Amazon Acquires GameSparks Cloud Development Platform
The Telegraph has reported that Amazon has acquired GameSparks, a Dublin based company whose backend development tools are used by more than 10,000 developers. From the article: View full story
View ArticleD3D11 CubeMap GenerateMips only update one face.
Hello, I would like to generate mipmaps for a RGBA8 texture, however it only works for one face. Here my source: D3D11_TEXTURE2D_DESC desc = { 0 }; desc.Width = this->x; desc.Height = this->y;...
View ArticleTowers That Don't Like Each Other - A WIP Strategy Game
Introduction Hello! I'm a high schooler, and a friend and I are making a game! It's a strategy game called Towers That Don't Like Each Other. It's still a work-in-progress, but I figured I'd start...
View ArticleWhy your indie game dev team will fail
I wrote this article on Medium and thought I'd cross post it here: https://medium.com/@Slayemin/your-indie-game-dev-team-will-fail-108d4b663e7e This is based off of my own past personal experiences...
View ArticleFirst try
Hey what's up everybody. I'm brand new here and I'm looking for some feedback on a short story I started writing. When I was coming up with this, in the back of my head it was intended to be more...
View ArticleThe native side of Hololens
Good time of the day, members of the forum! I do not think that many have tried themselves in the development under Hololens, but nevertheless decided to write. In any case, all work with Hololens is...
View ArticleMali OpenGL ES emulator conflict with SDL2 on linux
I'm developing an android game and have been primarily using a PC build (on windows) with the Mali OpenGL ES 2.0 emulator, with a secondary Android Studio build for the devices. For various reasons I'm...
View ArticleSpace emperor (the player) and noble houses (AI)
This topic is to gather various somewhat related ideas, so feel free to go offtopic I don't have a specific question, I just wanted to discuss something along the lines described below. The player is...
View ArticleAny SmartFox users here?
I used SFS nearly 10 years ago on a Flex/Flash web-based MMO and liked it. As mentioned elsewhere I've some ideas for a sort of ".io" game which is technically a MMO though a simple one. I've seen...
View ArticleDo I really need a server to prevent cheating and ensure state consistency in...
In a simple, casual online game like Slither/Agar, would more experienced network/multiplayer developers say I need a proper game server, which maintains an entire world state and prevents clients from...
View ArticleNoble houses in space (politics, economy)
So, there is a space empire. It is lead by the emperor (the player) and there are several noble houses (AI controlled). There are also hostile aliens surrounding the empire. There is a sort of balance...
View ArticleHow your player’s thinking develop throughout their lives
https://sitavriend.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/how-your-players-thinking-develop-throughout-their-lives/ Developmental psychology is the study of how our cognitive processes change throughout our lives....
View ArticleDark Fantasy Text RPG[Profit Sharing - Part Time]
We're a team of three currently looking for our fourth member to replace recently lost crew on our project - specifically a Unity Programmer who can handle the coding side of things from start to...
View ArticleBrowser game - Flash vs Js, questions
Hello. I want to make a real-time browser game(mmorts), similar to Forge of Empires and Elvenar. I'm pretty familiar with PHP, Js(jQuery), AJAX/Rest API's, MySQL and HTML/CSS. I've red some similar...
View ArticleMobile Game Reviews: Let's Talk Tactical Monsters
In this daily blog (and video)-series I take a first impressions look at the best mobile games that I come by. Be sure to share your favorite mobile game with the rest of us in the comments below!...
View ArticleC++ NBody Fluid Simulation Experiment
Just for fun i have written a simple C++ 2D nbody fluid simulation in 4 different programming styles - just to see the differences in speed and maintainability. Its like my "Fluid Sandbox" program i...
View ArticleAlgo-Bot Returns
Over a year after the release of Epistory - Typing Chronicles, we are proud to have reached the milestone of an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' User Review score on Steam. This feels like a perfect time to...
View ArticleFeatured App: Starting With Soil
You can make stunning games with Corona, but you can also make amazing non-game apps. We would like to introduce you to Starting With Soil from Supertapp Interactive. In partnership between Whole Kids...
View ArticleWhat is expected from a scripting language?
Hi, I've been working on extending an existing scripting language which lacks some important features, especially classes and inheritance. To implement that feature, I have used a approach similar to...
View ArticleNiantic CEO to Keynote Austin Game Conference
The Austin Game Conference (AGC) today announced that John Hanke, CEO and Founder, Niantic, Inc., creator of the popular augmented reality mobile game, Pokémon GO, will deliver the show’s opening...
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