The GameDev Guru

JUNE 29, 2021

In this blog post, you'll learn what texture compression is, why it is important for your project and how to apply it to improve your GPU and memory performance.

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

Earlier the game players were constricted to play online games such as simple puzzles to adventures series only on the desktop, but the massive development of mobile technology within the past few years has brought a noticeable change in the game application development industry. And with the more than $100 million dollar generation in the global market, the game apps are getting more attention in the market.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. CPU Optimization. Before getting into the GPU side, several optimizations have been done on the CPU side: Culling is now done in a brute-force way which is extremely cache efficient.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and ideas, and watching them grow into a kinetic landscape. You can currently play it in your browser on the Manchester International Festival's (MIF's) "Virtual Factory" website. The game should take about 5-10 minutes to play.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Last month I finally got done signing over 7000 cards for the Limited Run Games physical release of Monkey Island. They asked if I would hand sign cards to go in the boxes. Sure, how many can that be? 500? 800? Nope. They had over 7000 preorders and I signed every one of those cards. If you bought one of the LRG Monkey Island boxes you won't get a Certificate of Authenticity with a crappy machine printed signature.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. This requires a lot of knowledge, skills and time to build and integrate all the components. Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. For the development of Math it Right 3D Adventure I’ve used the following Unity packages.

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Yotes Games

AUGUST 4, 2021

Hopefully anyone who's been keeping an eye on BGP's development will at least give it a look. We're offering all kinds of rewards like getting your own pony drawn, creating a canon character, and all kinds of other stuff only the earliest Patrons ever got. And this crowdfunding campaign comes with a New Free Demo too, so pretty sweet deal all around.

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Raph Koster

OCTOBER 21, 2021

L et’s get one thing out of the way first. Ownership of anything digital is illusory, and always will be. How Virtual Worlds Work. 1: Clients, servers, and art. 2: Maps. 3: Object templates and instances. 4: Object behaviors. 5: Ownership. Then again, it’s illusory in the real world, too. Ownership is a convention , not physical reality. This is why we have sayings like “Possession is nine-tenths of the law,” which basically means “you can claim you own something all you want, but if you don’t p

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

What is Narrative Design? When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? Beautiful shots of heartfelt dialogue, with characters saying a great deal by speaking a few carefully chosen words? Do you want to make people laugh at the silly things the game’s troops say if you click on them enough times? If so, you probably want to be a game writer.

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Gamesbrief

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Twice in my career, I have been at the forefront of massive change. In 2000 , I was an Internet analyst at Deutsche Bank advising middle-aged men (and they were all men) on how this new nerdy Internet thing was going to change the world. It was three months before the dotcom crash. Valuations were stratospheric. It was possible to believe, as I did, that the Internet was a fundamental change to how the world worked AND that the majority of stocks were overvalued.

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The GameDev Guru

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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Big Games

AUGUST 19, 2021

In general, non-gamers do not have a good opinion about playing mobile games. And discussing the benefits of playing mobile games is a bit of a controversial topic. Don’t you think? Though people might find it outrageous to get to know the benefits of playing mobile games, there are authorized and genuine studies and research on this topic. But before knowing the benefits, let us discuss mobile games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

About. The topic of why Godot does not utilize ECS comes up often, so this article will explain the design decisions behind that, as well as shed some light on how Godot works. Note : In hopes to avoid misunderstandings, I did changes to the article to better stress that this is not an inheritance vs composition or anti-ECS article to spark a flame-war.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

For Rock Paper Shotgun, I recently wrote a three-part series "Quake Renaissance". Part 1 is an industry history of Quake's cursed development at id Software, Part 2 is a primer to 25 years of Quake community modding, and lastly Part 3 is a how-to guide for getting into Quake and enjoying its mods. This series had some goals: Address a complex disparate audience.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 12, 2021

After 7000 signatures, some progress. I am getting help.

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Early one morning, a dragon was running through the town center, jumping over the puddles of water and burping nervously. The small green dragon, whose name is Pilipili, had sky blue spikes on his back that stood tall like mountains, tiny purple wings that didn’t help him fly at all! Big round eyes and a large smile covered his face. Pilipili was late for an important mission.

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The Knights of Unity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Introduction. Oftentimes, we ask ourselves the question, how do we want to store data in Unity? There is a high probability that you wanted to create a database and make it editable with ease for either a developer or a designer. There are a lot of ways of dealing with this problem, but the way we want to tackle this today is the most friendly from a Unity design perspective.

