Ask a Game Dev

MAY 3, 2024

This is because each game has its own file structure, asset list, and scripts that must be processed alongside building the code in order to result in a functioning game build. Every major studio I've worked at generally has their own automated build system. These build systems are not shared between projects at the same publisher.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Titan Image Demo showcased advanced techniques that can be used to solve real-world image asset creation tasks using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. Speakers included representatives from AAA studios Epic Games and Warner Bros Games Avalanche Software, and innovative startups like Sprocket Games and UneeQ.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

If a designer doesn't understand the technical and asset constraints she's working with, it can make for a lot of wasted work. If he wants a career in AAA games, he will need specialized expertise. At the very least he'll need to create his own assets and/or write his own code.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

For a chance to "go official", modmakers must ensure clean provenance for their assets. I feel like this new official mod publishing program's incentives might be shifting the vibe a bit. That means no ripping levels from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, no mash-ups with Bloodborne, no janky fun remixes with Doom 2016. THE FUTURE OF MY QUAKE MAPS.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Legendary workplace toxicity With Kotick gone, Microsoft now has to sanitize its new asset. Marketing spend is spiraling and even Apple has started fencing with AAA titles for their devices. If they’re not, they should. Activision Blizzard’s legendary workplace toxicity demands new leadership.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Echtra Games is working on an unannounced AAA ARPG for PC and console platforms. Experience at a powerhouse like ATVI is an asset in capital-raising efforts, adding to investor confidence. The studio was acquired by Zynga in 2021 for an undisclosed amount. The studio was acquired by Sony in 2023.

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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. However, the tradeoff is that the game would look like an upscaled version of a Switch game on the higher-end platforms.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 10, 2023

If the project is early in development or only has a small number of affected developers, the cost is much lower than if there are hundreds of devs affected or thousands of finished assets that could be affected.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Here are a few of them: ALT Modular Builds Instead of having everybody build everything, we separate assets into buckets that don’t always need to be built - common assets in one bucket, specific level assets in another, character assets in a third, weapons in a fourth, and so on.

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

Following the shuttering of “Paragon,” Epic Games released all “Paragon’s” assets for free use in Unreal Engine. We’re also looking at how we can further work with partners, like AWS, to build a world-class AAA game as independent developers.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

“We’re already seeing games that allow holders of NFTs from within a whole diverse group of other blockchain games, to take their assets and play against communities of other games,” says Udall.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

AAA Game Art Studio. AAA Game Art Studio is willing to take on all difficulties as long as they are connected to outsourcing game art. Apart from providing top-notch gaming assets for different genres, the studio also specializes in UI/UX, 2D, and 3D graphics, as well as animation.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 22, 2022

So off goes Brackeys to this link: Lazy Game Dev – No Game Left Behind And uses the coupon code LAZY … to claim a 20% discount on Lazy Game Dev that could help him build an AAA quality game… before the 9 hours are up… And — who knows? Maybe Lazy Game Dev could help you do the same.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The seismic shift enabled by microtransactions and live services won’t be complete until there are no more annual releases because every tentpole AAA game has transformed into a live-operated platform. 2 Asset Ownership Will Drive Player Choice Imagine you are the type of player happy to spend $2 million to be the top player in a 4x game.

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Game Designing

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A 3D animation rigger is a member of a visual effects team who helps to prepare 3D assets for animation. Once concept art has been created for a 3D character or asset, it will be the job of a 3D modeler to make the actual object that will be used by animators.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this breakout session , Creative Assembly explained how the cloud can help game studios deliver AAA games to large global audiences, how evolving game architecture can simplify operations, and how the cloud can help developers focus on delivering increasingly innovative game play.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

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. While that might be true if you are a AAA game studio, it isn’t necessarily the same for an indie developer. Unity Asset Store. Getting A Job.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Player and the Environment - A player’s interaction with the game environment and the assets plays a major role in making a game a hit. A few popular design tools are: Autodesk Maya - A powerful 3D animation and visual effects software used to model, animate, and render characters, effects, and assets for 3D games and applications.

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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. When you add assets to a Godot project, most of them get imported to engine internal formats on the fly based on options configured in the Import dock. The colors and contrast can be customized in the editor settings.

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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. Unity took another major attempt to onboard more no-code users last year when they launched the 2D and 3D game kits (which are also free assets). Essentially, these game kits come with every imaginable asset you need to make games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. It is not just the ownership of an asset in the shape of an NFT, but the ownership of the game itself.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D Many developers leverage art production services to create bespoke assets that enhance visual storytelling while maintaining performance efficiency. Indie developers benefit from 2.5Ds scalability, allowing them to craft AAA-quality visuals without the budget of a full 3D production.

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Game Dev Unchained

JANUARY 16, 2025

A 2024 MIT Technology Review report found that 30% of studios are actively incorporating AI-driven tools to replace traditional developer roles, from procedural level design to automated asset creation. Every single AAA studio is trying to copy that model. Jordan: “Like, remember when outsourcing was the biggest fear?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Due to its extensive asset store, versatility, and a multitude of tutorials and online courses, Unity has become the most popular 2D and 3D development platform in the world. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

AAA studios are expensive and cost a lot to run, assigning a AAA studio a remake/port project is not really worth it when compared to the estimated return on investment. First, it costs notably less than the publisher putting their own internal AAA studios on it. The answer here is "kind of". This has two major benefits.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

EDIT: for anyone's curiosity, I've pasted below my raw working "Quake community timeline" from my writing notes. it'll happen, don't panic, might already be here.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 24, 2023

It was founded by a group of seasoned developers who were instrumental in the success of several AAA franchises including The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and, Dying Light. “Games are not about textures, assets, features or levels. .” Starward Industries may be a new studio, it’s definitely not short on experience.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The individual assets seem nice, but together they sort of clash -- a random junk prop will have the 4k photogrammetry HDR treatment, overwhelming the nearby gameplay pickup that you're actually supposed to notice. Even AAA has given up on immersive sim RPGs , so any dev deserves praise just for attempting this genre I think.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The game is based on AMC’s popular television show and what made it such a great hit was the use of Unreal Engine to naturally develop exceptional replicas of assets from the show - such as the variety of weapons, characters, buildings, and environments.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

You can get amazing assets of all sorts for cheap. This is also why people who want jobs in AAA should try making their own small games and mods. I have long proudly called myself a bottom feeder. There are always going to be ambitious young people who dream of making it in this peculiar art form. I say, if you can go cheap, go cheap.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This allows smaller game companies to produce AAA game content, and that’s exciting.” As an industry, tools like AWS and Unreal let us access artists and modelers around the world, in addition to the technology’s underlying services. Read the customer blog. Learn more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

You cannot want any of those traders who are after quick wins by flipping your game assets since it will only mean that your game is actually a ponzi scheme. Of course, how much you want to take as royalty depends on the asset type and community. One thing is for sure, none of this justifies eliminating creator royalties in games.

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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.” You spent hundreds of hours painting all the art assets in the game. Plus there’s so much texture and detail to hand made assets. I think Limbo was a team, but still). And hell, I know how to paint, I studied it for 3 years!

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.” You spent hundreds of hours painting all the art assets in the game. Plus there’s so much texture and detail to hand made assets. I think Limbo was a team, but still). And hell, I know how to paint, I studied it for 3 years!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

While games like Plarium’s RAID Shadow Legends boast a lineup of AAA quality 3D champions, you can get away with less. This game significantly cheaper production budget with assets being done in relatively low-quality 2D. The point I’m making is that high-quality asset production is not the only way to go.

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