Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 31, 2025

I've long said that any AAA game studio, no matter how strong, is always 2-3 flops in a row away from closure. While Bioware remains as a label and the next Mass Effect game continues development, Bioware as a studio is no longer a stand-alone entity capable of building a full game from start to finish like it used to be.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

My first game, called Averish , was a city building game where you could build entire cities out of plastic building blocks. I put in car building as well, and downloaded every vehicle physics asset to make it easy. What inspired you to make Drift Type C? The problem was that the cars just wouldn’t drift. JON BRAIN GOOD.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. Staying motivated isn’t hard at all for the solo dev. “It After encouragement from a friend, I studied and began building modded move sets (PSAs) in Smash Bros: Brawl for mages and characters from other franchises, independently, using the forums as guidance.”

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

The first thing that any new hire has to do is get the project synced to the latest safe build and get the game running. That knowledge and experience is then considered when increasing the scope of her tasks until she's reached the level of productivity expected of a dev in her role.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2023

For other games, it can be longer - the dev team can spend up to a year in preproduction figuring out the core gameplay for most games, with more time needed for games with really massive scope (e.g. ALT It’s worth repeating - the vast majority of AAA games with 5+ years of dev time aren’t usually being fully built from start to finish.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 17, 2024

This is generally an expensive process - building anything physical is costly, time-consuming, and is a moving target because competitors aren't stopping either. Second, they must develop software development tools for both themselves and for external developers to use in order to build games for that console.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 22, 2022

Recently I promoted my Lazy Game Dev product and this is one of the emails I wrote for the promotion. A young, insignificant game dev named Asbjørn Thirslund is hurrying home to create his first tutorial for a YT channel he just started called Brackeys. You’re a YT game dev,” shouts Brackeys. The email starts below the line.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

There was a feeling of urgency building up, and so I foolishly volunteered my soul. Thus for the past few months I've been building "Scopa", a level design.MAP importing plugin for Unity, as a kind of HammUEr / Qodot equivalent. Fortunately for now, I'm able to do that. For now, things are flowing mostly smoothly.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

If he wants a career in AAA games, he will need specialized expertise. Indie devs can't just come up with the ideas for the rest of the team to build them out; there just aren't enough people to handle that kind of workload. At the very least he'll need to create his own assets and/or write his own code.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Game devs (especially AAA devs) aren't interchangeable and we don't all work on the same thing, have the same expertise, or even work within the same team. They're split up among many different groups - single player campaign, multiplayer, zombies, UI, online back end support, build, tools, and so on.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 28, 2024

Consider - in AAA games, we bring on entire teams of QA to test every day during production. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ How do they find that many bugs? Imagine 50 testers each find only five bugs a day from a full eight hours of testing.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Let's say that we're working on the camera functionality for in-game cinematics for a narrative-heavy AAA game like the Witcher or Dragon Age. The cinematic designers need a solid toolbox to build cinematics with, a set of tools that they will use to create most of the cinematics of the game.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you know enough SQL to query for what you’re looking for, there’s less real need to build a special tool to do it for you since you can just write your own queries. the customer service workers), AAA dev teams usually have tools engineers build custom game-database tools to enable support team members to do their jobs.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2024

Most game dev teams have a strong idea of who our game's target audience is, and that includes the kind of context they should already have. If we're building a casual mobile game where we expect our representative player is new to games and lacks the context needed to play, we'll need to spend more effort to teach them that context.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

.” “I’m the founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games,” began Krajewski, detailing his journey from working on AAA titles at prominent companies like EA and Midway to establishing his own remote studio. The premise is thrilling: “You are building a virtual society inside of an ecosystem,” Krajewski explained.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The larger the team gets, the more effort and resources the studio spends on reducing build times. This is because it’s a multiplicative effect - reducing build times can save many developers time on the daily. There are several different approaches I’ve seen studios take to optimize build time.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We're seeing record profits from successful games and we're seeing a bunch of unsuccessful games pull the profits down because those unsuccessful games cost just as much as the successful games to build. It's the jobs of devs like me that are the costs that are being cut.

