch (still based on 3.2). Known limitations. References.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A axmol is just a fork of cocos2d-x-4.0: A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) fmtlib: 10.0.0 ==> 10.1.0 FreeType: 2.13.0 ==> 2.13.2 llhttp: 8.1.1 ==> 9.0.1

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript. Quite an old screenshot by now.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

While still in the early stages, it offers promising rapid prototyping and brainstorming potential. Visual Scripting And No-Code Solutions Bolt for Unity: This visual scripting editor within the Unity game engine allows you to build game logic without writing code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 24, 2020

It's been a very fruitful year for Godot on the Web since the announcement of the first web editor prototype. GDNative : Supports GDNative libraries, allowing to write your code in other languages (e.g. The year is almost over and it's about time we give you some news about the Web Editor and the HTML5 export.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Only 4% see themselves having to look for a job in the near future with an additional 11% pessimistic about their employment and 18% who are neutral… What do I think… If you read the analysis Why Remote Workers are Increasingly Less Productive, Anxious, Depressed, and Lonely , you’ll notice that it didn’t write any of my opinions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

This seemed like a great idea at the beginning, but ended up giving us many problems, such as: Bad performance on old mobile/desktop hardware which wasn't designed for the more modern rendering techniques being used. Incompatibility with older mobile devices which do not support OpenGL ES 3.0. On mobile, as OpenGL ES 3.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Kress said that the current’s market’s woes were “all Apple’s fault”. “We

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Building upon the initial prototype , we've now reached a state where we're happy to release the Web editor in sync with the native version, so you can find the latest stable version on editor.godotengine.org. was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Accessible Gaming There are so many platforms on which we can play games from mobile phones, video game consoles, and computers. Even the conservative senior citizen who isn’t that tech-savvy can play a game on their mobile phone. Video games are also available at different price points. Some are even free to play and don’t need Wi-Fi.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Bastiaan released the Oculus mobile VR plugin, and quickly got help from experienced Oculus Quest users to co-maintain the plugin and improve the overall integration (especially Fredia Huya-Kouadio and Holger Dammertz ). Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest. release should boost it.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

From my own experience, I felt that the main issue with 1UPT in Civ 5 was limited unit mobility and a lack of space between cities for maneuvering. Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While writing this post, this news article went live. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”. Source: Mobile Gaming Industry Analysis for H1 2019. Need we say more. Source: PocketGamer.biz. So, where are the market leaders going?

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Game design jobs in the industry Game designers are required for all types of video games—from console to online to mobile. They turn the vision of game designers into a functional reality, writing the code that governs how a game behaves. ensuring that if players fall out of bounds, they don’t get stuck).

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

Even better is that all of your data will be rendered in the inspector, all together, without needing to write any special Editor code. Therefore, I have decided to implement this prototype using the Prefab approach. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk. After understanding some of the future plans from the game team, I decided to start over and create a guide from the perspective of code-writing and logic mechanisms. You can view the specific function prototypes in the Action.ts

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. In Unity, you write code using the C# language, while in Unreal, you use C++. In Unity, you write code using the C# language, while in Unreal, you use C++. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. It made $5.1

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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. If you are writing a game, just write things as fast as you can and as simple as you can. Let them work the way they like, quick and dirty, but just make sure they write clean APIs to communicate with other programmers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

But before you continue, I’d like to make a disclaimer: As you know, I always try to offer an exhaustive and impartial assessment of the games I write about. Tap-to-move also creates an awkward and unnatural movement system on mobile. But in my opinion, many of its issues are at prototype level.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And they will soon launch their new mobile shooter called Catalyst's Black. They get to a prototype level.

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