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A Writer Inside
Everyone has the potential to be a writer. I started writing for Gamasutra and now I have a book being published. Utilize Gamasutra, write something from your experience. Who knows where it may lead you.
May 23, 2017
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(Re-)designing weapons
Our lead designer Wytze took some time out to write about how to overcome some challenges with creating new weapons (drill and shotgun) and reworking the old to solidify their playstyle, through playtesting and experimentation.
May 23, 2017
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Video Game Deep Cuts: Gnog Bunnies Love Snipperclips
This week's best longread/standout articles & videos about games include Gnog's quirky gameplay, Second Life bunny tragedy, and Snipperclips' surprising third-party story, among others.
May 22, 2017
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9 things I learned making N.O.V.A. 01
I believe in order to gain the clarity and perspective necessary to evolve, each of us needs to reexamine his work every few years. This article is the first in this effort, and treats one of my first big success.
May 22, 2017
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The labors of Theseus: how we designed a 3rd person VR experience
The challenges of developing our first VR game. Theseus is a third person experience, so how did we approach cameras and UI?
May 19, 2017
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Next-Gen Cel Shading in Unity 5.6
Our best chance to get a PBR friendly Cel Shading art style in Unity 5.6 is creating a new Deferred shader and a custom BRDF function. Here's are the steps needed to get it to work.
May 19, 2017
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Does Your Video Game Have Too Many Words? (Yeah, Probably.)
If your game has 100000 words, you could have done the same thing more effectively with 50000. If your game has 500000 words, you could have done better with 150000. If your game has over a million words, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?!?
May 19, 2017
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A Video Game Dev Learning from D&D
I always wanted to play D&D but never got the chance. Now that I finally started watching D&D videos and running my own campaign as a DM, I'm discovering valuable lessons about designing video games.
May 17, 2017
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Little Machines Working Together (Part 1)
In this post we look at how to build a plugin system based on individual co-operating modules.
May 17, 2017
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The making of Streams of Nurture - Part IV: General Development
A blog post detailing the general development process of Streams of Nurture, a salmon aquaculture (fish farming) Ren'Py visual novel that I wrote, coded and designed throughout my senior year in college. Additional parts will be published weekly.
May 16, 2017
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When the character is the story | This Week in Videogame Blogging
This week, our partnership with games blogging curation site Critical Distance brings us picks from their Senior Curator Zoyander Street on player-characters and worldbuilding.
May 16, 2017
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Composing video game music to build suspense, part 5: semi silence
The 5th of a 5-part series. Video game composer Winifred Phillips shares strategies from her GDC 2017 talk, Homefront to God of War: Using Music to Build Suspense. Part 5: Semi Silence, discussing the power of relative silences to increase game suspense.
May 16, 2017