Game Development

Please don't star trivial messages.

People are volunteering their time to help you, so please put in the effort to be clear and specific with your questions. Otherwise, folks might get the impression that you're wasting their time.

@liggiorgio Hey, I just want to mention: thanks for your involvement with the site :)

just shipped a HUGE update; shifted the whole meta of DbD.

So I finished the game I was working on! It's not the planetary physics game—some things were't working quite right and I wasn't going to get that done in time. But the stuff that was working right was enough to make a non-planetary space invaders parody, and that's here now: Defeat Bolas!!

Every time I see star responsibly I'm tempted to star stupid shit. :D

PSA: we now only need 3 votes to close on GDSE.

The 2014 GDSE Summer Game Jam will take place on July 4-6th! Mark your calendars

I'm of the opinion that losing hours to a problem and sapping my motivation through frustration is more harmful than looking a bit naïve for a few minutes but getting help to overcome the issue faster. 😉

People shouldn't be dicks in SE chatrooms. They are intended to be a professional off-shoot of the main site.

GORB is now on Greenlight - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=752274066

It's not a "read these three books and you're done" kind of thing. Game development is a constant journey of learning and re-learning.

A big book of game math just went free to read online

Tallowmere, coming to Wii U on Sept 1: tallowmere.com/wii-u

Woot. My course with Lynda.com just went live, Advanced Unity 3D Game Programming

A nice listing of different gamedev tools I stumbled across

You can't expect everything that Jon says to make sense, really

Is there a markdown editor (preferably on-line, widows portable app would be okay too I guess) that has mathjax support? I thought I recalled someone sharing a link at one point, but can't find it. I thought I'd cut my way through some more of the entries for convertion posted in meta. But I don't always have time to do an complete post in one pass & dislike doing the cut & paste dance to & fro local files.

Please wash your hands. Thanks.

Excessive worrying about realism will make your game not fun

Happy Pride!

Poor mobs. First they don't exist, then they are spawned in and get cut down by the "heroes". Sometimes they manage to defeat the heroes, but their world goes blank all the same.

SOMEBODY PURCHASED MY APP! OH MY OHMY! OHOMHOM!!!! MY FIRST "PLAYER"!!

@user16217248 Here's the official help on question bans and highly upvoted meta answer about question bans. If there is any additional secret sauce, I don't imagine that mods are going to be able to disclose information about it.

moral of the story: make your own game for fun. Make other people's game for money

...delete all your code.

from 1k to 5k views

I did not expect a performance question involving GDI & Windows Forms to generate 1k views.

Remember that cryptocurrency doesn't create value out of nothing. It just attracts investment. So by mining crypto, you're not creating new money to donate to charity. You're just moving around existing value created in other ways. That value could be directly donated to charity without crypto as a step in between.

This is stackexchange. No fun allowed.

Well good luck & strong skill to everyone today whether you're putting in work or balancing your life with some recreation.

Just "making an engine" without a game that comes with it is meaningless. How do you know the engine is actually useful?

The game made by our studio was released today and is on sale for now: store.steampowered.com/app/339210

#a11yTO Gaming went well today. I tried to livetweet it here, if anyone's interested.

I don't think people quit just because of one thing. It's always multiple things. But SE itself has delivered multiple things in a short time. Eventually it's critcal mass.

Oh yeah, I'm speaking at a game accessibility conference this Saturday, if anyone's in Toronto and interested in checking it out. The code in the tweet is good for $20 tickets.

It's not at all necessary, but somehow it makes me happy when tools actually work and have fancy features.

@Vaillancourt The shaders from the far realms show our mortal minds many things! Mwhahaha!!

Please star responsibly.

Cognizer released on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/711690/Cognizer

jgallant.com/Gorb

big launch, here we go: store.steampowered.com/app/340520