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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

A simple texture change or model update can impact gameplay mechanics, UI design, and monetization strategies. AI-driven tools to speed up repetitive tasks like UV mapping and texture generation. AI-Assisted Art Creation Generative AI accelerates concept art, texturing, and asset variations. AI-powered tools help: (i).

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Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

Radiator Blog

It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. Expendable companions. Lots of height variation and clutter = broken pathfinding.

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GenoTerra - The finished prototype.

Mnenad

The Mechanic I. I was looking for suitable solutions for having both views in the mechanic of the game. But before I explain the narration, I want to jump back in time when I started building the endless terrain generator. Having the character and the story set, the mechanic was implemented. Adobe Acrobat Document.

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10 Worst Video Game Glitches to Test Before Launching Your Next Game

iXie gaming

However, their interaction may be faulty, leading to objects or characters getting stuck in walls, terrains, or on each other. With error-free and well-designed HUD/UI, players can engage more with your game’s mechanics. Character Clipping and Collision Glitches A video game entails characters interacting with each other.

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Mastering Metaverse: John Krajewski’s Eco Adventure

Game Dev Unchained

But, beyond gameplay mechanics, Eco speaks to a much larger industry trend: the emergence of the metaverse. With AI technologies making rapid strides, and the information age turning students into consumers wanting immediate answers, there’s an urgent need to adapt. But the landscape of learning and motivation is changing.

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Open-World Game Testing: Things to Consider

iXie gaming

Here are some key aspects to consider in functional testing: Core mechanics. Ensure that basic gameplay mechanics work as intended, including movement, interaction with the environment, and combat. AI behavior. Verify the accuracy of the in-game map, including geography, terrain, and landmarks. Boundaries and collision.

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Rebalancing Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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