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Hello. Do you think having a game programming YouTube channel can be useful as a portfolio? Like recreating game mechanics from existing games or creating new ones, and explaining my thoughts and decisions through the videos. Similar to Artstation for artists, but in this case for programming.

Ask a Game Dev

First, doing personal game development projects earns top marks. There's no better way to stand out as a candidate than to have experience doing that work already and game development is no exception. My own personal ability to communicate has improved significantly since I began this blog.

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How to Diagnose Failure & Move Forward as a Board Game Developer

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’ll use the game development process – from start to finish – as an example. Audience Validation: Checking the game one last time to see if people like how it turned out.

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How to Work in a Team in the Board Game Industry

Brand Game Development

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? This is unusual for most game devs, I think. Brandon: Excellent!

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Building a multiplayer game with Amazon GameSparks and Amazon GameLift

AWS Games

You need game server hosting for a stable and consistent gameplay experience. You need a game backend that provides management of player identity and storage of player data, and a way to communicate with the game backend from your game. This is the responsibility of a game backend. Deployment. Unity 2020.3.

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How to Live-Stream Board Games

Brand Game Development

Through live-streaming, we can share videos of ourselves and our screens with a greater audience, who can communicate with us through chat. It’s tempting to think that the analog nature of board games would preclude live-streaming, but this is not the case. Need help on your board game? Why stream games?

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Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Mircosoft Game Dev

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine.

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Godot Engine awarded $50,000 by Mozilla Open Source Support program

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot's editor is built with Godot itself, using the same runtime and UI toolkit as games developed with Godot. They will post progress reports on this blog. WP1: Godot Engine's editor on the Web. This means that it can run on any platform where Godot can run, including browsers via WebAssembly.

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