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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

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. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures. UV sets are the coordinates that map the 2D texture images onto the 3D model surface.

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The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools

Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Its capabilities for VR content creation include comprehensive 3D modeling tools, advanced texturing and shading, animation and rigging, and integration with VR Devices. Blender Blender is an open-source 3D computer graphics software tool.

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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

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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Pushing Unity to the Limit: How to Optimize Performance for AAA-Quality Gameplay

iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Textures, geometry, and audio assets that arent optimised can easily strain memory and GPU resources. Textures: Use texture atlases, apply compression formats suited to your target platform (e.g., Apply platform-specific texture compression and lighting strategies. The result? But polish must be efficient.

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Recently, Jason Schreier revealed some bts talks with Blizzard devs who told him that they were trying for an RTS for years but were denied by execs. I understand that execs weigh risk/reward in terms of profitability but from the consumer side, these sorts of reveals makes it seem like innovation is being stifled and shifted to the indie scene like the nothing but superhero movies. What’s it look like from the dev and creative side?

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.

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A podcast recently talked about how some games, like Contra Operation Galuga are struggling to run on Nintendo Switch, because they developed it for higher end systems(PS5, Xbox series, PC) first then port it to Nintendo Switch. They suggested it should have been done the other way around, so every platform has a version of the game that runs perfectly(barring AAA high quality titles like God of War and Spider-Man). How true is this?

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.

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The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Another specialty of Nuare Studio is 2D art, 3D high and low poly modeling, texturing, and VFX. Specialties: – Low Polygon Modeling, High Polygon Modeling, Textures: photo source or hand-painted, Digital Sculpting, Target Rendering, Rigging and Animation, and Concepts. AAA Game Art Studio. Bon Art Studio.

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[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

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. Properly utilizing post-effects can significantly enhance the visual quality of a 2D game by several levels.

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Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely”

PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games. There are loads of things I’m not good at, like 3D modelling and texturing (especially colours), PR, marketing, testing, so it would be good to work with someone who is good at those things.

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Resident Evil 4 Remake Low GPU Usage: Easily Fix This Problem

Game Errors

MARCH 21, 2023

A high-end AAA title like Resident Evil 4 Remake is very much GPU demanding. Increase the texture quality. If you are experiencing Resident Evil 4 Remake low GPU usage problem on your PC, you can take some effective steps to solve this problem. Notably, it supports a GPU-intensive feature Ray Tracing. Navigate to the Graphics Settings.

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A Guide to Designing Multiplayer Games

Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Adobe Photoshop - Game Artists working with concept art, textures for environments, objects, characters, and more explore artistic concepts and production methods using Photoshop. ZBrush - A digital sculpting tool that is used for detailed character modeling, texturing, animation, rendering, 3D sculpting, and more.

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. "2D Pixel" preset for textures), but until there was no easy way to configure all presets easily in a unified interface. On top of that, other quality of life improvements have been added or back-ported from 4.0,

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"Quake Renaissance" for Rock Paper Shotgun

Radiator Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

it'll happen, don't panic, might already be here.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Overall I feel it's an OK game that's basically playable, despite the bugs and aggressive texture streaming and general unfinished feeling. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture. If Microsoft had given them another 6-12 months to truly polish everything, then it maybe would've been a more solid OK game.

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Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

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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The Invincible by Starward Industries: A stellar fusion of sci-fi literature and gaming greatness

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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Out Now • Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”

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.” Plus there’s so much texture and detail to hand made assets. But a friend showed me Braid and Limbo towards the end of Film School and I finally realised ‘Wait a second, one person can make a game!?’ (I

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Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”

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.” Plus there’s so much texture and detail to hand made assets. But a friend showed me Braid and Limbo towards the end of Film School and I finally realised ‘Wait a second, one person can make a game!?’ (I

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

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The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools

What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

Pushing Unity to the Limit: How to Optimize Performance for AAA-Quality Gameplay

The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely”

Resident Evil 4 Remake Low GPU Usage: Easily Fix This Problem

A Guide to Designing Multiplayer Games

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

"Quake Renaissance" for Rock Paper Shotgun

Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

The Invincible by Starward Industries: A stellar fusion of sci-fi literature and gaming greatness

Out Now • Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”

Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”

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