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True First Person Camera in Unreal Engine 4
True First Person Camera in Unreal Engine 4
This article describes a method for creating a realistic first person camera attached to a body to simulate realistic movements and animations in Unreal Engine 4
June 21, 2018
Take It All In: Imbuing Video Games With a Potent Atmosphere
Take It All In: Imbuing Video Games With a Potent Atmosphere
Atmosphere can elevate an already attractive environment to new heights when elegantly conceived and conveyed. Its ethereal nature, however, means it's not clear-cut from a development standpoint. Bethesda alum Michel Sabbagh analyzes the ambient effect.
June 21, 2018
The Problems of Mobile Strategy Game Design
The Problems of Mobile Strategy Game Design
Command and Conquer Rivals is the latest in the strategy genre to show up on mobile, but it also represents the biggest problem with trying to simplify the genre and its design.
June 20, 2018
Awkward: Making a tabletop-style party game for console
Awkward: Making a tabletop-style party game for console
Development Director at Snap Finger Click, Martijn van der Meulen, discusses their latest release Awkward. This adult party title was made for multiplayer and optimised for broadcasting using the team's years of experience in making social games.
June 20, 2018
Think Fair Use Protects you? Think Again…
Think Fair Use Protects you? Think Again…
What is Fair Use, and how are you not protected when using copyrighted assets without permission.
June 19, 2018
Creating Decoupled Features: The Blackboard System
Creating Decoupled Features: The Blackboard System
The Blackboard System is a system to decouple features, creating a solid architecture, with easy implementation, maintenance and a helpful editor tool.
June 19, 2018
Video Game Deep Cuts: Another Grim E3 World
Video Game Deep Cuts: Another Grim E3 World
This week's highlights include lots of E3 news, a Grim Fandango reading to remember, and a stellar analysis of Another World/Out Of This World.
June 18, 2018
Penis problems: Designing the erotic user-interface of It is as if you were making love
Penis problems: Designing the erotic user-interface of It is as if you were making love
A short essay on making an erotic game with classical user-interface elements and the challenges of avoiding a penis-centric reading of the slider.
June 18, 2018
A Prefab Primer
A Prefab Primer
Grouping objects for repeat use is a way to manage them remotely as well as letting others work on the same scene together. If you've never heard of Prefabs or want to know how to make them more powerful, give this a look!
June 18, 2018
[ALT CTRL] Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks - Conclusion (5/5)
[ALT CTRL] Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks - Conclusion (5/5)
Tatiana Vilela dos Santos is an indie game designer & interactive artist making games with special interfaces. She gave in March 2018 a 60 minutes talk at the GDC titled Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks. This article discusses details of this talk.
June 18, 2018
Game Design in Real Life: Gamification
Game Design in Real Life: Gamification
For years, companies have been trying to use game design principles to change user behavior or get them to buy more products. In this article I look at some of the techniques used, why they don't usually work, and how they can possibly be done better.
June 18, 2018
11 BOSS BATTLES OF X-MORPH: DEFENSE - PART 3, THE BOMBER
11 BOSS BATTLES OF X-MORPH: DEFENSE - PART 3, THE BOMBER
In the third article in the series, we unveil the design decisions behind the bomber boss in X-Morph: Defense and why we decided to completely get rid of it, even though it was almost finished.
June 15, 2018