Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine Mar 24, 2008

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Tags: Game development, Game programming, Programming, Video games

The level editor for your games, that is. My personal experience of making games is that the behind the scenes tools such as level editors are at least half the work. If you’re lucky, you can use existing tools for creating the data but I guess that is very specific to a genre.

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Trackmania vs. HotWheels Mar 23, 2008

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Tags: Trackmania, Video, Video games

Thanks to whoever uploaded these two videos.

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More generated game content Mar 18, 2008

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Tags: Effects, Explosions, Procedural generation, Retro gaming, Software, Sprites, Video games

More game content generators.

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Dev Stories from the Past Mar 09, 2008

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Tags: Atari, Folklore, Games, Jeff Minter, Nostalgy, Retro gaming, Video, Video game music, Video games

A bit of nostalgy can never hurt anyone. To me, weird tales about old software are a source of inspiration — they are essentially war stories for nerds. Here are some cool software stories from the past told by the developers themselves.

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Generating game content Feb 22, 2008

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Tags: Fractals, Procedural generation, Retro gaming, Software, Sound effects, Sprites

If you can’t draw graphics or create sounds for your games, here are a few interesting tools I came across recently and can help you.

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