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Communicating Creative Intentions 2
Tips for capturing and communicating your creative intentions.
Oct. 10, 2016
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1982-1987 - The Birth of Japanese RPGs, re-told in 15 Games
A look at the roots of Japanese RPGs – from the hardware to the early proto-RPGs, the Ultima-clones, the first Action-RPGs and genre landmarks like Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Ys.
Oct. 10, 2016
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Jungle Gyms (Playgrounds) Real Life Level Design
Blog taken from my personal site.
Oct. 7, 2016
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Localizing a Unity Indie Game: The Hidden Costs
This article describes the various costs of localizing an indie game. It gives some tips and stats to help with localization and deciding if localization is right for your game.
Oct. 7, 2016
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Solving the problem of Piracy in the Third World
Piracy in Third World countries is a prevalent criminal activity. Furthermore, the financial imbalance between rich and poor only seem to strengthens the pirate cause. In this essay Pieter Smal seeks a solution to the problem of piracy in the Third World.
Oct. 6, 2016
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Game Cities: Five Equally Essential Books
Five (more) books on urbanism, city history, geography, planning, and a bit of burglary for game devs and designers looking to create their very own imaginary and interactive cities.
Oct. 6, 2016
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How to Teach an Old Puzzle New Tricks
As an expert puzzle constructor, I show in detail how I discovered a new piece of logic from a new mechanic and integrated it into an old puzzle.
Oct. 6, 2016
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Common Mistakes in Game Animation
Some very basic tips and tricks which could be useful to other developers starting to work with in game animation.
Oct. 6, 2016
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Antegods Art Update: Crank up the Cracks
As we’re working hard to make our stonepunk arena action game Antegods a reality, you can stay up to date with regular development blogposts. This time, lead artist Tom shares his boundless love for Substance Designer. No clue what it is? He'll explain!
Oct. 5, 2016
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Your idea may not be new, and that’s OK
Thoughts on why it's alright to not be the one to create a breakthrough concept.
Oct. 5, 2016
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Star Vikings: Balancing Randomness, Pacing and Space of Possibility
A look at how introducing randomness solved the pacing issues of my Puzzle/RPG game.
Oct. 5, 2016
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Algorithms for making more interesting mazes
This article contains some ideas for building mazes by making various modifications to a simple, standard maze-generation algorithm.
Oct. 5, 2016