Subtitles Talk (2022) Links from our GCAP 2022 and Games UX Summit 2022 talks on subtitles. First, we highly recommend Ian Hamilton’s GDC talk: We’d also recommend the Game Maker’s Toolkit video on Making Games Better for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Beyond this, here’s some great links on the topic: Max Deryaginβs Subtitling Studio β What Video Game Subtitling Got Wrong in 2017 Kotaku β Player Catalogues List Of Games That Still Have Poorly Implemented Subtitles 80 Level β 10 Golden Rules on Subtitles for Games BBC Subtitle Guidelines
Writing, Workflow, and Game Design β NZGDC22 Here’s the links from our panel at NZGDC 2022! We’ll post the video here when it’s available. Tracery β A grammar based text generator.Blabbeur β A grammar based text generator inspired by Tracery but designed to be embedded into Unity.Inform β An interactive fiction programming language, great for making those βHEAD NORTHβ style IF games.Ink User Guide β A literal book written by the Inkle team, good stuff.Yarn Spinner VS Code Extension β Provides full integration of Yarn language and your C# Unity project into VS Code.Fungus β A narrative all-in-one game tool for Unity. Maybe unmaintained?Unreal Conversation System Narrascope 2022 Conference β A narrative games focussed conference, talks covering the entire gamut of this topic.Hannah Nicklinβs Book β A book on all aspects of game writing by one of the best games writers in the business.Narrative Instruments β The paper which coined and defined the term narrative instruments. We also delivered a panel at NZGDC 2021 called “What’s the story with narrative game development?” Jon also gave a GDC talk on turning your writers into programmers by grey boxing narratives. You can also find all of us on Twitter! Paris – @parisbaJon – @desplesdaTim – @the_mcjonesRyan – @ryanqnorthChride – @classheikkiLeena – @leenavandScott – @bombsfall And of course @YarnSpinnerTool!
Yarn Spinner 2.0 Beta 1 We’re incredibly excited to announce the first beta release for Yarn Spinner 2.0! There’s a lot of things happening in this release, so we encourage you to take a look through the release notes. Now is a great time to support us on Patreon, too! We’ve also launched a fabulous new Discord for the Yarn Spinner community. Join us?
π¬ Building a Community for Game Developers Building a Community for Game Developers from Linux.conf.au 2020, Gold Coast. Back Yarn Spinner on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/secretlab
π Unity Game Development Cookbook (1st Edition) Our latest book covers everything you need to know about building games with Unity. The book is available online, and in good bookstores. It was originally released in April 2019, and we consider it to still be current. We really hope that you enjoy it! Please contact us if you have any questions or need a little help. We’ll try our best to get back to you. It might take a few days sometimes, but if you get stuck get in touch. We also try and keep the code that’s available up to date. Buy the book AmazonO’Reilly’s Learning PlatformBook DepositoryeBooks.com (DRM free) Download code You can download the resources for the Unity Game Development Cookbook (1st Edition) from GitHub: https://github.com/thesecretlab/unity-game-development-cookbook-1e
π iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook (3rd Edition) Our iOS game development cookbook covers everything you need to know about building games for iOS using Swift, and Apple’s native development tools. The book is available online, and in good bookstores. It was originally released in early-2019, and we consider it to still be current. We really hope that you enjoy it! Please contact us if you have any questions or need a little help. We’ll try our best to get back to you. It might take a few days sometimes, but if you get stuck get in touch. We also try and keep the code that’s available up to date. Buy the book AmazonO’Reilly’s Learning PlatformBook DepositoryeBooks.com (DRM free) Download code You can download the resources for the Unity Game Development Cookbook (1st Edition) from GitHub: https://github.com/thesecretlab/iOSGameDevCookbook3rdEd