Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 29, 2022

Many of you know how to develop a game and are experienced in running live operations. However, only a few truly know how to launch a modern mobile game. In the rapidly evolving games market, best practices on how to successfully launch your game can change just as fast. To shed some light on the most recent best practices, I had the privilege of talking to Annelie Biernat (Game Director at Wooga) and Aaron Hiscox (Business Development Manager at Google Play).

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

This post spoils what happens in my Quake map. If you care about that, play it first. I made another Quake map -- this one was for a map jam called Retro Jam 7 , where we all spent 2 weeks making level design homages to the greatest hits. The theme here was "Koohoo" or "The Castle of Koohoo" (2001) by Vondur. The theming felt very fresh for Quake at the time, taking notes (and maybe a few textures) from Unreal.

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Hopscotch

APRIL 1, 2022

Hopscotchers, this is a big one: you can now use parameters in your custom rules and custom abilities! Now you can write the code once and use it all over your project. A parameter is a variable that can be set to a different value each time a custom block is used. You can replace numbers and text in the code inside the custom block with parameters.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 31, 2022

Now that we’re past the clickbait title, let’s get to the meat of the matter: Designing and building VR applications is hard! It’s even more so if you are not familiar with graphics and game engine-related tools and technologies. This used to be my experience. My primary background was in Android mobile development and so when I initially approached the field of Virtual Reality, I was at a loss and quickly ran into a wall.

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Filmustage

MARCH 31, 2022

It's fair to say that Christopher Nolan is a living legend. In a career spanning 25 years, he has directed 17 films, all of which are noteworthy. Nolan is an extremely versatile filmmaker, and his films are a very skillful bridge between two global branches of cinema, namely between the auteur and the commercial cinematography. Christopher Nolan is not just a director, but a magician!

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Muha Games

MARCH 29, 2022

We’re looking for beta testers Before we move on to the actual dev diary, we would like to make an announcement that might be very interesting for quite a few players: the start of the beta isn’t far now, and we’re looking for willing beta testers! If you would like… Continue reading.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a third beta snapshot! Like with 4.0 alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This new beta 3 adds two much awaited changes for Android users: an initial Android editor port , and a fix for the low processor usage mode which used to flicker on Android.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 1, 2022

For 18 years the Grumpy Gamer blog has been April Fools' day free because it's a stupid tradition. So to mix things up a little I'm taking this opportunity to announce I've decided to make another Monkey Island.

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