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Composing video game music for Virtual Reality: Comfort versus performance
Composing video game music for Virtual Reality: Comfort versus performance
The 4th of a 4-part series. Video game composer Winifred Phillips shares ideas from her GDC 2018 talk, Music in Virtual Reality. Part 4: Comfort versus performance, with a discussion of composition & recording methods to address the VIMS problem.
July 16, 2018
Cultist Simulator: the retrospective
Cultist Simulator: the retrospective
The postmortem for Alexis Kennedy's 1920s Lovecraftian card game Cultist Simulator, an indie success story for 2018.
July 16, 2018
Level Design Study: The Last of Us Part II gameplay trailer level
Level Design Study: The Last of Us Part II gameplay trailer level
A short study of the level from The Last of Us Part II gameplay trailer.
July 16, 2018
Time Manipulation in Unity - Recorded Solutions
Time Manipulation in Unity - Recorded Solutions
We wanted a way for the player to not get stuck while playing and here is how we tackled that problem...
July 15, 2018
Multi-Tiered Horror Design With Resident Evil Remastered
Multi-Tiered Horror Design With Resident Evil Remastered
While plenty of people are talking about the Resident Evil 2 Remake, I want to go back to the first Remastered and an interesting way of increasing the horror with enemy design.
July 15, 2018
What we’ve learnt one year after releasing our first game on Nintendo Switch.
What we’ve learnt one year after releasing our first game on Nintendo Switch.
A look at some of the things we’ve learnt from releasing our first game on Nintendo Switch, one year later. There may be some advice, potentially some insights into our decrepit soul and definitely lots of bad jokes.
July 15, 2018
11 BOSS BATTLES OF X-MORPH: DEFENSE, PART 4, JAGUAR TYPE S
11 BOSS BATTLES OF X-MORPH: DEFENSE, PART 4, JAGUAR TYPE S
In the fourth installment of our series we share the details about the second boss the players encounter in X-Morph: Defense - the JAGUAR Type S tank.
July 15, 2018
Romanticism and the art of Dark Souls III
Romanticism and the art of Dark Souls III
An exploratory essay on the influence of romanticism ( the art period ) on Dark Souls III, covering multiple artists and aspects and philosophies of the movement, such the idea of 'the sublime' and what this means for the player.
July 12, 2018
The Three Ages of Steam Distribution, and how it changes Indie dev.
The Three Ages of Steam Distribution, and how it changes Indie dev.
A look at how distribution and visibility have changed as Steam has moved from Curation, to Greenlight, to Steam Direct.
July 11, 2018
Multiple ways of doing sprite sheet animation in Unity3D
Multiple ways of doing sprite sheet animation in Unity3D
The main objective of this blog post is to give you an idea about how to do Sprite Sheet Animation in Unity3D.
July 11, 2018
Are Ideas Cheap? In Praise of Strong Ideas
Are Ideas Cheap? In Praise of Strong Ideas
Examining the "ideas are cheap" mantra via Breath of the Wild and Xenoblade Chronicles
July 11, 2018
Lessons for live game developers from X-Wing 2.0
Lessons for live game developers from X-Wing 2.0
Fantasy Flight Games' X-Wing 2.0 offers some interesting lessons for game developers as the industry moves toward supporting more live, always-updated games.
July 10, 2018