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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

PreMortem.Games

What caught my attention wasn’t just her confidence on the panel but the fact that she was not only a student pursuing three majors at Wits University she was also the Lead Concept artist at Chroma Pixel Games , a game studio based in Zambia. It has been a great way to get general education in everything I am interested in.”

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It took 1000 hours to write my book Handmade Pixels

Jesper Juul

I must confess I had no idea, but writing Handmade Pixels took me 1000 hours over the course of 4½ years. I had already written a paper on independent games in 2014, but it wasn’t until August 2015 that I decided to write the book that became Handmade Pixels. This is what I learned from writing Handmade Pixels.

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Solo dev Dmitriy Gusev started his career as a doctor “I needed a drastic change”

PreMortem.Games

For me, it’s an ongoing process of self-education. I handled programming and composing, while my friend created all the pixel art graphics. However, I eventually felt the need for a significant change in my life, leading me to transition into the roles of a 2D rigger, animator, and game developer.”

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The Role of Computer Science in Video Games

Game Designing

Most educational institutions require master’s degree candidates to have a computer science degree or a degree from similar fields of study like science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) before joining a master’s degree program. The days of pixelated graphics are long gone. New-age graphics capture people’s likenesses well.

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Schedule for GodotCon 2020 in Brussels

Mircosoft Game Dev

It tricks the eye into believing that there are rooms modeled behind the windows, but ceilings, floors and walls are actually created on the fly by a special custom pixel shader. Are you tired of 2D pixel art platformers? This talk will show how this technique works and how to implement it in Godot. Try 3D adventure games!

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2D Game Art Styles Overview

Moonmana

Let’s start with one of the most popular 2D art styles – pixel art. To make it clear, pixels are squares that combine to form a character, object, etc. Often it takes to combine thousands of pixels to make up a single object. . People love that nostalgic vibe games with pixel art offer. Vector Art. Cutout Art.

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Making Lucid with Eric Manahan

Game Dev Unchained

This time, the narrative revolves around Eric Manahan , the former architect who found solace in pixelated characters and captivating storylines. As many creatives would empathize, Eric found the professional world of architecture quite different from his educational experience. The transition, however, was not without challenges.

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