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6 Reasons Escape Rooms Will Make You a Better Board Game Designer

Brand Game Development

Handcuffed to my manager, I reached into the toilet to find a small key. We unlocked the jail cell and eventually broke out of prison with two minutes to spare. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The unwitting reader may suspect this was a sordid affair unbecoming of a Fortune 500 company.

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Unity Job System: Excessive Multithreading Hurts Your Performance

The GameDev Guru

1 core, 2 cores, 4 cores, 8 cores, 16 cores! Who's got more? The more cores, the better. The Unity Job System will squeeze them all, right? Yeah, probably. But what if Unity was over-milking your CPU? Would that be a problem?

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.1.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

While Godot 3.2 is shaping up nicely in the late beta stage , it's time for a long overdue update to the stable 3.1 branch: Godot 3.1.2 is now released with over 400 commits worth of bug fixes and improvements over the previous 3.1.1 version. Download Godot 3.1.2 now and read on about the changes in this update. Edit: The update is now also available on Steam and itch.io.

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Animate texts in Unity by using Text Animator for Unity

Febucci

You can add text animations in your Unity games using my plugin called Text Animator. It works based on the package TextMeshPro and it shows text dynamically ( typewriter -like), includes multiple built-in text effects and lets you easily create your own text animations and text effects. Get it from the Unity Asset Store or from Itch.io. Get it on the Unity Asset Store.

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How Call of Duty Mobile left $100M on the Table

Deconstructor of Fun

This analysis is written by Adam Telfer , Om Tandon and Nate Ross. Psst! Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. Several of the industry’s top IPs have received high-fidelity ports that have been successful in bringing core franchise players to the mobile format.

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WebSocket SSL server, HTTP server for testing HTML5 builds

Mircosoft Game Dev

Hello Godotters, as part of my September work (sponsored, as always, by Mozilla ) I've been working on better documentation for the Crypto class, further improving WebSocket support, and an HTTP server integrated in the editor for testing out HTML5 export builds. SSL for WebSocketServer. Thanks to the improvements to the WebSocket module over the previous months, SSL support has been added to the WebSocketServer class.

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