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How Good Habits Can Help You Ship Your First Game (and Your Second)

Summary

The secret to game dev success? Small steps, daily habits, and the courage to ship—even when it’s not perfect.

Publish date

Jan 15, 2025

Author

Baer Bradford
Title

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

Unity

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

Oct 24, 2015 sprites

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

Mar 15, 2015 unity

Parallax for Dummies

An enlightening guide on how to create a simple parallax effect in Unity. Using parallax is a really cool way to breathe life into your games.

TJ Brosnan

Author

Dec 04, 2023 news

Monthly Monday News - December 4, 2023

All the news this week

Jake Medina

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 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

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

Nov 26, 2024 world-building

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.

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

Feb 19, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 12

Lesson 12 in a our series about learning C# teaches you about working with methods.

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.

Apr 20, 2015 unity

Enemy Health and Explosions

Video tutorial about managing enemy health in a rail shooter built with Unity3d. We'll also discuss killing enemies in fiery explosions.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Sep 14, 2014 unity

Creating Health Bars using Unity GUI Textures

Technical talk from Matt Bauer about Unity creating scaling health bars in Nauticus Act III, the RTS style conclusion to Nauticus.

Matthew Bauer

Author

Nov 25, 2014 tower-defense

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

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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.