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5 reasons to become an indie game developer

So you want to become an indie game developer? Well, welcome to the club, is not an easy job but you will have a lot of satisfaction. But in this…

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Make games while traveling the world - A true story
Game Development, Square Maze Dev Diary

Make games while traveling the world: A true story

A few years ago, I decided to leave the office and become a freelancer, I thought that I would have more time to develop my own games and more time…

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Vector in game development: Understand the basics of vector math
Game Development, Tips

Vector in game development: Understand the basics of vector math

You know this moment would come, it’s time to speak about math. But what you’re going to see here is the basic math used for the development of video games,…

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How to Optimise and Increase Performance in Unity games
Game Development, Tips

How to Optimise and Increase Performance in Unity games

If you’re looking to increase performance in Unity and improve the frame rate of your game, this is the right place. You’ll find a ton of tips and useful insights…

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5 tips to increase the downloads of your mobile game
Game Marketing, Tips

5 tips to increase the downloads of your mobile game

I guess you’re another developer like me — a simple guy who loves to make games but is struggling to get results, in this article you will find some amazing…

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How to detect swipe direction in Unity
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How to detect swipe direction in Unity

Detect swipe direction in Unity is one of the most common issues to solve. I had this problem in one of my last game: ” Color Slide“. In fact, I…

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How to get a job in the game industry
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How to get a job in the game industry with 6 simple tips

Get a job in the game industry is not easy, even if  is and industry that makes more than 60bn a year and is growing year after year, is even…

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Game Development

Best free game development software and tools to make your indie games

The first choice that all developers have to make in their life, is to choose which game development software and tools to use to make games. In this article, we…

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Tips

Global Game Jam guide: get the most out of the ggj plus cheat sheet

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is one of the biggest events for game developers around the word. And is the biggest occasions where developers may be able to meet other…

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How to make games with a full time job

Making games with a full-time job is an incredibly difficult challenge. he fact is that we all dream of becoming a full-time indie developer. But same as the majority of…

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Game Design

Game design: The five stages of choice made by every player

If you have played a game before, you’d be familiar with the situation of “choice making” and the five stages of choice. The process of deciding on a certain choice instead…

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Game Marketing, Tips

Game marketing cheat sheet: all you need to know in one page

Every time I had to do marketing I spent a ton of time to doing research to find out the best way to do it. So I decided to save…

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Tips

Learn game development: How to build your game development skills

The life of an indie game developer is simple:learn game development while making games. Do you know that before Rovio became a successful company with angry birds, they made 51…

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Tutorials

Unity tutorial: how to fade between scenes

Unity doesn’t  have a native way to add a fade betweens two scenes. But that’s not a problem because with a couple of lines of code we can easily solve…

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Tutorials

Object pooling design pattern in unity c#

The object pooling design pattern is one of the most used patterns in the game industry. It’s the design pattern that you must know if you want to make games,…

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Game Productions

Game analytics: Analyze and improve your game with analytics

Why should you use Metrics and game analytics in your game? Most of the time the importance of analytics in game development is underestimated. But we must understand why metrics…

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Game Design

Game ideas: how to create your game ideas in 5 steps

So you want to come up with new game ideas for your next game, but you don’t know exactly where to start? There is a simple and efficient technique that…

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How to make games : 6 steps to become a game developer

So you wanna know how to make games don’t you? Here you will find all the possible tips to become a game developer. I must tell you that the road…

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Game Development

Code organizations: How to organize game code and classes

I always had problems to organize game code in a nice and readable structure. With that, I decided to write down the guidelines that I use when developing my games….

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Game Marketing

How to create a press kit for games and apps (plus press kit examples)

This article explains the importance of a press kit, plus some press kit examples and press kit templates that will help you to create your own press kit. Getting your…

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