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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.

Dec 07, 2014 tower-defense

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

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Dec 04, 2023 news

Monthly Monday News - December 4, 2023

All the news this week

Jake Medina

Author

Aug 03, 2014 tutorial

A* Pathfinding Tutorial

Technical talk from Matt Bauer about A* pathfinding in Nauticus Act III.

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

Author

Jan 15, 2025 project

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

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

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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

Jan 08, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 2

Learn how to read input from the user in the second lesson from our series on learning C# for beginners.

Matthew Bauer

Author

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

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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.

Oct 12, 2014 tutorial

Tower Defense Tutorials Part 3

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

Matthew Bauer

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

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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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.