GDevelop

At the beginning of the year, EduMais Serious Game Design took place! It was full of talented students exploring different learning areas supported by EduMais donors and volunteers in person. Activities such as GDevelop, Game Jam and Digital Drawing took place three days a week throughout the month of January. At the end of the Serious Game Design, all the students and volunteers received a certificate of participation recognizing their efforts. #education #volunteer #edumais

"Because you're the only company that offers meetings with a real person". When I speak with teachers about why they choose to use GDevelop for Education in their classrooms, this comes up a lot. In a world of incredible technological innovation, people still want to talk to people. Perhaps now more than ever. One-on-one meetings may go against "maximizing and optimizing" guidelines. But sometimes, building trust, connecting with people, understanding their needs and showing them that you care, is a much more powerful growth tool than maximum operational efficiency.

Over the past few weeks I’ve spent a lot of time playing #videogames made by the GDevelop community, and taking notes on the small UX challenges solo creators often face. Those observations became articles… then courses… and slowly a pattern emerged: most solo indie developers struggle because testing a game properly is hard: #UsabilityResearch is a discipline that asks for time and structure that most #solodevs simply don’t have. So I started wondering how I could encourage them to test earlier without requiring them to read everything I’ve ever written or follow all my courses. That led me to build a dedicated #GPT to help solo developers challenge the UX of their game and run quick, lightweight usability tests to validate changes. Its objective is NOT to replace a researcher, but to guide creators toward a more intentional design mindset. Today, I’m opening a small Beta Test, and I’d love help from solo game developers (ideally using low-code tools) to test the LLM. If you decide to participate, here’s what to expect: - You’ll answer a few onboarding questions so I can understand your context. - You’ll get access to the GPT and can use it freely. - After your session(s), I’ll ask you to share the chat and complete a short satisfaction survey. The goal is simply to learn how this assistant can better support creators testing their own interactions. If this sounds useful (or if you know a #solodev who might benefit) your participation would mean a lot. 👉 Beta Test Form: https://lnkd.in/duHziizq This GPT is just another way of trying to make #UXresearch more accessible to people who rarely get the resources to practice it. Thanks!

🚀 Making My Indie Game: From PC to Tablet! What started as a simple sketch on my Wacom Movink Pad 11 quickly sparked a new idea — bringing the Astro Burn demo to life as a mobile tablet experience. Taking my indie game from PC to tablet has been an exciting challenge at Beyond The Pixels®, from rethinking design for touch controls to optimizing gameplay for a whole new platform. It’s amazing seeing Astro Burn running smoothly on the same tablet device where the idea first took shape! #Gamedev #IndieGame