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"Find Yo Nuts" - How I screwed up my game release.
A soul crushing, honest break down of everything I did wrong as an indie developer while making and releasing a game. Read on and maybe avoid some of the same mistakes.
March 10, 2016
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Subverting Player Expectation
A discussion on 'subverting player expectation'; doing something different with a game's mechanics and gameplay not only to make it engaging and keep it from becoming predictable, but also to strengthen story beats and communicate character emotion.
March 10, 2016
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Creating natural paths on terrains using pathfinding
Pathfinding is not just for finding paths for AI agents. It’s also for procedurally creating paths. Here's my findings for how to create paths on terrains that are steepness-avoiding and look natural, as if they were designed by humans.
March 10, 2016
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Three days with Clash Royale
When Clash Royale (Supercell‘s latest effort) was released worldwide last week, I decided to give it a spin. The surprising result: I really like the game, but I also uninstalled it after 3 days. Here's why.
March 10, 2016
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Beyond the State Machine
Jean Simonet takes a deeper look at how new language features, such as Coroutines, Closures and Continuations can help game programmers write more robust and readable Gameplay and AI code. This is a follow up to his article Logic Over Time.
March 10, 2016
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How to fail in games business
The motivation of this blog post is to characterize different kinds of behaviors of game entrepreneurs and business owners which have resulted into business failures.
March 10, 2016
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Game Developers Conference 2016 - Reasons To Be Cheerful
So, it’s 2016 already, and the 30th (how did that happen?!) edition of Game Developers Conference is almost upon us, rolling towards us pleasantly, imposingly, but inexorably. Here's some tips for interesting happenings at the event...
March 9, 2016
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Generating Gladiators
In this blogpost I talk about the process and decisions we made in generating the character meshes for our game in production, and the tough call we made to change everything late in the game.
March 9, 2016
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Subversive Humor in Games
I am here to advocate on behalf of the ridiculous.
March 9, 2016
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Musicology Miniatures: Part 1. Wildfire's Dynamic Map Music.
A musical analysis of Wildfire's dynamic map music, with video made by the composer to explain how to create melodic, rhythmic and textural content that can seamlessly transition alongside game state.
March 9, 2016
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A Week on Steam Greenlight - What we did right and what we did wrong.
On the 26th of February we launched the Steam Greenlight campaign for Brut@l, after a week we now sit in the top 20 out of 2000. In this post I share what we did right as well as what we did wrong.
March 9, 2016
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The end of the mobile games gold rush, RIP Tactical Heroes
Originally published on alexisbonte.com. I tell the story of why we failed with Tactical Heroes a multiplayer TBS game for iPad and iPhone. I also explain why the mobile games gold rush is over & cover the differences between both main App Stores.
March 9, 2016