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KleptoCats Post-mortem
Hello, I’m Antonio Uribe, better known as Fáyer. I’m the Co-founder and Director of HyperBeard Games, an indie game studio based in Mexico City. The following text is a combination of an analysis and the story about the development of KleptoCats.
March 29, 2017
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How to Have a Good Meeting
Meetings suck, but they don't have to! I designed seven simple rules to make every meeting a good meeting -- they end on time, everybody knows what to do, everybody feels heard and, most importantly, everybody leaves feeling energized rather than drained.
March 29, 2017
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In-House Engine Development: Technical Tips
During the work on our in-house game engine, the ABYSS Engine, I have come across a few rules, ideas and tips that help us make sure we have a nice work environment, clean code base, neat project setup and an overall high-quality software product.
March 28, 2017
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Unity Tutorial – How to make a 2D Tank Game – Player Tank Part 1
This tutorial provides an introduction into how to start developing a 2D Tank Combat game with Unity.
March 28, 2017
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Developing for a cause–The ICHealthHack for Cystic Fibrosis
Read about the ICHealthHack event and how you can get involved to relieve the boredom of repetitive treatments for kids with Cystic Fibrosis through games!
March 28, 2017
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Building a Scalable Online Game with Azure - Part 5
In the previous part of this series, we created the frontend, a small Universal Windows Platform game that accesses our backend. Finally, we'll be deploying the whole application to the cloud.
March 28, 2017
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1975-2015 - Building a timeline of computer and video game history
Video game history is usually explained through the lens of the eight console generations, but there's much more - home computers, the internet, business deals, etc. This is my attempt to tell them in an accessible manner.
March 28, 2017
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Passing Through Ghosts in Pac-Man
Details on Pac-Man's little-known ghost passthrough bug and why it happens, an excerpt from the book Bug Voyage in the current Rogue Souls Storybundle.
March 28, 2017
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Media coverage analysis – Launch of the Nintendo Switch
Switch launch and its media coverage. Can Nintendo recover from the Wii U total lack of media appeal?
March 28, 2017
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Video Game Deep Cuts: Mass Effect's Hoodiegate Pile-On
This week's Video Game Deep Cuts articles/video highlights include animators on Mass Effect: Andromeda's animation complaints, Remedy's very silly Hoodiegate, and lots, lots more.
March 27, 2017
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Instantiating a Procedurally Generated Platformer in Unity
In my last post, we discussed a simple way you could randomly generate a two-dimensional array of values representing level tiles. The trick, of course, is to smoothly convert each of these chunks into actual Unity objects.
March 27, 2017
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Competition Is Not The Opposite of Community
We use survey data from 270,000 gamers to break down the common assumption that the appeal of Competition and Community are polar opposites, and we explore where this idea came from.
March 27, 2017