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Open World Gamedev 2024/001

Hi and welcome to the first issue of 2024, and the eighth issue in total! Today's date is 2023-12-31.

I didn't think I'd make one this soon, but I got a fair amount of time over the holidays so... here we are! On another personal note, still open-world-related, is that I'm proud and happy to announce that we finished the "March of the Ants" release for Tides of Revival (opens in a new tab) recently. You can see the update video for that down below, and you can download and try it out on itch.io (opens in a new tab).

For this issue the theme is... πŸ₯πŸ₯ Scale! How do we make big games good?!

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Share me: Boosting the newsletter helps more people find it so please do. πŸ₯° Here are the announcement posts for Twitter (opens in a new tab) and Mastodon (opens in a new tab).

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Help out: Would you or someone you know be interested in helping out with the newsletter, the Open World Gamedev discord, and/or Tides of Revival? Perhaps someone who would like to learn some copy-writing, some video production, some basic coding, some community management, some organizing and some spreading of the word? We could use some assistance! :)

πŸ“˜ Newsletter Video!

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No review today!

πŸ“Ί Videos

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Sidenote 1: Katya's talk was great. Acerola's are always a solid recommendation. And those videos by Patrician and Noah, well, they are certainly... big.

πŸ“œ Articles

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Sidenote 2: That Nav Mesh Generation study is a gem!

πŸ“¦ Assets, Code & Tools

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Sidenote 3: Hexroll is super cool!

😍 Cool Nuggets ✨

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Sidenote 4: Rune Skovbo Johansen (opens in a new tab) is on a roll and has been showing off some really nice stuff. I added links to nitter this time since "X", in all its wisdom, is no longer showing threads if you're not logged in. Oh and I really liked the post on hex grid transitions, it's something I've thought about myself.

🎁 Bonus Stuff

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Endnote: As always, thanks for reading! πŸ˜€ I'm on Twitter (opens in a new tab), Mastodon (opens in a new tab), Youtube (opens in a new tab).

You can also come and chat to open worlders over at our Open World Gamedev / Tides of Revival Discord server (opens in a new tab). Many of the resources get posted and discussed there first.

Last updated on July 16, 2024
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