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The Art of Level Design
Level design is one of the most important yet least visible crafts in game development.
Competitive gaming, where players test their skills directly against one another, holds a powerful and enduring appeal.
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Level design is one of the most important yet least visible crafts in game development.
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The exciting part of building is the structure going up, but the real work, as anyone in construction knows, is the planning,...
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Construction and building games make the invisible logic of structure visible, letting players feel what makes a building stand...
Building Kits
A steel building kit's advertised price looks dramatically more affordable than a fully custom-built structure, right up until...
Maintenance and Repairs
A steel building's biggest selling point, decades of genuine structural durability with minimal upkeep compared to wood-frame...
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There is a particular, deep satisfaction in construction games, the ones about gathering materials, operating machinery, and...
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Three people who have priced, erected, and permitted steel buildings long before writing about them: an estimator who has quoted hundreds of jobs, an erector who has bolted up kits in every kind of weather, and a former county permits clerk who has rejected more applications than she approved. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not seen happen on an actual job site.