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When it comes to copy writing (for press and pitches) forget the fluff and start to BLUF

PreMortem.Games

A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly. Not games writing mind you, but copy writing – for pitches, store pages, press releases, & everything else. If you’re writing to a publisher or the press, they need to know whether this is useful to them immediately.

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Lesson 4: Creating and Using Scripts

Game Designing

  Summary In this Unity Scripts tutorial, we explain the main concepts that apply to scripting in Unity. You’ll learn how to use Unity with C# and the tips and hacks to optimizing your scripts. About Scripting Scripting is an essential ingredient in all games. Welcome to another Unity tutorial.

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Jussi Kemppainen is exploring AI-assisted game development with Echoes of Somewhere

PreMortem.Games

point-and-click adventure game anthology series titled Echoes of Somewhere he’s exploring AI-assisted game development. “To produce a point and click game, and to document the creation of a partly AI-generated game.” With his free, experimental 2.5D His preliminary conclusion? “It

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Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

From there I used Sphere, an open source 2d Engine that scripted in javascript. I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. You can download Godot here – [link] Click the link to Download the 4.x x version(at the time of writing that is 4.1.3)

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Ron Gilbert shows how narrative games have come a long way

Game Daily

Last year, he wrote Return to Monkey Island (Devolver Digital), a modern point-and-click adventure that was warmly received by critics. But he regrets the loss of creative spontaneity that came as part and parcel of early game writing. “There is a point where you have to lock down your script.

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Make a fully functional calculator in Unity not only for VR, Part I

DameDev.tv

In the TMP Importer window, click on "Import TMP Essentials" Finally, expand the Calc game object in the Hierarchy tab. Key Script With our assets prepared, let's dive into implementing the logic. We will start by writing a Key script that will define the behaviour of an individual button for our calculator.

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Using Inverse Kinematics for hand placement.

DameDev.tv

In the Layers tab click the Settings cog for the Layer that has the Animation that you want to use IK. Enabling IK on the Animator ⚠️ IK will not work without this step The Code Now that we have made sure that our character will be able to use IK, it is time to write some code. Check the IK Pass checkbox.