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Glorious gaming summer marred by industry myopia

Game Daily

They also show – in their different ways – that there are many ways to create excitement and energy in the market, through bold game design, smart marketing, and intelligent planning, not to mention confident investment. Few studios manage to get through three decades without delivering hit games, nor the odd duffer.

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Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Pozna?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Talk: Using Godot for economic simulation and agent-based modelling | Jeremiah Lasquety-Reyes. I talk about how Godot can be used for more intuitive and understandable economic models especially through combining a certain school of economics (Austrian economics) and a certain kind of simulation (agent-based modelling).

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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop, Part 2

Designer Notes

Well, one part of the appeal of games is that they can theoretically simulate the real world and teach us about it, that we can make choices and see those choices be modelled accurately. But, to use just this one specific example, how could a game written before McCracken’s insight on pitching have any claim to accurately model baseball?

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Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

In Unity, you write code using the C# language, while in Unreal, you use C++. When working with Unreal, users don’t require deep knowledge of codes or even a basic understanding of how to write them. Games can be developed through the tools in the integrated visual scripter called Blueprint.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. So in hindsight, a better game design analogy for sexual roles would've been "stances" or "buffs" that freely change and/or stack. Cops are just like the rest of us, except they have their sexuality set to "cop."

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