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The Anvil Level Design Tool is a free and open source add-on for Blender heavily inspired by the popular TrenchBroom level editor. This tool adds several features to Blender in two new workspaces – Level Design & Hotspot Mapping, that combined back it easy to rapidly create and texture game
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The user interface of a game is a huge part of it’s success as it is quite literally the most direct connection the player has to the game. Today we are doing a rundown of the various game user interface technologies that exist, with a focus on the 3 most
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We first covered the Game UI Database in April of 2023 and at the time it was one of the single best resources for game UI/UX designers, with a massive database of game user interface elements. Today, Game UI Database 2.0 has been released, a massive (ironically enough) user interface
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Ink is a programming language and set of tools for creating in-game branching dialogs and game narrative creation. It is not only a programming/scripting language and runtime, it is an entire ecosystem of tools and game engine implementations including Godot, Unreal Engine and recently thanks to the open source of
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Microsoft have proposed a series of user interface updates for Visual Studio 2022. When Visual Studio 2022 was launched, the UI got a decent update over 2019. This proposed user interface update is much smaller in scope, mostly dealing with changes in spacing and contrast to bring Visual Studio more
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The Game UI Database is the ultimate resource for game UI/UX designers. It is a database of user interface elements from over 1,100 games from a wide variety of genres and platforms. The Database part of the name is not a misnomer, as you can search and drill down by
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There are a pair of Humble Bundles of interest to game developers launched today on Humble, the Game Design and AI Featuring Steve Rabin bundle and the Complete Pixel Art Online Course by Mammoth Interactive bundle. The first is a large collection of some of the coolest game development ebooks
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically game designers, the Inside Gaming by The MIT Press bundle. This is a collection of e-books from MIT Press on a wide range of gaming topics, mostly around design or game development history on classic machines. As with
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Articy:Draft 3 is a unique and powerful game design tool (we covered all the way back in 2016) that recently released a very robust free version. Articy:Draft can perhaps best be thought of as a hybrid of Microsoft Project/Visio specifically for game developers. It can be used to model gameplay
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Milanote is an online tool for organizing, designing and managing projects, which ships with templates specifically aimed at game design. Milanote runs in your browser as well as via a desktop application (Mac and Windows) and Mobile versions available for Android and iOS. There is a free tier available that
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