game design

  1. VIDEO Assassin logic in games

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  2. Exploring Death Stranding: Stunning Graphics and Unique Storyline Await

    First, a few screenshots: As one can see the graphics are superb and requirements are surprisingly low: OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows® 10. PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200. MEMORY: 8 GB. GRAPHICS: GeForce® GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB. Direct X: Version 12...
  3. Microsoft Store empowers students with free Computer Science Education Week workshops

    One hundred and thirteen years ago in New York, a girl was born into a generation where the average woman was more likely to perfect a signature pie recipe than solve a pi-based equation. Pushing against expectations, this girl became one of the pre-eminent technologists of our times and made it...
  4. Making mixed reality: Meet the mind behind interactive film Free the Night

    Link Removed Created by Nicole McDonald and JauntVR, the full immersive app experience Link Removed is now available on Link Removed. Read on to learn how its award-winning director made her childhood dream into a reality. Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Link Removed, creator of Link...
  5. Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge Updates

    When we launched the Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge in June, we had big plans for not just a contest, but a way for indie game developers to connect with each other and show off their skills and experience. We didn’t set out to replace existing communities, but maybe we could create a little...
  6. Making mixed reality: a conversation with Lucas Rizzotto

    Link Removed I first met Lucas Rizzotto at a Link Removed hackathon last December, where he and his team built a holographic advertising solution. Fast forward to August, and he’s now an award-winning mixed reality creator, technologist, and designer with two HoloLens apps in Windows Store...
  7. Made with Unity, Coded on Surface – The Story of Contingent 99

    Over the next few months, we will feature game creators who are making games using the Unity game development platform. We’ve partnered with the Made with Unity program to showcase some of the amazing, talented game developers out there and how they use Surface to make their games come to life...
  8. VIDEO Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Adds New UWP Exporter

    New developers – bring your app to various devices on Windows 10 with a simple mouse click. Link Removed has joined the Universal Windows Platform revolution with the release of its new UWP Exporter for Link Removed, a game and software creation tool used to write 2D games and apps across...
  9. Codeless game engine Buildbox adds Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support

    Buildbox—which allows users to create games without needing to code or program—has been used to create a number of Top 100 games. Developers like David Riechelt who created the hit game Color Switch with Buildbox, have been using the software to build chart topping games across multiple...
  10. Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp

    Last December Miguel de Icaza blogged about a cool, cross platform, light weight 3D game engine that's very C# and friendly... Link Removed [Post Copied in Full] Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as...
  11. Building Windows 10 Games with Unity 5

    In our second Link Removed theme week post, Link Removed and Link RemovedLink Removed spend 6+ hours teaching you have to create 3D Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform games with Unit 5... Link Removed Are you looking to build 3D games with Unity 5 for the Windows 10 Universal Windows...
  12. Coding4Fun Second Quarter 2015 Round-Up

    June is the quite before the storm month. With Windows 10 and related items coming out next month, well July and August are going to be exciting months! Coding4Fun Blog Small Basic Gets a Not So Small Update... v1.1 Intel Galileo V2 and You Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Retargeting Extension...
  13. Running Cocos2d-x on Windows 10

    With Microsoft’s latest open source code contribution to the Cocos2d-x project [https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/pull/12107], Microsoft has enabled Cocos2d-x to run on Windows 10 on the Universal Windows Platform. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) makes it possible to target all Windows...
  14. Learning Unity 3D

    I've received a number of emails and comments about Unity, mostly "How do I get started..." For those looking to get started, today is your day! Vahe Karamian recently published a great 10+1 series of posts on learning Unity 3D. UNITY 3D - Game Programming Introduction Introduction It has...
  15. MonoGame says goodbye to XNA (and that's a great thing)

    I've highlighted MonoGame a number of times but it's always been dependent on XNA, which has been dead for a few years now, making it a little complicated to use. Until last week. MonoGame has just reached a huge milestone and has left XNA behind for good... Here are just a few of our MonoGame...
  16. Unity, Unity and some Visual Studio too

    While we're still going with our "OMG, is it still summer... School is starting when?" theme, today's post isn't really for the kids. It's to help you build awesome and cool stuff FOR kids. It's also a chance to share a free Visual Studio extension that will help you build stuff using one of...
  17. Windows 8 Anybody interested in reviewing a recently published Windows 8 Game Development book?

    I have a few e-copies of Learning Windows 8 Game Development (http://www.packtpub.com/learning-windows-8-game-development/book) available for review. If interested, just do the following: 1. Drop an email to me with the subject line as "Learning Windows 8 Game Development - Review Request" on...
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    Windows 8 Introducing Rush^3: A 3D Arcade Game on Windows 8 - Get It Free and Share Your Feedback!

    I am an amateur web developer and I would like to introduce you my last creation: Rush^3 It´s available for free and without ads at the Windows 8 store, (web link: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/es-es/app/d5e21bf0-efc7-4609-9f71-561c76664c91) I would like to encourage you to give it a...
  19. VIDEO [C#] Reversi Program - Using GDI With Fully Integrated Logic Class

    Probably one of the most advanced games I've tried recreating. I don't make a lot of games, but the logic here on a matrix was a little convoluted through the development stages. What I mean by fully integrated logic is that the control itself does absolutely everything for you. You can...
  20. Who Thinks Game Devolopers rely on patches too much?

    Who thinks devolopers of todays game rely on patching and after release expansions way too much. Games are being rushed to met certain release dates and they are filled with bugs they are not taking the time to debug there games and do in-depth beta testing they think put it out we can patch it...