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Strategies to Craft Worlds Players Love

Summary

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

Publish date

Nov 26, 2024

Author

Baer Bradford
Title

RoboFreeze Inc.

Summary

Two boys build an ice cream robot with off-the-shelf parts, aiming to revolutionize the industry. This is the rise and fall of their ice cream-fueled adventure.

Publish date

Oct 22, 2024

Author

Baer Bradford
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Shaders in Unity: Core Concepts

Summary

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.

Publish date

May 31, 2024

Author

Baer Bradford

Unity

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

Sep 16, 2023 game-design

Creating a Parallax Effect in Unity: Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to breathe life into your Unity projects with parallax effects in this step-by-step tutorial.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Jan 13, 2015 map-generation

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.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Oct 03, 2015 android

Deploying Unity Games to Android Part II

An addendum to a previous post that gives additional details if you're still having trouble deploying your Unity games to an Android device.

Baer Bradford

Author

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World Building

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

Jun 05, 2023 world-building

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.

Jake Medina

Author

May 25, 2023 world-building

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

Mar 17, 2024 game-design

Making a Video Game Character

Explore some tips for creating a compelling and memorable video game character that will keep players engaged and invested in your game.

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 03, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 7

You're familiar with "while" loops in C#, but but it's time to learn about "for" loops. Let's get loopy in the 7th lesson in our series about learning C#.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Jan 13, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 5

Run sections of your code only IF you want them to with the "if" statement in the 5th lesson from the series on learning C# for beginners.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Feb 03, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Project 2

Test out your knowledge on basic C# programming with a challenging project making a hangman game. Covers lessons 7-12 from the beginner series.

Matthew Bauer

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.

Dec 07, 2014 td-video-series

Tower Defense Tutorials Part 6

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

Matthew Bauer

Author

Nov 25, 2014 tutorial

Tower Defense Tutorials Part 4

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

Matthew Bauer

Author

Sep 16, 2023 unity

Creating a Parallax Effect in Unity: Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to breathe life into your Unity projects with parallax effects in this step-by-step tutorial.

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.