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Is it possible to earn money with GameMaker if your game is good enough? [closed]
I'm a graphic designer and will be graduated from school in 6 months. I would like to start developing my own game. I don't know any coding language but I'm familiar with the methods of it. When I ...
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I need a professional icon for my Android/iPhone game: how should I proceed? [duplicate]
I need a great looking icon for my mobile game.
I have a few questions regarding the process of hiring a graphic designer to do it:
Which is (are) the best website to publish the Request For ...
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Tech Tree layouts for games?
I'm trying to do a tech tree GUI for my game, but i have limited width and the tree has alot of branches, the problem is if I make them small to fit the width, the tech tree is too small to read.
For ...
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Why no night sky with realistic star constellations?
As an amateur stargazer I noticed that many games which have night scenarios use textures for the night sky where the stars seem to be arranged entirely randomly. It seems like they were created by an ...
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Re-create 2D side-on wave effect from Worms game
I'm trying to recreate the waves/water effect from Worms ( see here http://youtu.be/S6lrRqst9Z4?t=31s ) From what I understand its not actually a sprite, its procedurally generated by something like a ...
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Issue with distinguishing levels in isometric game [duplicate]
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How can I change this isometric engine to make it so that you could distinguish between blocks that are on different planes?
I'm working on an isometric game however I ...
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Screen design, sprite element tips for interactive mobile softwares [closed]
Can you suggest me tips to design new characters, scene elements, screen design, sprite design? Tips may include methods, rapid softwares, strategies, how to guides, etc. At moment, we know Adobe ...
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Graphic Design Resource for Indie Game Dev?
I'm creating my first game and want to improve upon the graphic design aspects of my game.
By graphic design I mean layout, font, spacing, etc..
Is there a good resource for learning graphic design ...
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Where to get PNG icons/graphics for game development for kids? [duplicate]
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Where can I find free sprites and images?
I'm teaching kids to program using Ruby and the gaming framework Gosu/Chingu. Kids love it, including the part where they have ...
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How can I design good continuous (seamless) tiles?
I have trouble designing tiles so that when assembled, they don't look like tiles, but look like a homogeneous thing. For example, see the image below:
Even though the main part of the grass is ...
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How do 2D art assets (eg. sprites) work?
I have an idea on a game and planning on developing a 2D game using XNA for Windows Phone 7.
I've started off today by free hand drawing some concept art of what I want some of the characters to ...
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How to design a graphics options system [closed]
What is the best way to design a graphics options system in a game? For example, we can have an options page (in game) where we can enable or disable some graphics options such as: shadow quality, ...
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How can I make orange/lemon skin normal map?
What would be the easiest way to make a bump map of the dimples on a citrus fruit such as an orange or lemon in gimp/photoshop without using pictures of it? e.g:
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Customiazable graphical weapon models [closed]
I'm new to game dev. I need 2D or 3D models of real weapons for an app I'm writing.
But I'm no 2D/3D graphics genius ;)
Is there any place where I can get such things? For free or commercially. Both ...
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Where can I find free game assets? [duplicate]
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Where can I find free sprites and images?
I am making a 2D isometric game and I want to know where to get some free resources of buildings, avatars, cars, and ...
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How can I modify how my scene is drawn to make it look like it's taking place at different times of day?
My game has a day-time association with the scene, that the morning light will be different from the afternoon and the night. But I don't know how to make this difference.
Here is an example in ...
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How can I make this style of 2D “glowing” graphics?
I'm comfortable with the basics of building a 2d sprite based game in XNA, where all my objects are simply .png images that I move around.
What things do I need to learn next to be able to develop a ...
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What graphic is Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Alundra, etc
What is the actual term for the 'top-down' style of the Super Nintendo games such as Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, etc. I'm looking for the equivalent term of:
'isometric' - (Jaggered Alliance, ...
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Any technical references for game-oriented icons and symbols?
To make localizing easier, I'm using icons to show in-game information like achievements and bonuses. Coming up with good designs isn't easy, especially when it has to be integrated into the rest of ...
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Where to hire graphic designers for mobile games?
I need to find someone talented to create a series of 2D graphics a la cart for my mobile games. My graphics are just not impressive enough, but the game play is solid and fun.
This is sort of a ...
