iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

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.

Art 52

Art Render Ray Tracing AI 52

Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

I was excited to discuss the sharing of tools and knowledge between the gaming and film industries, a phenomenon that has been more noticeable lately with the development of technologies like Unreal Engine 5. The adoption of Unreal Engine for pre-visualization is a case in point.

Film 98

Film AI Technology Engineering 98

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Tweak the AI for one so the moment the goblins see you they all leap out of it and rush you. Each has a puzzle you have to solve, and the puzzles all use different abilities and parts of the engine. Each time you find a “Geoglyph," you watch a cutscene which shows a sliver of what happened to Zelda.

Cutscenes 92

Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 92

Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But either one was radically different in that way than the most popular game engine, which was the Diku style (we called them “codebases” back then). The scripting on WoC made for better combat too, because you weren’t stuck with just the built-in combat AI for your enemies. Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths.

Sandbox 59

Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 59

Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

By comparison, let’s talk about Baldur’s Gate, the original game, a game very much in the same genre, that uses literally the same (awful) Infinity Engine for its combat. I am charmed. I played a good 10 or so hours in that game and the “I am charmed” moment never came.

Fantasy 52

Fantasy AAA Concepts Games 52

Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. But not really. The player never quite experiences these ideas in the game itself.

Studios 246

Studios Co-op Open World Cutscenes 246

Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Future WHAT IS YARN SPINNER IN 2022 The Yarn Spinner project is made of two main parts, which can be confusing: Yarn Spinner "Core" , generic dialogue engine processor thing ("virtual machine") + script compiler written in C#. None of it is Unity specific.

Scripting 130

Scripting Code Localization Engineering 130