Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

As Fink elaborates, “We have some people sometimes we’re just too bad in some topics so we get help from outside… but apart from this, that’s pretty much it. The game had a soft launch around the end of 2016 and early 2017, and slowly built a small but dedicated community.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Although the game is set to be fully playable by September 29th, there’s an early access option for those eager to experience FC 24’s engaging gameplay. Keep reading as we delve deeper into this topic. However, like many newly released games, several issues have been preventing players from enjoying the game.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A recent demo was released on Steam, in anticipation of an early access release in December. We created an Excel sheet with about 400 topics that were mentioned in the feedback by the players. Pioneers of Pagonia is a fantasy city building and economy management game from Envision Entertainment.

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

This is a small step, but is leading to a day when remote teams receive a URL and a security authentication token to access a fully featured and persistent game development environment from anywhere in the world. Right now, the industry is in the very early phase of this journey.

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Rampant Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It is still in early access, but I believe the entire game is fully playable in VR now. The somewhat more sensationally-titled video “How Virtual Reality is Changing Gaming Forever” by Virtual Insider also touches on the topic of the intensity of the VR experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It's an excellent way to dive deeper into the discussion and gain a comprehensive understanding of the topic. And let's not forget the "1 plus 1 equals 3" equation: when these smaller companies get acquired, they gain access to the scale, experience, and financial muscle of the acquiring entity. Enjoy the podcast!

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Game Errors

JANUARY 25, 2024

Main Topics Use the Custom Settings on Your New World Beginner Steps Beginner Tips and Tricks Use the Custom Settings on Your New World The first thing you can do to ease your way through Palworld is to tweak a few custom settings in your world right from the beginning. With it, you can glide from place to place.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

In this guide, we will cover a range of topics, including best practices for game design, effective marketing strategies, and tips for optimizing game performance. Test Your Game Extensively and Frequently Regular testing is vital in game development to detect bugs and other problems early.

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Game Designing

MARCH 1, 2023

If you are hoping to get a job as a game engineer, your best bet will be to pursue post-secondary education in a related topic. This can begin as early as you are in school, looking for courses and internship opportunities involving game development.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Note: The old forums (and rest of the OpenProject website) can still be accessed for now on op.godotengine.org. The early Godot users might remember that we used to have a WordPress-powered website in 2015, with a self-hosted forum and the official documentation on Godot's GitHub wiki. Why change again? Q&A platform.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Dev discussions around current topics, everyone welcome to chime in and see how FOSS gets made: Roadmap for future Godot versions: 3.2 / 4.0. Potentially other topics based on needs/interests. As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I think both filmmakers and gamemakers get divided on this topic. Some will preach the importance of setting up your boundaries early on and not wavering. And I always start my first day with play, because early play will help you spot potential problems early on and help you troubleshoot those issues in an open space.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Access all of our previous predictions. These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory? Signup for the newsletter. Apply for our Slack group. Will Google follow Apple’s lead? More thoughts in this post.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Cull unseen objects as early as possible： There are mainly two situations, culling models outside the camera view and culling modes completely blocked by other models. If the camera is in a culling block, access the list of seeable models and submit to render. For the above two issues, there are two ways to optimize Draw Call.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The topic of why Godot does not utilize ECS comes up often, so this article will explain the design decisions behind that, as well as shed some light on how Godot works. This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Finally, Systems work independently and do actions on every similar component.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices. This post was originally published on the Developer Zone. Depth precision is a pain that every graphics programmer has to struggle with sooner or later.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Source: Exploding Topics Number of tournaments and prize pools for Apex Legends and Fortnite Each year, gamers attend tournaments for both Apex Legends and Fortnite. But, it is indeed a male dominant FPS multiplayer where a significant number of gamers are also female. In Fortnite, 72.4% are male players, and 27.6% are female.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

and future releases and many other technical topics :). As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1. Below you will find the preliminary schedule for GodotCon Poznań, as well as a short description of the talks and the speakers.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

