Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Either way, keeping your word is very important. There’s one big problem, though: modern tasks are complicated and unpredictable. I’ll be honest, there is no way to be 100% reliable.

Point and Click 130

Point and Click Dev Media Development 130

Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Ironically, though, ensuring simplicity can be a terribly complicated task. My ongoing development of Highways & Byways has got me thinking about the way that we, as game developers, communicate with gamers.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Communications Games Engine 130

Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Making sure they are happy and understand the needs of your project is critical to your game’s success. Brandon: Before you start working on a project, what do you need to do to define the legal relationship between clients and artists? That way I can focus on the actual project without communication obstacles.

Communications 130

Communications Art Games Horror 130

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What about the opposite--a way to zoom the map itself? A few years back I introduced an experiment to demonstrate a potential “overmap” implementation that still obeys the rules of the terminal interface. But maybe if we only zoomed the map it’d work for some people who otherwise can’t play?

Render 52

Render Engine Engineering FPS 52

Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

As an example, look at this generic project timeline I made a while back. When it comes to marketing, there is no way to make something that is objectively the best in all situations. Self-publishing a board game is a long, drawn-out process. Yet if there were a single thing that self-publishers regularly fail at, it’s marketing.

Advertising 130

Advertising Games Media Concepts 130

Mnenad

JANUARY 25, 2018

Keep in mind that we create new chunks every time the player comes near the border of the chunk she/he is currently walking on. It goes way too far into detail to explain threading at this point and I am not sure if I get every part of it good enough myself.   The biggest issue is the following: 96. It was frozen (kind of).

Terrain 52

Terrain Mesh Asset Shaders 52