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Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdy...

Warning: this is a fairly technical game developer-y post. If you came here for gay sex, I'm sorry. For an upcoming project commission, ...

Hello all. It's 2020. The world feels... different. Hopefully you're all doing OK! A recap of what I've been up to -- In the...

I recently used Unity Timeline to do cutscenes in a game. Once you figure out how to use it, it works great, but that learning curve of ...

I wanted to be able to write game dialogue in Google Docs (from my phone or tablet, or to share with external collaborators) and then aut...

My colleague Clara Fernandez-Vara pointed me towards this great game writing talk by Jon Ingold this year at AdventureX , an excellent ...

OK I know Heavy Rain isn't an FPS but I like this screenshot so I don't care Every semester for our introductory Games 101 hist...

Traditionally, game developers use Unity for real-time 2D and 3D games and shun any use of pre-rendered video, partly out of design dogma...

A month ago I attended a one-day  Games As Research symposium , hosted by TAG at Concordia University and organized by Rilla Khaled and...

After advising several game dev students on their portfolio websites, I realized I was basically giving the same advice and pointing out ...

This post is aimed at beginner / intermediate designers. It's a summary of the talk I gave at the GDC 2018 Level Design Workshop wi...

I've been sculpting a lot in VR lately (via Oculus Medium) trying to figure out whether it's "the future" or not. While ...

I've been using Yarn for a little while, and I've grown to prefer it as my "talking to NPCs" solution for game developm...

I've just finished playing through all of Half-Life 2 on my level design streaming show, Level With Me. Much like with my playthroug...

from de_crown , by FMPONE and Volcano UPDATE, 11 NOVEMBER 2021: this blog post is OK, but I would recommend reading the "Blockout...

So I'm working on (another) article about level design in Half-Life 2. I chose the d2_coast03 map of the Highway 17 chapter, which is...

I'm working on a game that uses the excellent Yarn and YarnSpinner narrative toolkit for Unity. For this project, I'm also collab...

Unity's blendshape controls -- basically just a list of textboxes -- were going to cause me a lot of pain. After wrestling with broke...

This is a rant + technical guide about how to get an Oculus Rift DK2 to work with Unity 5 so that you can make stuff with it. Maybe. I...

  I recently implemented an in-game options menu in Unity. Mine looks something like the thing above. A surprising amount of the required...