Brand Game Development

APRIL 6, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. If you’re pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, you will fall at some point. I don’t write this blog to promise you a million dollars or whatever. And you will fall.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Don’t believe a dev who says “I’ve never wanted to flip the table because of some useless play-testing feedback.” Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I’ve been making games for about 2 1/2 years now, and a lot of things in my life have clicked because of the ways of thinking I have adopted by making and playing games.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The point is, Kickstarter is just the beginning. Once you’ve got people’s emails, as long as you can write interesting ones, 25-30% of your list members will open them up. These numbers steeply climb if you keep your contact list clean and/or write exceptionally good emails.) All aboard the HYPE TRAIN!

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

These four nostalgic game mechanics are: Dynamic character roles Great art or colors Incorporates a clicking noise Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety. Person with the highest point count wins. Point counts are gathered from points played on your character and/or how advantageously you marry. That’s me from our date!

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Even individual tasks that you do on a day-to-day basis such as play-testing, writing a blog post, and managing social media can take a lot longer than you think.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

From it, I went on to write Why the Highways & Byways Kickstarter Campaign Crashed & Burned , which remains one of the most popular posts on this blog, even two years later. To save you a click: it was a product made for no specific audience in mind at a price point that was unresolvably high. Fail faster. Fail harder.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A lot of people obsess over CPC (cost per click) or impressions (number of ad views). What’s important about all the metrics above is that you want to watch the amount of revenue your ads are bringing in, not necessarily the cost per click. If your cost-per-click is $1.00 ” Metrics for Ad Spending.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 23, 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. The post Timing is Everything in Board Game Development appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. His name is James Masino.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 9, 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. Get your game to a really professional point, then start testing with strangers. Key Takeaways for Game Devs.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Reviewers tend to drag their feet, so you should account for two months between sending them a copy and them writing a review. Sure, you can have broader goals of “be a good game dev” and “make this game a real thing.” Have an understanding of what it takes to get from point A to point B.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. You might expect me at this point to say “here are 5 ways you know you’re ready to change your audience.” Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But hopefully, by the end of this tutorial you’ll have a better understanding of how to design games using Buildbox, set up mind maps and use nodes to program your game without writing a line of code. All of these nodes have nested properties that we can get access to if we double click on any node. So let’s jump in. So let’s fix that.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. I was one of the first to correctly describe the indie bubble, writing blog posts that got many views and got me sweet gigs working for free giving talks at conferences. The numbers in question.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2014

One of our oldest projects is The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizza Boy , a 2D point & click graphic adventure that we’ve been developing in-house as a side-project, and we’ve launched a Kickstarter to raise the funds to finish it. As you know, Okam Studio, the company that develops Godot Engine, also makes games.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

Once you’ve specified your messages, you can write handlers for them using GameSparks’ Cloud Code functionality. Click on the blue SampleRealtimeFleet text to inspect the fleet. Then, use “ MegaFrogRace ” for the game name and use the existing “ GameDeployment-MegaFrogRace ” role for the Dev stage, then select Create.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In the Layers tab click the Settings cog for the Layer that has the Animation that you want to use IK. Enabling IK on the Animator ⚠️ IK will not work without this step The Code Now that we have made sure that our character will be able to use IK, it is time to write some code. Check the IK Pass checkbox.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. The post How to Get Your Board Game Reviewed appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

This talk highlights important points about functional programming, including advantages and disadvantages, brushes over some theoretical concepts, and shows how those can be applied when programming in GDScript. Escoria is a Libre framework for the creation of point-and-click adventure games with MIT-Licenced Godot Engine.

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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. We’ll start with the Player_Character folder: Inside the Player_Character folder Right Click and create a new blueprint: The parent class is going to be Character: Name the blueprint BP_Player and open it in the editor window.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

As promised, to celebrate the release of the iOS and Google Play version of Game Dev Tycoon, we’ve now updated the Desktop versions of the game. You can click on them to read the message (or right-click to dismiss them). If you want to quickly browse the topic list now just click, drag, and flick it! Women in Tech.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… How to Add Triggers and Switches Using Bolt (No-Code Game Dev). Manage game collectibles like gold, money or points. If your character doesn’t have a tag you can simply add one by clicking on “add tag” and then hit this “+” button and then name and save your tag. Read the Full Tutorial ?

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. Well known indie dev ( Vlambeer ) Rami Ismail developed a ready-made pitch template , with the help of several indie studios of all sizes, and professionals working at two dozen publishers.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. I tried to contact many of the devs to ask them what the reasons were and, in most cases, they were not technical but related to the scope of the project being difficult to manage. Many games were released, but a large amount were abandoned.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This means that there are different types of variables such as whole numbers, decimal point numbers, strings, and booleans. Integers are whole numbers meaning they can’t have decimal points in their value. A float declared on line 11 on the other hand is a decimal point number. And this is that syntax difference.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

Repositories: Godot's framework for VCS integration: Dev: [link]. This integration can further be used to create more in-depth interactions to a VCS like viewing file diffs right in the editor, committing code with a simple click, resetting to a previous state almost instantly without leaving the Godot editor. Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1. Aleksandar previously worked on award winning and critically acclaimed point-and-click adventures, and is now a producer for Trip the Ark Fantastic. Currently he's working on his video game Hellrule. Jeremiah A.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Because board games are complicated systems, you will also reach this point one day. You’ll reach a point where there is nothing left to do but tweak the game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2019

Daki-chan's Great Expectations is a short point-and-click game made with a custom engine in Godot 3.1. He splits his work time between writing code himself, and helping other contributors make good changes. " He will talk about the challenges of creating this simple card-game and how he solved them.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! I believe writing a rule is very much an art form. This manifests itself as point-to-point movement on a highway map of the United States. Brandon: Some of the rules that regulate the point-to-point movement are “you may move up to six (6) spaces per turn.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

ALSO earn the most points by the end of the game. The cards are projects, which act as event cards you can play to get points and try to terraform Mars. At that point, the “Production Phase” begins. Like Marrying Mr. Darcy, there are multiple ways to earn points. Ok, enough chit chat. Let’s roll out and explore Mars!

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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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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Right now, as I write this, it’s January 27 at 7:52 am and I’m on a Greyhound bus leaving Chattanooga and arriving in Atlanta. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Now while you can create full games with visual code, you’ll have to learn how to write code as well. You’ll have more control over your game, some custom things are better and easier done with written code, and the main reason is if you want to get a job in a game studio, you need to know how to write code.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 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. Still, someone involved in that project had to have become an amateur historian at some point.

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