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Unlocking Unity Animator's interruption full power
The interruption mechanism in Unity’s Animator tool is often misused or completely skipped altogether, but what most people does not realize, is that most of the animator they created has a lot of interruption built in it, they just don’t use it!
Oct. 3, 2019
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Engaging Level Design for Combat - Pt 2
I am back for the second part of my Mini-Series as I talk about the next phase of building a good combat phase which is about the planning and pre-production as we talk about what to do as well as looking at my own work.
Oct. 3, 2019
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Postmortem: The Painscreek Killings
A look at the conception and development of EQ Studios' first title, a murder mystery investigation game, and how it managed to make players feel like real-life detectives.
Oct. 2, 2019
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Cascadeur: character’s pose prediction using 6 points
In this essay, Banzai Games founder Evgeniy Dyabin and his team mates Alexander Grishanin and Maxim Tarasov explain how they invented a simple, yet effective pose prediction tool for Nekki's new character animation software Cascadeur.
Oct. 2, 2019
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Nintendo Switch: A Discoverability Followup 2
My recent piece on discoverability for Nintendo Switch got some decent feedback from a few active Switch developers - here's an update with some new data points and info.
Oct. 1, 2019
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Data Structures Part 3: Arrays of arrays
How to efficiently store arrays in arrays.
Oct. 1, 2019
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SPLATTERTILES: How to tile your game without all that FUSS!
This is an art deep dive about the methods Butterscotch uses to create environments.
Sept. 30, 2019
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Steam has a lack of data scientists
This post is about some obvious and some hidden long term mistakes Steam is making. As a commercial product, Steam has two goals: making profits and preserving its ecosystem (aka. securing long term profits). It's failing on both.
Sept. 30, 2019
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Which are the most commonly used Game Engines?
Is it possible to get an overview of which game engines are the most popular? We have made an attempt to understand the current state of the game engine market.
Sept. 30, 2019
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3 Ways Unity Addressables Will Save Your Game
Let's find out 3 ways Unity Addressables will help your game with efficient, pain-free content management.
Sept. 30, 2019
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Video Game Deep Cuts: Untitled Goose Newsletter 2
This week's highlights include several pieces about Untitled Goose Game, of course, but also articles or videos on Noita, Later Alligator, What The Golf, The Last Of Us 2, an unreleased MC Hammer game (!), & a plethora of others.
Sept. 29, 2019
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Kliuless #51: Apple Arcade & Google Play Pass
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
Sept. 27, 2019