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Board Game Review: Pandemic

Brand Game Development

Maria here again! Today’s post is the last of my “Top 5 Games” series. I hemmed and hawed over whether I would do it, too. If you haven’t noticed, the game Pandemic pulled a Jumanji and now we’re living it. But I decided that I would be remiss if I did not include it, as it was the first modern board game and it really reignited my love for board games.

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The Bright Side of Ray-Traced Global Illumination in Unity

The GameDev Guru

Let's get back to ray tracing with Unity global illumination. See what's a better fit for you: baked GI, screen-space GI and ray-traced GI.

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Complex text layouts progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Introduction. This is the second part of my work on Complex Text Layouts for Godot 4.0, focusing on Fonts and UI mirroring. See godot-proposals#1180 , godot-proposals#1181 , godot-proposals#1182 , and godot-proposals#1183 on GitHub for detailed information on CTL proposals and feedback. See also the previous progress report for the TextServer API implementation details.

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Calm

Grumpy Gamer

For the first time in four years I am slowly remembering a feeling known as calm. I look forward to Jan 21st when I can read the morning news and not feel a sense of dread. We now have two+ months of a narcissist ranting, blaming, and of course suing. Oh, he also has nukes. What was I saying about calm? Never mind that.

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How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

Funding is just the beginning. What are the biggest challenges and mistakes made by early stage companies when first attempting to scale? How does Supercell become Supercell, Playtika become Playtika, or EA become EA? Why not ask some of the people who were there as founders, investors, and key executives at those very companies? To speak to these issues we have arguably 3 of the best people in the world to talk about this: #1.

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