Digital Ephemera

MAY 28, 2022

Re-Writing History (API). The API provides a way to track if a user clicks on the “Back” button in their web browser and then the code can revert to an earlier point in its tracking of different values. X branch version, it was something I wanted to return to and fix at some point. When I released the first 2.X

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Click here. You might expect me at this point to say “here are 5 ways you know you’re ready to change your audience.” Make sure your new audience and your new intentions are written everywhere you can write it and spoken about everywhere you can talk about it. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

You can download the assets and the complete project for this tutorial by clicking on the button above. Inside the Content browser I’ve created a new folder and named it FPS_ZombieHorde: Inside this folder we’ll store everything we create for our game project. Download The Assets. Creating Our Custom Player Character.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. If you are writing a game, just write things as fast as you can and as simple as you can. If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. Do not bother with design.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

I have actually wanted to write about this topic for a long time, but to clarify this topic, it’s not enough to just talk about it. Thanks to the Cocos Cyberpunk team, I can finally share this content. Main Content Some problems seem complicated, but as long as you see through the essence of things, they will be easy to solve.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Since we previously did not version our Android plugin systems, this new one is now labelled v1 , and is the starting point for the modern Godot Android ecosystem. The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Better handling of Variant s pointing to released Object s.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

There are six things you need to do be ready to do right after you get on the site: Register Pick a handle Pick a display name Write your bio Set a profile photo Set a header photo. I won’t get into the details of where to go and what to click. Keep your bio to the point. The first is what I call Content Mix.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

Snappy structure Basically: using this Pitch Deck Template will give your pitch a snappy, to-the-point structure that will optimize your ability to communicate your game and its opportunities to publishers. If you haven’t yet, read the articles on Budget Viability , Milestones , Anti-Bullet-Points , and A Good Pitch.

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Cocos

MARCH 29, 2023

Many developers say that they can just become a UI Assembler and let GPT-4 write shaders for them. Why I write a mind map first? Because there are many functional points, and the mind map can assist me in functional decomposition to avoid mutual interference. At this point, I was starting to feel a bit discouraged.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. For me personally it spread me too thin across Art, SFX, Designs, Visual Scripting, Writing and Marketing Material.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk. Table of Contents Actually, this article didn’t start like this. After understanding some of the future plans from the game team, I decided to start over and create a guide from the perspective of code-writing and logic mechanisms.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 9, 2018

In fact, when somebody visits your website, landing page, or Kickstarter campaign, that means something compelled them enough to click on a link or type in the address. Encouraging people to click on your website or Kickstarter campaign takes some effort, and I’ll get to specific recommendations farther down in this article.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. There are also hidden easter eggs with interesting lines and detailed facial expressions if players click on or drag them around.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

Photos like that stop people from listlessly scrolling through their feeds, enticing them to click on your images. That brings me to my penultimate point, and a very important one: Instagram is inexpensive to use. The next best thing is to put a link in your bio and tell people to click your bio. Click Submit.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Head on over to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast or click on the episode below! The second Clash game was Clash Mini, which entered soft launch around three months from writing this article. But beyond that point, Clash Mini sank in the charts. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). x point releases (which we are now intending to do more often, allowing several releases per year). Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I am writing this guide for beginners. Bonus points if they are big-name reviewers. While matters of marketing, promotion, and branding are best explained in A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing & Promotion , I’d like to point out a few types of marketing that are especially powerful for Kickstarter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. #1 But at what point will your game be ready for a global launch? At some point we decided to change the app icon and the screenshots. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Some content, I just record and publish. And the point is that you… because you get so used to selling the idea, ultimately you'd know nothing about that idea until you market tested it, until you've, like, started building it, until you start getting some data. but you can't really get to the point. It's a hybrid game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A new shader creation dialog has been added to easily create a shader and initialize it with basic content: Pull request: #51356. Aside from TIME , it's now possible to use 3 common constants: PI , TAU , and E in your shaders without writing additional code. A new context menu is called via right-click if nodes are selected.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

I was content to move Civ 4 back to a top-down chess-board grid and away from the visually misleading isometric squares of Civs 2-3 , where horizontal and vertical distances were separated by a factor of two.). Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad.

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