This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Riley Macleod on topics ranging from choice developers interviews to envisioning games without players. ...
"I record real players playing the games I'm making trailers for. I capture the sounds they make, and I watch how they react to the games. It's just normal folk having honest reactions to the game." ...
"To make your scenes look more believable it's worth considering what soft shadows can do for you... I will demonstrate some comparison cases to better understand how baked soft shadows work and can be set up." ...
"Random was too random. It was time to introduce some logic to the loot table. Of course, if every drop is Health exactly when you need it, the game becomes predictable. That's not fun either." ...
"In order to work with data, we chose a Top-down approach, going from overall Engine Architecture right down into Memory Management. But we still haven't talked about the actual data we will manage. We will do this here." ...
An engaging minigame can deepen a players engagement in the overarching game. We look at 7 instructive examples that game developers should examine closely. ...
An engaging minigame can deepen a players engagement in the overarching game. We look at 7 instructive examples that game developers should examine closely. ...
In what the college is calling "the first known instance of [an] art museum presenting a solo exhibition to a video game maker," the celebrated independent dev's games will go on show. ...
This timeless 2009 feature collects ten seminal JRPGs and another ten important Western RPGs and breaks down why they're important, what they do well, and what you can learn from their designs. ...
"In no way is the AI in Toto Temple Deluxe perfect, but it can put up an interesting fight without being too previsible, and that was the goal." ...