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Turning Your World Map Into a Compelling Story: A Guide for Writers, GMs, and Game Creators

Summary

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.

Publish date

Jun 06, 2025

Author

Baer Bradford
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How I’m Sharing Prototypes of My Godot Game

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Sharing prototypes early helps shape better games. In this post, I show how I use Final Parsec to instantly deploy and share my Godot builds for fast, browser-based feedback.

Publish date

May 13, 2025

Author

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

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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

Unity

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

Feb 28, 2015 unity

Turrets and Missiles Tutorial

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

Matthew Bauer

Author

Feb 15, 2015 legacy-earth-video-series

Ship Movement Tutorial

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

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

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World Building

Explore our world building articles, offering guidance on crafting detailed settings, characters, and lore for your game.

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

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.

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 08, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 3

Learn how to do some basic math with C# in the 3rd lesson from our series for beginners learning C#.

Matthew Bauer

Author

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

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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.

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

Sep 21, 2014 tower-defense

Deploying Unity Games to Android

Step-by-step instructions to learn how to deploy an existing Unity game to your Android device or get a game ready for releasing to the Play Store.

Baer Bradford

Author

Apr 20, 2015 legacy-earth-video-series

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

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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.