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Yotes Games

AUGUST 31, 2021

The long overdue June/July Devlog is here! (And in video form!) From now on we'll be doing these instead of the usual monthly writeups on the Yotes Games blog since its more fun & easy to watch/listen than navigate to a particular website and read. So subscribing to our YouTube channel will keep you up to speed on everything! Plus you get to hear all our voices on this rotating cast of devs in these short podcast style updates.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. Thanks for tuning in to another exciting issue of the Kristala dev blog! If you're just joining us, welcome! This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios.

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Game Global

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Just a few days after Game Global Digital Summit October 2021 , we had a conversation with Konstantin Savenkov , CEO at Intento , on the release of their latest State of Machine Translation Report and the use of MT in the video game industry. Konstantin shared some interesting insights on the current state of MT for the localization industry, with a special focus on its effect on video games.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I am continuing my quest to understand this third major transition in the technology / games markets in my career (first: the Internet; second: free-to-play; now: the blockchain). I feared that I didn’t or couldn’t understand. Spending time at the Develop conference helped me a lot. I had feared I was no longer smart. I’ve realised I never was. You get smarter by spending time talking to smart, well-informed or just “in-the-market” people at conferences, meetings and events.

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The GameDev Guru

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Learn about the lovely KISS Command Pattern in Unity I cannot live without. Enjoy powerful async gameplay systems!

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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

The main aim of the game developers is to make sure the gaming app is engaging and interactive, whereby they can gain a larger user base and get a share in the marketplace. When we talk about building engaging and interactive mobile games, there are a few things that have to be considered while developing games. Points To Remember You can make the game more interesting than the other games in the market by implementing a few elements in the game, that will excel in the game in the market.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

Hello! This is Joan speaking. I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer! A bit about me. I started contributing to Godot about 3 years ago while I was still studying at uni. I quickly felt at home and I started focusing on 3D editor and rendering contributions. Not long after that, I got a job as a Godot consultant at Prehensile Tales, which I kept till last Friday.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

This post spoils what happens in my Quake map. If you care about that, then you should play it first. NOTE: there are reports that my map crashes FTE Quake, so make sure you use Quakespasm or vkQuake to play. Sorry about that. "Tell Me It's Raining" is my fifth released Quake single player map, part of the Alkaline Jam where we all made sci-themed "base" maps with a mod kit called Alkaline.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We should be done in time for the upcoming gladiator '22 season. Tickets are still available. I hear Ferocianus Maximus is going to do well this year.

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Jaunty Bear Games

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This week I was looking for ways to describes the levels in the game, a meaningful and catchy approach, somewhat more meaty than a classic level 1, level 1-1, world 1 etc. And I ended up playing with a website providing Super Mario Maker Level Name generator on Perchance, a website dedicated to generate random text. There was a lot of fun entries and that inspired some of the level names.

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Concept Art World

JANUARY 13, 2021

Concept Art World. Mitchell Mohrhauser. Mitchell Mohrhauser is a concept designer and illustrator working in the game industry. He has worked on games titles such as Ghost Of Tsushima , EVE Online , Dust 514 , World of Darkness and various other AAA games. He is currently working as a Senior Concept Artist at Sucker Punch Productions and freelancing as an illustrator.

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Yotes Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The Battle Gem Ponies Kickstarter has ended with 414 Backers that pledged $34,695.50!! See More ».

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. But did you know that we actually hold back A TON of screenshots, lore tidbits, tutorials, and video walkthroughs each month?

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Game Global

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A video game can only attract a global user base if it doesn’t compromise on localization quality: 3 industry experts reveal how to get ahead of the game. You didn’t attend Game Global Digital Summit October 2021 or did you miss the chance to watch the “Challenges and Solutions to Achieve an Efficient Quality Process — A Mobile Game Developer Perspective” panel with Natalie Gladkaya, Director of Localization at Plarium , Mikhail (Mike) Gorbunov, Head of Localization at Social Q

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cryptocurrencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn: 4 separate growth areas that promoters and shysters conflate, to the detriment of us all. The crypto/blockchain/NFT bubble continues apace. Compared to the dot com bubble that burst in 2000, it seems as if this bubble is inflating faster and bigger, driven not just by the promise of the new technologies, but a macroeconomic climate of low interest rates, huge amounts of investment wealth created during the pandemic and a desperate search fo

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The GameDev Guru

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

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Big Games

AUGUST 27, 2021

One of the main reasons for the increased growth in mobile game development is because of the concept of instant games. And this industry shows unlimited growth possibilities to its audiences. Not to deny the fact that it has reflected potential and prospect for the future. This is why many investors venture into this industry. However, the mobile game development process needs an immense amount of efficiency and dedication, and is a very challenging sector.

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