Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Chatting with a game designer friend the other day and we were bemoaning the state of adventure game puzzles and it got us talking. So I was wondering what is your favorite puzzle in Thimbleweed Park, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island or any other classic point-and-click game? Do you like head scratchers?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Game development is a marathon. It takes at least a year, at the bare minimum, to take a board game idea and turn into a ready-to-sell product. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Lots of people make games. Game design and development.

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Game Designing

APRIL 30, 2022

is one of the best Javascript platforms for beginners, allowing you to create fun and simple video games without requiring extensive coding knowledge. in greater detail, who might be interested in creating a Kaboom game, and how you can create your very own Kaboom video game. is that it lets you dip your toe in game development.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In our Buildbox tutorial series, we’ll show you how you can build amazing 2D and 3D games without having to know how to code. . Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. .

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 7, 2022

Nobody defending the game seems to understand why the monetization is bad. Governments aren’t banning this game because they care about p2w or competition. Above is a reddit post complaining about the moral and ethical problems with gacha games. Compulsion-driven design. from DiabloImmortal. The opposite of bespoke.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game?

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. Still, you can argue that it's a stunning achievement just to be able to debate these questions in a video game. Actors often hold up objects awkwardly so you can click on them. You talk but they don't listen.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I like the idea of designing robots, putting together builds for a particular purpose or with particular capabilities in mind. Even more than being a tactical roguelike, Cogmind is a strategic game about engaging in a dynamic form of this process, repeatedly replacing and upgrading components as you go. It’s a cube.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

As usual, this GodotCon will follow the FOSDEM which also takes place in Brussels, and where we'll have a Godot stand as well as a few Godot-related talks in the Game Development devroom which some of us co-organize. It showcases the idea of the game. Demo: Making 3D adventure games with Godot | Paweł Fertyk ( miskatonicstudio ).

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

Almost two years ago today, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for a board game called Highways & Byways. To save you a click: it was a product made for no specific audience in mind at a price point that was unresolvably high. Need help on your board game? You need to invest in your games, your business, and yourself.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… How to Add Triggers and Switches Using Bolt (No-Code Game Dev). In this tutorial we’ll learn how to add triggers and switches to your game using Unity’s bolt add-on. Triggers are powerful tools in the world of game design because you often use triggers to accomplish common game objectives.

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Digital Ephemera

MAY 28, 2022

We call it “saving the game,” borrowing from game design terms. The API provides a way to track if a user clicks on the “Back” button in their web browser and then the code can revert to an earlier point in its tracking of different values. What exactly should be “saved?”

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

If you want my review of Shenmue III it would be 'play this game if you have ever enjoyed a Shenmue game or are interested in unusual approaches to game narrative' It takes me quite a while to get around to playing games these days, which helps insulate me from jumping to kneejerk conclusions about what I've been playing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Despite being the lead developer of Godot, I have almost 20 years of experience developing and shipping games, and a decade of experience as technical consultant. I didn't become rich (yet :D) making games, but I learned a lot in the process. Many games were released, but a large amount were abandoned.

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 15, 2020

This is one of the pillars for creating and developing mobile games. Without it, the game would probably not be so well thought out, which could badly affect the return on investment (ROI). Imagine that you are a game developer and you have just finished your game. However, this is not as easy as it sounds.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Showing your game to strangers for the first time can be a little nerve wracking. What we learned about the game. The feedback about the game was better than we could have hoped. People liked the game but there was also useful feedback (and observation) of where we can improve. Still too much clicking required.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Last week, I posted A Crash Course in Games , where I acted as a tour guide to the board game industry, covering much of the contextual information you’ll need to make games. Let’s pick up from there and talk about what specifically goes into making a game. What is board game development all about?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory! They explain, limit, and clarify.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Flying Sheep was founded by German friends in 2014, with a specific goal of making html5 browser games. Initially, the company struggled to compete in a hyper-competitive global market, and in a development sector that lacks sophisticated off the shelf game engines. ” Flying Sheep was acquired by iCandy June 2022.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today, we dive into the critical components of game markets needed to make them fun, and applicable in web 3.0 How to Plan and Nurture Your Career in Games - with Sophie Vo and Mishka Katkoff (Rise & Play podcast) ✉️ Received this email from a friend? Designing Game Markets to be Fun Markets are increasingly a component of games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Thanks again to the organizers of the Game Industry Conference for hosting us as a pre-GIC event, as well as hosting the Godot Sprint on 14 & 15 Oct at the same venue, where engine contributors will meet to work together, discuss the roadmap for 4.0 Talk: Creating open games together with Godot | Nathan Lovato ( NathanLovato ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). x point releases (which we are now intending to do more often, allowing several releases per year). Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory! They explain, limit, and clarify.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s no secret that one of the most critical parts of making a board game that will sell is making it gorgeous. Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This week, I posted the first article in my 19-part suite on game design. It’s called How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game. The Inspiration.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to My Elephant in the Room: An Old World Design Postmortem. Here are the games that I’ve worked on. Spoiler alert: Civilization 3 and 4 are going to come up a lot in the presentation… I also do a podcast where I interview game designers about why they make games, so check it out if you have time for 4-hour interviews.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic!

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

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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Keith Burgun

JUNE 20, 2022

I mean, part of why I can’t believe that is that for almost a full year after the launch, I was furiously updating the game: two new factions, a new game mode (arguably two), a map editor, tons and tons of balance changes, polishing, bugfixes, you name it. Not to mention porting the game to iOS, Android, Switch, and XBox.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

After shipping Civ 3, one thing I heard often from the Civ 2 community was that the modding tools lacked support for something called “events” which I eventually learned meant a system of triggers and effects that modders could use to give games a narrative arc. However interesting this was, it’s not a game I could make.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

How you divide your time between making games and living "real life" ? Dividing my life between making games and real life is a struggle. I had worked at Lucasfilm for 8 years and learned a lot, not just about game design and programming, but also marketing, PR, and production and I felt like I needed to try it all for myself.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I Am a Public Figure When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), Game designers, writers, comic artists. If hit with the wrong email at the wrong time, she will be thrown off her game for a day, or three. No, it WILL vary. I filter my input.

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