Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2024

Annual sports titles absolutely do not have the same scope as AAA games with multi-year dev cycles, but they do absolutely have significant breadth and depth of scope each year beyond "minor tweaks and roster changes".

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Usually it starts by observing some kind of unexpected behavior in the game - a move does too much or too little damage, the game crashes, the wrong animation plays, etc. The bugs I fix as a technical designer are very different than those an animator or an environment artist would fix.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

More AAA and AA publishers are pivoting their main franchises towards these models to extend the lifespan of existing franchises. The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime also had a similar impact on the franchise. That’s why Newzoo expects fewer new releases in the coming years.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

They have to survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance the technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve their civilization. Trying to develop an indie game on the scale of a AAA title is the reason why a lot of indie studios fail.”

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game is an almighty genre mishmash almost reminiscent of a AAA console game, carefully combining heavy story and character-driven RPG elements with hectic shooter gameplay. Slime Isekai Memories may have fallen off the US market’s radar but this turn-based RPG based on a hit anime/manga series is still very much alive in Japan.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 10, 2023

The specifics determine the kind of roles we need to hire - the cinematics team might need several animators, the quest team might need two narrative designers and a gameplay engineer, the item art team might need a VFX artist and a technical artist, and so on and so forth.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g. high resolution high quality character models performing high quality animations and visual effects).

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

They provide comprehensive art outsourcing services, which include character/environment art, level design, in-game animations, 3D modeling, 2D concept art, and more. Specialties: – Game Development, Motion Capture, Art Outsourcing, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, VR, Concept Art, and Co-Development. Bosi Art Studio.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

In 2023, gaming is truly for everyone, grandmas play Animal Crossing , teenagers brag about their Fortnite skills, and audience-controlled bots play Pokemon ! AWS are also proud to continue supporting the game developer community and we want to highlight the best games from indie studios to AAA game studios built on AWS.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

My grand idea of a huge battle between massive armies is mostly impossible if the engine can only handle 12 models animating on screen before the frame rate drops. If he wants a career in AAA games, he will need specialized expertise. There's just too much work to be done without enough hands to do it within a small team.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

It has an amazing open world that you can zip around using magic and is one of the biggest AAA titles to feature the Isekai or transported to another world plot device that has infected Anime and Light Novels the past eight years or so. It’s a game that I’m really, really looking forward to.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Keep reading this blog to understand how mobile game development costs differ from AAA games. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? Because complex projects require a large group of developers, animators, QA testers, and artists. Depending on these, you can make a budget-friendly game or the next GTA.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Founded in 2018, Action Face is a user-friendly 3D avatar platform that allows users to capture, customize, and create 3D animations and action figures featuring their faces. Echtra Games is working on an unannounced AAA ARPG for PC and console platforms. In 2024, the company was acquired by Infinite Reality for an undisclosed sum.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Game animation should surprise, draw attention, and correspond to the latest trends. These are the main factors to consider when choosing an outsourcing studio: Experience working with AA or AAA game titles. The team is known for its expertise in promo art, rigging, animation, and model integration into Unity/Unreal Engine.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games. I was intrigued by the physics-based animation but I had no idea how it worked at the time. They can’t even run, because it’s hard to animate legs with physics.” “I

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The source assets like animation rigging and motions, textures, character and environment models, and so on would be built at a lower fidelity. It's true that developing with the Switch as the primary platform would make it work well on the Switch and perform well on other platforms.

