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2024 #notGDC Submissions

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Adjusting Texture Sizes by Sharpness in Unreal

by Hauke Thießen(2024)

Behaviour Trees versus State Machines

by Queen Of Squiggles(2024)

Asynchronously Reading Render Targets Using Fences (In Unreal)

by EPICGameGuy(2024)

Perforce for Unreal: A Beginner's Guide

by Lars Thießen(2024)

Game Jam Insights

by Hexenwerk(2024)

Clean Game Design Principles. A set of recommendations which can help you to improve your game design approaches

by Artyom "Tricky Fat Cat" Volkov(2024)

Toon Shading for Visual Effects Flipbooks

by Mitch McClellan(2024)

Model View ViewModel for Game Devs

by Milton Candelero(2024)

Thinking in Patterns, using software design patterns in game development

by MrLParker(2024)

Postmortem but not really - Hazuki Dies: She Has No Name Demo

by ChairGTables(2024)

If And Only If: Exploring Conditional Logic in Interactive Fiction

by Grim Baccaris(2024)

How to think about history in your games

by James 'Jubal' Baillie(2024)

Automate the Boring Parts - a practical guide to building your own helpful tools in Unity

by Markus Hofer(2024)

Falling blocks: Games about dropping things

by Callum Deery(2024)

The most common mistake I see in gamedev: Exiting pre-production before the game is good enough

by C.T. Matthews(2024)

Should you keep making games?

by Felipe Mullen(2024)

How to organize Game Jam for your team

by Nick Filonchik(2024)

#NotGDC Game Automated Testing Roundtable

by Henry Golding and Roundtable Contributors(2024)

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