Happy Friday! We have a new crossword puzzle made with the ridiculous headlines from the past 2 weeks! On this week's puzzle: "South Koreans turn to ____ to glean their pets’ thoughts" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

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A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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If you're stressing about releasing your game on steam because you might mess something up, this should help your imposter syndrome: Ubisoft released Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on steam... without including the game. #gamedev #indiedev www.polygon.com/ubisoft-hero...

Ubisoft’s Botched Release of Classic Might and Magic Game Was a Hilarious Blunder

Ubisoft accidentally launched Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete on Steam without the game files, while its new remake divides longtime fans.

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Wait. Eve online runs on Python??? I thought that was a joke! Also, good luck y'all migration is hard work. www.eveonline.com/news/view/th... #gamedev #python

The Move to Python 3 Begins! | EVE Online

How do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code?

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Ever wonder why the Super Nintendo was "bumpy" or "uneven" compared to the original NES? It was designed that way on purpose to prevent people from placing drinks on it, which apparently was one of the more costly and common repairs for the NES. #snes #nes #retrogames

The Snes turned 35 recently (NA release) and Linux turns 35 today. Naturally, I had to see if anyone got Linux to run on Snes. Of course they did. chorman0773.github.io/SNES-OS/ #snes #linux #retrogaming

New Blog! What do blue shells, snowballs, and quitting have in common? A big reason why player stop playing or caring about your game is that they feel their actions don't matter. So, here we talk about catch up mechanics and keeping players in the game. #gamedev #indiedev #gameMechnics

Players don’t need to win, they need to matter.

Designing Catch-Up Mechanics: Blue Shells and Snowballs

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This one goes out to anyone reproducing bugs on a QA report. Your computer was probably tired. Cannot reproduce. #Gamedev #Indiedev #qa #programming

Part of Nintendo's E3 1996 B-Roll (recently digitized by VGHF) includes early footage of Mario Kart 64, then known as Super Mario Kart R! In this clip you'll find a different title screen, different character icons, and Kamek the Magikoopa as a playable racer.

New Headliner! Can you finish all the weird, but real, headlines? "Man Who Drank Heavily and Took Steroids Without Working Out Finishes ____ in Bodybuilding Debut" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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We took a week off to celebrate a year of weekly headliners (!!!) We're working on some some cool stuff and we're thinking about switching headliner to a monthly or biweekly format. But, for now enjoy bigger headliner cause a lot of stuff happened these past two weeks!

In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, green trampolines make Mario jump so high he goes offscreen for 6 seconds. By extracting his position values from the code, we can "zoom out" the stage and visualize his actual arc, which reveals just how absurdly high the jump is.

Solve our puzzle about last week's weird headlines! On this week's Headliner: Study: Dinosaurs were ____ after Chicxulub impact #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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We made it to 1 year of weekly headliner puzzles, and roughly one year since we started this company! Thank you all for talking game design with us!

What weird headlines did we have this last week? Find out on this week's puzzle: "Alleged Maryland bank robber brings ____ kitten along for attempted heist" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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Our 50th (dang) puzzle is now live! Catch up on some of the weird, but real, headlines form last week. On this week's puzzle: "Catch a python? This Florida restaurant will accept it as ____" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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Some game makers are always pushing the limits of their technology. #gamedev #indiegamedev #podcast

Game Directors Who Push Technology Forward

YouTube video by Videogame Workshop

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Answer: Japanese *NINJA* certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad

Videogame Workshop@videogameworkshop.com · 3mo ago

On this week's ridiculous crossword puzzle made of real headlines: "Japanese ???? certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

On this week's ridiculous crossword puzzle made of real headlines: "Japanese ???? certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

videogameworkshop.com

In case any of you all need weight references for your RPG weapons here's a handy guide: DM: "you swing your claymore and it hits with the equivalent force of a newborn!" #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

When your RPG has a "wait" option. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedev

Need a puzzle for Monday? Here's a crossword where all the answers are real headlines form last week! On this week's puzzle: "____ in Clown Wig Roundhouse Kicks Small Child" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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Getting the QA bug report on a Friday afternoon #gamedev #indiedev

On this week's puzzle: "Over a dozen ‘unauthorized individuals’ emerge from ____s in Brooklyn: NYPD" #crossword #puzzle #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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So, the true villain of the Legend of Zelda series is... game development. #gamedev #indiedev

Hyrule Interviews@hyruleinterviews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Takayama on the true menace in Hyrule, 2024. Source: Game Developers Conference (GDC) #Zelda #TearsoftheKingdomQuote #TakayamaQuote www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-dP...

I learned that conservation of ninjitsu was a major design inspiration for z-targeting in Ocarina of Time. The issue? Players had a hard time following multiple enemies. One of the devs noticed something similar happened in martial arts movies. Why not copy them? 🧵👇 #gamedesign #gamedev #Indiedev

This is still one of the best visualizations of how optimizing draw calls looks like at run time! Horizon Zero Dawn's open wold is vast, but not all of it is in active memory or rendered while you play. Instead, just the chunks of the level that are needed are loaded. #gamedev #indiedev

On this week's crossword puzzle of real ridiculous headlines: "Films more likely to star a ‘____’ or a talking animal than a woman over 60 study reveals." Play it now! #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames #crossword

HEADLINER

A crossword puzzle about ridiculous news in horrific times.

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Yacht Club is doing a series of design talks on their latest game Mina the Hollower! @yachtclubgames.bsky.social does a good job of explaining their design decisions. If you haven't seen them yet, we recommend their talks on Shovel Knight too!

Yacht Club Games@yachtclubgames.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re going live soon! ⚓ Join Sean and David today at 11 AM PDT for Episode 1 of YCG Explains, our new live series about game development and more. We’re kicking things off with Mina the Hollower’s Sidearms - come hang out and ask us questions! 🐭🕯️ www.youtube.com/live/zKhxOzv...

Our favorite example of how much psychology can change your play experience: Essentially the same (blocks are in the same place) psychologically it feels more dangerous. An efficient trick to increase difficulty in a level without making it mechanically different. #Gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

Years later it's still crazy that Aliens: Colonial Marines was crippled by a spelling mistake in their ini file The surprising thing is that it went through QA and cert so it had to have been a last minute edit. Don't push to prod, folks. #gamedev #indiedev

Aliens killed by spelling mistake in 2013 Colonial Marines game

A typo in the code of a poorly reviewed game from 2013 is being blamed for one of its biggest problems.

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