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Nathan Tolbert pushes the limitations of new games on old consoles - Nathan Tolbert is a lead research software engineer at the National Center for Supercom…
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A look at the artistic side of things. Enjoy!
Level up: exploring the artistic side of video game design - Existing in parallel to a world of hyperrealistic CGI is a growing segment of gaming using illustration and painterly art to make mesme…
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Some game dev tips before we head into the eclipse. Enjoy!
2D Water Shader Breakdown - I wanted to try out some 2D reflections and ended up with this water shader. Sampling the noise textures with pixelated UVs really helped to make it fit wi…
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This issue has a bunch of great shader posts, animation related posts, and lots more. Enjoy!
Grass System Extension : Cutting - Here’s the post that explains how to extend the grass system to add the much requested feature to cut grass. The p…
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The Process of Mastering Unity for VFX & Simulation - Mirza Beig showed us his cool effects and simulations, recalled his journey with Unity and its Shuriken partic…
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Some more interesting posts for you heading into the weekend. Plus don't miss those flash deals! Enjoy!
My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing - There’s a certain simple animation thing that I’ve been using almost since I’ve ever…
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Lot's of great stuff on visuals and their technical implementations, plus a lot more. Enjoy!
2D Destructable Terrain in Unity using QuadTrees - In this tutorial we will create somewhat optimized destructible 2D terrain that will seem familiar…
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A New & Unique Approach to Creating Mirrors for Games in Unity - According to the developer, the novel method is faster than ray tracing and more detailed than Screen Space Reflections.
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Unity Presents a Novel Method For Generating Texture Maps - The proposed framework utilizes a PBR diffusion model in combination with a frozen RGB model.
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Efficient GPU Rendering for Dynamic Instances in Game Development - This article explores a custom rendering architecture designed to efficiently render procedurally generated geometry. O…
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Some insightful deep dives into how things work this week, plus the usual smorgasbord of great game dev topics. Enjoy!
The most important goal in designing software is understandability - When you're designing a piece of software, the single …
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Enjoy another week of tutorials, tips and good coding practices!
PID Controllers in Unity3D - This post will cover the use of PID controllers in video games. If you’ve ever used your car’s cruise control, flown a quadrocopter, or piloted a ro…
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World of Anork version 1.4 is out:
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Keep the new year chugging along with more great tutorials. Enjoy!
AI Content on Steam - Today, after spending the last few months learning more about this space and talking with game developers, we are making changes to how we handle games t…
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Hope everyone had a good end of the year. We are back for the first issue of 2024. Enjoy!
Making small games, which is fun in itself - Creating small games is an enjoyable endeavor in itself. So what constitutes a small game? According to the…
Drope.me announces an end-of-the-year initiative – Indie Game Awards. This is a community-driven initiative, where indie game developers take center stage alongside passionate gaming fans and influential streamers. As the holiday season starts and the time for giving gifts has come, everyone who en…
The past 2 months I've been working on moving away from Unity. Over the years I've made a lot of editor tools for use in Unity, and I found that Godot didn't really suit my project, so I decided to make a custom engine that has all the runtime features that I use in Unity, and to which I would expo…
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Unite 2023: Deepening our commitment to game development - In the Keynote, we’re kicking things off with a preview of the next major, supported version of Unity – with a new name. Say “hello” to Unity 6, our …
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World Of Anork is now released, in it's initial release:
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Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly - The teeth are not the only problem
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Making Immersive Games 101: Maintaining the Magic Circle - In this article, we explore the concept of the Magic Cir…
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Unit testing, TDD, Raymarching, Raytracing, Shader deep dives and interactions, plus lots more. Enjoy!
Physically Based Rendering (4th edition) now available online for free - Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation
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Hello, a special issue this week where I finally get to show you my own game! Plus more great content from other creators. Enjoy!
List of character flaws (150+) with examples - Flaws can make your characters more dynamic, relatable, and compe…
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Retro discussions, multiplayer tools and tips, plus a lot more. Enjoy!
The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet) - For as long as I’ve been writing shaders, there’s been one specific shader I’ve always tried to write. And I’ve always failed at it for r…
@Dirk Gregorius Our work focus is mainly on engine and tools development. nrgcore.com is not a game developer power house ?
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bigboybigbo said:
Hey! I was wondering if anyone had any advice for 2D visual programming engines.