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iHobo

JULY 12, 2023

Although these lines are increasingly blurred today (as AAA cRPGs will tend to draw heavily from both traditions), there is a clear historical period after the Ultima - Wizardry split that dominates more than two decades of cRPG design.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These factors include improvements in graphics, lighting, physics, animation, and scalability. Additionally, it offers strong materials and animation capabilities for artists that let you quickly create complicated scenarios. There is no up-front cost to utilize Unreal, regardless of whether you are a AAA firm or a hobbyist developer.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Determine the Software and Skills Required Game Designing isn’t just simple designing but also includes various tasks like game design documentation, project management, storytelling, modeling and game animation , audio editing, etc. Its high quality and productivity make it a popular tool for the majority of AAA games.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2023

It was iXie’s first time working on an AAA title, but the project was completed to the client’s satisfaction and iXie was able to get added to the credits of the game. It was hard work too, but Santosh was more than up to the challenge. One of his first projects at iXie involved acting in the role of a mentor for the project team.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Ocarina of Time 3D, Pokémon X and Y, Super Mario 3D Land, and Animal Crossing New Leaf brought something new and unique to the experience possible only on the 3DS at the time. And the games on the device serve as a testament to that fact.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Many friends associate post-effects with AAA 3D games, but in reality, their application is also extensive in 2D game development. Surprise - 2D Lighting Effects I believe that not long ago, some people had already seen this animated image. This is a 2D lighting effect created with Cocos Creator.

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Game Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

.” Alanah Pearce, who works with the narrative team at Sony Santa Monica made a similar case : “As a writer, having to edit AI-generated scripts/dialogue sounds far more time consuming than just writing my own temp lines I would far prefer AAA studios use whatever budget it costs to make tools like this to instead hire more writers.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Thinking bigger and including elements like the animation series (ex. Their in-house engine strategy synergizes with that because the goal is to give tools to small teams that allow them to deliver AAA-quality games without the need for massive team sizes. Seeing the game as the holistic experience it is. Having a service mindset.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Unity has a reputation for being a complex game engine designed to help developers make AAA games. Doing things like importing characters, animating them and making them interact with their world can be a daunting process. animations, interactions, collisions etc).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

That makes them the closest thing in games to a rock supergroup: Maya Kylmamaa (Game Lead, Engineer) , was CEO of the now defunct Reforged Studios (a Helsinki studio focused on AAA strategy games). She previously was Technical Lead at League of Legends and a Software Engineer at several expansions of World of Warcraft , among others.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The premise is you have nodes that represent actions, such as calculating two numbers, animating characters, and so on, and you connect the nodes to perform actions in your game. It’s not that you can’t get a job if you know Unity and C#, but C++ is more used in the AAA game industry and more opportunities are available.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D Hybrid Animation Techniques Games like Cuphead rely on meticulous, hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations, while Octopath Traveler takes a modern approach, using AI-assisted rendering to apply real-time lighting and physics to pixel art characters. merges the best of both worlds.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. Created and animated by hand, frame after frame, but integrated into a three-dimensional setting.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. Building upon the initial prototype , we've now reached a state where we're happy to release the Web editor in sync with the native version, so you can find the latest stable version on editor.godotengine.org.

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Not to mention the rather neglected rugby game genre, abandoned by AAA since 2008.) I love shows likes Friday Night Lights, I've dutifully sat through shows like Ted Lasso, and I've binged sports anime like Haikyuu. Yet I feel that the "basic theory" of most sports is still a pretty unexplored domain by the big sports game studios. (

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture. You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! But not really.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Preferred Choice for AAA games Unreal Engine is well-documented and has great tools for the game development discipline that reduce the manual and resource-intensive tasks in game development. In terms of animation, lighting, and creating geometry, Unreal engine is doing a great job making it a preferable choice for most game developers.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? where the main drawback is you're still vulnerable during the 2 second execution animation. I imagine Arkane debated this a lot, and over the years, had to bow to AAA approachability and clarity.

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Game Daily

JULY 19, 2023

Future worlds, in which society has broken down offer opportunities for narrative conflict, including wild animals, monsters, and zombies. A single season of dystopian-futurism TV show Black Mirror has way more interesting ideas about the future than current AAA gaming’s apocalyptica.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.” It’s the combination of art, coding, music, sound design, graphic design, writing, acting, animation, sculpture, and then at the end you can play it! Making games is different to making anything else.

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