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Kenney has their The Sims-style cozy game copied by another developer: "Please don't just copy my game" (www.gamesradar.com)

I spent a 2+ years and all my personal savings making this game (alone). I love survival games, but I also like cooking... so how about survival game with realistic cooking & eating animations? (programming.dev)

Here is the Steam link if anyone interested in: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3054440/The_Short_Snow/

Steamworks Quick Tips - Steam Game Recording and Steam Timeline API (www.youtube.com)

Unity Geometric Mesh Generator - Looking for Testers (lemmy.world)

Hello Community...

Has Nintendo shut down a game because it cloned the gameplay of one of their games?

I'm developing a game that very closely mimics the gameplay of the ghost minigame from Nintendo Land. I'm not including Nintendo characters, names, etc....

Let’s make games open source, so future generations can enjoy them (jairajdevadiga.com)

A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future....

Gotta love how informal open source game dev is (i.imgur.com)

Stolen from 2009scape Discord uwu

5 features I include in all my games | Speed features, a screenshot feature, saving & loading game state, debugging entry points, and various playgrounds (www.valadria.com)

(I didnt write the article, thats just the title)

My first game just entered Open Beta Test - turn based strategy with toy army men - Bedroom Battlegrounds (store.steampowered.com)

Hello all,...

Just placed 3rd at my first game jam!

Had to share with this community, I decided for my second game to just rip off the band-aid and I entered a game jam targeted at beginners. I placed 3rd - with 1st and 2nd going to more seasoned game developers. I never imagined that, going in, I would be on the pedestal. I just have to thank everyone that participates in game...

Game design. The Horizontal Slice (www.youtube.com)

I saw this posted by Grumpy Gamer, who highly recommended it. So I took a look....

Anyone interested in a book club?

So I'm reading The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell and I'm quite enjoying it. I don't really have anyone else in my life who shares my game development interests so I thought it might be fun to put together some kind of regular discussion. I've got a pretty long reading list, would nice to have someone to...

Learn with Kenney • Buttons & Menus (www.youtube.com)

A lesson learned: Without experience, overambition, over-eagerness and burnout can become very real very fast (abnormalhumanbeing.itch.io)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16304403...

Steam Best Practices: Developing an audience while developing your game - GDC 2024 (www.youtube.com)

What is a collision? (www.sassnow.ski)

Developing 'Hi-Fi RUSH' Backwards and Finding Our Positive Gameplay Loop (www.youtube.com)

Screenshot Saturday!

Share some progress, text or screenshots of some development on your game!

How does someone change the Alt-key behavior under Windows?

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GameMaker in 2024 Road Map (gamefromscratch.com)

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[Noclip] Embracing Chaos - How Hyper Light Breaker Survived 2023 (www.youtube.com)

(android) Any good board game tutorial you could recommend?

I'd like to start developing a board game I love playing. There's an iOS implementation of it, but none for android. I don't even know where to start and which principles I could possibly follow. I've been working as a (business) software dev for the last 20 years, so I have some clue about programming....

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