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Why Valve's new SteamVR Knuckles are important for VR
User interfaces in virtual reality start with your hands. Valve's upcoming finger-tracking "Knuckles" controllers have the capacity to do more than just a motion controller or data glove.
July 6, 2017
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Designing Silicon Void's Combat, Part 2: Critical Eye
How a mechanic in Silicon Void affords the player opportunities for strategic play by shifting combat conditions from turn to turn and battle to battle.
July 5, 2017
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VR Tutorial Breakdown: Fallout VR VATS Mechanic
A walkthrough of FusedVR's implementation of the Fallout VR VATS mechanic.
July 5, 2017
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GPU Performance for Game Artists
A little knowledge of what goes on under the hood can make a big impact on a game's framerate. If you're an artist and want to understand the GPU and why things like draw calls, LODs, and mipmaps are important for performance, this one's for you!
July 5, 2017
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Postmortem of a Successful (Just) Kickstarter
Two years after we at Three Phase Interactive ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for our game Defect, we look back on how it went and make some suggestions for those looking to do the same.
July 5, 2017
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Lvl 0: A Game Education Retrospective - Part 1
Part 1 of 5 in a comprehensive retrospective of my undergraduate game dev education at Drexel University. If you're interested in what exactly goes into getting a degree in game development, this series should provide a good general look at the process.
July 5, 2017
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The Nintendo Switch and the Long Game
What has Nintendo learned from their 3DS game library about the Switch? Do they recognize the value of Switch as a mobile device, or are they thinking of it as a home console?
July 3, 2017
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Spilt Milk on: the secrets of SpatialOS audio design
We're currently working with Improbable’s SpatialOS to create Lazarus, a top-down massively-multiplayer shooter set in a massive universe. In this dev diary, we talk to Andy Grier and Tom Johnson who are creating the audio for its persistent universe.
July 3, 2017
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The Complexity Fallacy
It's easy to think that the player sees all of the complexity you put into a game, but nothing could be further from the truth. A game's complexity is basically meaningless when it comes to the end experience. What the player perceives is all that matters
July 3, 2017
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The Ronimo coding methodology
Building large codebases requires a structured way of working. This post discusses the coding methodology used at Awesomenauts devs Ronimo. It shows the methodology document we use internally and explains the reasoning behind some of the rules in it.
July 3, 2017
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Indie Post-mortem - Captain Kaon (Part Two)
Making a game is more than just writing code and doing a bit of art. Come this way and I'll pass on the lessons I learnt managing and promoting Captain Kaon.
July 3, 2017
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Explorables Of Pull Algorithms
An interactive article showing how different kinds of pull algorithms work.
June 28, 2017