PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A terrifying parasite is spreading, mutating some of the animals into grotesque, blood-thirsty monsters ready to kill their way out of their cages. Looking around the zoo, my mind was already transforming the animals behind the fences into images from Adam’s post! Everyone loves animals, right? Of course, in a zoo.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 7, 2024

I just finished playing Animal Well, and before that and I was very heavily into Neon White, which is my first speedrun," he says. I'm not talking about the global success of last year's Spider-Man 2, on which Cerny worked as executive producer. But something, in many ways, just as impressive. "I Read more

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As a mentor of the 2D animation courses at CG Spectrum—an online training center—Hubert Lapointe ( Rick and Morty , Solar Opposites ) knows a thing or two about e-learning. With years of experience, including his own educational pursuits, Hubert shares his core tips on how to optimize learning animation online. Attention commitment.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

Chinese developer and publisher Nuverse is using AI for all NPC speech and animation in games. For its upcoming science fiction survival title Earth: Revival the development team used a system to generate speech and compute full body animations for NPCs, without any manual intervention. It even helps writing the lines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! You can also try the Web editor or the Android editor for this release. New in Beta 1!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape.The recent Kickstarter campaign for the game reached its 60.000 goal in just 19 hours! I’m really happy with how our animations are turning out.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. Carlsen initiates with a gameplay sketch, and the art team starts building a 3D location. “We The art, sounds, and animation need to communicate the puzzle logic effectively.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Hrnjadovic also believes that the game could build bridges between people of different beliefs. Thats why we choose a stylised abstract art style, similar to what could be found in an animated kids show. SenAm plans to build upon the 10-minute demo thats out now to try and release the game in Oktober 2026.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 3, 2024

The game employs hand-drawn animated cutscenes to enhance its narrative, providing players with a detailed, dark world. “The hand-drawn animated cutscenes are crucial to the main storyline. This detailed world-building, combined with the often ironic dialogues, provides a compelling backdrop for the game’s unfolding drama.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention. Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The smartphone developer, which also employs staff in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, is creating the official tie-in to Disney's Iwájú, which is a new animated series launching on Disney+ on February 28th.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I like variety in my work (art, coding, animation, marketing); it keeps things interesting and I also love seeing my own progress over the weeks, months and years.” Just start building and the ideas will come.” What are the biggest advantages of working solo? “I’m I’m able to do what I want and at the pace that I want.

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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. Maya by Autodesk Maya is Autodesk’s virtual reality software which allows you to create 3D computer animation and VFX graphics.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

Likewise, construction elements have become intertwined with the core mechanics of many titles, such as the Japanese-hit Slime Isekai Memories , where narrative progression is tied into its base building despite its focus as a turn-based RPG. Merge Vikings Combining merge2 mechanics with progressive character and building vectors.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As an example, PUBG Mobile’s collaboration with the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion introduced giant Mechs into its battle royale map that would attempt to shoot down players, while Cookie Run Kingdom’s collaboration with the K-pop band BTS saw the action-RPG gacha game adding a rhythm game mode.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The cover illustration is from Tiny Pasture , an endearing literal desktop pet that has cute pixel art animals grazing at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

So we had to build all of that on our own. Three Oscars Shalin Shodhan is no stranger to building immersive worlds. Later, at Pixar, he worked on animated classics like Toy Story 3 and Brave that went on to win three Oscars. The game will be accompanied by an animated mini-series.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2024

Packaged as NVIDIA NIMs, these inference microservices enable developers to deliver high-quality natural language understanding, speech synthesis, and facial animation for gaming, customer service, healthcare, and more. NVIDIA is also introducing ACE PC NIM… Source

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Animation: Add validation for rotation axis to SpringBoneSimulator3D ( GH-101571 ). Animation: Clarify SpringBoneSimulator3D s gravity units and improve documentation ( GH-101652 ).

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2023

Elemental cornerstones Building on that conversation 10 years ago when the 4 friends Onat Hekimoglu, Fabian Preuschoff, Daniel Beckmanns and Ole Tillmann confessed their love for stop motion and story games, the narrative developed. The titular hero is a young lab assistant for the ship’s lead scientist, Jeanne Mareaux.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Animation has boomed in recent years and it’s now present in nearly every film or television show. The increase in popularity is caused by animation’s ability to storytell and hold an audience’s attention. Although, crafting animations isn’t a cakewalk by any means. Why would a cloud infrastructure like AWS help?

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters. At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Unity has a rich and sophisticated animation system for the game development process , also referred to as ‘ Mecanim ’. It is a powerful tool for game developers to create dynamic, true-to-life animations for characters, objects, and environments in their games.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The stunning visuals in "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022) and Pixar's "Elemental" (2023) demonstrate how both live-action and animation redefine the limits of visual effects. They capture real actors' performances in live action and build complete worlds from scratch in animation.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Four steps to take before you start building to ensure you're set up for success. From here you can make some selections of the buildings and props you would like to use. Create new groups to separate geometry or use the groups provided by KitBash3D, which are especially handy for splitting up assets for destruction or animation.

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Cocos

MARCH 13, 2025

For example, I need to know the duration of the animations before the animation starts playing actually (to build some wait until animation ends mechanism). How to I get the animation duration by animation name? duration` but in my case I want to get the clip by animation name instead of index.

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Game Designing

JULY 23, 2023

Animation is not just about quirky or cartoonish images; it’s also about conveying a message, story, or narrative. Animation is a creative and effective way to tell a story, so much so that the global animation industry was worth $395 billion in 2022 according to a Yahoo! What Is an Animation Portfolio? Finance report.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Great things are created with a good plan, which is why any animation project must begin with a storyboard. Before an animation project is greenlit, a storyboard often must be presented to the decision-makers. And when it is approved, a more comprehensive storyboard is developed to outline all the details of the animated story.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

They created interactive installations, motion graphics animations, experiential web pages, mobile apps, and lots of other creative projects. We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Woah, another beta build already? If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ). Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 18, 2024

They have a good understanding of how the various game systems work and how to build those systems to work within the way the program itself works. The animator needs to mark the animation frame at which the fireball appears, and the bone (pointing finger) as the position to make the fireball appear.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

Even as game graphics became beautiful 3D scenes, the animations didn’t match up. Animation Integration. The processed mocap data is integrated into the game engine, where animators refine and polish the movements to ensure they seamlessly blend with the game’s overall aesthetic. Data Cleanup.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Several other areas got improvements, like the editor (which has been vastly reworked), UI system, multiplayer, navigation, audio, animation, etc. Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data. Loading those animations require a lot of memory and loading them takes a lot of time.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

The number of pre-recorded lines has grown, the number of options a player has to interact with NPCs has increased, and facial animations have become more realistic. Developers of middleware, tools, and games can use NVIDIA ACE for Games to build and deploy customized speech, conversation, and animation AI models in software and games.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Motion/Performance capture usually happens fairly early during development, because animators need time to take the captured data and turn it into actual performances. Much of what animators do during production is this performance capture cleanup and modification/adjustment.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 12, 2023

When we build game systems, one common method of differentiating the work is “things we probably will change” (e.g. We build the things we expect to change such that it is easy to make those changes. Since we expect designers to modify these values a lot, the engineers build the system to make it easy to set and modify those values.

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