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Video: 6 terrible trailer tips from our NEO Scavenger trailer
NEO Scavenger mobile trailer may be the trailer I’m most proud of producing. That said, most advice I’d offer from the project is terrible! Seriously, it’s awful.
Aug. 8, 2017
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In-Depth Look at the AI Behind Age of Rivals, A Strategy Card Game
An in-depth look at how the AI makes decisions in Age of Rivals, a strategy card game. Our AI is considered to be pretty strong, so this could be useful to anyone approaching the challenge of building a competitive AI opponent for a strategy game.
Aug. 7, 2017
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Video Game Deep Cuts: The Twin-Stick Tacoma Pyre
This week's longform article/video highlights include the making of Fullbright's Tacoma and Supergiant's Pyre, as well as a guide to the essential twin-stick shooters & more.
Aug. 7, 2017
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Ready player two! Co op is a new big thing?
Co op will be a new, must have thing, for a mid core audience. Hardcore audience already occupied with pure competitive and team competitive games, and it’s really hard to compete on that market, so next step is tackling a mid core audience.
Aug. 7, 2017
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Drop the Beat: All Walls Must Fall’s Procedural Music Mixer
Everything happens on the beat in All Walls Must Fall, which uses a custom, procedural music mixer to play the soundtrack of the nightclubs of Berlin 2089. Ben Prunty's track Synaesthetic is deconstructed to explain the process behind the game's music.
Aug. 7, 2017
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The User Interface of Lasting Legacy
The latest video for Lasting Legacy, our genealogy meets Magic the Gathering game, shows some of the improvements to the user interface we made to the game in the past few weeks. Here you can read about some of the stuff I forgot to mention in the video.
Aug. 7, 2017
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Unity: CHARACTER CONTROLLER vs RIGIDBODY
A tutorial on the two approaches for coding movement in Unity: The Character Controller and the Rigidbody components, and their respective advantages.
Aug. 7, 2017
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3 Simple Steps to Implement Inverse Kinematics
This IK Solution breaks an intensive mathematical solution into 3 easy-to-follow steps. Pseudo-code is included to make things easier to understand and implement. Three functions and you're done!
Aug. 4, 2017
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Persona 5, Cartoon Cats, Depthless Evil, and Dating Your Teacher.
The JRPG Persona 5 is critically acclaimed, selling extremely well for its genre, and is generally loved by the people who play it. Yet, it contains incredibly dark and difficult material by any standards, let alone video games. It still works. Why?
Aug. 4, 2017
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Detention Postmortem: Localizing a Taiwanese game for Western audiences
Detention is an East Asian cultural-centered game. In order to make it easier for non-local players to immerse in the game, variations are made for better localization. We especially focusing on two parts - the level design and translation.
Aug. 2, 2017
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Game Producer Voodoo
Whether you are the captain of your own ship or just an officer on the deck, there's a lot you can do as game producer to improve timeliness and quality. Here's a checklist out of the Game Producer's bag of tricks.
Aug. 1, 2017
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Internal game jams: Can you make them work for your studio?
This week Mighty Games launches Questy Quest, the first complete game to come from our fortnightly internal game jam. If you’ve wondered whether an internal game jam would work for your studio, read on and learn from our experiences...
Aug. 1, 2017