Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

With more users come more demands and, suddendly, the will to use Godot for larger and more serious projects required that large parts of the core were modernized. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

With more users come more demands and, suddendly, the will to use Godot for larger and more serious projects required that large parts of the core were modernized. 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.

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Real Programming

JULY 12, 2023

He likes to break concepts into mini games he has developed, so complex mathematical ideas are fun and easy to understand. But our sessions, especially the more advanced courses created by instructors like Quinlan, will give your child a serious leg up. However, Sokol is careful never to overwhelm students. Where Can Coding Take You?

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Yobob Games

JANUARY 18, 2023

My Game Development Journey in Making a Trailer Game Development Journey in Trailer Making What I’ve learned is that making a trailer is extremely important. It’s pretty much one of the greatest marketing tools ever because I’m showing a glimpse of my game. Let’s say, for example, I wanted to make the next stardew valley game.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For mobile games in particular, managing the authentication and authorization of your players can pose some unique challenges. Other challenges relate to securing the many backend systems a modern mobile game may interact with, such as game servers, social networks, and payment providers.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gaming companies, both developers and publishers, have also aimed to capitalize on the vast amount of data and intellectual capital they have, in order to reinvent themselves and branch out into different ventures. Unreal Engine can be used by other game developers, as well as by film and television and other industries.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To give some context on the magnitude of GTA V, as of today: In the last 30 days GTA V was the biggest game on Twitch by average viewer count and total hours watched, and the 2nd in terms of channels (source: Twitchmetrics ). And during that same period it has been in the Top 5 Steam games with most concurrent players (source: SteamDB ).

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whenever I write about a topic that upsets me, I calm myself by illustrating it with charming, reassuring stock photos. I Am a Public Figure When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), This is serious business. Game designers, writers, comic artists.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

It's completely different from the LudoNarraCon one even though the topic is the same. this Saturday June 12, 2021, we are headlining the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest and I also will be moderating IGDA GDSIG's skipped (due to the cancellation of GDC last year) roundtable, Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 30, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week in the Dev Diary, I talked about how board game development is a long, ongoing process with a lot of different stages. Need help on your board game? Just here for Highways & Byways updates?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Get ready for a real treat if you've ever been curious about the M&A in the gaming industry. We're about to explore what a typical work-week looks like for a Mergers & Acquisitions executive, navigate through the major obstacles that can obstruct deals, and stay at the forefront of the latest trends in the gaming industry M&A.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 2, 2021

Written by Anette Staloy , co-founder of Women in Games Norway and Chief Marketing Officer at Dirtybit, and Tiffany Keller , Director of Product at Sybo and mentor at Game Changers. What was positive about the dark moment is how the games industry came together and showed support. In fact, games have been mainstream for years.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 26, 2023

Video games are one of the world’s most beloved leisure activities, with over three billion active gamers globally as of 2023. The popularity and prevalence of gaming have reached unprecedented levels and are only expected to grow with each passing year. But video games have their fair share of controversy.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With a love of sci-fi and fantasy, he decided to pursue a career in the film and game industry where he could explore these realms. The curriculum covered many topics from cinematic storytelling, lighting and color theory, trading card and gaming art to illustrating book covers.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 28, 2023

But I do it in a highly popular, successful, vibrant, undervalued medium (video games) instead of a respected, posh medium that nobody cares about (books). My almost thirty year fantasy-writing career has been very prolific (18 all-new games!) Look at Game of Thrones. It's a big topic. This brings me great sadness.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s hard to keep secrets in the gaming industry. Once players show interest in something you've created, many game developers worldwide quickly become "inspired" by your game. It's not necessarily due to the exceptional quality of existing games or the lack of potential for improvement within the genre.

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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. Difficulty.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

The following is the list of topics discussed at our first meeting in late May 2020 and what was decided: RTL + font shaping. We also discussed a proposal to further clean up the documentation and clearly separate more game-specific tutorials, as well as having a clearer way to link to content generated by our community.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A really good, polished game that tries something different? My family just finished playing the hit co-op game It Takes Two. I played it with my wife, and our teenager who was on hand to help us out when the game got too hard. It's a very fun game with very unusual writing, and it's extremely and deservedly popular.

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Game Design Advice

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Here’s a game I like to play. This game is harder than it looks. This game is harder than it looks. But if you are able to successfully play this game you will learn some things. Because if you persist in this rude game you will learn something else. Look at them as if that was the show. What is this?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

The current massive deceleration of the Web3 space is a good moment to re-evaluate and re-think the fundamentals of Web3 gaming. The goal for all parties involved was still to achieve a massive return on investment, often relegating the delivery of the actual game that served players to a secondary objective.

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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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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

If you want my review of Shenmue III it would be 'play this game if you have ever enjoyed a Shenmue game or are interested in unusual approaches to game narrative' It takes me quite a while to get around to playing games these days, which helps insulate me from jumping to kneejerk conclusions about what I've been playing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We originally created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different categories: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Since we last met, things have legit been poppin' off over here.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Last month I attended a conference on computational modeling in games in Banff. The question, in a nutshell – can we discover a well-defined property of game systems that corresponds, roughly, to what designers and players mean by “depth”? We are only looking at the very focused domain of game-as-problem.

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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.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. To NEW Friends ： Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Having said that, we would all agree that games like Coin Master aren’t “truly Casino” even though they are classified in the same category according to our taxonomy. No doubt this is a deeply discussed topic for a genre that still shows great returns. Source: Competitive Insights into Social Casino Games, Newzoo Report.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Our built-in docs are more complete and of much better quality than ever, and our online docs now cover many new topics in depth (such as 3D features). The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Most non-official tutorials online are for the 2.1

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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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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. It made sense to wait as long as possible to carry out this process, but the wait is finally over! Exiles Prototypes.

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