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The 'F' Word, Free Vs Not Free As A Game Dev Freelancer

Industry veterans Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick are joined by Richard Salyniuk from Canterkerous Games to discuss free vs not free as a game dev freelancer.

My Journey from Stay-At-Home Mom to Game Developer

A game developer? Me? That’s probably what I would have said to you two years ago if you had told me that would be my job title today. I

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Super Powered Study Tips for Game Developers!

While I was attending college I learned a lot of study strategies, and in this blog I'm going to share them with you! I'll go over tips for scheduling your study time, studying instructional videos, and recording and organizing what you learn

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How to make AI sentient in Unity, Part II

In the second, and final, part of the miniseries about AI senses, I'm going to guide you through an implementation of reactive AI behavior for patrolling between selected points, chasing a player when it's seen, and investigating a location player has been heard on.

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How to make AI sentient in Unity, Part I

In the first of two parts miniseries about AI senses, I'm going to guide you through an implementation of eyes and ears for NPCs, that takes advantage of inheritance and UnityEvents. In the subsequent part, I'll show you how to create some reactive behaviors using the state pattern.

Turning Laser Defender into My First Attempt at a Full Game (Pt. 4)

In this last section, I'll briefly discuss some of the design elements I haven't covered and also provide some final impressions of what I've learnt overall. Narrative: The Shortest SectionYeah…

Turning Laser Defender into My First Attempt at a Full Game (Pt. 3)

Pixel Art (…or Pixel-ish art???)Oh, what was I thinking…? If I had not attempted to do the pixel art for this project, it would have cut the timeline in

Turning Laser Defender into My First Attempt at a Full Game (Pt. 2)

Unity & Visual StudioOkay- this is what drove me to seek out GameDev.tv’s 2D Unity course in the first place. I didn’t know how to code and

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Creating an InventoryItem Editor Part 4

It's time to make our first real Action, and finally put that Tooltip Preview in our editor!