Game Developer

MAY 8, 2025

The deal will see UK mobile publisher Tripledot acquire 10 new studios and numerous titles.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 10, 2025

(This post is adapted from my micro talk "Teaching and Rethinking Level Design" at the GDC 2025 Educators Soapbox session. That's why it mentions "students" in the slide above.) People want to do level design. They grow up playing games like Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite all 3D games with 3D worlds. And to create 3D worlds, supposedly you need this thing called level design.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 8, 2025

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has appointed three new members to its board of directors.

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The Astronauts

MAY 8, 2025

Three years ago I found myself speeding up Blender OBJ importer, and this time I am rewriting Blender FBX importer. Or, letting someone else take care of the actually complex parts of it. TL;DR: Blender 4.5 will have a new FBX importer. FBX in Blender FBX, a 3D and animation interchange format owned by Kaydara Alias Autodesk, is a proprietary format that is still quite popular in some spaces.

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Indie DB

MAY 9, 2025

A lone gnome, a sleeping princess and a sea of beer. Take care of your mistress by becoming the manager of the only tavern in the entire Dungeon!

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Game Developer

MAY 7, 2025

A federal appeals court has denied the FTC's demand to halt Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 5, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Miziziziz Releases Godot Game Source Code Fellow game development YouTuber Miziziziz has just released source code used in several of his published games. All of the games were created using the Godot game engine and the source code is released under the MIT open-source license. The repository has several examples demonstrating the various features.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 5, 2025

Written by Josh Chandley , COO at WildCard, architecting long-term direction and overseeing product, production, and marketing. He has 14 years of experience building, operating, and scaling game companies. The graveyard of mobile ad tech is full of once-great names: Chartboost. Vungle. AdColony. Millennial Media. InMobi. TapJoy. MoPub. Fyber. Even now, history is repeating itself: Unity.

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Indie DB

MAY 9, 2025

Upscale Studio launches Epic Empire: Tower Defense on PS4 and PS5, transforming living rooms into war rooms for players ready to outwit armies of goblins, ogres, and monstrous bosses. Forget cookie-cutter tower defense, this is a battle of wits, heroes.

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Game Developer

MAY 5, 2025

'Protecting yourself from plagiarism accusations' is an unusual reason to preserve your game but here we are.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 7, 2025

GameFromScratch.com JetBrains C++ IDE CLion Free Version Following on the heels of their 2024 release of free versions of their Rider and WebStorm IDEs, JetBrains have announced a new free version of the popular C/C++ IDE CLion. This new version is free for all non-commercial projects and should make it easier for people to access their tools. The post JetBrains C++ IDE CLion Free Version appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 8, 2025

Tripledot Studios has acquired AppLovin's games portfolio for $800 million.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 12, 2025

My growth is a reflection of the company's growth because Ive always been given an opportunity to grow Justin McFarlane In a recent chat with host Mishka Katkoff, Jackpot Party Casino GM Justin McFarlane shared a career path that breaks the usual mold. He went from 3D artist to running SciPlays Billion Dollar flagship title not by fast-tracking through roles or jumping companies, but by staying with one employer for 17 years and growing into each opportunity along the way.

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Indie DB

MAY 10, 2025

Released the demo of my strategy game called Metal Coffin on steam and am looking on collecting feedback. I am looking for people willing to try the demo and give me their honest thoughts. A wish-list is always appreciated.

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Game Developer

MAY 5, 2025

The investment is aimed at helping the studio bring its first game, Defect, to the finish line.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 12, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Godot 4 Course & Ultimate World Building Assets Humble Bundle There are two new Humble Bundles of interest to game developers, the Learn to Make Games in Godot 4 2025 by GameDevTV and the Ultimate World Building Assets Bundle. The first bundle is a collection of courses by the excellent folks at GameDev.TV while the latter is a collection of The post Godot 4 Course & Ultimate World Building Assets Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2025

It's quite a measure of the incredible status of the Grand Theft Auto franchise – as if anyone needed further convincing – that the announcement of the next instalment being delayed into 2026 quickly turned into a massive wave of hype for the upcoming game.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 5, 2025

There's nothing stopping a candidate from doing this, but I've never done this before myself. Just because I happened to be "good enough" last time doesn't mean that the criteria or the competition for the position have remained the same. I know I certainly haven't - I'm constantly leveling up and improving my skills at work, which means that a new design test often allows me a new opportunity to improve on my old design ideas or come up with an alternative/new solution that fits the test/theme

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Indie DB

MAY 5, 2025

This is the gold update for our game "Way of the Cards" for EECS494 at the University of Michigan! Update consists of bug fixing, balancing, aesthetics, and audio.

