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Game Dev Digest Issue #92 - Delving Into The Arcane by Mike Marrone on 04/30/21 11:27:00 am The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
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Tips aplenty this week. Plus topics on HUDs and UIs, how to improve your code, performance, visuals, and much more. Enjoy!
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February 21, 2021
In the
Unity for Software Engineers
series, I give an accelerated introduction to game development in Unity.
Subscribers have been following this series over the
past few months, often suggesting areas to cover or elaborate on. A few months
ago, a reader also a software engineer reached out to me (lightly
edited, emphasis mine):
The biggest unknown for me is: How do I start? What does the process of
creating a game look like? Should I build the scenes first? Should I design
the gameplay mechanics first? With business software, it’s much more familiar.
It’s easy to think, “Well, okay, I need to write the DAO or controller, etc.”
Writing Slapstick And Narrative As One by Pietro Polsinelli on 02/23/21 11:35:00 am The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
(Or from Wilt to a composable story engine.)
I had this narrative design problem: how could I define my game s “slapstick” scenes that mix movements, actions, barks and dialogues without hard-coding behaviour in something linked but not organic to the narrative content?
In the past, I have used dialogues and configurations (in Unity, Scriptable Objects) in order to somehow keep the narrative and plot separate from code (so not hard-coded LOL) but for a “slapstick” game I need a more dynamic and integrated solution.