A solo developer documents the making of his first video game, Students Against Spooky Stuff, a cozy paranormal-investigation game inspired by Scooby-Doo and Animal Crossing. Readers get a personal look at design thinking, learning Unreal Engine from scratch, and the move from community management into indie development.
Website: https://devlog.mikeyoflegend.com
Developer blog on building OpenMU, an open-source MMORPG game server, covering architecture decisions, performance work and new features. Readers get detailed engineering write-ups with code-level reasoning and measured results.
Design Room publishes long-form oral histories of video games, built from interviews with the people who made them, covering famous titles and obscure ones alike. Issues also include community features and occasional updates on the publication's paid tier and plans.
A developer's blog about building Owlbear Rodeo, a virtual tabletop for role-playing games, covering design decisions like map alignment tools, automatic fog detection, and reflections on the developer's early programming history. Readers get detailed insight into the tradeoffs and features behind a niche TTRPG software product.
Rami Ismail's recurring advice column on making games covers development, shipping, design craft and the business side of studios, answering reader questions from studio founders and developers. Readers get practical methods for finishing projects, reflections on what makes game moments memorable, and frameworks for handling perfectionism and decision-making.
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