Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Leadership Executive Producer (aka Game Director ) - The mastermind in charge of the entire project. Makes all of the high level decisions, including major features, story, world building, budgeting, scheduling, team composition, marketing, contracts, etc. All designers and content creators answer to him. She writes that stuff.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

release, which is already quite feature-packed a mere 3 months after the 3.3 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 New features! feature set.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch. x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

Additionally, many languages require advanced font shaping features to handle diacritics and letter combinations, which are often fundamental for any accurate rendering of these languages (see e.g. Is this Arabic? Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. for a light-hearted crash course). Accessibility work package.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

Asset price floor, mass market user base, progression utility - pick two Intro Contrary to what most web 3 and crypto gaming proponents would have you believe, the idea of “true ownership” of your in-game assets is neither new nor unique to Web3. Mass Market User Base But first some disambiguation.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Konstantin Mitrofanov , Chief Product Officer of Belka Games (a studio that has quietly racked up half a billion in revenues) shares practical steps on how they were able to create an organization that is both autonomous and highly successful. Or they review the assets they’ve created in a graphics editor rather than in the game itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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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. now and read on to learn more about its history , our support plans and the many new features in this update. Download Godot 3.2 March 2019).

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

Whenever I do solo dev work, the feature that always takes the longest and tends to require the most work to get something playable by actual players is the UI. Building out the gameplay features is always a lot of fun, but you can only go so far by fiddling with variables and restarting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

And although there’s no official confirmation yet, recent hiring and community buzz points out that the game is getting ready for a global launch. In my opinion, this looks like they need the designers to work on the long term systems, and the artists are to generate the extra volume of content (characters, skins…).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This analysis is written by Abhimanyu Kumar with special contributions from UX Reviewer ’s Om Tandon and Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid & Grit. Having said that, we would all agree that games like Coin Master aren’t “truly Casino” even though they are classified in the same category according to our taxonomy.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City. From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. The Forgotten City (2021).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To give some context on the magnitude of GTA V, as of today: In the last 30 days GTA V was the biggest game on Twitch by average viewer count and total hours watched, and the 2nd in terms of channels (source: Twitchmetrics ). And during that same period it has been in the Top 5 Steam games with most concurrent players (source: SteamDB ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Amazon Games has finally made its name after the tough launch of New World.

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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. Some content, I just record and publish. It's a hybrid game. Carbonated also raised an $8.5M

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Prior to Knock Knock, Andrew was Head of Business Operations at TinyCo where he built, launched, and operated games like Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, MARVEL Avengers Academy, and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Beyond study and instrumentation, there is instinct.” - Annorax* Creating a new F2P mobile game is riskier than it’s ever been.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: In this second post we discuss Arcade games, which we see as a genre in the Casual category. The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5%

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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