Blog Archives - Game Dev Friends Club https://gamedevfriends.com/category/blog/ Friends are the best resource Tue, 22 Sep 2020 02:28:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/gamedevfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-heart_emoji.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Blog Archives - Game Dev Friends Club https://gamedevfriends.com/category/blog/ 32 32 193675457 The Dev Efficiency Stack of 3StrakGames https://gamedevfriends.com/the-dev-efficiency-stack-of-3strakgames/ https://gamedevfriends.com/the-dev-efficiency-stack-of-3strakgames/#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2020 07:45:51 +0000 https://gamedevfriends.com/?p=9276 When we started 3StrakGames, we didn’t have any idea how to properly collaborate within a studio. As a result, we estimate that we lost approximately a year of development time! We are a two man...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/the-dev-efficiency-stack-of-3strakgames/feed/ 0 9276 How to finish your side projects https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-finish-your-side-project/ https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-finish-your-side-project/#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2020 07:03:56 +0000 https://gamedevfriends.com/?p=9242 The Birth of a Side Project A long long time ago, I started working on a new project. A side project. I decided I wanted to make a fan game for my favourite D&D...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-finish-your-side-project/feed/ 0 9242 Video Games & Dungeons and Dragons https://gamedevfriends.com/video-games-dungeons-and-dragons/ https://gamedevfriends.com/video-games-dungeons-and-dragons/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:18:22 +0000 https://gamedevfriends.com/?p=9228 A lesson in narrative Similar to many of you reading this article, I have become enamoured with tabletop roleplaying games, namely in the vein of Dungeons and Dragons. As a writer and a game...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/video-games-dungeons-and-dragons/feed/ 0 9228 How to teach your game, without a tutorial https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-teach-your-game-without-a-tutorial/ https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-teach-your-game-without-a-tutorial/#respond Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:59:45 +0000 https://gamedevfriends.com/?p=9206 TUTORIALS! Oh lord I hate them, nothing makes a game worse than jumping in and being stopped every three seconds by some acrid toned fairy, or elderly character blasting through the pavement beneath my...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/ldr-vs-hdr/feed/ 2 9183 How to Build a Marketing Campaign for your Indie Game https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-build-an-indie-game-marketing-campaign/ https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-build-an-indie-game-marketing-campaign/#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:46:47 +0000 https://gamedevoid.com/?p=348 This is a long post! I’d recommend setting aside some time to read it thoroughly and get out a notebook to jot down some notes on the things you want to implement. I am...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/how-to-build-an-indie-game-marketing-campaign/feed/ 1 348 Who wants to buy your game? https://gamedevfriends.com/who-wants-to-buy-your-game/ https://gamedevfriends.com/who-wants-to-buy-your-game/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:17:58 +0000 https://gamedevoid.com/?p=285 It’s easy to dive right into marketing your game without taking a moment to figure out who your target market is. Heck, I do it. This is especially the case if the game you...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/who-wants-to-buy-your-game/feed/ 2 285 Why Twitch is an essential tool for Game Developers https://gamedevfriends.com/why-twitch-is-an-essential-tool-for-game-developers/ https://gamedevfriends.com/why-twitch-is-an-essential-tool-for-game-developers/#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:36:38 +0000 https://gamedevoid.com/?p=209 I was sitting down to do some game dev for my Critical Role game and I had a spontaneous impulse to turn on a Twitch stream while I worked. Not someone else’s stream as...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/why-twitch-is-an-essential-tool-for-game-developers/feed/ 3 209 Environment Design https://gamedevfriends.com/environment-design/ https://gamedevfriends.com/environment-design/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:01:21 +0000 https://gamedevoid.com/?p=188 Lately I’ve been ultra focused on environment design for my 2D sidescroller game. The biggest piece of feedback I got on my first release of love you tender was that it was hard to...

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]]> https://gamedevfriends.com/environment-design/feed/ 2 188 Game Enemy Design Starter Guide https://gamedevfriends.com/enemy-design-starter-guide/ https://gamedevfriends.com/enemy-design-starter-guide/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:38:32 +0000 https://gamedevoid.com/?p=85 I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how enemies in video games work, and through the research I’ve done so far, I’ve put together an enemy design starter guide to consider when planning enemy...

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