Brand Game Development

JULY 30, 2018

In 2012, as many as 84% Kickstarter projects were fulfilled late. While I suspect that figure has dropped since then, it’s still a running joke that Kickstarter projects always fulfill late. Behind the scenes, a lot of projects also tend to run well over-budget, too. So what’s happening and how can we prevent you from suffering the same fate?

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Art Games Prototyping Development 130

The Astronauts

AUGUST 3, 2018

I just did a “hey kids, let me tell you about demoscene” event at work, where I talked about and and showed some demos I think were influential over the years, roughly sorted chronologically. Here’s that list, in case you also want to see some demoscene things. There’s a whole bunch of excellent demo productions I did not show (due to time constraints); and I mostly focused on Windows/PC demos.

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Tom Francis

JULY 30, 2018

I love Deus Ex, System Shock 2, and Dishonored 2, and the name for these games is dumb: they’re ‘immersive sims’ If you asked me what I liked about them, my answer would be a phrase almost as dumb: ’emergent gameplay!’ I always used to think of these as virtually the same thing, but of course they’re not. Immersive sims usually have a whole list of traits, things like: Multiple solutions: you can overcome most problems in more than one way – the minimum

Sandbox 52

Sandbox Writing Development Fighting 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2018

Godot has had its first public security issue. This has been an. interesting experience for our team. The issue in question affects people that try to deserialize untrusted native Godot data. For the most part this only affects people running as a networking server but people serializing savegame data may also be affected. This last case for the most part would allow people to cheat in their local games.

Data 52

Data Build Engine Engineering 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2018

At long last, Godot 2.1.5 is ready and comes packed with new features and bug fixes! It's the result of 11 months of work ( since 2.1.4 ) from many contributors who care about supporting our previous stable branch (the current one and main focus being Godot 3.0.x ). Download it now from our repositories if you are still using Godot 2.1.x for some projects.

Scripting 52

Scripting Platformer Feature Mobile 52

The Astronauts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Sailing out to sea | A tale of woe is me I forgot the name | Of where we’re heading – Versus Them “Don’t Eat the Captain” So! This whole series on pathtracing adventures started out without a clear goal or purpose. “I’ll just play around and see what happens” was pretty much it. Looks like I ran out of steam and will pause doing further work on it.

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