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How Drama and Fake Ads Convert To Real Profits

Deconstructor of Fun

Introduction I remember as a young product manager, working on major releases at Disney and Rovio how excited I was for the cutscenes. After release I was responsible for analyzing churn and sharing the results with the team: the cutscenes were driving users out of the game. The team poured their hearts into the work.

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Emerging Trends in Game Art: Real-Time Rendering, Stylized Game Art, and Beyond 

iXie gaming

By 2026, the gaming industry is expected to reach $321 billion , with real-time rendering and AI-driven game art playing a pivotal role in its growth. Real-Time Rendering For decades, game developers relied on pre-rendered cutscenes and static assets to deliver high-fidelity visuals.

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UEFN & HaZ Dulull- A New Dawn for Creators

Game Dev Unchained

” He later took his experiences and created HaZimation , a production company involved in a wide range of storytelling formats, including animated films, episodic series, and video games. They began in London, built their team, and shifted focus to animated films when the pandemic struck.

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The Future of 3D Art in Interactive Entertainment

iXie gaming

In fact, the 3D animation art styles are translated to visually stunning and captivating worlds, adding fun to interactive entertainment experiences. Character Animation Secondly, game artists and developers heavily use 3D art for character animation. This improves the overall player believability and immersion.

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

The scripting on WoC made for better combat too, because you weren’t stuck with just the built-in combat AI for your enemies. AI had more sophisticated combat tactics, because designers could add fresh behaviors to the monsters. Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. A bit of ACTS scripting from LegendMUD.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. There's no Destiny-like seamless matchmaking and no Left 4 Dead style good-enough bot AI. But not really. The player never quite experiences these ideas in the game itself.

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Darner's Digest, vol. 3: on the Yarn Spinner v2.0 release + a YS primer

Radiator Blog

Some games do all their cutscene scripting and even enemy AI in Yarn Spinner, because really, it's just a simple scripting language that does whatever you tell it to do. Nothing stops you from adding more commands, functions, markup tags, or new ways to process the script. // custom NPC AI script example?

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