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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. But that’s not all.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. At this point, many readers might have noticed that Godot was created to develop games this way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it.

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Innovative Director: James Cameron

Filmustage

Be one of the first to test the new functionality - click here for more detailed information. The final battle scene in "Avatar" isn't just an expensive scene, after all, but a fight scene for freedom and spiritual liberation. Technical specialist Rob Legato assembled a prototype of a "virtual" camera from spare parts.

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building a better drafting game

Interesting Choices

I've been fascinated by board games that revolve around drafting for years now, and in early 2011 I wrote a post on the pillars that make these games click. I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece.

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