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Crafting a "narrative instrument" with Yarn Spinner's Jon Manning - GD Podcast ep.31 Crafting a "narrative instrument" with Yarn Spinner's Jon Manning - GD Podcast ep.31

Yarn Spinner lead developer and Secret Lab co-founder Jon Manning joins us on the Game Developer Podcast to share the secret trick to teaching writers to code, sing the praises of good documentation, and highlight the value of a collaborative development community.

byJon Manning, Danielle Riendeau

Mar 17, 2023

A screenshot from Fortnite. A medieval town sits in the foreground with snow-white mountains in the background.

Inside Epic Games' "battle testing" of Unreal Engine using FortniteInside Epic Games' "battle testing" of Unreal Engine using Fortnite

byBryant Francis

Mar 16, 2023

7 Min Read

A map of generated land, with water and geographical features

How Tarn Adams upgraded and optimized Dwarf Fortress for its official Steam release How Tarn Adams upgraded and optimized Dwarf Fortress for its official Steam release

Mar 14, 2023

27 Min Read

Logo and graphic for the ChatGPT Open AI.

ChatGPT's AI-made game is built from a game that already exists ChatGPT's AI-made game is built from a game that already exists

byJustin Carter

Mar 9, 2023

2 Min Read

A stock 3D image render of a microchip with the words "AI" on it.

Generative AI tools got a warm, if cautious welcome at DICE 2023 Generative AI tools got a warm, if cautious welcome at DICE 2023

byBryant Francis

Mar 1, 2023

11 Min Read

Get a Job: Xbox, PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, and more are hiring now!Get a Job: Xbox, PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, and more are hiring now!

byGame Developer

Feb 13, 2023

3 Min Read

Promo art for Apex Legends: Eclipse.

Respawn is making Apex Legends matchmaking more fair

Respawn is making Apex Legends matchmaking more fair

byJustin Carter

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Using AI bots as game development tools, not replacements with modl.ai

Using AI bots as game development tools, not replacements with modl.ai

byCarli Velocci

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Upgrade to UE5: How to Manage Your Game Engine

Upgrade to UE5: How to Manage Your Game Engine

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Using the Unity Memory Profiler to Troubleshoot Out-of-Memory Issues

Using the Unity Memory Profiler to Troubleshoot Out-of-Memory Issues

Jellycar Physics

Deep Dive: The soft body physics of JellyCar, explained

Deep Dive: The soft body physics of JellyCar, explained

byTim FitzRandolph

Improving QA Game Testing with Evolved AI

Improving QA Game Testing with Evolved AI

byJulian Togelius

One Dreamer gamifies development by teaching the player how to code

One Dreamer gamifies development by teaching the player how to code

A screenshot from the Notepad version of Doom

Anyway, here's classic FPS Doom running inside of Notepad

Anyway, here's classic FPS Doom running inside of Notepad

A screenshot of a library in Roblox

Roblox takes aim at game cloning in new developer update

Roblox takes aim at game cloning in new developer update

byBryant Francis

Deep Dive: Using Exoscript to tame the "Narrative Octopus" of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Deep Dive: Using Exoscript to tame the "Narrative Octopus" of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

bySarah Northway

Amazon rolls out new "live connector" feature to make in-game livestreaming easier

Amazon rolls out new "live connector" feature to make in-game livestreaming easier

byBryant Francis

Experimenting with movement in squishy physics climb-em-up Klifur

Experimenting with movement in squishy physics climb-em-up Klifur

Deep Dive: Designing Sweet Transit and the unique challenges of programming in 2D

Deep Dive: Designing Sweet Transit and the unique challenges of programming in 2D

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New NVIDIA technology for game developers announced at GDC

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Deep Dive: Physics-based animation in Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

Deep Dive: Physics-based animation in Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

byEddy Boxerman

Photon Fusion launches a new era of high-end multiplayer game development

Photon Fusion launches a new era of high-end multiplayer game development

Valve says Steam Deck stick drift was caused by deadzone regression bug

Valve says Steam Deck stick drift was caused by deadzone regression bug

Creating Logic World's 3D circuit simulations and finding the fun in complexity

Creating Logic World's 3D circuit simulations and finding the fun in complexity

Sony's new AI can beat you at Gran Turismo and perhaps drive actual cars

Sony's new AI can beat you at Gran Turismo and perhaps drive actual cars

Climbing to new heights with Dying Light 2's improved parkour system

Climbing to new heights with Dying Light 2's improved parkour system

byBryant Francis

Float on: The zero-gravity physics of cosmic puzzler Heavenly Bodies

Float on: The zero-gravity physics of cosmic puzzler Heavenly Bodies

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How Ubisoft builds more intuitive tools: A free talk and Q&A with David Lightbown

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Postmortem: AI action planning on Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Immortals Fenyx Rising

Postmortem: AI action planning on Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Immortals Fenyx Rising

Skate 2 server shutdowns announced right as it's made backwards compatible for Xbox devices

Skate 2 server shutdowns announced right as it's made backwards compatible for Xbox devices

byBryant Francis

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Microsoft's added over 70 classic games to Xbox's backwards compatibility service

Microsoft's added over 70 classic games to Xbox's backwards compatibility service

byBryant Francis

Key art showing off lightship technology broadcasting objects into the world.

You can now license Niantic's AR tech

You can now license Niantic's AR tech

byBryant Francis

Key art showcasing Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack's Nintendo 64 services

Nintendo Switch Online's N64 emulator is off to a rough start

Nintendo Switch Online's N64 emulator is off to a rough start

byBryant Francis

An image of the original Nintendo DS

Here's how the Nintendo DS devkit worked

Here's how the Nintendo DS devkit worked

byBryant Francis

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Valve is reviewing all games on Steam for Steam Deck compatibility

Valve is reviewing all games on Steam for Steam Deck compatibility

byBryant Francis

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