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Featured posts

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    How to Turn AI-Generated Art into a Pixel-Perfect Game Sprite
    Summary
    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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    Matthew Bauer
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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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    Baer Bradford
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    How to Supercharge Your TTRPG Prep with Random Tables
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    You've got a session tomorrow, and you're short on time. Prep can be a daunting part of running a game, but what if you could cut your prep time in half and still deliver compelling sessions? Enter: random tables.
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    Baer Bradford

Unity

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

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World Building

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

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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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Jake Medina

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Categories

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.

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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#.

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Matthew Bauer

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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.

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How to Turn AI-Generated Art into a Pixel-Perfect Game Sprite

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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Matthew Bauer

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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.

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