Guide to Tool Development for GamesAn early version of a Houdini tool developed for creating pathsAs a technical artist, my main responsibility is to act as the bridge between the artists and the technical hurdles they may face in the art pipeline. This is so that they can turn their attention to the creative aspect

Butter Royale is our food fight-themed battle royale game that puts a family-friendly spin on this multiplayer genre. It was released on Apple Arcade earlier this year!We built this game in under 6 months and we would like to share the engineering’s team experience of it.What do we need to do?Based on experience from previous projects,

Did the title of the article bring you here?If yes, carry on reading.If no, well — that’s impossible. (And you’re probably in denial.)Productivity is a pretty subjective topic and everyone has their own internal metric of what they define productivity to be. As for me, I do have a formula I would like to use as a base

Audio is a critical component in video games, and often good audio feedback and immersive music and soundtracks can really add a lot to the game experience. But what about mobile games? Most people keep their phones on silent when they are out and the vast majority of mobile apps are muted, so

Tips to improve your art that goes beyond your daily drawing exercises1. You have more than 5 sensesFrom a high level explanation, making art is the process of learning a subject matter and accessing your references or internal visual library to create new graphic existence on a blank canvas. It might be an original,

There’s been a lot of discussion recently around mobile app stores, most of it focused on their commission, and business practices. Much of the discussion has been heavy on hyperbole (and drama), but light on factual content. I can’t comment from a “service subscription app” point of view, but as someone who runs

Every once in a while we get people writing to us for tips on how to get started in the industry (Clarissa Goh wrote an excellent piece on this here) or how to make games.This week I’m going to tackle some of the questions we’ve been asked over the past few weeks and share

Game DesignA Gentle Introduction to AI — ContinuedPart two of an article about designing and implementing AI bots for a battle royale game released on Apple ArcadeIn the first segment of this two-part article about implementing bots for Butter Royale, I outlined the early design and how we arrived at an AI framework to use. This

Disclaimer: This is written from a tech perspective, not all of this will hold true in other industries.We are currently living through an unprecedented and incredibly difficult period in modern history. Both from a wellbeing and financial standpoint we’re seeing untold suffering, with hundreds of thousands dead and millions of jobs lost with

A two-part article about designing and implementing AI bots in a battle royale game for Apple ArcadeWhen we were developing Butter Royale, some of the core requirements were to make the game available both online and offline, with players being able to get into matches in 30–40 seconds or less. Aside from the initial