How-To: Real-Time World Mapping in your Session Logs
If you mention an NPC, Location, or Item that you’ve already created in the World Builder, the app recognizes it instantly.
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How to Create Random Tables and Batch Rolls
Learn how to create Random Tables and combine them into Batch Rolls to generate multiple results with a single click. This guide shows you how to build tables, add entries manually, in bulk, or with AI assistance, and reuse them to quickly generate NPCs, locations, encounters, and more.
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How to Turn AI-Generated Art into a Pixel-Perfect Game Sprite
Creating game sprites used to take hours of painstaking work, drawing frame by frame, tweaking pixels, and hoping the animation felt right. AI-generated art enables you to create a whole sprite sheet in seconds, but it still takes some effort to get it pixel-perfect and ready to use in a game. In this post, we’ll show you how to take AI art and transform it into a polished asset that moves fluidly, letting you focus on building your game instead of wrestling with every frame.
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Running a Sandbox Game with Zero Prep
Learn how to run a sandbox TTRPG campaign with zero prep using random tables. This guide shows how to quickly build towns, NPCs, and story hooks on the fly, freeing you to react and improvise with confidence. Includes tips, examples, and a printable Town Starter Kit to get started fast.
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How to Supercharge Your TTRPG Prep with Random Tables
You've got a session tomorrow, and you're short on time. Prep can be a daunting part of running a game, but what if you could cut your prep time in half and still deliver compelling sessions? Enter: random tables.
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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.
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How I’m Sharing Prototypes of My Godot Game
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.
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Shaders in Unity: Core Concepts
Shaders are a powerful tool in game development, allowing developers to create rich, visually striking effects that can greatly enhance the realism and immersion of a game. However, they can also be complex and difficult to understand.
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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.
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How to use the Unity console
Learn the basics of programing with Unity! Starting with how to use the colsole.
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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.
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Object Pooling
Learn how to create a simple object pooler in Unity3D in our series about building a 3D shooter on rails.
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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.
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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.
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Turrets and Missiles Tutorial
Video tutorial about turrets and missiles in a rail shooter built with Unity3d.
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Caching and Apache
Quick tutorial covering how HTTP headers affect browser caching and configuring Apache for your needs.
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Ship Movement Tutorial
Video tutorial about ship and camera movement in a rail shooter built with Unity3d.
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A* Pathfinding Visualization
See a few video examples of a Unity program that visualizes A* pathfinding in a user friendly way with a tracing option.
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Tower Defense Tutorials Part 6
The sixth video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.
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Tower Defense Tutorials Part 5
The fifth video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.
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Tower Defense Tutorials Part 4
The fourth video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.
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Enemy Detection and Firing
Learn how to detect enemies and shoot projectiles at them. A continuation of the tower defense tutorial series.
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Tower Defense Tutorials Part 3
The third video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.
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Tower Defense Tutorials Part 2
The second video tutorial of a series which takes you through the process of building a tower defense game.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unity Animator State Machine Tutorial
Technical talk from Matt Bauer about Unity animator state machines in Nauticus Act III. Simplify Unity state machines into manageable sub-components.
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A* Pathfinding Tutorial
Technical talk from Matt Bauer about A* pathfinding in Nauticus Act III.
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