Grumpy Gamer

JULY 7, 2011

A publisher handing a developer a big chunk of money to make a game should mean a carefully planned preproduction, and if it’s risky from a game play or tech stand point, absolutely build a prototype (not just for them, but for you as well), but doing a vertical slice is just kowtowing to the uncreative. It just doesn’t work.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

Prototype is ready! But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). Where do I begin here… Let me go back to the point I quit writing about in the blog. Watch the new trailer for GenoTerra right here: 96.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches. If the prototype gets approved, the team ramps more and builds an entire playable demo that demonstrates all of the major game systems at work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 4, 2020

The objective is to have a more "textbook-like" compiler, which will help maintenance both by those already acquainted with the Godot source and by new faces who saw something about writing compilers in the past. GDScript series: (you are here) GDScript progress report: Writing a tokenizer. See other articles in this Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I have prototypes of the game going back a few years, but I started really working on this iteration in November 2024. Ive gotten more comfortable with the features and workflow now, so Godot was the first tool I reached for when I started prototyping my museum! Its also my first real 3D game. The museum can be visited in VR.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 9, 2020

As I write this on the 9th day of May in the year of 2020 the Pandemic is far from over. What began as a way to waste time, turned into a fun little game prototype. By Ron Gilbert. Different people deal with isolation, fear, social distancing and hoarding toilet paper differently. I built a game. It helped keep me sane.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 1, 2018

Well, all that is going to change in 2018, and now that my blog is fully operational, I hope to write about what I'm playing. It's not stage fright, it's more that I over prepare and end up spending months writing the talk and stressing about it. And I promise not to just b h about them. Then again. maybe I don't enjoy playing games.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” Well, all that is going to change in 2018, and now that my blog is fully operational, I hope to write about what I’m playing. It’s not stage fright, it’s more that I over prepare and end up spending months writing the talk and stressing about it. And I promise not to just b h about them.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

If you’re the kind of creator who has a few prototype board games in your closet somewhere, consider playing one of them with a few game designers. Order a professional physical prototype of one of your board games. You don’t have to publish it or market it or any of that. Just go out and make a great board game for fun.

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Tom Francis

JUNE 22, 2016

I got an e-mail today from a developer who’s having trouble making any of their prototypes fun. This developer was writing because they liked Gunpoint, so that’s why all my examples are from that. Don’t judge one prototype mechanic against a whole finished game. I would suggest three things to bear in mind: 1.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 2, 2018

During my playthroughs, I don’t take photos or write notes – I want the gameplay as organically as possible. Once I have played the game; the review is quite easy to write. Dez: The actual write-up of the review normally takes me about an hour or so; depending on the complexity of the game and rules.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Failure can involve missed deadlines, lost clients, scrapped prototypes, controversial public statements, or no-show events. Sampling & Prototyping: Testing games for physical usability and printing copies for reviewers. Sampling & Prototyping: Were the review copies of sufficient quality to attract reviewers?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ll also be writing responses for Will. To give a good example, I suck at writing rules and they don’t really interest me. Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting. Some prototypes I prepared (at The Game Crafter) were actually so nice that it worked against us.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This guide comes in four parts: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Rule writing can be business-like, resembling technicial writing in a lot of ways. Brandon: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? How do you test your rules?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 30, 2017

Then I’ll be waiting for him to rapid prototype the Highways & Byways board. In short, I need a prototype board to do efficient play-testing. You can start jotting down your art direction thoughts, even if you’re not ready to write an art spec document yet. Most manufacturers will give you a free quote.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Then I write down everything I consider relevant into spreadsheets to compare them all. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. By September 2022 I had most of the design and lore elements of the game ready, including several prototypes, but it all looked terrible. In which time period is it set?’

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. This allowed us to solidify our narrative over time instead of being rigidly prescriptive from the start and writing ourselves into a corner.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. This allowed us to solidify our narrative over time instead of being rigidly prescriptive from the start and writing ourselves into a corner.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 1, 2017

Drama aside, it truly is difficult at first because you have to identify reviewers, send prototypes, make sure your game is ready enough, cross your fingers, and hope they like it. Don’t write off a reviewer based on subscriptions or web traffic. Oh, the pain of sending your precious brainchild to someone to publicly judge!

