Matching Models: Functional & Efficient Hitboxes
If you have ever played a competitive first person shooter you may have heard people refer to “hitboxes.” A hitbox […]
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From Prototype to Perfect: How to Iterate Effectively
Iterative design can be applied to many fields but is most notable within the gaming industry and in game development.
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Growing Your Feedback Pool: How to Build a Community of Beta Testers
There are a few things to consider when you set out to build a strong group or community of beta
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Valve Making Changes With Greenlight! Where Do Developers Go Next?
The independent developer community is under many pressures as it is, and Valve may have plans to unintentionally make it worse.
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Creating Trailers/Marketing Videos For Your Game
The one thing players appreciate most about new game releases are the trailers that publishers/developers release for them. Trailers are
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6 Great Ways to Use Polls on Twitter
Various online social media platforms allow you to connect and interact with the people who buy and play your games.
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Constructing Flowing and Alluring Main Menus
User interface design is quite a challenging task for game developers. The UI is what a player will refer to
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Importance of Small Scale FPS Level Design – Independent Development
Following up on my previous post on Level Design, I focused on many popular mainstream games and the design included in
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Importance of Small Scale FPS Level Design – Mainstream Development
Today, it’s rare to see variance in multiplayer FPS level design. Many maps tend to replicate grand scale locations or
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Who Am I Developing for? Myself or the Player?
A question plagues most people in the gaming industry, from amongst many players and media outlets to also developers. That question
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6 Developers That Masterfully Utilized Early Access
For any developer, a focus on an end goal is an extremely wise mindset to have. Early Access gives developers
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Standing Out in an Ocean of Mobile Apps
To date, there are well over 2.2 million mobile apps on Android’s app market. With so many apps, it is
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Addicted to Open Source: A Look at Godot & Xenko
I received a comment on a previous article where I listed a group of engines and tools ranging from paid and
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4 Ways Developers Can Use YouTube
An amazing social networking tool is YouTube—albeit a much harder tool to use today as its user-base has exponentially grown.
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How Does a Developer Make an Addictive Isometric Action RPG?
Different genres of video games can be addicting to specific target audiences. Each genre is bound by certain parameters or
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Fundamentals of Level Design: Where Does One start?
Level design in game development is an amazing experience. Creating the world in which a player experiences the game’s events
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A Developer’s Ideas Can be Critiqued but not Changed by Force
To many people, developing a video game is the same as creating art. No one would go up to Edvard
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An Essential Rundown of Game Engines & Tools
Beyond a developers knowledge in code or their skill with designing characters or creating stories, a developer still requires software
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Turning Blah into Badass: Making the Most of RPG Maker
RPG Maker is a toolkit that allows developers, whether professional or amateur, to create elaborate role playing games. It’s a similar
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Git Outta here! Why Version Control is Vital in Development
In modern game development, it is very important to manage the versions of your game. It can also be called