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Vol. 34

Mediated Input (Scribd/PDF) »

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Controlling Project Size »

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3 Mini-Portmortems »

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Question About Comp Sci Major and Game Development »

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Vol. 33

Skill in Mediated Input »

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Zylatov Sisters (80′s arcade-style co-op) »

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A Warning About Buying Generic Art Bundles »

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ActionScript 3 Entries and Notes on HTML5 »

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Vol. 32

Skills to be Mastered: The Merits of Fixed Difficulty »

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Colorful Oceans and Chunky Sauces »

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Float and Int Variables: Casting and Other Issues »

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How Long Does it Take to Learn Game Programming? »

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Vol. 31

Deer Hunter (1997): Early Casual »

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Zylatov Sisters Process and Progress »

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Picking a Programming Language »

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The Appeal of Modern Military FPS Games »

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Vol. 30

Is All HobbyGameDev Content Rated G/PG? (Or: Can I Safely Share This Blog With Kids?) »

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Quit Smoking Game: Effect of Interaction on Interpretation »

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Galaga and Making Interesting Decisions »

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Command-Line Debugger for Free MXMLC Flash Development (Bonus: Batch File / Bash Script Basics) »

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Vol. 29

2 Audio Interviews, Plus Slides from Last Year’s GDC Microtalk »

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Many Games Are Not About Choices »

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Replay Value in Emergent Moments and Uses of Score »

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Browse HobbyGameDev by Topic / Tag »

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Vol. 28

Vision by Proxy Second Edition Released! »

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Pinball and Rules: Rough Divisions of Real-Time Gameplay »

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Pinball-Based Design and Presentation (Parallel Appeals) »

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Pinball as Historical Player-vs-Machine Twitch Gameplay »

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Vol. 27

Clone Videogames to Learn Real-Time Videogame Design »

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The Brain is Not an Emulator »

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Playing Videogames 1984-1996 »

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Think by Building / Build to Answer Questions »

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Vol. 26

Visual Language in Super Mario Bros Level Endings »

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Project Archivability »

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Studying Gamers Gaming, Not the Games (GoldenEye 007 Examples) »

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Recognizing Earned Carefree Play »

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Vol. 25

Notgames »

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What I Have Been Doing (Update on Projects) »

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Choosing a Development Platform »

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Videogames and Rules »

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Vol. 24

Open Response: How Do You Come Up With Ideas? »

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From iPhone to Flash: Porting Transcend, Tumult, and feelforit »

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Contact Double Agent: Preserving Uncertainty (Analysis of Dr. Doak in GoldenEye 007) »

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Games Are Artificial. Videogames Are Not. Games Have Rules. Videogames Do Not. »

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Vol. 23

Questions from an Elementary School Class »

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Reading Between the Lines: Learning by Experience »

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Rant: I Can Imagine »

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Are Complex Systems Learned by Interacting with Complex Systems? »

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Vol. 22

Two Styles of Management »

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Real-Time Play: Tactical Patterns »

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Diagram: Player Actions and Memory »

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Why Minecraft Works (Design Concepts) »

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Vol. 21

Position and Speed Variables »

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Rapid Implementation (UAV Game) »

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First-Time Visitor Guide to HobbyGameDev »

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Four Aspects and Interpretation »

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Vol. 20

HobbyGameDev Summaries for Georgia Tech VGDev »

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Getting Started with Programming »

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Realism and Gameplay »

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Don’t Wait for an Event, Job, Contest, Assignment, Invitation, Business Plan, or Context »

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Vol. 19

Everyone’s Platformer: Level Editor Manual »

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Level Design Process »

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Newsgames Blog: Journalism and Games »

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2D Platformer Advanced Collision Detection »

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Vol. 18

Everyone’s Platformer: Editor, 3 Level Demo, and Full Source Code »

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Vol. 17

The Making of A-10 Thunderbolt 2 »

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Doing More With Less: Short Videogame Design »

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General Concepts for Beginning Developers »

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Videogame Project Management for Hobbyists and Students »

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Vol. 16

The Changing iPhone App Store Market »

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Story, Simulation, and Videogames »

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HobbyGameDev Magazine Article (Link to Full Text) »

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Platformer Game Source in Processing »

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Vol. 15

Why HobbyGameDev? »

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Flash Game Dojo: Great AS3 Libraries and Learning Resources (Also Free!) »

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Henry David Thoreau on Videogame Design »

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Game Motion in ActionScript 3 »

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Vol. 14

On the Source from Full Videogames »

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$0 Flash Development Part 2: Game Core Tutorial »

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Bottom-Up vs Top-Down Game Design »

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Reader Questions About Chris Crawford »

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Call for Your Games (Free Publicity for You) »

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Vol. 13

Command-Line Arguments and Navigation »

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$0 Flash Development: Quick Intro to MXMLC »

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Recommended Reading »

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InteractionArtist Guided Tour »

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Vol. 12

Learn it Like Woodworking »

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Best of GDL First Year »

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Fun is a Bad Word (or: Is Meth “Fun”?) »

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On the Meaning of feelforit (iPhone/Web) »

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Vol. 11

Math for Videogame Making (Or: Will I Need to Use Calculus?) »

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Steps in Programming a Simple RealTime Strategy Game »

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Programmer Transitioning into Game Development »

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Modding for Design Experience »

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Student Seeking Job »

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Free E-Book on Game Development Using Python »

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The Sky is Not Falling: Common Industry Concerns »

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Special: A Reddit Conversation – Rapid Q&A »

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Vol. 10

Game Developer Education »

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Adventure Game Studio »

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Programmer/Designer Need for Art »

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Effects of Time on Developer “Cred” »

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Vol. 09

Programming Asteroids »

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Particle Effects Code »

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On the Meaning of Alice in Bomberland »

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Free E-Book: 10 Years of Indie Dev Takeaways »

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Vol. 08

How Programmers Program »

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Real-Time Videogame AI »

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Respecting Players »

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What’s Japan Doing Differently? »

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Vol. 07

First Time Working Together »

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Establishing a Videogame Development Club »

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Is a Videogame Its Source Code? »

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Warren Robinett – Atari Adventure – Interview »

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Vol. 06

The Ways of Self-Education »

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Defining Videogame Design »

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Videogame Difficulty »

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Decision Making – Don’t Be the Donkey »

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Featured: Juan Campa »

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Vol. 05

Game Programming Fundamentals »

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Simple Breakout Game Source (C, Allegro) »

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Level Design Concepts »

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Knowing When to Hack »

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Vol. 04

Don’t Start With a Design Document »

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“E-Z” Game Making Tools »

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Stickiness: Why the Player Keeps Playing »

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Thinking Like a Programmer, Thinking Like a Designer »

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Low-Budget Visibility »

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Benefits of Working with a Company »

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InteractionArtist Interview »

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Vol. 03

From No Games to First Games »

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From Technical Skills to Game Making Skills »

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Questions for Experienced Developers »

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The Human Brain is Your Target Platform »

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Vol. 02

Making a Habit of Making the Time »

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Resourcefulness vs Resources »

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Avoiding Quicksand »

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Consequences of What We Make »

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Vol. 01

What Videogames Are Made Of »

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Free Software for Image, Audio, Code, 3D Models »

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Make Compromises to Finish »

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Considering iPhone Development? »

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Dice, spinners, playing cards, and board games »

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