Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 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. This second progress report is shorter so we can fit everything in one article. Interactive Music by Daniel Matarov.

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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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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. Cogmind 7DRL!

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. 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.

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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. The good old GSG forums! And we use the forums for the occasional REXPaint feature/help discussion, so yeah they have their uses even now.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But I’m not here to talk about using action-based algorithms to accomplish product-related objectives (that’s a topic for another article); I’d rather discuss how to develop your team’s product mindset. Deconstructor of Fun's Weekly Newsletter All the insights, news, and updates weekly in your inbox.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. Sign up for their newsletter to be informed when the latest deconstruction drops. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Create an account 2.

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Smart Fox Server

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In this article we are going to explore several ways to use the open source HAProxy load balancer in conjunction with SFS2X , to increase the scalability and availability of a multiplayer project. We are going to show different configurations for TCP and Websocket connections and several ways to setup the system for common use cases. and 10.0.0.11.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! The long road to 3.0.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

This report wouldn’t be possible without the help from our friends at Sensor Tower. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Please take the numbers presented with a giant grain of salt.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies. Google and DoF brought together the most influential gaming investors, companies, and talents in Istanbul!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

See our previous announcement for a quick presentation of each topic. For the first time this year, Godot participates in the Google Summer of Code ( GSoC ). We have five students working on some great projects to add new features to the engine, either via C++ modules, GDNative plugins or external plugins. Repository: [link]. Amazing!!).

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here ) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?” So the goals for Garrisons 2.0

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

Now, before I launch into this long stream-of-consciousness, there are a couple of important things to understand. Note: I wrote this in 2004. In the days before Steam and Kickstarter, but most of it is still applicable, but a lot has also changed. First, this is only a thought experiment. Assumptions. I'd have to check.

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