Keith Burgun

JUNE 7, 2022

Nobody defending the game seems to understand why the monetization is bad. Governments aren’t banning this game because they care about p2w or competition. Above is a reddit post complaining about the moral and ethical problems with gacha games. Its being banned because its literally dangerous and predatory.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. Still, you can argue that it's a stunning achievement just to be able to debate these questions in a video game. Actors often hold up objects awkwardly so you can click on them. You talk but they don't listen.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

As usual, this GodotCon will follow the FOSDEM which also takes place in Brussels, and where we'll have a Godot stand as well as a few Godot-related talks in the Game Development devroom which some of us co-organize. Talk: Visual Vertical Slice - Not just concept art, but not yet a demo | Matejs Balodis. Try 3D adventure games!

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the hardest things to get correct in a game is the placement of a character's hands. In this article, I will use Inverse Kinematics (IK) to give that extra polish to my game when ledge grabbing. This concept can be used to add that extra polish to any animation that requires the correct placement of hands or feet.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game?

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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. Need help on your board game?

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Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

  Summary In this Unity Scripts tutorial, we explain the main concepts that apply to scripting in Unity. About Scripting Scripting is an essential ingredient in all games. Even the simplest game needs scripts, to respond to input from the player and arrange for events in the gameplay to happen when they should.

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Filmustage

JUNE 7, 2022

Be one of the first to test the new functionality - click here for more detailed information. Many viewers point out the similarity of this picture with a novel: the lighthearted narration, the creation of an inexpressible atmosphere of Spain, and an extremely fascinating story of tangled relationships.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Showing your game to strangers for the first time can be a little nerve wracking. Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. What we learned about the game. The feedback about the game was better than we could have hoped. People liked the game but there was also useful feedback (and observation) of where we can improve.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Brandon is humoring me with a mini game blog series where I give you MY perspective on board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Game Play Overview.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Despite being the lead developer of Godot, I have almost 20 years of experience developing and shipping games, and a decade of experience as technical consultant. I didn't become rich (yet :D) making games, but I learned a lot in the process. Many games were released, but a large amount were abandoned.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 18, 2022

C++ is the most effective and widely used programming language for creating video games. It’s also the language Unreal Engine, arguably the most popular game engine in the world, uses too. The concepts are the same, just the syntax is slightly different. The concepts are the same, just the syntax is slightly different.

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Raph Koster

OCTOBER 21, 2021

I am basically handing you a full copy of it, which you could save off ( controversies over this long predate the more recent “right-click save as” debates with NFTs). In a typical game, you never owned anything. It’s why there’s a broader concept of “moral rights” in European copyright law than there is in the US legal system.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This week, I talked about How to Play-Test the Core Engine of Your Board Game. This is the process by which you confirm that the game you ultimately want to make is possible.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. And for that debut the duo came up with an enticing mix of elements that really sets the game apart. “I But that’s not all.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today, we dive into the critical components of game markets needed to make them fun, and applicable in web 3.0 How to Plan and Nurture Your Career in Games - with Sophie Vo and Mishka Katkoff (Rise & Play podcast) ✉️ Received this email from a friend? Designing Game Markets to be Fun Markets are increasingly a component of games.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

I’ve talked about how board game developers can get big on Twitter and use Facebook to its fullest potential. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This represents an enormous opportunity for board game developers like yourself. Click Submit.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

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. Concept Art. Are you ready to get dark, dear friends? Trust us.we've got you covered.

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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. Direct integration with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: Choose this option if you want to publish events from your games and services directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) without the solution’s API Gateway.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This week, I posted the first article in my 19-part suite on game design. It’s called How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game. ” Need help on your board game?

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What Are Functions Summary In this video, we explore the concept of functions in GameMaker Studio, highlighting their role in simplifying complex codes into single lines and facilitating various game actions. So if we come over here and we click on instance functions, there’s tons of stuff right here.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I hope this can showcase the potential of using Cocos Creator for developing non-game 3D projects. I have been working on game and front-end interactive development projects for many years, and I also consider myself a part-time astronomy enthusiast. I chose the web application because it requires no downloads—just click to view.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. The analogy is morbid, but the concept is simple. I launched War Co.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

On the path to becoming a pro game developer the hardest thing is not learning how to make games, it’s actually the un-learning you have to do. If you take the wrong path, or you follow low-quality resources you’ll pick up bad coding practices, poor optimization techniques, and overall a bad structure for a game project.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Materials are assets that define the surface properties of objects in your game or simply they define how a game object looks like in your game. They are an important aspect of game development and play a crucial role in creating visually stunning environments and objects in Unreal Engine.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Predicting user traffic proved difficult due to various influential factors such as game popularity, user interests, weather, and so on. The next section details a recently encountered situation that illustrates this concept. Should such situations arise, users can also request an override with a single click.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

As we need to find all possible tiles a unit can move to, A* quickly bogs down because it is designed to find a single path from point A to B as quickly as it can, but finding a path from A to B-Z is a lot of individual paths. The original start point, and one tile that has already been added to the queue in the previous step.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Somewhere in the late 90s, and certainly by the mid 2000s, it was decided that secrets are bad and games shouldn’t have them. What are secrets in videogames?

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. It’s a serious attempt to capture as much or more depth that genre commonly offers while viewing “accessibility” as a process of getting everyone to the real, expert-level game as soon as possible.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Creating New Food Summary In this lesson, we enhance our snake game by introducing a feature where a new piece of food appears at a random location every time the snake consumes the existing food. Lesson 6 Transcript We have the ability to run into our food and make it disappear, but that’s not much of a game.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The menu’s we have implemented so far would need to be interacted with either by touch (such as if we published the game to mobile) or by mouse click (publish web, Mac or PC). It has similar concepts of defining Input Actions which can be triggered by a variety of sources. Play(); Demo Play the game from the LoadingScreen.

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