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Breaking Out of Breakout
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For a Career in Gaming, are Game Design Degrees Worth It?
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Building a First-Person Shooter Part 1.2: The Player Class
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Design Patterns: Singleton Basics
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Techniques for Finding Unlisted Game Internships
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Indie tutorial: Organizing your work as a team
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Making it in Indie Games: Starter Guide
For a Career in Gaming, are Game Design Degrees Worth It?
Published in Breaking Into the Industry
By Brice Morrison - Many students and parents believe that if they are interested in a career in games, then the best thing for them to pursue is a degree in “Game Des...
Design Patterns: Singleton Basics
Published in Game Programming
By Ivan Spasov - In this article we will take a quick look at what is the Singleton Design Pattern, how to use it, when to implement it and what it's good for.
Building an In-Game Store for the First Time? Here are the 4 Keys to Success
Published in Game Design
By Yaniv Nizan - So you have a great concept for a mobile game and you have heard that free games with in app purchase is the way to go but you are not sure where t...
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For a Career in Gaming, are Game Design Degrees Worth It? UNDER REVIEW
May 24 2013 07:01 AM | Posted By Brice Morrison
in Breaking Into the Industry
Many students and parents believe that if they are interested in a career in games, then the best thing for them to pursue is a degree in “Game Design”, “Game Programming”, or “Game Art and Animation”. I share my recommendations against this thinking.
Tagged With: students design
Design Patterns: Singleton Basics UNDER REVIEW
May 23 2013 11:04 AM | Posted By Ivan Spasov
in Game Programming
In this article we will take a quick look at what is the Singleton Design Pattern, how to use it, when to implement it and what it's good for.
Tagged With: design patterns singleton
Building an In-Game Store for the First Time? Here are the 4 Keys to Success UNDER REVIEW
May 23 2013 07:08 AM | Posted By Yaniv Nizan
in Game Design
So you have a great concept for a mobile game and you have heard that free games with in app purchase is the way to go but you are not sure where to start. Guess what? You are not alone and many are struggling with this challenge. Here are 4 golden tips.
Tagged With: iap in-app purchase in-game store virtual currency mobile iphone android ios
Indie tutorial: Organizing your work as a team
May 22 2013 08:07 PM | Posted By ANtY
in Production and Management
Let's see, we already have a game prototype and a team of quality people. What do we do now? Well, you could always actually start working on your game and maybe someday finish it and release it. After all, that's what we strive to achieve.
Tagged With: spiffy goats indie tutorial indie team management startup
Never Team Up with the Idea Guy UNDER REVIEW
May 22 2013 11:00 AM | Posted By Albert Tedja
in Production and Management
Be sure that the people you team up with can actually contribute to the project's success
Tagged With: startup project management
Building a First-Person Shooter Part 1.2: The Player Class UNDER REVIEW
May 22 2013 07:38 AM | Posted By Chris Vossen
in Game Programming
In this tutorial we will begin to flesh out our player class by adding in a camera and setting up character physics.
Tagged With: leadwerks c++ fps
Math for Game Developers: Intro to Matrices UNDER REVIEW
May 21 2013 11:46 AM | Posted By Jorge "BSVino" Rodriguez
in Math and Physics
Explores various game development techniques that utilize a basic understanding of matrices
Tagged With: matrices basis vectors scaling rotation translation inverse
Breaking Out of Breakout UNDER REVIEW
May 21 2013 11:07 AM | Posted By Thomas Duindam
in Game Design
For the past couple of years, me and some friends have spend one day each week working on ‘Caromble!’ 'Caromble!', a breakout/ pinball styled game. We would like to share why working on a retro game is interesting and how you can build upon a classic game.
Tagged With: retro breakout physics 3d design pinball
Techniques for Finding Unlisted Game Internships UNDER REVIEW
May 21 2013 07:05 AM | Posted By Brice Morrison
in Breaking Into the Industry
There are hundreds of game companies out there, but only the largest of them have online job websites where they list open positions. Yet, there are lots of students who find positions at small game companies who earn themselves a decent wage and some notches in their belts that can then help to propel them to better job opportunities later on.So how do you find these unlisted game internships?...
Tagged With: jobs internships networking
Getting into Games through Education: Choosing your University UNDER REVIEW
May 20 2013 07:15 AM | Posted By Liyaan Hasan (stitchs)
in Breaking Into the Industry
The follow-up to 'Where do I begin?'. This time we look into what you should do in order to pick the best University for you, and your subject area.
Tagged With: art design programming education science coding open day university
Object-Oriented Game Design
May 17 2013 07:37 PM | Posted By Josh Klint
in Game Programming
C++ can be intimidating the new programmers. The syntax does at first glance look like it was designed for robots to read, rather than humans. However, C++ has some powerful features that speed up the process of game design, especially as games get more complex. There's good reason C++ is the long-standing standard of the game industry, and we'll talk about a few of its advantages in...
