Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Thanks for joining us for another exciting and epic issue of the Kristala Dev Blog. The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. We're so glad you're here.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

Whenever I saw a complaint from a game dev pop up on my Twitter feed, I recorded it in Excel. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. One day, I decided to group the complaints into different categories. Game development is very demanding.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 5, 2020

Welcome back to the riveting, the joy-inducing, the awe-inspiring Kristala dev blog! But before we dive into the real meat and potatoes of the development for this sprint, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge some of the heavy events that are currently affecting our world. We hear you. We stand by you. in their inventory.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

However, when we look at gaming companies, we don’t see the same level of defensibility that we see for companies in other industries. There is no FAANG-like (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) company in gaming with the associated massive defensive moat and confidence in long-term durability and resilience. fall from grace.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. x core architecture is still that of an engine of the late 2000s, when computers were single core and the difference in speed between CPU and memory was not as significant as it is today. This year, we also added the tools category! The work of Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. x core architecture is still that of an engine of the late 2000s, when computers were single core and the difference in speed between CPU and memory was not as significant as it is today. This year, we also added the tools category! The work of Godot 4.0

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

Over 28,000 developers, artists, visionaries, and storytellers came from around the world to meet, learn, share experiences, and celebrate the global video game industry at the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco March 20 – 24. Learn more about Game Server solutions on AWS.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 25, 2024

Introduction To continue our discussion about Amazon DocumentDB best practices in part two , we are going to focus on data protection, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization in this blog. Use the following links to the developer guide for information on how to activate them. How to start the profiler? How to activate auditing?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This post is written by Sophie Vo who’s building a kick-ass game team at Voodoo Berlin. I am Sophie, a creative Game Lead working at Voodoo. This blog post is brought to you by ironSource - a growth platform that turns amazing studios into amazing businesses. What games to make? Who should I hire?

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

Introduction Document database is one of the fastest growing categories of nonrelational database that makes it easier for game developers to store and query data as JSON-like documents. Both games experience heavy traffic which can be as high as tens of millions of requests/day. We launched Amazon DocumentDB in 2019.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today’s game developers use analytics as a critical workload to deliver the best gameplay experiences possible for their players. This is useful if you are a game developer new to AWS real-time streaming analytics but familiar with C++ libraries, or if you prefer to not manage API Gateway as part of your deployment.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In part one of our series , we discussed the importance of management and governance of your AWS resources for Game Development Studios. For Game Studios to operate efficiently in the cloud, they need to be able to know the who, what, where and how much for all the AWS services their development teams are using.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This analysis is written by UX Reviewer’s Om Tandon and product guy and blog writer Alexandre Macmillan To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. As you’ve noticed from the previous prediction post, we actively refer to the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 Download Godot 3.2 in a separate branch.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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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. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We know it's been a miiinute since we've shared some in-depth development updates from Kristala with you, but we're SUPER STOKED for you to see everything we've been working on since the last time we met. GDC is the game industry's premier professional event, championing game developers and the advancement of their craft.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I don't think young developers should value my feedback, yet they do. I Am a Public Figure When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), Game designers, writers, comic artists. I do not let people in these categories pour poison directly into my ear.

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Filmustage

MAY 17, 2022

Disclaimer: our blog has no academic purpose behind it, because we are viewers just like you. Also after a long time of hard work we are happy to announce the beta-testing of the new Custom categories feature in the Filmustage software. Filmustage does not aim to educate, but to gather a close-knit film community around us.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: 2: Their secret sauce is closing the monetization and marketing loop to help developers supercharge growth. #3: To understand our taxonomy in details, please read this.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine (some parts have already been merged in master branch for Godot 4.0). The only difference is that they appear inside the editor after running the game. EngineDebugger manages the game side of the custom profiler.

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Moonmana

APRIL 24, 2023

Discover the phenomenon of web3 IPs that, unlike traditional gaming platforms, allow players to engage with gaming in ingenious ways. What is Web3 gaming? The world of gaming is wonderful indeed. We’re talking about web 3 gaming. So what is web3 gaming , and what drives the popularity of these blockchain games?

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