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7 Ways Making & Playing Board Games Could Make You Smarter

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Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? 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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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot 3.0's development officially entered the beta stage last week, which coincides for us with what we name the feature freeze : from now on, no new features will be merged in the master branch, as the focus will be fully on fixing existing issues to stabilize the current feature set. Don't worry though, Godot 3.1 will arrive soon after the 3.0 release to bring all the nice features that contributors are already working on.

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Introducing onion skinning for the Godot game engine

Mircosoft Game Dev

Right on time before Beta Freeze, our superstar contributor Pedro Estebanez completed Onion Skinning support! This implementation is really good, and allows visualizing future and past frames. This helps animators have a much greater deal of control on repositioning objects on every frame. More can be read about this work in Pedro's Blog.

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How to Play-Test the Mechanics of Your Board Game

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Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy.

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