Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Another that scores 2 points for hand tiles that are diagonal from it. Examples of the Scoring System at Play. In Column 1, I should really try to place a hand next because it would actually serve two purposes. It would score 2 points for being diagonal from the hand leader tile. So how do you do it?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. First, let’s have a refresher on good play-testing practices. Click here.

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AWS Games

APRIL 3, 2024

In 2016 the center launched Charisma Virtual Social Coaching, and since has helped over 500 individuals ages eight and up navigate social challenges stemming from life transitions as well as conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), social anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and learning difficulties.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 1, 2017

You can tell stories of your relentless play-testing process. You can keep a dev diary. There’s no better guarantee that a game is going to be good than someone playing it and saying “it’s good.” Their fans might talk bad about you, but a handful might still check you out regardless. Probably not.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. A lot of studios spend years making a bad version of a good idea – until they go and figure things out.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 21, 2017

Players determine which types of games are profitable and how much they are willing to pay to play. Players gather in different places, ultimately determining which websites are popular, which bloggers are read, which podcasters are listened to, which conventions are attended, and – most importantly – which games are played.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

There is a huge variety of character and builds, and they all play really differently. Nobody Stripmines An Idea As Well As Indie Devs Do The history… Vampire Survivors entered early access in December, 2021. I was inspired to write this post because I saw a popular streamer playing Yet Another Zombie Survivors.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 4, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I have play-testing on the brain. It was a gorgeous rendition of the disorganized mess of roads and states that I’d been play-testing with before. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 4, 2021

I played the first three over the last month, and the first one is still the best, despite the fact that it can be hazardous to your health. The social aspect comes first, and everything else comes second. Nostalgia is a good way to deal with a crisis , to be sure. How Mario Party Works.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

After all, doing so means you make more money and your game ends up in more people’s hands! The second and most altruistic reason for stretch goals is that they help you make a better project. The second and most altruistic reason for stretch goals is that they help you make a better project. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. It’s a perfect information euro with a lot of rules and a lot of ways to play. That’s no backhanded compliment – “ second but better ” is genuinely important in this world.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 12, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I’m going to tip my hand a bit here. I’m working on my second: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. Entrepreneurship is hard. and call it a day.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Having a full-time job ate into Sergio’s personal dev time. Being a solo developer means you have very few resources to hand. And when I played it in a VR headset, I realized just how scary it was. And a lot of those lessons I carried over to my second game, Cosmodread. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 10, 2017

Becoming a game developer/blogger was my second career choice. It was therefore my great pleasure and fortune to be able to play out my Sergio Leone film fantasies at the game table of my friendly local gaming store. It’s no surprise when you play it on the table! In my heart of hearts, I’m a cowboy and a bandit.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

After months of toiling in a secluded attic, the last weeks of which were particularly grueling, we finally took Second Hand to its first public showings: first to Dev-Play in Bucharest and shortly thereafter to Clujotronic in our very own Cluj. It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

We're a little late dropping this-here new issue of the Kristala dev blog, but we promise we've got a good reason. WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE FINAL DEV CRUNCH FOR THE KRISTALA VERTICAL SLICE DEMO! Until that fateful day when Kristala is figuratively in your hands, you already know we'll be here sharing our dev process with you.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Thanks for joining us for another exciting and epic issue of the Kristala Dev Blog. The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Greetings, beautiful beings!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With first-hand experience on both mobile, PC, and Console, and vast experience at Supercell and its internal culture - as well as the trust of the top brass in the company -, he seems a great choice to lead a studio with the mission of expanding the company beyond mobile. In Today’s Email ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Activision deal puts a lot of firepower in the hands of the most aggressive bundler of video games. The second growth narrative is a more straightforward appeal to something that Wall Street loves: annual recurring revenues. We should take a very careful look at the state of bundling. What’s driving it?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. To represent this, Shelly played around with a few different designs before settling on the final crystal below.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Plus, we'll introduce you to three of our newest talented dev team members too! Welcome back to the fantasy, friends! 3D Asset Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

Since our last issue of the blog, there have been a ton of exciting changes and updates that we can't wait to share with you, including a summary of our exhibition at the fifth-annual Play NYC tabletop and video game convention. Kristala at Play NYC 2021. We can't wait to go back again next year! link] Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you'll get a front-row seat to the development process for the inaugural title from the leading ladies at Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-owned indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. Hello, loyal Kristalans and faithful fantasy fanatics! 3D Asset Design. 3D Asset Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We're so happy you're joining us for another epically magical installment of the Kristala Dev Blog! This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this tutorial you’ll create a zombie horde shooter game with Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints. The game is simple but is packed with tons of behind the scenes features that will allow you to understand the “why” behind the “how” a game is created in Unreal Engine 5. Creating The Project.

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Digital Ephemera

JUNE 14, 2022

Development Updates: Snowman Dev Update (2.2: May 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 5 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 12 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 14 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 19 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 26 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 10 July 2022).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 5, 2020

Welcome back to the riveting, the joy-inducing, the awe-inspiring Kristala dev blog! We're coming to you live and direct with Issue #18 and we can confidently say.it's gonna be good. As you know, our mantra here at ACS Games has always been one of inclusivity, togetherness, acceptance, and love. Programming. Let us know in the comments.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Second, you need to understand how to make them buy your games. Marketing – it’s a little more complicated than this. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Marketing is a tricky beast. This is simple to explain, maybe even obvious. The Basics of Marketing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Vietnamese developer WolfFun breathed new life into its top-down MOBA Heroes Strike by relaunching it with blockchain-based play-to-earn mechanics. As every day brings more news about massive fundraising rounds and eye-popping token valuations for blockchain games, it seems that crypto, NFTs, and play-to-earn are on every game dev's lips.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

I'm not slapping the mouse out of your hand. If you are happy that only 10 people play your game, fine, I guess. Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. If you don't want to read my words, just look at the chart above. A good long look.

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Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Welcome to the surprising second part of our Android release reports. 5-stars) but Google Play shows everything above 4.95 We are lucky that despite the culling of thousands of 5-star reviews, only a handful of people rated the game 3-stars or lower and so our average is still a respectable 4.92 Playing fair.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

I'm playing a giant Skyrim "total conversion" mod called Enderal. I'm told it's inspired a bit by the Gothic series, which I've never played, so maybe a lot of my observations are more about Gothic than Enderal? WE SHOULD ALL DO THIS / STEAL THIS: Dev-owned wiki. Be warned that some of the screenshots are a bit spoilery (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. Repositories: Godot's framework for VCS integration: Dev: [link]. Final (PR candidate): [link].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

For this RC 5, we decided to include two fairly important Android PRs which had recently been finalized, as they are important to fulfill Google Play requirements for the near future: full Android scoped storage support , and upgrading the buildsystem from NDK r21 to NDK r23. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

And then you can click the “play” button to make sure your perspective is what you want it to be. The first time you play your game, you’ll be prompted to save your game, so do that first, and once done Godot will launch your game. I find that a lot of no-code tutorials make the assumption that people know the language of coding.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release. We feel the desire to protect this beautiful world and the characters we meet, playing nicely with the game’s story. What Is Game Atmosphere?

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