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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.

Sep 16, 2023 game-design

Creating a Parallax Effect in Unity: Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to breathe life into your Unity projects with parallax effects in this step-by-step tutorial.

Matthew Bauer

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

Oct 12, 2014 pathfinding

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

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World Building

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

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

Jun 06, 2025 map-generation

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

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.

Baer Bradford

Author

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

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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 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

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Jan 13, 2020 learn-c-sharp

C# Lesson 6

Learn about "while" loops, a way to make sections of code repeat, in our 6th lesson in the C# series 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

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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 28, 2015 tutorial

Turrets and Missiles Tutorial

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

Matthew Bauer

Author

Sep 28, 2014 map-generation

Announcing the Tower Defense Tutorial Video Series!

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

Matthew Bauer

Author

Aug 03, 2023 tutorial

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.