Good articles found on the web.
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Another great find, @toxibunny ! After reading the articles, I feel the urge to make an Outrun game!
Maybe one day...
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@waldron very inspiring - like it
21:33 "dream no small dreams" "go big or go home" -> additional interpretation: its ok to start many WIPs just because it could be cool ;-)
29:02 "a game has a finite amount of resources" -> oh yeah, free-time, length of the night, he suggest to watch the scope and use "modular" principle: re-use wherever possible -
@spikey said in Good articles found on the web.:
@waldron very inspiring - like it
21:33 "dream no small dreams" "go big or go home" -> additional interpretation: its ok to start many WIPs just because it could be cool ;-)That sounds like an invitation for me to start yet another WIP. I haven't even posted here about my BurgerFuzion WIP :)
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I don't know if this is super useful but it can help if u run out of ideas for ur games
1: https://www.gamedesigning.org/gaming/game-ideas/
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2: https://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegenIm not sure that the 2nd works to every1
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@landein207 said in Good articles found on the web.:
"An experimental game where you rewrite bread and it's sort of a parody."
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Idek lol it is random to generate ideas and is a true madness of silly ideas
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Rewrite bread huh?
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@toxibunny I didn't know this was even a thing!
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A handy video diving into sprite camera's with different set-ups -
An article about different approaches to AI for your baddies and npcs. Gives a quick overview from the very simplest to stuff I had to skip past to avoid a headache. Good to get you thinking though :)
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I've been subscribed to this channel for a while, but I found one of his videos that might be a great addition to this list:
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@Doriphor I tried watching that video, it's 47mins long and by the time it got to 1 min and 9 seconds it was over my head and I had no idea what he was on about. lol
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Nice article about designing video games bosses. Since that is exactly what I'm doing at the moment, I found it very interesting...
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelMolinari/20100619/87532/Video_Game_Boss_Design_For_Shmups.php -
Some nice pixel art tutorials...
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Here’s a good one to get started with isometric: http://clintbellanger.net/articles/isometric_math/
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I have just found this page about making functions to play musical scales and chords. It walks you through it, beginning to end, full pseudocode.
http://www.guitarland.com/Music10/FGA/LectureMIDIscales.html -
What a great find. Very interesting stuff!
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http://shmuptheory.blogspot.com/2010/02/anatomy-of-shmup.html
I thought this was a great article about designing shmups. I really tried to take in as many of these tips as possible when designing my latest game.
