Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 12, 2024

I've seen plenty of programmers who had experience working at smaller or mobile studios move to AAA games and many go in reverse. Engineering solutions to code problems is pretty universal - there's generally a thing that needs to be built and there are established ways to evaluate the code written to do that thing (e.g.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

This is the workflow for creating a AAA model of an AK-47, using Maya, Substance Designer, Substance Painter and Marmoset. This is good for 3D game artists sending their work to Unreal, Unity, or any other game development engine that uses a PBR system. As a 3D artist I understand and accept that.

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Unity Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Learn how Monster Closet Games maximizes efficiency with engine-agnostic DevOps solutions and automations, including Unity Version Control and Backtrace.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Unreal - Game Engine Unreal Engine is a powerful and production-proven RT3D (Real-Time 3D) computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games. The latest releases of Unreal Engine have allowed many developers to use Unreal Engine to create award-winning VR experiences for Oculus headsets.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2023

Former EA DICE leaders have reunited to form Time To Kill Games, a new AAA studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s working on a new shooter built using Unreal Engine. The developer is led by Lars Gustavsson, who up until November last year, ran the Battlefield series as creative director at EA DICE. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The studio aims to develop AAA Epic Games on the Unreal Engine for Fortnite. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Newly established Barnyard Games has raised $3.4 million in a seed funding round. Read more

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. As a result, mobile gaming is pushed aside in favor of AAA titles, which have their own position in the market. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 17, 2023

AAA game development is a complex process that requires well-oiled teamwork from an experienced team. The AAA game development process is an intersection of art, technical skills, writing, and many more disciplines.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

During the day he works as a Senior Software Engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, creating games like Hearthstone, together with a large group of specialized professionals. In AAA, the roles are typically very specialized and each individual doesn’t have much room to experiment outside of their responsibilities.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 20, 2023

This norm, however, may soon be a relic of the past as software from technology company Move hopes to revolutionise motion capture for AAA and indies alike, as well as beyond games. Read more

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. 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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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 29, 2023

With AAA console game developers focusing on ensuring their games are more immersive than ever, intersecting gameplay and narrative has never been more crucial. Though the vast majority of games have a story, very few of them allow for meaningful gameplay and story integration.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Motion Capture (2D, 3D, LiveLink) Real-time Rendering One of the standout Unreal Engine features is its support for real-time rendering.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 26, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Creating Terrain in Godot Tutorial We recently discussed using the Godot Game Engine for AAA games, specifically areas it needs to improve and one of the most obvious is in terrain support. Out of the box the Godot game engine has no support for creating terrain.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! It feels like such an obvious absence to me, so I imagine they attempted some kind of solution but then the engineering complexity forced them to cut their losses. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It's primarily a feature handled by game design and engineering. The designers figure out how the camera needs to behave for the intended player experience and then the engineers figure out how to translate those behavior rules into code. at frame 32, pan to Desmal while moving to point A and zooming in) while I script my cinematic.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

The onboarding process is a little of everything you say.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. This can be understood by examining the Engine and Game Logic parts separately: Engine. In other words, Godot as an engine tries to take the burden of processing away from the user, and instead places the focus on deciding what to do in case of an event.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. . Read the Full Tutorial ?

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Starloop Studios

MAY 25, 2023

For most players, hearing the words game engine will conjure up imagery of the likes of Unreal Engine 5, game developers speaking about how useful it is, and promotional material about its array of useful features. The likes of Unreal Engine 5 and Unity undoubtedly have extensive feature sets that help developers in innumerable [.]

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

And one of those guidelines is choosing the correct game engine for your needs. You see choosing a game engine depends on your goal as a game developer. Some people treat game development as a hobby, and in that case you can choose whichever engine you want. Ureal Engine Blueprint Visual Coding Language.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

This might surprise you, but more often than not… yes. My most recent executive producer started off as a customer service agent at the studio, and worked his way through QA and production. The CEO of that company was a producer who worked on Everquest for seven years.

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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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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

The decision criteria varies depending on the type of game being released, the game launch timeline, the available engineering resources, and studio budgets. It supports multiple game engines out of the box, such as Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), Unity and Godot, while providing options for integrations with custom engines through REST APIs.

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

Explore the platform’s ability to connect popular tools and applications, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max, and Substance by Adobe. See demonstrations on how complex settings like a jungle or museum can be built with NvRTX, and get a better understanding of how AAA real-time ray tracing visuals are created.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unreal Fest, the annual developer conference organized by Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine (UE), returns to New Orleans October 3—5 for three days of speaking sessions, hands-on workshops, and specialized industry tracks. Stop by our booth in the expo hall for live demonstrations of Unreal Engine use cases powered by AWS.

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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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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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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

To help during the game development process, NVIDIA has packaged and released a suite of SDKs through our branch of Unreal Engine for all developers, from independent to AAA, to harness the power of RTX. Today, NVIDIA released RTX Technology Showcase – an interactive demo built from NVIDIA’s RTX Unreal Engine 4.26

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The Astronauts

JANUARY 7, 2019

For three months by now, I’m mentoring three junior engineers at work. The Seniority Trap In games, and especially in engine/middleware technology, it’s fairly common to see job requirements like “Senior engineer needed, 10+ years of AAA/console development experience required” etc.

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Unfortunately, the real story in the AAA space is that experimental and niche games like RTS games don't have as much of a potential market anymore. Creatives want to be creative, so they pitch creative stuff. Executives care about the bottom line and return on investment. just to get off the ground.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

8 Supercell Engine vs. Unity and Unreal “We will improve and expand our internal engine, maybe even to rival third-party engines.” Since the beginning, Supercell had its proprietary engine that has evolved from a 2D engine into a full-fledged 3D engine with strong multiplayer capabilities, as can be seen with Brawl Stars.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2019

For this occasion, we asked Heroic Labs co-founder Mo Firouz to write some words about the company, why they chose to support Godot and their plans to integrate Nakama with our engine. And that’s why we’re excited to support the development of the Godot Engine as a sponsor. Imagine a world where all music had been written for piano.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

It's an interesting test: can a 25+ year old mod community re-imagine and re-engineer itself? As far as I know, there's no ETA on this project, it'll launch when it's ready. But keep a lookout for it. THE FUTURE OF MY QUAKE MAPS. Which leads me into reflecting on my own Quake modding activity.

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