Brand Game Development
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
This week while working on my current board game design, a lot of things have come into focus. Now it’s time to start tweaking board game rules. This is where board game design often becomes very tricky. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules.
The GameDev Guru
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
Speed up your iteration times and solve your Unity memory challenges now with this Addressables Tutorial for Unity 2021+. Achieve massive benefits in no time.
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Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
A couple of weeks as ago we had the pleasure to have Lloyd Melnick on the Deconstructor of Fun podcast to discuss the subscription business model. Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. I’m thrilled to have Lloyd’s post reposted with, some additions, on Deconstructor of Fun.
The Astronauts
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
So! A while ago I worked on adding -ftime-trace support for Clang. That landed and shipped in Clang 9.0 in September of 2019, so ＼(＾O＾)／ Looks like it will also be coming to Sony development tools soon (see SN Systems blog post). All that is good, but it works on one compiled file at a time. If you know which source files are problematic in your whole build, then great.
Sirlin
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
I’ve been working on things behind the scenes for quite some time, as has our team behind Fantasy Strike. Starting in October, I’ll begin showing this content to our patrons at patreon.com/sirlin. I plan to show something new about every two weeks for at least the next year. There’s that much in store. It’s really a lot of stuff and it will take a long time to roll all of it out, so come along for the ride.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Goal Met! After some months, the project has received enough funding to be able to do a new full time hire! Thanks hugely to everyone who is supporting us, as your help has allowed us reaching this far! Pedro Estebanez is still on track. Unfortunately, it was difficult for us (and him) to predict when the goal would be met so, due to timing issues, he recently got into a new paid contract with a client (Pedro has been the first of our contributors who became a professional Godot consultant, and
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The GameDev Guru
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
Here's one for you: you have a 500GB multiplayer project, how do you go about testing it in multiple Unity Editor instances? Here's the solution.
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. this series is written by Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. GoPractice is a tool I would have loved to have at the beginning of my product management career and it’s a tool that I love having now, a decade into making and o
Sky Betting and Gaming Technology
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Chaos Community Days are a meeting of minds for those involved in chaos engineering and related disciplines. They usually feature short presentations on a single track, as well as guided conversations on a variety of topics. Chaos Community Day 2019 was the first to be held in Europe, and I was excited to be invited to attend. What is Chaos Engineering?
Sirlin
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Evo is considering new rules for which controllers are allowed in their tournaments. Their call for feedback on rules is here. Their actual rule document is here. In my opinion, Hit Box controllers should be banned. I find discussions of this topic often muddled by bad arguments which makes it difficult to get to the substantive part. I will explain the forces at work.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
The past two years, the project kept growing at a steady pace. One of the most important consequences of this growth process is that our GitHub issue tracker has exploded with ideas, proposals and bug reports. Too many proposals. While we have a very clear guideline on how bugs have to be reported, proposals went usually from simple ideas like "Implement bluetooth multiplayer" to detailed plans for enhancements.
Brand Game Development
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Twilight Struggle has been considered one of the best board games of all time. It’s been on the Board Game Geek Top 10 for as long as I can remember and for a while was the #1 game. Twilight Struggle is in equal measures incredible and frustrating, needlessly complicated and elegant in its simplicity. No matter how you feel about it, there is a lot that new board game designers can learn from it.
The GameDev Guru
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Learn the basics of the Unity Immediate Window package by solving a critical challenge in Game Development: Automating Playtests!
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). This two part series is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World.
The GameDev Guru
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
I normally do not share my past struggles, but this topic deserves it. What do you do when you lose hope with Unity UI?
The GameDev Guru
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
Let's find out 3 ways Unity Addressables will help your game with efficient, pain-free content management.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
Work on porting the rendering engine to Vulkan continues at a steady pace. See other articles in this Godot 4.0 Vulkan series: Vulkan progress report #1. Vulkan progress report #2. (you are here) Vulkan progress report #3. Vulkan progress report #4. Vulkan progress report #5. Vulkan progress report #6. Vulkan progress report #7. 3D Rendering. Work on 3D rendering has begun.
Brand Game Development
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Last week, I posted A Crash Course in Games , where I acted as a tour guide to the board game industry, covering much of the contextual information you’ll need to make games. Let’s pick up from there and talk about what specifically goes into making a game. What is board game development all about? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.
Brand Game Development
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Twilight Imperium is among the greatest board games of all time according to BoardGameGeek. Within that notoriously hard-to-please community, it holds a staggering 8.7/10 rating. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It’s also got an absurdly high complexity rating of 4.2/5 and a play time of 4 to 8 HOURS.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
For the second time, Godot took part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. We had 8 students working for on great new features all around the engine, and they reported on their progress regularly on this blog, with a first ( part 1 and part 2 ) and second progress report.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
As part of the MOSS project sponsored by Mozilla, during July I worked on some new features regarding cryptography and SSL to improve the quality and security of Godot networking. Certificates and keys as resources. SSL certificates (in the form of *.crt files) and private keys (in the form of *.key files) are now treated as resources in Godot. This means they will be exported automatically and they can be loaded via the GDScript load() function.
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