by Travis Tracy | May 31, 2022 | Game Design Career
Building a game development team that works well can be quite difficult. I wanted to look back at my experience in a classroom, working with nearly fifty different teams and put together a list of qualities that I believe had made up some of my best teams over the...
by Travis Tracy | May 26, 2022 | Game Design
If you are preparing to start a game development project, then you probably understand the importance of building a game design document. Having a game design document will help you ensure you have a clear vision for your game, will help avoid project creep, and will...
by Travis Tracy | May 20, 2022 | Game Design
Game development is a growing industry. Many people have a strong desire to learn the skills necessary to build their own games. Due to the number of disciplines needed to build a game, I can understand why there may be people who are avoiding some technical skills...
by Travis Tracy | May 19, 2022 | Game Design
With over ten years of game development experience, I wanted to sit back and think about what I would do if I had to learn everything again from scratch. What steps would I take? Where would I even begin? When it comes to game development, it is unlike most other...
by Travis Tracy | May 10, 2022 | Game Development
Someone may think that building a mobile game is easier than building other forms of games. However, regardless of the platform you choose to release your game on, each process comes with its own set of challenges. In general, building games is difficult. We will look...
by Travis Tracy | May 2, 2022 | Game Design, Game Development
If you are just getting started with game development, or perhaps the Unity game engine, you may be wondering about how to find free assets that you can use for testing purposes. Or, perhaps you are wanting to build a commercial game and you are curious about whether...
by Travis Tracy | Apr 30, 2022 | Game Development
If you are creating a commercial game, intended to make money, you may be wondering about how a publisher can help you. Should you get a publisher for your video game? What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a game publisher? These are all valid questions...
by Travis Tracy | Apr 27, 2022 | Game Development
When people think of a single project taking multiple years, it seems almost overwhelming. When you factor in that a single project may require hundreds of people and still take multiple years, you might consider that insane. It’s one of the reasons that game...
by Travis Tracy | Apr 23, 2022 | Game Development
Ever wanted to allow more than one person to work on a project without overwriting each others work? This can be extremely frustrating for new development teams who have not used any version control system before. The ones available to Unity have been difficult to use...
by Travis Tracy | Apr 21, 2022 | Game Jams
Game jams can go one of two ways. You either feel really accomplished at the end, or you feel extremely frustrated looking at all the time that was wasted. The best way not to waste your time is to be as prepared as possible. Have a little bit of a game plan going...