Tagged With: c++ oop inheritance
Making it in Indie Games: Starter Guide
May 17 2013 06:19 PM | Posted By Derek Yu
in Breaking Into the Industry
Advice on how to become a successful indie developer from a successful indie developer
Tagged With: indie
Scripting Custom Windows in Unity3D UNDER REVIEW
May 17 2013 11:16 AM | Posted By Casey Hardman
in Game Programming
With the know-how, you can make your own windows in Unity. Allow me to teach you how and get you started.
Tagged With: unity3d editor editor window window gui
Binding D To C
May 16 2013 09:40 AM | Posted By Mike "Aldacron" Parker
in Game Programming
When getting up and running with game development in the D programming language, you can save a lot of time by linking with existing C libraries. D is ABI compatible with C, so it's not a difficult thing to do. This article, modified and updated from a series of posts in my Development Journal, shows you how.
Tagged With: d language c language binding
A Journey Through the CPU Pipeline
May 16 2013 09:09 AM | Posted By Bryan Wagstaff (frob)
in General Programming
The CPU does not need to be an opaque box of mystery. Skilled programmers learn their tools, including what goes on inside the CPU. Very skilled programmers learn to optimize their code by knowing both what is inside and also how to manipulate the results.
Tagged With: cpu optimization
RPG Character Design: Technical Blueprints 101 UNDER REVIEW
May 15 2013 07:13 AM | Posted By Ivan Spasov
in Game Programming
In this article we will take a look at how you can design and develop from a technical standpoint your character classes for an RPG game.
Tagged With: technical design blueprints rpg character
Life of a Level Designer
May 14 2013 11:07 AM | Posted By Szymon Barchan
in Game Design
Take a look at what it really means to be a level designer, from a Bulletstorm developer
Tagged With: level design fps unreal 3d udk scripting
Notes on GameDev: Blaine Christine UNDER REVIEW
May 14 2013 11:01 AM | Posted By Elizabeth LaPensée
in Interviews
Blaine Christine, BioWare, talks about the studio and his own path to the role of producer
Tagged With: interview production
Multithreading
May 11 2013 06:29 AM | Posted By Vivien Oddou
in General Programming
In games, performance is obviously critical, almost every device now features multi core systems; we have a tendency to naturally feel that going towards more threading is neat. I'd like to give a few insights about low level implications of threading.
Tagged With: c++ mem-fence thread low-level condition-variable mutex c#
Multiplayer Pong with Go, WebSockets and WebGl UNDER REVIEW
May 10 2013 01:16 PM | Posted By David Neumann
in Game Programming
This article will guide you through the implementation of a pong server in Go and a pong client in JavaScript using Three.js as render engine. I am new to web development and implementing pong is my first project. So there are probably things that could be done better, especially on the client side, but I wanted to share this anyway.
Tagged With: pong go webgl three.js javascript websockets networking multiplayer
Game Development with Win32 and DirectX 11 - Part 00.5: Concept UNDER REVIEW
May 10 2013 10:00 AM | Posted By Josh Vega
in Game Programming
In this quick article, I will let you know what to expect in the future of this tutorial series.
Tagged With: c++ directx11 win32
How to Structure a Game UNDER REVIEW
May 10 2013 07:02 AM | Posted By Josh Klint
in Game Programming
Basic game structure is a topic that many people have trouble with, yet it somehow gets overlooked. In this lesson, I will show you exactly how to set up and structure code for commercial games.
Tagged With: c++ leadwerks
4gency’s First Year Pt. 1: A Look at Armored Drive
May 09 2013 01:22 PM | Posted By Charles N. Cox
in Business and Law
This is Part One of a series of posts about 4gency’s first year in operation, including data on monetization, app marketing campaigns, and user acquisition
Tagged With: postmortem ios mobile monetization
Documentation for Indie Studios: Why do you need it? UNDER REVIEW
May 09 2013 07:00 AM | Posted By Ivan Spasov
in Game Design
This article features the importance of writing down good documentation for the entire development process. This is applicable for the indie studios and indie developers and teams that quite often miss out on this important step.
Tagged With: design documentation technical indie
Building a First-Person Shooter Part 1.1: Visual Studio Setup UNDER REVIEW
May 08 2013 11:00 AM | Posted By Chris Vossen
in Game Programming
This is the second lesson in a set of tutorials that demonstrate how to build a complete first-person shooter game, from start to finish. In this lesson we will use Visual Studios C++ along with Leadwerks 3 to setup our code base.
Tagged With: leadwerks visual studio tutorial fps c++ lua native code design mobile ios android pc mac