AWS Games

OCTOBER 26, 2023

AWS re:Invent 2023 is fast approaching, and AWS for Games is gearing up to welcome attendees from around the globe at the annual conference for developers in Las Vegas November 27 – December 1. Programming includes sessions led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers such as Riot Games, Epic Games, and Nintendo Systems.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Modern mobile games have high-quality animations, sounds, and visuals. Manually testing these games can be time-consuming, delaying the time-to-market. However, releasing a game that has not been thoroughly tested can affect its success and performance, leading to a poor gaming experience. Mobile game test automation.

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OPM Jobs

JUNE 9, 2022

Are you passionate about video games and want to try creating your own for a living? The gaming industry is no longer a niche, and there are lots of opportunities from major studios through to indie developers. Here is our guide on how to get a career in video games. Start shopping around.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game. Marketing is a tricky beast.

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AWS Games

JULY 29, 2022

Game developers increasingly require cloud technologies to support their games and provide the best experience to their players. Creating and maintaining all of these systems from scratch can take crucial developer time away from building those fun, innovative gaming experiences that can satisfy and delight players.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 24, 2020

I spoke about the value of mailing lists earlier in How to Generate Traffic for Your Board Game Kickstarter or Website , but today I want to dive into the details you need to know to get started. I talk about this in How to Choose & Use a Board Game Marketing Strategy that Works , but I’ll recap the basics here.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… How to Add Triggers and Switches Using Bolt (No-Code Game Dev). In this tutorial we’ll learn how to add triggers and switches to your game using Unity’s bolt add-on. Step 1: Begin By Setting Up Your Object. Manage game collectibles like gold, money or points.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 14, 2022

So, we are happy to present a new blog about how Robert Zemeckis has made time the central theme of his career and taught the world to travel through it with the help of stars and cars. First Steps Who knows, if it weren't for John Lennon and Beatlemania, Robert Zemeckis might not have become a filmmaker.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

Welcome to the inaugural post of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the new episode of the DoF podcast, we have the honour of hearing from Jordan Mazer , Head of Talent at a16z Games. I'll emphasise these key takeaways in the blog post, giving you a comprehensive grasp of the interviewing process. The Head of Talent at a16z Games wears many hats, all vital to portfolio companies' success.

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The Liquid Fire

JUNE 18, 2023

Follow along with their guide to install via the unity package manager. Because of this there are a few more setup steps required: In the project pane, navigate to Assets -> Scripts. The UniTask task is allocation free, meaning it won’t need to be cleaned up by the garbage collector. Select the Scripts.asmdef asset.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Welcome back to ACS headquarters for another rousing installment of the Kristala game dev blog. Here you'll get an inside look at the detailed development work done for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the inaugural title from the team behind Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-lead indie studio based in Central PA, USA.

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you'll get a front-row seat to the development process for the inaugural title from the leading ladies at Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-owned indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. It's been a hard year for all of us, especially for independent creators.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this tutorial you’ll create a zombie horde shooter game with Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints. The game is simple but is packed with tons of behind the scenes features that will allow you to understand the “why” behind the “how” a game is created in Unreal Engine 5. Download The Assets.

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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? It’s only once a month! Who should I hire?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Imagine developing a character of your choice and rendering it with actions and movements that breathe life into your world of storytelling. In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic. fbx), Collada.dae, Interchange.obj, Drawing Exchange Format (.dxf),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2019

Completing that last step meant that we had some really valuable information: which parts of the scene were receiving direct illumination from lights and which parts were in the shadow. Yet, I've asked them for a quick update on what they've been working on over the past few weeks since the first progress report (read part 1 and part 2 ).

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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. DMM GAMES uses Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to store user data, friend data and battle data for two of our popular game titles.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

‘Tis the season of being grateful and thankful…for holiday shopping guides. This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Description from Board Game Geek.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 9, 2018

Last week, I talked about why it’s so hard to get noticed online , covering some steps you can take to more effectively draw attention. Following the steps in that article will definitely help you get started, but there is a lot more to marketing than drawing attention. Need help on your board game? Go to Bluehost.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Creating video games is a complex process, requiring diverse teams to collaborate across various aspects of a project. With recent world events, development environments are increasingly hybrid. Caching is essential in the development of large, immersive games to ensure efficient asset retrieval and performance optimization.

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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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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 24, 2024

I did not feel the same about things like various game element systems that might want to observe events from each other. Don’t worry – they are actually good in this case, because they are helping to make sure we don’t miss any steps during the refactor process. Likewise, I can create a system solely for TearDown.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We are excited to announce the general availability of GameLift Anywhere, a new Amazon GameLift feature that decouples game session management from underlying compute resources. With this release, Amazon GameLift can now deploy and manage dedicated game servers hosted on-premises, in the cloud, or through hybrid configurations.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Welcome back to another exciting issue of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog! Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Let's dive in. Concept Art.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

He’s the professorial mind behind Meeple Like Us , a board game review site with an academic focus on accessibility. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re a board game review blog. Michael: Why, hello there.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Fulfillment is one of the most intricate and complex parts of the board game business. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Then I got Twitter DM from Charlie at Fulfillrite saying they’d like to do a guest post on this blog.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Sure, tabletop games made $113 million on Kickstarter in 2016. A surprisingly high 55% of board games managed hit their goal, which appears incredibly optimistic for entrepreneur hopefuls.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In this past year, I’ve been using Facebook’s advertising system to increase the visibility of blog posts and to drive people to the Highways & Byways Kickstarter mailer.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It’s been over a year in the making, and we’ve finally arrived: this is the last article in the Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game series. You’ve learned how to design and develop a game, build an audience, and market your game. Need help on your board game? Take pre-orders.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Pattern building board games are really popular among the hobby board gaming crowd. Board Game Geek cites Azul , Sagrada , A Feast for Odin , and Quadropolis as pattern building board games. These titles earned – and keep – respect in the hobby gaming community. Need help on your board game?

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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.

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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To understand the basic rules, I would recommend reading the guide , but I will give a quick overview, especially of what we will try to implement in this lesson. The first step in launching an attack is to make an attack roll. .” – Sun Tzu Overview The ability to “Attack” can be deceptively complex.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Last month I attended a conference on computational modeling in games in Banff. The question, in a nutshell – can we discover a well-defined property of game systems that corresponds, roughly, to what designers and players mean by “depth”? We are only looking at the very focused domain of game-as-problem.

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