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To Burst, or Not to Burst - and How? An In-Depth Guide to the Art of Burst Campaigns
With 8.5M daily downloads attributed to the top 200 free US App Store apps, and Google Play seeing twice that many, it’s no wonder that every game developer dreams to make it to the top of that list. Find out how to up your store ranking AND optimize ROI
March 31, 2016
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The 5 Key Video Game Elements for Maximum User-Sink Time
The ultimate goal of all game developers is to create a game with maximum “user- sink time”, meaning gamers will pick up their devices, begin playing, and not bother coming up for air again until a few weeks later. Learn what elements make a game a user-
March 31, 2016
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UNET Unity 5 Networking Entity Interpolation Part 1 of 6 - Break Into Components
SyncVars update only 10 times a second by default, but your game updates much more frequently, at 50, 60, or more times a second. How do we deal with this? In this series, we will look into implementing Entity Interpolation using the Unity HLAPI.
March 30, 2016
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Road to SXSW: Bringing Breaker Blocks to SXSW 2016
A postmortem about taking Breaker Blocks, a tabletop game, to the 2016 SXSW Gaming Awards.
March 30, 2016
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Perceiving without looking: Designing HUDs for peripheral vision
Games often require players to keep their eyes focused on a small area of the screen. Here some recommendations (grounded in vision science) are given for making HUD elements visible in peripheral vision.
March 30, 2016
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Why did we decide to develop Permia - Duels II?
This article describes shortly the decision making progress behind the decision to develop Permia - Duels II - upcoming turn-based strategy game for iOS and Google Play.
March 30, 2016
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Why ditching mobile for PC may have saved our game
How we may have just saved our game from possible oblivion by launching on PC instead of mobile
March 30, 2016
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Interpreting Analog Sticks in INVERSUS
Players talk to your game through the language of a controller and the translation can be messy. If you can make an accurate translation, you can make a tight controlling game.
March 30, 2016
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Moving from NGUI to Unity UI
Originally released in 2011, Next-Gen UI (NGUI) was the pinnacle of UI in Unity3d. Since 4.6, Unity has had built in UI tools powerful enough to take over the job (UUI). These are my experiences moving a project from NGUI to UUI.
March 29, 2016
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Transparency in Mechanics and Game Design
Understanding what information to reveal and hide to the player is an important part of creating good game design, and today's post looks at that dividing line.
March 29, 2016
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Challenges of localizing a typing game
In Epistory, typing is the sole interaction the player has with the game. As you get to type a lot of words, in fun, varied ways, it also introduces challenges regarding translation work.
March 29, 2016
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Rhythm Core Alpha 2 for composing and performing: An Informal Review
Review of Rhythm Core Alpha 2 for Nintendo 3DS as a composer's sketchpad, creativity tool. and performance instrument.
March 29, 2016