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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. I don't think that we'll ever see pre-rendered cutscenes go away permanently.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2023

It’s nigh impossible to build a PS2 game now primarily because all of the necessary hardware and software have been discontinued for over 15 years. The old PS2 dev tools are no longer in production. Most of the software for building it depended on Window XP machines. That old tech is no longer supported by any vendors anymore.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 10, 2023

Most devs are still using C++11/14 to my knowledge, with several ongoing legacy titles continuing to use C++03 to support them. One of the biggest pillars of development is that the ability for devs to work (stability) is paramount. SWTOR is still using the licensed Hero engine and are still using the build from 2012.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2019

They help everyone –– from indie developers to AAA studios –– to focus on creating the best game rather than having to rebuild a physics engine, shift graphics blobs manually in memory, or develop reliable back-end infrastructure. That meant the path from gamer to game developer was inexpensive and usually free.

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Cocos

MAY 7, 2023

Are there any plans to make Steam SDK integration in Win and Mac native builds possible ? Not yet, we hope more devs can try on Nintendo Switch publish pstrejczek: Are there any plans to support other major console brands (xbox ,playstation) ? We really need more devs to spread the engine’s to the community.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He stumbled upon an alpha build of a game called Iconoclasts. Eric recounted, “I was definitely building a community, and when I realized what was happening, I had to give it a home.” A hint of Super Metroid, a sprinkle of Mega Man X, a dash of Celeste, and the vibrant world-building reminiscent of Zelda.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Topics discussed in this episode : 0265: Art Boost | Sculpting AAA Realistic Characters with Lisa Loseva. Whether you’re growing your app or building a new one, Appfigures has the tools you need to reduce risk and get more downloads. As you can see, they know their stuff! 0257: Art Boost | VR Sculpting with Joel Durnham.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The path to reach these points of interest generally results in park visitors only visiting a handful of the park’s attractions before leaving, even though your team spent a lot of time building and paving the rest of it. And if so, what needs to be sacrificed for that acknowledgement? Anything else is icing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Supercell attempted to fight this trend by building better tools and a greater focus on user-generated content. But it’s not worth asking game devs to show up in person. #7 After all, the aspiration of building a great (top-grossing) game with a small team in an organization where teams come first is every developer's dream.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , Executive producer at N3TWORK, who is building his first blockchain game. 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. This post is sponsored by Xsolla.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 29, 2020

cell bg=odd_color,even_color border=color]AAA[/cell]. ICU data, build options and export templates. Since some game project do not need CTL at all, or text usage is very limited, multiple compile options are available to control text server building. Table horizontal layout is mirrored for RTL paragraphs.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

All four offer non-programmers an opportunity to build video games without having to know how to code. All four offer non-programmers an opportunity to build video games without having to know how to code. Unity has a reputation for being a complex game engine designed to help developers make AAA games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x releases, now that we have a fairly mature base to build upon. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. 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. iOS: New plugin API.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

. “Maybe he doesn’t know how to… communicate with engineers as well as Condrey,” Gray mused, highlighting how leadership can sometimes make or break a studio’s ability to build a strong, cohesive team. On the other, you have studios that are pushing the boundaries of what’s technically possible in AAA game development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team. We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. After 12 months of silence, the team of founders has been revealed. One could wonder if this makes Ryan a bold choice to lead the studio.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

. “Maybe he doesn’t know how to… communicate with engineers as well as Condrey,” Gray mused, highlighting how leadership can sometimes make or break a studio’s ability to build a strong, cohesive team. On the other, you have studios that are pushing the boundaries of what’s technically possible in AAA game development.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most (if not all) technologies that utilize ECS do it at the core engine level, by serving as the base architecture and building everything else (physics, rendering, audio, etc.) Other AAA games with lots of content going on. They are, however, separate systems and completely isolated.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Before jumping into how they work, it’s worth understanding why Passes have become such a popular feature among devs and players. Sustainability is key to building long-term retention : It turns the game into a hobby that can be kept for months and years. Enjoy from the links below. Why are Battle Passes so successful?

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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.” But those notes create a basis of a project to build on, ideas being grouped and solidified. So next time I begin daydreaming, I’m not remembering my last idea, I’m building on it.” How do you deal with that? “It’s

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