Brand Game Development
JUNE 30, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Last week in the Dev Diary, I talked about how board game development is a long, ongoing process with a lot of different stages.
The GameDev Guru
JUNE 29, 2017
I bet you know already the productivity boost you get by adopting continuous integration processes, so I will roughly skip that part.
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Mircosoft Game Dev
JUNE 25, 2017
Edit 2017-08-25: Here's finally the release candidate build. WinRT templates are still missing, but they're not blocking for the release given that they are experimental. Download the RC build. Check the detailed changelog since 2.1.3. Check the changelog diff since the 2017-07-31 build. Report regressions on GitHub so that they can be fixed before the stable release.
Game Writing Blog
JUNE 19, 2017
Introducing Gem : We’re super excited about participating in the launch of GEM, an awesome new game writing software suite powered by Celtx. Check out the video and sign up for a free webinar tomorrow here: [link] We’ll be giving away a few free copies of “Slay the Dragon! Writing Great Video Games,” so sign up today!
Brand Game Development
JUNE 23, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Everything snapped into focus this week. Highways & Byways now has an artist. His name is James Masino.
Brand Game Development
JUNE 16, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. I’m juggling quite a few responsibilities with Highways & Byways at the moment, most of which are not particularly rife for diary articles.
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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. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Highways & Byways has just been upgraded from “State Route 11” to “Highway 1” Highway 1 is actually version 12, but there is a logical reason behind my bizarre, thematic numbering scheme.
Brand Game Development
JUNE 2, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Great art is one of the most critical parts of a board game. As game developers, we have only a handful of tools at our disposal to help teach players what a game is about and how to play it.
The GameDev Guru
JUNE 12, 2017
How did I get Catan Universe to perform for mobile?
Mircosoft Game Dev
JUNE 20, 2017
We’re in the last few hours of Make 2D Games with Godot on Kickstarter. It’s been a resounding success. It came out a lot better than our most optimistic guesses, with more than 4 times the initial goal. And it’s not done just yet! There’s a few hours left. There are 2 sides to the project: on the one hand, the backers get a premium course. On the other hand, the campaign also funds a lot of free content.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JUNE 14, 2017
It's been a while since the last progress report, and there have been lots of changes in the development branch that you might not have heard of yet. Usually we let our lead developer Juan (reduz) do progress reports on his impressive work on rendering features, but since he was in holidays for more than a month, we'll showcase the work of some key contributors this time.
Game Writing Blog
JUNE 7, 2017
Valve loses fourth writer in 18 months : Hmm… Read into this what you will.
Game Writing Blog
JUNE 2, 2017
Celtx GEM : We’re excited about GEM from Celtx! Watch this space for more details soon….
Brand Game Development
JUNE 19, 2017
It’s no secret that one of the most critical parts of making a board game that will sell is making it gorgeous. Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do. Finding and taking care of an artist involves multiple expensive business transactions and a product whose quality can never be anything but subjective, so it’s very sensible to be worried.
Brand Game Development
JUNE 26, 2017
Today, I’d like to challenge one of the most fundamental assumptions of this blog: that self-publishing your board game is the best way to go. While I certainly like the self-publishing route and found it empowering, just as many people might find it to be disempowering drudgery. There is no single right decision when it comes to self-publishing or not.
Brand Game Development
JUNE 5, 2017
Prior to becoming a game developer, I was an art thief. When I wasn’t doing downward dog yoga poses to circumvent laser beams, I often found myself getting into Reservoir Dogs style standoffs. I pawned off all my art under a fake name at several pawn shops in a different state each time. I used the funds to pay James Masino to draw the art for War Co. so I could finally make money in a more respectable way.
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