Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Enhanced RTX SDKs for open-world games It has never been easier to integrate real-time ray tracing in your games with Kickstart RT. Developers can get a headstart in UE5 with dynamic lighting in their open worlds. Check out NVIDIA GTC 2022 game development sessions from this past week. Unreal Engine 4.27

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Initially part of Improbable, a UK-based tech company specializing in scale-based cloud technology for games, Inflexion Games branched out in 2022 with funding from Tencent, growing to a team of 150 members. Transdimensional portals Nightingale is a first-person, PVE, open-world survival crafting game played solo or cooperatively online.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. I started working full time on Repunk in 2022 and decided to use Unity for multiple reasons: familiarity, access to good looking assets, and great licensing terms. How did you come up with the idea for Repunk? The original idea was much more ambitious.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

A game that really fell during 2022 losing nearly half of its revenues in the process. 5 Simulation Games (revenue -18%, downloads +16%) Roblox , which brought well over a billion Dollars in 2021, declined by 27% in 2022 while not losing downloads. Globally, time spent grew 25% from 2021 to 2022.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

According to data from GfK, and as reported by GamesIndustry , Scarlet and Violet represent the biggest boxed game launch of 2022 in the UK, supplanting FIFA 23. By and large, critics praised the open-world design that was tested in Pokémon Legends: Arceus , a spinoff game that was released in January of this year.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

I saw a post on Reddit yesterday that asked “how come no other MMOs have done open world housing, besides ArcheAge ?” Ultima Online is giving a special shield to players who have played the game FOR 25 YEARS pic.twitter.com/O4KOoNFd7e — @mikko (@mikko) September 23, 2022. Me with the brochure.

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Game Errors

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The next-gen update for The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt went live on 14 December 2022 and this includes many improvements to the appearance, functionality, and technical enhancements. When it comes to RPG systems and the massively vast open-world setting, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt is rich and profound which had more than 1 million pre-orders.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Casual strategy games have definitely made their mark in 2022. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. So, technically Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t released in 2022. That’s our roundup from 2022. And your players will notice.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. For the first time ever, Godot also comes with a GI technique that can be used with large open worlds — signed distance field global illumination ( SDFGI ). It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 is now ready and available for download.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Let’s take a look at what went down at Sony’s State of Play 2022: Tekken 8. Unlike its namesake, this game is not a turn-based RPG, but rather a action-adventure title that is looking to incorporate certain open-world elements to it. What did you think about the announcements at State of Play 2022?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The most significant growth in revenue was seen in the following sub-genres: Open World Adventure is a newborn sub-genre that grew by 622% this year. 2022 Predictions for 4X games We’ll see even more external IPs in the 4X genre. The launch of Valorant Mobile in 2022 is likely to invigorate it considerably.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This is the last TWIG of 2022! Closing out the year, Seufert, Kress, and Laura discuss the 2022 Game Awards and what game launches to look forward to in 2023, Apple’s concessions on outside the app store payments, a brief FTC vs MSFT update, Playtika’s layoffs and Brawl Stars removing Loot Boxes. Read the full conversation here ?️

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