Getting Started Turning Laser Defender into My First Attempt at a Full Game (Pt. 1) In this post Nick shares his experience of creating his first full game, and the lessons he learnt on the way.
gameplay Capturing the Art of Gameplay Capturing gameplay effectively can help to highlight the level of detail and love put into these virtual worlds by their creators, whilst broadcasting them to a familiar or entirely new audience.
play testing How developers can use rapid user testing to build games that players love Gaming is a giant industry serving arguably the most opinionated and passionate consumers. Still, many games launch without any kind of consumer testing. But only testing ensures that you’re getting the details right.
coding Lets Finish the Inventory System Most RPG's have some sort of inventory system. With modular characters we can add to our existing one to make our inventory more realistic.
algorithms How Teaching Game Dev Found Me A small account about how I got into the game dev industry and began teaching game development.
We were nominated as a Top Game Development Podcast by Welp Magazine. K-B, creator and host of the GameDev.tv podcast, shares the story of how it all got started, some of his favourite quotes and who his dream guest is!
unreal Building a Dream - Part Three Someone once told us that being a game developer is 60% business and 40% of actual game development. Turns out those might be conservative numbers.
story Building a Dream - Part Two I decided to take the GameDev.tv course “Learn C++ and Make Video Games.” That course gave me the foundation I needed to transfer most of my experience with Unity into Unreal. Not long after, we had a working chess game for our demo.
story Building a Dream - Part One Our plan was to legitimize Catch Light Interactive as a legal entity, and then build a working prototype of our game. A demo of our concept to show potential contributors and investors that we were serious about developing a game and bringing it to the market.
Unity My game development story: How to fail hard and dust yourself off Late 2015 “Ha! It’s moving! It’s bloody moving!” I shout to nobody in particular. “What’s moving?” my wife asks, popping her head into my study. I stand
Unity How To - Basic Inventory in Unity (Part 1) An inventory system can be tricky to achieve, especially if you are a beginner, so, for those of you that keep scratching their heads, here’s a tutorial on how to create not one, but two types of inventories.
How I went from zero to making a trending Steam game about L.S.D. in less than a year BACKGROUND April 2020. The world is shocked due to the outburst of the Corona Virus pandemic. Many Countries have imposed a generalised lockdown in order to prevent the spread of
Data Persistence in Unity without using PlayerPrefs class If you've been using Unity for a while there's a high chance you've already used PlayerPrefs class to store data persistently across different game runs. In this post, I'd like to share with you a different solution.
Unity How to - Basic Pause System in Unity Having trouble creating a Unity pause menu? GameDev.tv Unity student and forum Master Problem Solver, Miguel, is here to help! Creating a Pause menu is one of those things
story Unexpected Journey to Game Dev: How I Knew Nothing about Coding 1.5 Year Ago to Landing a Publisher’s Deal to Release my First Game on Steam Read how Chris stumbled on his passion in the game dev craft, and went on to publish his first game BACKGROUND In June 2019, I handed in my resignation letter,
Creating an Open-World Space Game This is the journey of how 'Worlds Of The Future' became what it is today, and how we plan to keep pushing the limits of the game we love. In doing so we hope to bring you along for the journey.
RPG Creating an InventoryItem Editor Part 4 It's time to make our first real Action, and finally put that Tooltip Preview in our editor!
unreal How to import problematic models in Unreal Engine 4 In this post, I'm going to show you how to use Blender 2.8 to prepare almost any model so it could be conveniently imported to Unreal Engine and also how to create a material from provided textures.
Power Leveling with GameDev.tv My first experience with GameDev.tv was back in early 2018 at a small Starbucks down in Jacksonville, Florida.--With a lot of free-time and nowhere to spend it, I finally decided to explore game development.
Don't Ever Give Up! You've probably been told, your whole life through, that you shouldn't quit. Well I'm going to tell you the same thing again! Don't ever give up! When I was just
blender Blender Basics Challenge #2: Creating a Shield Model Following on from the last challenge, this time we’re thinking of a shield design with some added features of our own. Last time we created a sword to use
unreal Accessing Unreal Engine Marketplace on Linux Unreal Engine has enjoyed Linux support and is a first class member of their platform family. But the main roadblock comes when needing to use the Epic Games Launcher, that
RPG Creating an InventoryItem Editor Part 3 This is the third post in my series on creating an InventoryItem Editor in Unity that will edit any child of InventoryItem. If you're not caught up, you can read
game art Learning to Draw - How to Start for Complete Beginners Regardless of whether you're a complete beginner or looking for creative inspiration, we'll show you how to draw using basic shapes.
story A story about having two kids, a full-time job, no game development experience and selling a game in 14 months during a pandemic. Read about how Mike Capozzi utilized GameDev.tv to learn about game development and overcome challenges to release and sell Mystic Hammer.