Sites like Twitter and Instagram provide some of the biggest and most accessible ways to attract an audience, even while they’re still mysterious and new. This is not a bad tactic early on, but it’s a little gross. Marketers of the bygone century would have done many bad deeds to have access to what we have access to.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Scopely’s Scrabble Go was the largest growing title due to the global launch early in the year. Storm8 adventured early into this meta and owned the small space, alongside fun-gi’s House Flip with Chip and Jo. Rest of the titles have a fraction of the market space compared to the big three. Word games remained largely the same.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

The success of Baldur’s Gate 3 has already been a hot topic in social media and community platforms. As the early release version was already available, developers got a chance to get direct feedback and maintain strong communication with the community. Gamers and critics are sharing their thoughts.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

Not only does 1999's Shenmue not foreshadow or influence the open world games of the early 21st century, what it actually does achieve is artistically far more interesting than this claim would suggest. " An unparalleled level of freedom let you chose how you wanted to play. But this is neither true nor fair.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Early in the year, we released Godot 4.0 Even if we do online calls often, we are all very tired after an hour or two, but meeting in person is a blast where we can have fun all day discussing Godot topics. We create Godot out of love and a belief that game development should be freely accessible to everyone. Godot Foundation.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Although I already demonstrated much of the first new modal UI layout in an earlier forum announcement , I figure I could review those features here in order to provide closure to this series, plus cover some related dev topics as well as the second modal layout. The inventory! It’s gone!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Early in the year, we released Godot 4.0 Even if we do online calls often, we are all very tired after an hour or two, but meeting in person is a blast where we can have fun all day discussing Godot topics. We create Godot out of love and a belief that game development should be freely accessible to everyone. Godot Foundation.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

We could cover a whole series of articles just on the topic of proper and productive play-testing. Those are accessibility and graphic design. If we didn’t make things accessible, they wouldn’t get to be immersed in the story as much. Dylan: We had to get text sizing right.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 18, 2019

Early on, you want to make sure your community has a clear theme. Start conversational topics on a daily basis and encourage them to comment. Early on with the Pangea Games Discord server, I hand messaged nearly 10,000 people on Twitter and Instagram. Of these, you may find giveaways to be the most accessible option.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

I'm sure others have written about the same topic, but this article is written from my own experience, in hopes of it being useful. Ambition is needed to succeed, don't cut your wings early. are still a good place for this, provided your game is interesting enough (more on this topic in question 4).

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

However, I like my tutorials to be beginner friendly even when it covers slightly advanced topics. If not, print an error message to the Output Console and return early from the method. Therefore, we can assign values directly in the conditional statement, and if there is an error, we can return early. bWasSuccessful || !Response.IsValid())

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Since launching in early 2021, Cookie Run: Kingdom has amassed quarter of a Billion in revenue with only 22 million downloads. In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. These are strong enough to build its great early-stage player retention records, and the generous gacha system is the icing on the cake.

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Roguelikes Discord Back in mid-2016 a couple of friends decided to make a new Discord server on the topic of roguelikes, and started asking relevant devs like myself to join. And how many types of colored blocks do we have access to? The good old GSG forums! Imma go test this because it sounds cool… Emoji test.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

At the time, we wrote an early analysis about the entire deal covering the specific changes. In my opinion (which is entirely speculative because I don’t have access to their internal data and research), there are several actions that Brawl Stars could explore to recover its performance. How could Brawl Stars turn it around?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2022

What’s even more relevant for our topic here, there are strong arguments to support the idea that mobile dominance as a gaming platform will actually increase in the following years : The huge casual player segment of the market is an audience almost exclusive to mobile and is unlikely to buy more specialized and expensive gaming platforms.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

Ultimately, the aim is to make the game accessible to a wider market without ruining the game experience that the developer intended. and looking for articles and explanations about the topic that you are translating. The key factor is having a good general knowledge and the ability and the will to research the most varied topics.

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DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Since this is an addendum to a tutorial series where we've covered advanced topics, I'll assume you know what a stack is and how it works. As long as we access the stack via this decorator class, we consistently get debug log messages every time we pop something from or push something onto the stack.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

It is also the only remaining title out of the trio based on the Clash IP that was announced in early 2021. So it’s fair to say that Mini is a very different game now than in early 2023. The thesis behind Clash Mini was that it was possible to create a more accessible, mass appeal autochess that could bring the genre to a new high.

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