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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.

Publish date

Jan 25, 2026

Author

Matthew Bauer
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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.

Publish date

Sep 04, 2025

Author

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.

Publish date

Jul 21, 2025

Author

Baer Bradford

Unity

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

Sep 03, 2015 android

Aurora TD Update!

The Final Parsec team has made a released a new version of Aurora Tower Defense and they're making a blog post to brag about it.

Baer Bradford

Author

Nov 23, 2014 tutorial

Enemy Detection and Firing

Learn how to detect enemies and shoot projectiles at them. A continuation of the tower defense tutorial series.

Baer Bradford

Author

Dec 20, 2022 unity

How to Install the Official Plugin for Hosting Unity WebGL Builds

This article explains how to download and install the Official Plugin for uploading Unity WebGL games to FinalParsec.

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.

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

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Feb 05, 2023 world-building

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.

Jake Medina

Author

Jun 06, 2025 world-building

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

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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.

Jan 13, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Project 1

Test out your knowledge on basic C# programming with a challenging project doing conversions. Covers lessons 1-6 from the beginner series.

Matthew Bauer

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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

Feb 19, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 11

Lesson 11 in our series about learning C# teaches you about working with using boolean operators to control logic flow.

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.

Jan 25, 2026 world-building

How to Create Random Tables and Batch Rolls

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.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Jul 21, 2025 solo-play

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.

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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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.