Game Developer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Adding a game turn loop and refactorings

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GameDev.Net

JUNE 10, 2025

This was intentionally woven into everything: the heartwarming story, hand-animated pixel art, the unique rhythm combat system, puzzles, and platforming. A game that knows what it wants you to feel. We LOVED it! The game is a tribute to AJ’s dad. When the creator’s vision m

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 17, 2025

Indie Interview With MI Pixel Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this perceptive podcast, I spoke with Michael “MI Pixel” to talk about making his first game, Defend from Candyland before talking about some of the lessons learned about marketing and indie dev.

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Game Developer

JUNE 5, 2024

The indie studio is based in Barcelona and led by former Ubisoft Massive boss David Polfeldt.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Former Blizzard and Riot veteran Greg Street will lead production on the project, codenamed Ghost, at new studio Fantastic Pixel Castle.

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Game Developer

MAY 30, 2024

The new studio is aiming to make a 4X strategy game for the mobile market that can stand with similar titles from Chinese developers.

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Game Developer

APRIL 24, 2024

Many people have been speaking about the unique visual style of the game, so I wanted to break down a scene from the game and explain how I created it.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Painterly Pixel Art Myllys started his career in 2007 doing pixel art and he really wanted to go back to explore if he could bring something new to the style. He felt that the vast majority of pixel art games were stuck in the past and the 8-bit era. So, he wanted to be experimental and try something new. “I

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

I'd like to share with you what we learned while porting our FPS from mobile to PC.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 29, 2024

The low-poly racing game, developed by Polish indie developer Pixel Perfect Dude , feels like a love letter to the PlayStation 1 era of rally games, where you could actually name the top drivers and the cars they drove. “Ah Racing portfolio Studio Perfect Pixel Dude, based in the city of Kalisz, Poland, was founded in 2013.

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GameDev.Net

JULY 8, 2025

But Facebook Ads feel intimidating: bidding wars, cryptic metrics, pixel even That’s why more small studios are learning—often painfully—that smart, cost-effective game marketing on Meta (Facebook + Instagram) isn’t optional.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2023

Unity Create president Marc Whitten explains why the company thinks that "every pixel" of a game will one day be "touched by AI."

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 13, 2023

GameFromScratch.com DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App DPaint.js is a free and open source pixel art application heavily inspired by Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was the most common painting application for game art in the 80s-90s, used by studios such as iD Software, Lucas Arts, Sega and more.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’ We evaluated a few cloud providers, and ultimately AWS provided the best experience and capacity; it was an easy decision.”

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Game Developer

APRIL 14, 2023

"Making games is freaking hard," said The Pixel Hunt's Florent Maurin. You’re heroes and you deserve to feel good about yourselves and your work."

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 21, 2023

Now, with the new game A Void Hope coming up on almost 3 years of development, Forslind finds himself juggling his roles as both CEO and Game Designer of his company called Elden Pixels. The moniker ‘Elden Pixels’ wasn’t arbitrarily chosen. We tried again and went for Blind Pixels, which we thought was cool.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming allows the running of Unreal Engine applications on a server in the cloud and streaming its rendered frames and audio to browsers and mobile devices using WebRTC. You can use this as a framework to further build and optimize your solution and get started with Pixel Streaming on AWS quickly!

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Studio Asahi Introduces Debut Game, 'The Little Witch and The Lost Memories

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The cloud can greatly benefit members of the game industry. It provides a robust and secure development and hosting environment with the latest in computing technology. AWS offers Intel, AMD, ARM, and Nvidia processors combined with an on-demand cost structure.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

NetEase and industry veteran Greg Street have formed a new studio, Fantastic Pixel Castle, and have announced the start of development on its first game. Fantastic Pixel Castle will operate as a fully remote studio and is preparing to begin the hiring process for developing an MMO codenamed Ghost, which is based on a new fantasy IP.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2024

All I knew was that I wanted something painterly and unique, and not necessarily more pixel art, which we love by the way,” he says. Mirthwood’s distinct art style can best be described as a dark, storybook aesthetic, which emerged from Otis’ experimentation. Learning to draw specifically for the game, he refined the style over time.

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Indie DB

JULY 8, 2023

Presumably you, dear reader, are interested in learning a thing or two about it. Well, good news. I’m going to share 8 tangible lessons you can take with you for improving your own work.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Currently in production, Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire is a 2D pixel art side-scrolling platformer with Metroidvania elements. for the pixel artist to use as a base. The team also includes Pixel Artist and Animator PieGlitched , Composer Joona Latti (based in Finland), and Sound Designer Mikko Saarinen (also based in Finland).

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Reece Geofroy to talk all things pixel art and how to get good at it. We also have a new Pixel Characters course from Reece, you can check that out here. You can also check out Reece’s pixel art game Monster Tribe on Steam. 's very own Instructor extraordinaire).

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Next month's console launch horrifies us on so many levels.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 9, 2024

With its stylized blend of pixelated 2D characters against realistic 3D backdrops, Detective Dotson boasts a visual flair that truly sets the game apart. We use pixel characters to represent people of India as the endearing and expressive lot that we are! That choice was very much deliberate.

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Nvidia

JULY 31, 2024

Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. With shaders, you.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 13, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Humble Game Design Book + Pixel Art Course Bundles There are a pair of Humble Bundles of interest to game developers launched today on Humble, the Game Design and AI Featuring Steve Rabin bundle and the Complete Pixel Art Online Course by Mammoth Interactive bundle.

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Cocos

OCTOBER 8, 2023

I’m having trouble rendering pixel art without sub-pixel distortion. All I’ve done with this project is imported a TMX file as a tilemap, and while it renders correctly in game without modifications, it renders incorrectly in the editor and also when using integer scaling (2x, 3x, etc).

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Cocos

OCTOBER 8, 2023

I’m having trouble rendering pixel art without sub-pixel distortion. All I’ve done with this project is imported a TMX file as a tilemap, and while it renders correctly in game without modifications, it renders incorrectly in the editor and also when using integer scaling (2x, 3x, etc).

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 12, 2025

This bundle contains a collection of Gotcha Gotcha Games game engines including RPG Maker MV, Pixel Game Maker and for the first time in a bundle, the Unity version of GameMaker, RPG Maker Unite. The post RPG Maker Beyond Expectations Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

Thus, when every pixel of the old games seems to be explored up and down, DLC (downloadable content) might become a good option to sugarcoat things. For both of these cases, pixel games often work as a great basis. Players can also unlock various masks with unique abilities and customize their character through the in-game shop.

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Unity Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Every object, every system, and every pixel in games will eventually be touched by AI. Get to know Unity’s newest AI products for creators: Unity Muse, an expansive platform for AI-driven assistance during creation, and Unity Sentis, which enables developers to embed neural networks in the Unity Runtime.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 27, 2025

For those unfamiliar with Dave the Diver, its an unusual hybrid of an action-adventure diving and fishing game with a restaurant management sim, brought to life with a soothing tropical soundtrack and a colorful pixelated aesthetic.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 15, 2024

The game’s graphics showcase a distinctive fusion of modern 3D visuals with a nostalgic pixel-art look. This approach, especially when combined with pixel art, created a visually appealing effect that resonated with me.” “This approach, especially when combined with pixel art, created a visually appealing effect that resonated with me.”

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Game Errors

AUGUST 27, 2023

If you are struggling with the Terraria error loading Pixel Shader, you are in the right place. Why do I get Terraria error loading Pixel Shader? How to fix Terraria error loading Pixel Shader? The post Terraria Error Loading Pixel Shader [Easy Fix] appeared first on Games Errors.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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