How to Create Artistic Backgrounds From Photos With These 3 Photoshop Actions
What You'll Be CreatingBackgrounds are an important—if sometimes underappreciated—element for many designers. Whether you're creating a game, visual novel, or website, the backgrounds you choose play a...
View Article12 Gamedev Engines and Platforms (And the Best Ways to Learn Each of Them)
Learning a new language, engine, or platform for game development can be overwhelming; either there are too many books and tutorials out there, or it's hard to find any that suit you!In these guides,...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Own Game
When you get stuck in a video game, you might head to GameFAQs to find a walkthrough to help you get through it. When you get stuck making your first video game, what can you do? That's where this...
View ArticleHow to Create an Abstract Icon Set in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to how to create an abstract icon set in Adobe Illustrator! The theme we're working on will be chess. In this tutorial we will learn the step by step process of how to...
View ArticleInteractive Storytelling: Non-Linear
In this final part of our series about interactive storytelling, we'll talk about the future of storytelling in videogames.Non-Linear Interactive StorytellingOr the Philosopher's StoneNon-linear...
View ArticleCreating Toon Water for the Web: Part 3
Welcome back to this three-part series on creating stylized toon water in PlayCanvas using vertex shaders. In Part 2 we covered buoyancy & foam lines. In this final part, we're going to apply the...
View ArticleCreating Toon Water for the Web: Part 2
Welcome back to this three-part series on creating stylized toon water in PlayCanvas using vertex shaders. In Part 1, we covered setting up our environment and water surface. This part will cover...
View ArticleInteractive Storytelling: Linear Storytelling
In the last article we saw where the need for storytelling comes from, which is something intrinsic to humankind, and we said that telling a story means basically to convey a messagein order to obtain...
View ArticleCreating Toon Water for the Web: Part 1
In my Beginner's Guide to Shaders I focused exclusively on fragment shaders, which is enough for any 2D effect and every ShaderToy example. But there's a whole category of techniques that require...
View ArticleInteractive Storytelling: Why and How We Tell Stories
Telling StoriesOne of the main activities of humankind is telling stories. We all tell stories. When we describe the day just passed to our partner over dinner, we’re telling a story. When at the pub...
View ArticleCreating a Unity Game With PlayMaker
What You'll Be CreatingIn this article, I will show you how to make a game object move in five minutes or less using the PlayMaker add-on for Unity, with no code. Download UnityIf you haven't already,...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name? Data Analysis of 5,820 Steam Games
What’s in a name? More than you’d think. Whether you’ve been working on your game for a long time or you’re just entering the planning stages, at some point you’re going to need a name. The title of a...
View ArticleCreate an Animated Movie in Blender: Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingIn part two of this series on creating an animated movie in Blender, we will discuss how to properly render your scene, add sound, and prepare your video for export.Rendering...
View ArticleHow to Create a Guitar in Cinema 4D: Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D Guitar model that you can use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D quickly. Some of...
View ArticleHow to Create a Guitar in Cinema 4D: Part 1
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D Guitar model that you can use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D quickly. Some of...
View ArticleHow to Create a Computer Screen in Cinema 4D: Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D Computer Screen model to use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D quickly. Some of...
View ArticleHow to Create a Computer Screen in Cinema 4D: Part 1
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D Computer Screen model that you can use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D...
View ArticleHow to Create an Alarm Clock in Cinema 4D: Part 1
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D Alarm Clock model that you can use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D quickly and...
View ArticleHow to Create an Alarm Clock in Cinema 4D: Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D Alarm Clock model that you can use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D quickly and...
View ArticleHow to Create a Switch in Cinema 4D: Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D Nintendo Switch model to use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D quickly. Some of...
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