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Scratch Changed My Perspective on Low-/No-Code Software Development Platforms (LCSDPs)

31 Dec 2023 8 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark

Recently, I started watching Harvard's "This is CS 50" (an introductory course to computer science). I prefer the 2018 version to the 2023 version, since the former is a little more detailed and includes some things that explain later concepts and to...

The War on "Make a Good Game, Make Good Money"

19 Aug 2023 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty

Video games have changed quite a lot over the past few decades. Digital distribution, better hardware, and self-publishing are just few of the many advancements the industry has made. However, there are also many people who lament the current state o...

Game Dev Diary: Witch's Brew 0.1 release!!!!

25 Jul 2020 3 minute read 10 comments X-51

The last few days I have put a decent amount of effort into my little side-project game, and I am super-happy with the progress I've made.   I've added a bunch of screens including a loading screen (blink and you'll miss it since there aren't many as...

Resolution: The biggest hurdle of designing a pixel art card game.

5 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Kia

Size is the first and often the most important aspect of graphic design, and for a pixel art style card, how big or rather small you pick your card's size in pixels, dictates how the card and its art looks. There are two major forces pulling your res...

Changed engine for better performance, new graphics and artistic support, DEVLOG Life-Bound Souls

28 Apr 2023 4 minute read 1 comment 0xGhostface

Well, I would like to start the post about the project mentioning that I decided to change the engine and programming language from Game Maker Studio 2 (GMS2) to Godot, this is due to the fact that I'm having problems to integrate information that wo...

Support my single game project at Hive! I present to you: Life-Bound Souls a 2D action RPG

18 Apr 2023 5 minute read 4 comments 0xGhostface

A long time I am with a game project that I am creating all by myself using the engine GMS2 that has the language based on C++ and Javascript which is called GML Code, this publication is not a request for funding, pre-release sale or cosmetic produc...

Open-Source Games

25 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments AtomicFirefly 🧩

I know I don't have the money nor manpower to make my dream games come to life, but I think that if more games were moddable or even open-source, the game industry would begin booming. By making every part of the game moddable, including the deepest...

Simple steps to create a blockchain game on Hive

14 Feb 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Bala

This article is going to give only a basic overview. I'm not going to go into technical details or any code in this article. For someone who would like to get started with gaming on Hive, this article can be of use to them. One of the biggest advanta...

Game Development with Various Tools: Possible Future Developments

16 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

One of the things that I have wanted to do for a long time (since high school, when I saw one of the other students making a simple side-scroller during lunch breaks), either as a hobby or professionally, is game development. It's why I took a two-ye...

Noft Games Monthly Report / July

8 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Noft Games

Hello there! We’re back at it again, giving you another blog post to recap all the updates that took place in the Noft Games Universe past month. Let’s hop right in!  Marketing Updates  📌 Happy to announce that the token distribution to the winners...