The game my team is planning to make is super simple top-down pixel styled, but I need an engine that can handle full-quality 2D animation- and I'm unsure if any visual programming engines out there can…
Hi, I would like to tell shou you a short teaser for our upcoming game Wacky Chariots. It is an arcade racing game set in the fantasy world which is inspired mainly by ancient Rome and Greece. Compete on different tracks with up to 7 AI or human players or drive alone and try to complete some of th…
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Hi guys, a few months ago I published my first game "Descending The Abyss" :
Descending the Abyss is a
2D Dungeon Crawler - Roguelike
in where the players can choose between 3 different types of "heroes" to explore the Abyss.
Where they will found resources to craft new weapons and upgrade their …
Lucid Sight, Inc. Announces $2.58 Million Investment to Launch Colyseus Arena Cloud-Hosted Multiplay
Los Angeles, CA— Lucid Sight, the independent game studio behind MLB Champions, CSC with Star Trek, Herocade, Polyrunner, and several other games spanning VR, AR, and NFTs is announcing that it has raised $2.58 million to launch a cloud-hosted multiplayer service called Colyuseus Arena. Colys…
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Welcome everyone, we are working on a fast paced 2D roguelike in which you hype up the crowd to get more gold while fighting waves of robots in a futuristic colosseum. I also make DevLogs on youtube in case you prefer a video:
Up to this update this roguelike wasnt feeling that much like one. …
@ddlox Thank you so much for your feedback!
We will certainly take into account all your comments and try to correct the shortcomings!
The game is under development, so some content is not yet ready, but we plan to add women, as well as new enemies in the form of dogs and werewolves.
The game is creat…
Hi,
Just listing that we have alpha 1 of our open source 3D engine released. We have our own website, and the code is on GitHub and SourceForge.
We also have project/blogs on Gamedev tied to this account.
Just posting to raise awareness of the engine.
Things have evolved in C# 7, but many programmers still haven't. Today, let's talk about throwing exceptions in Unity — the C# 7 way —.
Indeed, exceptions are a tricky topic. If you mention them, devs will run to you and demand that you lower your voice.
Game developers generally dislike exceptions. …
The Weapons Test build lets you experience all the enemies, weapons, power-ups and explosive combat that Zirthian 1.0 will offer, featuring most of the beautiful final game graphics and sound effects. Improve your flight and combat skills and earn the in-game currency "Z's" to buy weapons and skins…
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Should you choose tight-fit or full-rect for your sprites in Unity?
You know, these graphical elements you use in ALL your games...
After all, you most likely use sprite renderers. Or at least, UI Images.
In this post, you will lea…
I removed it because people didn't see a reason to use the offensive ability “IAI Draw” when they then will not be able to heal then. The tradeoff was just not interesting.
IAI draw now has a 5s cooldown and costs nothing.
Healing is changed and will be subject to more changes in the fut…
[Visit the original blog post at Unity C#: Expression-Bodied Members to Reduce Your Code Verbosity]
Continuing with our Modern C# for Unity Game Development series, today I'm going to show you how to reduce the verbosity of your code with C# Expression-Bodied Members.
Note: this might upset some verb…
Have you ever crafted Unity C# code like this?
void ForceUpdateBackend()
{
StartCoroutine(ForceUpdateBackend_Internal(path: Url));
}
IEnumerator ForceUpdateBackend_Internal(string path)
{
var request = UnityWebRequest.Get(path);
yield return request.SendWebRequest();
Debug.Log(request.downl…
Harvester Entity is fantastic, just seeing it gave me the creeps, i can only imagine how scary that will be in game.
Today, I had the pleasure to interview Ian Deane.
Ian is the developer behind Mesh Baker, the famous Unity asset that lets you drastically reduce your draw calls so your game runs at substantially higher frame-rate.
Welcome Ian!
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Hello creatives! I am a composer that loves RPG's and fantasy games so I created Aurealis Odyssey: RPG Essentials. It is a musical asset project that is packed with your fundamental RPG/JRPG necessities. This bundle contains 76 tracks that embody the nostalgic RPG experience. You will obtain …
Hey dear Citybuilding Fan,
are you looking for a cool Retrostyle Aztec Citysim?
We are working on one right now!! Check it out in this video
We are heavily inspired by classics like Pharaoh, Ceasar 3 and Anno so we wanted to develop all the cool functions of those masterpieces.
- You can b…
We use Unity with Photon engine, I'm not the programmer of my team but if I can help I'll do my best
Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my work with you all. I’m a voice actor, and I’ve being voicing for several different companies over the past few years, and I wanted to get out of my comfort zone, and do a bit of networking elsewhere.
I apologize if this is not where I should have posted this, …