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Adventure Jam 2020 post-mortem
The game jam This year I took part in my first ever game jam. For those who don’t know, a game jam is when you have to create a game to fit a given theme or game mechanic in a…
UDK Royalty limit increased!
Apparently Epic have revised upwards the minimum number of sales a title must make before you start paying them royalties. Was $5000, now it’s $50,000. Which means my previous post about UDK is somewhat redundant in terms of the royalties…
Weapon of choice
I’ve decided which engine/editor I’m going to use to make my first games. I’s called Construct, a free open-source 2D game creator and it’s by the guys at Scirra. I compared it with GameMaker 8 from YoYoGames, a very similar…
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UDK less attractive to Indie developers?
Well, reported today (although apparently the details have been known for a while, slow news day perhaps?) have been the details of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) commercial licencing terms. In brief (focusing on indie game development) the details are, and I’m…
Still alive
Yup, still going, just not been updating as I’m changing the game engine I’m using. I’m moving from 3D Game Studio to Unity as I prepare myself to go full time indie! Oh yes, no more ‘evening developer’ for me! I’m in…
