Enemy Detection and Firing
Learn how to detect enemies and shoot projectiles at them. A continuation of the tower defense tutorial series.
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- How to Create Random Tables and Batch Rolls
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- Learn how to create Random Tables and combine them into Batch Rolls to generate multiple results with a single click. This guide shows you how to build tables, add entries manually, in bulk, or with AI assistance, and reuse them to quickly generate NPCs, locations, encounters, and more.
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- How to Turn AI-Generated Art into a Pixel-Perfect Game Sprite
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- Creating game sprites used to take hours of painstaking work, drawing frame by frame, tweaking pixels, and hoping the animation felt right. AI-generated art enables you to create a whole sprite sheet in seconds, but it still takes some effort to get it pixel-perfect and ready to use in a game. In this post, we’ll show you how to take AI art and transform it into a polished asset that moves fluidly, letting you focus on building your game instead of wrestling with every frame.
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- Running a Sandbox Game with Zero Prep
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- Learn how to run a sandbox TTRPG campaign with zero prep using random tables. This guide shows how to quickly build towns, NPCs, and story hooks on the fly, freeing you to react and improvise with confidence. Includes tips, examples, and a printable Town Starter Kit to get started fast.
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Announcing the Tower Defense Tutorial Video Series!
The first video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.
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Turrets and Missiles Tutorial
Video tutorial about turrets and missiles in a rail shooter built with Unity3d.
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World Building
Explore our world building articles, offering guidance on crafting detailed settings, characters, and lore for your game.
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.
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Worldbuilding in Video Games
Building a narrative setting for your games is very important. Think through the vision for your world, draw from other work and experiences, and consider the limitations to build a compelling and interesting universe.
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Plotting a Game Path
As a game dev, creating an engaging game that hooks players is crucial. The critical path, a sequence of objectives, plays a key role. Here's a step-by-step guide for plotting it.
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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.
C# Lesson 3
Learn how to do some basic math with C# in the 3rd lesson from our series for beginners learning C#.
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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.
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Bubble Sort
Sample source code for implementing bubble sort in C# with an accompanying video explaining how to do it yourself.
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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.
Running a Sandbox Game with Zero Prep
Learn how to run a sandbox TTRPG campaign with zero prep using random tables. This guide shows how to quickly build towns, NPCs, and story hooks on the fly, freeing you to react and improvise with confidence. Includes tips, examples, and a printable Town Starter Kit to get started fast.
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Shaders in Unity: Core Concepts
Shaders are a powerful tool in game development, allowing developers to create rich, visually striking effects that can greatly enhance the realism and immersion of a game. However, they can also be complex and difficult to understand.
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Enemy Detection and Firing
Learn how to detect enemies and shoot projectiles at them. A continuation of the tower defense tutorial series.
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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.
A* Pathfinding Visualization
See a few video examples of a Unity program that visualizes A* pathfinding in a user friendly way with a tracing option.
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Using Cellular Automata to Create a Random Map Generator
Learn how to programmatically generate earth-like terrain using cellular automata.
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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.
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