CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

He decided to start his own indie game development studio, Overwrite Interactive , and create a video game from scratch. For Alan's video game to come to fruition, he needed a team of capable artists to help him. The game's narrative was inspired by the strong women in Alan's life. About Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

If you’re an avid gamer who loves computers, you may be thinking about pursuing a career as a game developer. Game development is a specialized, comparatively small, and lucrative industry. Retail gaming in the United States is estimated to be worth $4.19 As expected, graduates who work on video games are well rewarded.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image credit: DanielAlexanderSmith / Wikipedia For decades, Peter Molyneux was a regular fixture on the game media outlet interview circuit, his face gracing the cover of magazines or website feature splashes. His propensity for talking up his latest development project began to sound hollow, almost to the point of parody.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Recently Apple decided to delay the privacy requirements of iOS 14 until ‘early next year ’ presumably after the mobile game industry uproar became too much. Extending that period of instability makes the hardest and most vital part of the business- making new games- more difficult for a longer period of time.

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Filmustage

MAY 14, 2021

That is because each movie has a unique image with the fleur of Refns style. In the mind of Bronson being famous means to live a luxurious, aristocratic life that's why the red room represents his ambitions. And during the film red & blue color and lightning perform as hints that help us to interpret the image.

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Filmustage

MAY 3, 2021

I love cinema to death, but it has been since 2020 that I have noticed that I simply cannot keep up with the industry - the number of "worth-watch" releases is mind-blowing. Covid 19 has radicly changed the lives of almost everyone. Back in the spring of last year, the pandemic hit the film industry decisively. Stream, stream, stream!

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2020

This post wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Tatyana Bogatyreva , Head of UA at Gram Games, Nebojsa Radovic , Growth Lead at N3TWORK and Yevgeny Peres , VP of Growth at ironSource. The MMPs (mobile measurement partners), ad networks, Facebook, Google and UA (user acquisition) teams are all bracing for the impact to come.

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I used to tell people he was an electrical engineer, a rather dry job description, but it didn’t sound wrong because I wasn’t trying to summarise him. Dad was a lot more devoted to creating good food than me, so I don’t think he minded that. I had 200 codes, and one image with a blank space for the code to be written.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Designing the game world's creatures. Sounds a bit weird, but I think everyone did this as a kid. I realised this for myself when trying to make a character for my game and the traditional way of setting up a skeleton (the sketches in the white box of the image) just gave me over and over again similar results.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This sprint, Nick started by finishing up the few items that remained on his furniture list - including sound and destroyed variants of two different dresser types, a twin bed, a queen bed, and a bunk bed. The crushing attack left Nasahara burnt and crumbling, forcing its frightened denizens to flee to surrounding towns and cities for refuge.

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The Liquid Fire

JUNE 18, 2023

Keep in mind that the versions used in this project have changed. If you open the Main Menu scene, you will find a simple Canvas setup, a programmer art game logo, and placeholder menu buttons that will eventually be used to start a new game or continue a saved game. After the logo slides in, the menu options fade in.

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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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Game Design Advice

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I love Serpentes, a game by Benjamin Soulé that you can buy here , and I want to tell you why. Serpentes is a variant of the classic computer game Snake. Every time you eat a type of fruit it reveals one more of its qualities, so that by the end of the game every fruit you grab triggers multiple effects.

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Game Design Advice

APRIL 26, 2015

I’m a game designer. And I teach game design. I do believe game design is something you can study and learn and work to master. But lately I find myself questioning design as a way of understanding where games come from and what makes them work. What do we, as game designers, know about videogames?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from Board Game Geek.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

However, the complicating factor for Dal is that the former Unwanted have even less of a destination in mind than he does. The problem with stealing a ship and escaping into space is that one must then decide where to take said ship, and Dal and his friends face that same issue in “ Starstruck.” He must ask for help.

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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? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

Last week, I wrote a blog post about how the video game industry seems to be entering a sad and painful period of contraction. But I still have a new RPG to sell ( Geneforge 2 - Infestation , coming March 27), so the current grim conditions are very much on my mind. What do we teach to aspiring game makers? Nor should they.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Guest post by Alexander Devyaterikov , Producer at Belka Games In today's gaming world, it's not enough to just have a good game. Here in the screenshot, you can see how our position in the Top100 US App Store grossing games has changed from 2017 to 2020, according to data.ai. Try different combos, too.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

There are various steps involved such as coming up with characters, backdrops and planning out their movements before syncing everything together with sound effects. Finally, keep in mind that the cloud only provides the building blocks for such a pipeline, it does not implement the solution on your behalf, or know what’s best.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Fulfillment is one of the most intricate and complex parts of the board game business. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Then I got Twitter DM from Charlie at Fulfillrite saying they’d like to do a guest post on this blog. They delivered!

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the previous part of the post, we’ve introduced you to the most important reasons to create a game design document in your project, using three examples: personal project, internal project, and commission work. Game overview. In our template, the section devoted to this part is called Game overview. Core game loop.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eighth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 6, 2018

Another one of those ones that sounds simple. So you want to import 3D assets into Godot? Let's do it! In this mega guide, we'll be importing models, their materials, textures AND animations. We'll be using 2 free amazing open source packages - Blender and Godot. What 3D formats does Godot support, I hear you ask. It supports: DAE (Collada).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 7, 2019

It sounds like an odd feature to have (and never crossed our minds at the beginning). This dialog lets you enable or disable many areas of the editor: As you can appreciate on the image above, there are many things that can be enabled or disabled: General features, such as the 3D editor, script editing, or asset library.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

This week, we are interviewing John Watson about the game Gravity Ace. Hi, I'm John, I'm a (mostly) solo game developer making games that I want to play. I've been making games as a hobby since 2013, mostly by participating in weekend or month-long game jams. My first game was for the One Game A Month challenge.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

I leave this prediction post up for reference anyway —- I’m going to give my predictions for how Game of Thrones ends up. As of this writing, we’re in the 8th year of Game of Thrones seasons with only 4 episodes left, and yet there are numerous major reveals still left. Game of Throne is, on a casual viewing, a very complicated show.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Are you ready to get dark, dear friends? Trust us.we've got you covered. Concept Art.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. That would be bad :P.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 7, 2018

The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). Changing sprite textures, colors, animation frames, calling functions, playing animations in other animation players, playing sounds, etc. A bit of history.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. We aren’t done yet, but today marks a major milestone on the road to Godot 4.0. Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 is now ready and available for download.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In the time since Garrisons were added, however, a combination of relevant changes to the game started putting pressure on their original design: Many more full branch maps were added, along with factions, each with their own enticing reasons to visit them compared to the weaker incentives for entering a Garrison. Let’s get started!

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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. The game should take about 5-10 minutes to play. I made a browser game? Does this game represent a shift or break from my existing work?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. Not that you should ever talk to a game dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Ability to completely reimplement all rendering code if desired, without changing the underlying game. Please also ask for anything that might still be unclear to be explained further if needed. Visual Server.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: This post spoils what happens in my new game That Lonesome Valley. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not. That Lonesome Valley is a short gay cowboy romance game about walking, sheepherding, and kissing. My sex games are often romantic, but they're not romances.

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