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Two engineers build the physics-driven engineering parody The Enjenir

PreMortem.Games

The Enjenir is a physics-driven sandbox game with a clumsy medieval engineer that fumbles his way from one construction project to the next. With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways. From the building mechanics, all the way to the third person character movements.

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Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

Moonwards is an in-development open source sandbox MMO built with Godot. In this guest post, some members of the Moonwards team give us insights into how they approach building such a complex project with Godot. We are the team behind Moonwards , a sandbox MMO being built in Godot. For a networked sandbox? But that’s OK.

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RP4K Teacher Profiles: Gabriel Dibenedetto

Real Programming

His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs. Imagine, car companies can do preliminary tests to measure how a new vehicle concept will perform even before building a prototype! He also enjoys writing science fiction in what little spare time he has.

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(The Unofficial) Deconstructor of Fun 2022 Gaming Awards

Deconstructor of Fun

The biggest news items of the year are Meta losing $15 billion in trying to build a metaverse and the collapse of FTX , which hopefully but not likely is the last gigantic crypto collapse we see ( Binance is reportertly struggling as well). The decision to take a massive investment from Saudi Arabia was just icing on the cake.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.