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Title

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.

Sep 14, 2014 tutorial

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 tutorial

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

Jun 08, 2023 unity

How to Connect Visual Studio to Unity

Adding Visual Studio to your workflow may make the difference between finished project and flash in the pan.

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 31, 2014 world-building

Using Cellular Automata to Create a Random Map Generator

Learn how to programmatically generate earth-like terrain using cellular automata.

Matthew Bauer

Author

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

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.

Feb 03, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Project 2

Test out your knowledge on basic C# programming with a challenging project making a hangman game. Covers lessons 7-12 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

Dec 19, 2019 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 1

Learn how to declare and use variables in the very first lesson from our series on learning C# for beginners.

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.

Feb 15, 2015 tutorial

Ship Movement Tutorial

Video tutorial about ship and camera movement in a rail shooter built with Unity3d.

Matthew Bauer

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

Feb 28, 2015 legacy-earth-video-series

Turrets and Missiles Tutorial

Video tutorial about turrets and missiles in a rail shooter built with Unity3d.

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.