February, 2020

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How We Printed the Tasty Humans Board Game Kickstarter

Brand Game Development

Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view! The Tasty Humans Kickstarter went on to raise $20,536 and then several thousand more on BackerKit for a total of $28,000 and counting.

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Unity Addressables: PlayFab Integration

The GameDev Guru

How would you cut your content update iteration times by 10x? You know, these 5+ days you may spend to ship a new build with updated game assets. Let's see how to improve these times with addressables and PlayFab.

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Call for volunteers for organizing regional communities

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot communities keep growing steadily around the world. As a result, in the past years, many local groups related to Godot usage and development have started to appear in different continents, countries and cities. Each of them usually has their own model and activities, but often suffer of visibility problems, as it is difficult for Godot users in those regions to know such groups exist and what they do.

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Starting a New Studio? Dream Team is All You Need!

Deconstructor of Fun

This post is written by Sophie Vo who’s building a kick-ass game team at Voodoo Berlin. Hi! I am Sophie, a creative Game Lead working at Voodoo. In my professional journey, I have led multiple teams all over the world - remote teams in South America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe at Gameloft, international teams in Berlin at Wooga and Nordic cultural teams in Finland at Rovio.

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A Mighty Fortress – An Anthology of Mormon Steampunk Volume 4

Rampant Games

Hey, more Steampunk! I’ve got a story in the fourth “Mormon Steampunk” anthology, A Mighty Fortress , which releases on February 18th and is available for pre-order now. We’ve got some short video trailers for some of the stories. This one is for my story, “The Tunnel.” The Tunnel is loosely inspired by a legend circulating around Britain and parts of Europe from the late 1800s (but surviving until at least the middle of the 20th century) about the “Morm

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Rising from the Ashes

Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

Just under two years ago, I wrote about how we run fire drills (incident management role play scenarios) in the Core tribe. The post covered the mechanics of planning and running the drills, but also talked a bit about the tools that we were using. Since then, a lot has changed in how our fire drills work, and this post will cover the “what” and “why” of those changes.

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Unity Performance: Oculus CPU and GPU Hardware Levels

The GameDev Guru

Here's a question for those of you who develop for Oculus VR. How much do you really know about the Oculus CPU and GPU hardware levels? Let's see what these hardware levels are doing to your game.

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ENet with DTLS encryption in 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

Hello Godotters, as part of my November work (sponsored, as always, by Mozilla ) I've been working on finalizing DTLS support I wrote about in a previous report , and implementing a custom ENet socket layer that uses it. This allows for optional, transparent, easy-to-use encryption of the high level Multiplayer API when using the ENet peer ( NetworkedMultiplayerENet ).

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Camera Code

Grumpy Gamer

Camera code is really hard. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Writing camera code that is technically correct is easy. Writing camera code that feels right is really hard. You will spend the entire duration of your project tweaking your camera code to make it feel right. You will never be happy with it.

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2020 Predictions #8: What do the Kardashians and Casino Publishers Have in Common… CA$H!

Deconstructor of Fun

This analysis is written by Abhimanyu Kumar with special contributions from UX Reviewer ’s Om Tandon and Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid & Grit. Also supported by insights from Lloyd Melnick. To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie.

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Handling User Input

The Liquid Fire

Most projects you will create in Unity are probably intended to be interactive. They should be able to respond to mouse clicks and drags, keyboard, touch, or other forms of user input. This tutorial will cover a variety of options by which you can manage these types of events. MonoBehaviour Events. Tip – the methods we will examine here are very quick and easy to use, but I consider them to be “legacy” code.

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9 Ways to Avoid Despair and Move Forward After Failure

Brand Game Development

This is the last of four articles in the Failure Recovery series on Start to Finish. My own recent failure to launch a board game in 2018 , Highways & Byways , is what inspired this detour from the originally planned articles. I think that a frank discussion of failure – what it looks like, the consequences, and moving forward – is really important for new creators to learn.

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Unity Performance Checklist for 2020+

The GameDev Guru

Take this Unity Performance Checklist for Unity that I've been writing over the years and use it in your current and future projects to avoid bottlenecks.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot 3.2 was released a few weeks ago as a major update to our free and open source engine, bringing close to one year of development to our users. Since then, work has begun in Godot's master branch to merge the preliminary Vulkan support and start the rework of the engine internals that we had planned over the past two years. All this work is for our future Godot 4.0 and will not be included in maintenance 3.2.x releases to preserve compatibility and stability.

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Unity Performance: CPU Slicing Secrets

The GameDev Guru

When you don't have low-hanging fruits to optimize in Unity, you might need to resort to the CPU Slicing technique.

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Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

This post is outdated and it does not reflect the current state of the Navigation Server in Godot 4.0. If you want to read more about the most recent version you can do so here: [link]. [link]. Godot 4.0 features start to land in the development branch, and I'm pleased to introduce you the new NavigationServer and NavigationServer2D interfaces. In previous Godot versions, we didn't have a Navigation server and everything was done through the use of the Navigation node.

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Headsup: Vulkan merged, master branch unstable

Mircosoft Game Dev

In many Git-based development workflows, the default master branch is where most of the development happens. It can be from well-defined feature branches (or in our situation Pull Requests) that are merged into master once ready, or with development work happening directly on this branch. Whatever the workflow, the master branch will rarely be meant for use in production, and end users are only encouraged to use it if they want to help with day-to-day testing, not if they want to get some work d

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Meet with the Godot Engine representatives at GDC 2020!

Mircosoft Game Dev

Next month it will be time for GDC yet again! The project leadership will be attending the event for meetings and we are starting to build our schedule for GDC 2020. If you would like to meet with us, please let us know (write to contact at godotengine · org ) so we can reserve a slot for you for meeting, go for lunch, dinner or a coffee! It is not certain this year whether there will be official Godot activities during GDC as we did not have a lot of time to organize so, if you want to meet wit

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Submissions open for Godot 2020 showreel

Mircosoft Game Dev

Does your Godot-made game or tool (published or work in progress) fill you with joy? Would you like to proudly showcase it in the upcoming 2020 showreel? Please send us a short video of it! Requirements: Video: Length between 10 and 15 seconds. Feel free to send a bit more for the editor to pick if you wish, although it will most likely be cut to a shorter length.

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Godot Engine was awarded an Epic MegaGrant

Mircosoft Game Dev

With great excitement, today we want to officially announce the great honor of having been awarded an Epic MegaGrant! This is a huge honor for us and greatly helps to keep on improving Godot development at an even greater pace. We want to personally thank Tim Sweeney for the encouragement and support, and for sharing the belief that open source software makes the world a better place.

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How We Fulfilled the Tasty Humans Board Game Kickstarter

Brand Game Development

Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view! The Tasty Humans Kickstarter went on to raise $20,536 and then several thousand more on BackerKit for a total of $28,000 and counting.

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2020 Predictions #9: Newcomers Will Reimagine Card Battlers

Deconstructor of Fun

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2020 Predictions #10: Playbook to reach the Top of Sports Games

Deconstructor of Fun

This analysis is written by UX Reviewer’s Om Tandon and product guy and blog writer Alexandre Macmillan To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. You can find all of our 2020 predictions here. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie.

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Core refactoring progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Expecting a Vulkan progress report? Not this month! As Godot 3.2 was released by the end of January, February was purely dedicated to do large core refactoring in preparation for Godot 4.0. This is required to unblock other contributors and their areas. Core refactoring? Godot 3.0 was released more than two years ago. With it, the amount of Godot users kept growing quickly and steadily.

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