The Mirror Godot Powered Engine Goes Open Source (gamefromscratch.com)
The Great Winter Tower Defense Game Jam (itch.io)
Hi everyone, I feel like making a little tower defense game next weekend, and I figure I’ll see if anyone wants to make it a party - join the jam and get in on the fun :)
Godot 4.2 arrives in style! (godotengine.org)
Roguelike games could have a Hardcore mode where the character gets weaker after every successful run and is deleted on death
A comment on one of those “What’s a good game concept you wish existed?” posts got me thinking. It described a game where you start out as OP and slowly lose your stats and gear as the game progresses. They suggested a Fallen champion type theme. This got me thinking about roguelikes, speed runners, and hardcore mode...
Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly (blog.paavo.me)
Bevy 0.12 (bevyengine.org)
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.2 beta 3 (godotengine.org)
Request for Map-Making Tips
Anybody have tips for planning linear/dungeon maps? I’m currently trying to create a metroidvania map and so far, I’ve done a rough map of my start and my hazard areas. I’m mainly concerned with how to guide players through the map with minimal ui aid, but any help is great!
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.2 beta 1 (godotengine.org)
Steam Visibility: How Games Get Surfaced to Players [official video from Steam, also available as a PDF] (www.youtube.com)
The discovery mechanisms at work behind the scenes on Steam, which inputs matter, and how Valve approaches the operation of a PC platform where any kind of game can find its audience....
Unity apologizes and updates their infamous Runtime Fee (blog.unity.com)
A discussion on LGBT+ inclusion in game dev and how game devs view the topic themselves.
I appreciate the gay, nonbinary and trans inclusion in gaming, but never forget: just because it was added to the game, doesn’t mean the people who worked on it were in for it. I’ve been working in video games for about 3 years in Quality. A friend from past job shared their office had to fire an employee, because he stopped...
Unity Price Change Fallout Keeps Getting Worse (gamefromscratch.com)
Unity frustrates devs with extra fees.
SAG-AFTRA Calls Interactive Media Strike Authorization Vote (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
"SAG-AFTRA is standing up to tyranny on behalf of its members,” stated president Fran Drescher.
Bevy's Third Birthday (bevyengine.org)
Anyone using Love2D/Lua? (www.lua.org)
Just out of curiosity: is anyone here using Love2D and Lua for game development? I have some experience with Unity but sometime ago started learning Love2D. Lua seems to very simple language to code in and since Love2D doesn’t have any graphical UI it sort of forces you to make everything work through code. As a beginner...
A Type System for Scripting ECS (ceesstuff.github.io)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1086370...
Godot Engine has a new funding platform and they're calling for help (www.gamingonlinux.com)
ACOS.games – Middleware platform for ReactJS multiplayer web games (lemmy.ml)
Hi Devs,...
Godot 4.1 is here, smoother, more reliable, and with plenty of new features (godotengine.org)
Adventures in AI Programming: Daily Experiments with GPT-4 (reticulated.net)
Synchronization in Vulkan (www.kdab.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1442017...
Gbstudio (www.gbstudio.dev)
A handy tool for developing vn style games for the Gameboy and Gameboy colour....
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.1 beta 1 (godotengine.org)
I am new to Godot, but I am looking forward to the new multi-monitor features.
Gamejam for terminal-based games: LibreJam 2023-06 [x-post] (sopuli.xyz)
This jam has some special rules: Instead of having a set theme and giving you free reign to use whatever tools you want, the roles are reversed: Your game can have any theme, but it must fit the following criteria:...