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Title

How to Track NPC Appearances Across Multiple D&D Sessions

Summary

One of the hardest parts of running a long campaign isn’t worldbuilding. It’s continuity.

Publish date

Feb 20, 2026

Author

Baer Bradford
Title

How-To: Real-Time World Mapping in your Session Logs

Summary

If you mention an NPC, Location, or Item that you’ve already created in the World Builder, the app recognizes it instantly.

Publish date

Feb 10, 2026

Author

Baer Bradford
Title

How to Create Random Tables

Summary

This guide walks you through creating custom Random Table Generators, from setting up a Generator and organizing its contents to building your first Random Table and filling it with entries. You’ll learn what each section of the editor does, how privacy and search metadata work, how to link tables together for layered results, and how to speed up setup with pasted entries or assisted generation.

Publish date

Jan 25, 2026

Author

Matthew Bauer

Unity

Check out our collection of Unity articles, covering everything from beginner tutorials to more advanced development techniques.

Jun 29, 2015 legacy-earth-video-series

Object Pooling

Learn how to create a simple object pooler in Unity3D in our series about building a 3D shooter on rails.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Oct 24, 2015 unity

Scurvy Siege Dev Log 1

Introducing a new project from Final Parsec's. Scurvy Siege takes piece from our past games to make a great new experience in the tower defense genre.

Baer Bradford

Author

Nov 30, 2014 tutorial

Tower Defense Tutorials Part 5

The fifth video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.

Matthew Bauer

Author

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World Building

Explore our world building articles, offering guidance on crafting detailed settings, characters, and lore for your game.

Mar 31, 2014 world-building

Using Cellular Automata to Create a Random Map Generator

Learn how to programmatically generate earth-like terrain using cellular automata.

Matthew Bauer

Author

May 25, 2023 fiction-writer

Writing Dialogue for Video Games

Writing good dialogue for video games is an essential skill for game developers to master, as it helps to bring the game's characters and story to life, and makes the game more immersive for players.

Jake Medina

Author

Nov 26, 2024 dungeon-master

Strategies to Craft Worlds Players Love

Learn to craft immersive, purposeful worlds for games with tips on organization, reusable lore, avoiding pitfalls, and keeping players engaged through curiosity and discovery.

Baer Bradford

Author

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Learn C#

This series of blog posts is designed to help you learn C# from scratch, with a focus on game development. Each post includes a video tutorial and code samples to guide you through key concepts and practical applications.

Feb 09, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 10

Lesson 10 in a our series about learning C# teaches you about working with arrays.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Jan 13, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 6

Learn about "while" loops, a way to make sections of code repeat, in our 6th lesson in the C# series for beginners.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Jan 21, 2020 learn-c-sharp

Bubble Sort

Sample source code for implementing bubble sort in C# with an accompanying video explaining how to do it yourself.

Baer Bradford

Author

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Tutorials

This section offers comprehensive tutorials on a wide range of game development topics. From design to advanced programming techniques, each guide is crafted to help you level up your skills in game creation.

Feb 15, 2015 unity

Ship Movement Tutorial

Video tutorial about ship and camera movement in a rail shooter built with Unity3d.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Oct 12, 2014 pathfinding

Tower Defense Tutorials Part 3

The third video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Jun 29, 2015 tutorial

Object Pooling

Learn how to create a simple object pooler in Unity3D in our series about building a 3D shooter on rails.

Matthew Bauer

Author

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Map Generation

Check out some posts related to 2D tilemaps for tower defense games, randomly generated maps for top down 2D games, and guides on pathfinding algorithms.

Jun 06, 2025 fiction-writer

Turning Your World Map Into a Compelling Story: A Guide for Writers, GMs, and Game Creators

Tools help you make great maps. But the story is still up to you. A map is not just a backdrop. It is the spine of your narrative. This post shows how to turn locations into narrative hooks for your game, novel, or campaign.

Baer Bradford

Author