A solo developer's devlog documenting the making of Flatulence, a 2D game about a farting alien, covering art, music and Unity bug hunts. Each entry walks through the debugging process in practical detail, such as sprite slicing, collider placement and click handling.
Website: https://flatulencethegame.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 developers who made them. Covers famous titles and obscure ones, with original art collaborations and rare development assets.
An advice column by game developer Rami Ismail answering reader questions on the development, design and business of making games. Issues combine personal experience with practical frameworks on topics like shipping, perfectionism and decision-making.
A game developer's newsletter on multiplayer networking and game server hosting, with a focus on bandwidth costs. Issues mix personal industry history, such as work on Titanfall, with cost analysis of cloud announcements like AWS GameLift's free egress.
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