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Game Developer

MAY 8, 2025

The original Switch also remains on track to become the best-selling Nintendo console in history.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 12, 2025

GameFromScratch.com The Hazel Engine Will Soon Be Free The Hazel Game Engine is a 3D game engine written in C++ and scripted in C# developed by popular game development channel The Cherno. The Hazel Game Engine is described accordingly: Until now, the only way to access the Hazel Engine was by being a $10USD+ a month supporter on The post The Hazel Engine Will Soon Be Free appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2025

Gamescom Latam broke its own records for attendance this year, as the event welcomed more than 130,000 visitors to São Paulo from April 30 to May 4.

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Cocos

MAY 8, 2025

Hi everyone! Im working on a UI system in Cocos Creator 3.8.6 , and Im trying to implement localization for multiple languages (e.g. English, Cyrillic) while using the same texture/atlas for rendering styled text. My goal is to render all supported characters as part of a single texture atlas - not switching fonts per language, to maintain consistent visuals (style, color, effects).

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Indie DB

MAY 12, 2025

Colony units are non-combat units which house the civilian population. Once a colony unit is deployed, it will begin converting its civilian population into trained crew.

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Game Developer

MAY 7, 2025

A primer on how to simulate long exposure photography in Unreal Engine.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 8, 2025

Once, one of my coworkers printed out "temporary" hacks in our codebase and taped them to his body to be his Halloween costume. I have a t-shirt printed with the "temporary" hacks in the code base. The name "Grey Wardens" from Dragon Age was a temporary name put in place when leadership couldn't decide on a "real" name that eventually became permanent.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2025

Sumo Group has announced the departure of its co-founders CEO Carl Cavers, COO Paul Porter, and director of excellence and integration Darren Mills.

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Cocos

MAY 12, 2025

Cocos creator 3.8.6 scripting language is in Typescript. docs.cocos.com Programming Language Support | Cocos Creator Cocos Creator Docs Latest cocos2dx is 3.17.2 but its quite old and outdated.

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Indie DB

MAY 7, 2025

We just released our first video teaser of our game Fish Stick Protocol, and feel like it's the right moment to spread the word about our online multiplayer co-op chaotic game.

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Game Developer

MAY 7, 2025

Employees at the new studio previously worked on Destiny, Halo, Fortnite, and League of Legends.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 9, 2025

Were insanely hype to add even more epicness to your weekend with the launch of a brand-new, updated demo for your favorite feline-driven ARPG. That's right! A reimagined introduction to the world of Ailur is officially LIVE MEOW on Steam!

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 7, 2025

Jens Andersson, the design director behind last year's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, has a long history of working on first-person games that don't play anything like a standard FPS.

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Game Wisdom

MAY 8, 2025

Six Varieties of Indie Games Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" Each indie showcase looks at the variety of games we cover on the channel. Games shown are either press keys, demos, or from my collection. 00:00 Intro 00:14 Duck Detective The Secret Salami 1:34 Void Carrier 2:56 … The post Six Varieties of Indie Games appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Indie DB

MAY 11, 2025

Resonant Blade turns sound into your sharpest weapon. Match tones, unleash Triads, and strike down enemies with the power of sonic resonance.

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Game Developer

MAY 8, 2025

We hope our fans understand that these changes are necessary in order to prevent further disruptions to the development of Palworld.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 9, 2025

Hi there! Im Adam Scott ( @adamscott on GitHub ), the Godot Engine Web team lead, live from the GodotCon Boston 2025! On May 6, during my State of Godot and the Web talk , I revealed a world premiere to the GodotCon attendees. It was something some thought impossible, and others were resigned to not seeing during their lifetime. Please note that the VOD isnt available yet.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 7, 2025

Electronic Arts has published its fourth quarter results (the three months ended March 31, 2025), which "significantly exceeded expectations" according to CEO Andrew Wilson.

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