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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.

Jan 15, 2025 game-design

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

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

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

Nov 23, 2014 tower-defense

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

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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

Author

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 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

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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

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 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.

Mar 15, 2015 tower-defense

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

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

Aug 03, 2023 unity

How to use the Unity console

Learn the basics of programing with Unity! Starting with how to use the colsole.

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.