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I started the writing with humor. Each autopsy write-up you do will be highly personal and distinctive, but these five steps will give you a rough guideline. Excerpts from War Co. It is survived by its creator and the hundred-or-so people who believed in it enough to put money into the Kickstarter campaign.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Right now, as I write this, it’s January 27 at 7:52 am and I’m on a Greyhound bus leaving Chattanooga and arriving in Atlanta. Yet here I am, on my time off, on my chance to unplug, writing to you because I love what I do. I’ve also paid out the nose for prototype copies. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

Sending this document along with the latest prototype of your game gives artists a ton of information to work with. I still want to get some more play testing done before I start writing these. Once you’re done writing all this, you’re in good shape. I send that to the artist with a copy of my latest prototype.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

I sometimes use blank cards or write on prototypes if I need to iterate quickly, but that typically only happens at conventions. Carla: There’s making the review prototypes themselves. Stellar Leap took more than two weeks to put together 11 prototypes.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 30, 2018

Write down all the costs that come with developing a game, such as art, marketing, samples, and taxes. Broadly speaking, you’ll need three budgets: game creation budget, Kickstarter campaign budget, and an ongoing distribution budget. We’re going to focus on the first two. Creating a game creation budget is relatively simple.

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Raph Koster

AUGUST 28, 2024

I mention this because we just posted up a little article about movement and the camera in the game, which has pictures from some of the prototypes that we did to test out moving around. Just for fun as I was writing the blog post, I actually located the last version of the prototype and played around in it!

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. This is never a good thing.” What’s your creative process? “It From there I take it step by step.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. There's also a thrill of access, where the camera captures vulnerable moments it wasn't quite supposed to see.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 22, 2021

As far as the expenses that come with getting a game started, namely art and prototyping, there is a good chance the publisher will take care of that for you. Don’t write it off as an option. In fact, going through a publisher might even be more friendly to new designers. Alternative 2: Traditional Online Product Launch.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 6, 2023

Here are some of the lesser-known roles in the game industry that you may not have heard of: [ Technical Artist ] - an artist who writes code to help other artists realize their visions. Prototype Artist - an art generalist who specializes in putting together usable art for a game prototype.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Additionally, a new prototype version of the Godot Web Editor is now available for you to try out. After way too long, a new prototype version of the Godot Web Editor is online. It is also used to write bindings that allow game developers to write game logic in the programming language of their choice (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2019

Great 3d prototyping assets to help you develop games faster. This first goal is already funded , with over €21,000 at the time of writing. Professional 3d character and modular level prototyping kit. A modular level-design kit to efficiently design and prototype 3d gameplay. I think we can get all three of them.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

It is great for Unity beginners, or for small jams / prototypes with light dialogue requirements. So my new 2021 recommended Yarn Spinner Unity workflow for writers is now this: Write Yarn dialogue in VS Code. feels like the fuckin future, basically amazing VS Code is a solid writing interface: a big textbox that gets out of your way.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

The disadvantage becomes apparent when multiple passes are needed as we need to write the completed tiles into the render buffer and complete rendering all tiles before we can move onto the next pass. It now knows if subsequent passes write to the same buffer and continue working on the same tile. Godot 4 OpenVR prototype plugin.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Motivated by this, she wanted to write something addressing loss, conveying that it’s not the end of the world and that life goes on. I need the laptop to write.” As a part-time teacher, Mogatusi observed how grieving children withdrew inwardly, finding it challenging to re-engage.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. That may sound icky, but don’t simply write off the traditional publishing route. Publishers handle the marketing, the selling, and often they cover the art, too.

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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Some developers like to have a game completely planned out before they even write a single line of code. In my last game ‘Suffer The Night’ I made a little arcade mini-game that players could play that was a prototype of a 2D side scroller. It could be a movie, another game, a story, or a painting that plants a seed of an idea.

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