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Property Drawers for Active frames of an animation in Unity
We'll learn to make a PropertyDrawer to check active frames of an animation.
April 13, 2020
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"Rock Balls": The Making of WarCraft II
Fresh off of WarCraft, Blizzard Entertainment's developers sought to prove their success wasn't a fluke, and designed one of the most influential and critically acclaimed strategy titles of all time.
April 13, 2020
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StreamSDK Powered SNES w/Online Multiplayer Tutorial
How to convert a 30 year old SNES local multiplayer game into a modern cross-platform multiplayer game in under an hour with StreamSDK.
April 10, 2020
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Lessons Learned From Reviewing Indie Games
I have covered hundreds of indie games in the past decade, and today, I want to share my thoughts on what I've learned about reviewing games from this space.
April 10, 2020
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The Puppet Master - The development of the AI system for The Riftbreaker
In the article we describe the process of developing the AI system for our upcoming game, The Riftbreaker. Working with your own tech can lead to some unexpected twists and turns!
April 10, 2020
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The Five Deadly Sins Of Game Attractiveness 2
Here are the top five 'sins' that I see from many of today’s indie games. Each of these sins negatively affects your game’s attractiveness and therefore saleability to game publishers (if you want one!) & the game-playing public (if you don't).
April 10, 2020
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The Likelihood of Making at Least $10,000 in the First 30 days of Launch on Steam
In this article I discuss a recent post from Valve about game revenues, point out the difficult task they are undertaking and offer some practical strategies for smaller developers
April 9, 2020
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Transitioning Your Team to Remote Work
Book excerpt from the newly published “Remote Teamwork Tools” a collection of tools and practices to help distributed teams of remote workers communicate, collaborate, and execute effectively. By Clinton Keith and Grant Shonkwiler.
April 8, 2020
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Game discoverability: to demo, or not to demo? 2
How should you position your game demo on Steam? We look at a couple of options, as well as a whole bunch of other news around game discoverability - how people find and play your game.
April 7, 2020
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The Battle of the Gut
The Evolution of Design in the Video Game Industry as Product Managers join the game teams
April 7, 2020
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Hang Line Postmortem Part 1 - How pirates made my game successful
The story of how indie game Hang Line was created, from concept to launch. How I learnt new skills, cut corners, struggled with anxiety and ignored advice to find my own personal journey to success. And also how piracy can sometimes not be a bad thing!
April 7, 2020
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Designing the art of Damaged In Transit
A deep dive into the process of designing/animating all of the in-game elements from our new puzzle game, Damaged In Transit.
April 7, 2020