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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Tom Francis

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

There’s also a Supporter’s Edition, which comes with a bunch of fun extras: Play through Heat Signature’s development with 8 early prototypes from its 3.5 year development. Watch 9 developer commentary videos showing and explaining its evolution: from drilling through hulls to liberating empires.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Welcome to the third developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! My name is Cheese, and I'm an Australian independent game developer/Linux porter/freelance generalist based in the small island of Tasmania. I've been making games in some form or another for over thirty years now.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 22, 2023

Normally, I’m fine with this kind of iteration early in the development process - it’s totally normal to try a lot of things with prototypes when you’re in preproduction. The problem here wasn’t that we were iterating so much, the problem was that we were still iterating like it was preproduction after the game had already launched.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? In fact, the cost of early prototyping is why I push Tabletop Simulator so much.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Welcome to another developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! This week, we are interviewing John Watson about the game Gravity Ace. Hi, I'm John, I'm a (mostly) solo game developer making games that I want to play. My first game was for the One Game A Month challenge.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

If you’re an avid gamer who loves computers, you may be thinking about pursuing a career as a game developer. Game development is a specialized, comparatively small, and lucrative industry. Retail gaming in the United States is estimated to be worth $4.19 Can You Be a Game Tester Without a Computer Science Degree?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Around 4 years ago, I was learning how to program (in order to do natural language processing) when it suddenly dawned on me that I had probably learned enough to be able to make a game. I prototyped a little top-down Zelda clone and showed it to my friend Jeff one night while we were hanging out at his apartment. or thereabouts.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

So to get his advice and learn his secrets, we sat down to hear his story and journey as a solo-game developer. I always wanted to make games – I even did small projects when I was a teen and carried on while studying computer science. Oculus was also running a game jam at the time, which I entered.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

In game development, your initial implementation of gameplay is always broken, and needs iteration to improve. " As much as an engine might help a specific use case, truth is that success depends above all else on how feasible your development process is. Starting over, is the game commercially viable?

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 9, 2023

It helps you assess your VR app or game to see what works and what doesn’t work as intended. Also, it helps you gain insights into how to improve your VR game or app, identify potential bugs, and remove any issues that may affect their performance. What is VR Game testing ? But what is VR? And what does VR testing entail?

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

Our intention was to make a game dev simulator where the player would have finer control over the decisions of what to focus on during game development. Game Dev Tycoon started, as many games do, on a single piece of paper. Back then, we imagined the game as a turn-based game with almost no graphics for phones.

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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. While the development branch was feature frozen (i.e. x) bringing important bug fixes, usability enhancements, and some new features.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

I assumed it was mostly for fans but after watching all 32 episodes (on 2x speed, skipping some parts) I've changed my mind and now I think it's essential viewing for all game designers / devs. This is a more business-oriented aspect of game development that we rarely see, and frankly, an aspect we rarely associate with DF either.

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Tom Francis

JANUARY 22, 2019

That’s two massive lucky things I’m grateful for, but I’m used to having literally a year to f**k around with ugly prototypes of random s**t I make up before having to decide which one is my real project. Feeling ‘locked-in’ so early makes me anxious, and having side-projects relieves some of that.

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