Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. Still, you can argue that it's a stunning achievement just to be able to debate these questions in a video game. Can't wait for the full frontal in the next game!) Well, I don't know anything about that.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2024

Each participant in a synchronized animation acts using angles and positioning relative to some common point and performs all actions within a specific space around that common point. the ground is flat, there's enough space, there are no objects to clip through, etc.)

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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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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 28, 2023

Top image: Stray Gods by Summerfall Studios, trailer by Derek Lieu Twitter is not a good place to advertise to potential customers, but it is good for connecting to people in the game industry like scouts, publishers, streamers, press, etc. Get to the point Seriously though, show what the game looks like when it’s being played.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Porting fixes to Embedded/Floating Window mode The Embedded/Floating game window option added in 4.4 Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ). Highlights For an overview of whats new overall in Godot 4.4,

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Cocos

APRIL 25, 2023

My client engineer is also super busy building the rest of the game and doesn’t have time to look into my question right now. Currently, my client engineer has 5 cards being dealt and each card sprite pulls from a random card image on an atlas. I would like to put the image of the card’s back as the default sprite frame.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Consider becoming a storyboard artist for film, TV, and video games! These frames are sometimes left as static images or turned into a simple animation sequence called an animatic. A storyboard acts as a visual guide for how a live-action or animated scene will be shot and includes the look, timings, camera angles, and points of view.

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Game Industry News

APRIL 28, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a classic game that’s from over three decades ago for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It actually debuted in the arcade, where it was given quite a spectacular presentation in both graphics and sound quality for the time, which included musical clips from the Smooth Criminal song.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today we’ll try to figure out the main peculiarities, styles, and differences of 2D art in game development. Even though some players consider 3D game art superior to 2D game art and believe that the latter is not so popular, we are sure of the opposite. The Origins Of The 2D Game Art. Main 2D Game Art Styles.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You may have seen some 2D or 3D animated movies and video games that look like they were hand-drawn or have a cartoon-like style. Usually, Japanese anime films and video games feature this distinct look. This type or technique of animation is known as cel-shading animation.

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Cocos

MARCH 25, 2024

Also, I’ve been toying around with the animation tool’s “embedded player”… I realize it’s still experimental feature, but it got me thinking… is there a way that we can preview a spine animation in editor without having to manually playtest the game? Particularly in the animation timeline tool?

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 11, 2024

Integration of AI into Gaming Solutions Integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into games has led to a revolution in the gaming experience, reflected through enhanced gameplay, realism, and responsive in-game environments. A new era of interactive entertainment is here!

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As video games get bigger and better, so do the errors and glitches. Regardless of how many hours your game development team spends polishing the video game, some technical glitches are bound to occur. But why do video game glitches occur? Why Do Video Game Glitches Occur? Let’s find out.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 11, 2023

When the game decides it needs to display your character, the engine asks “Hey, what are my values?” It gets worse with animations, too. The animation skeleton doesn’t change when you make adjustments to the body, so significant changes to the mesh (bulky armor, oversized body parts, etc.) and gets told “5, 3, 15, 8, 7”.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

x is that, several times, sprites are separated in many nodes in order to be animated or assembled. 2D Masking / Clipping. branch, this will be doable in a much easier way, thanks to the "clip children" property in the visibility section. This has been added for 4.0 thanks to the new DirectionalLight2D node.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Kristala at Play NYC 2021. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

After fiddling around and running some tests, Will was able to make it so that the character can effectively roll through various environmental objects - like the barrels shown in the clip below - to destroy them. Will then fixed another bug related to the game's poison system, which you can see illustrated in the log below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Godot, being an open source game engine, was built with a never-ending wish of adding new features to it. Motion matching is one of the latest features in game animation which is quite revolutionary. Usually, setting up a basic animation system needs a lot of work and time. Motivation. How to use the feature.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here you'll get a front-row seat to the exciting development process for indie game Kristala, the inaugural title from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—an indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. Within this underground level area lies several impressive stone structures that will be available for exploring in the game.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From automated clipping to smart video creation, we'll explore how these technological innovations are helping studios save millions while maintaining their expressive face in modern filmmaking. Post-production, larger-than-life in scope, brings forth modeling, animation, and compositing. Experience the Future of VFX with Filmustage!

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

Euler(pronounced Oiler) is one of the most common methods of rotation in games and animation, We have a rotation axis for x, y and z. Next we need a reference to the unit component for getting and updating the position, and the Jumper node to provide secondary movement for animation. There are two values that we are animating.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A new mainline Pokémon game is always a monumental event, but Scarlet and Violet , the latest entries in the juggernaut franchise, appear to have reached new heights. According to data from GfK, and as reported by GamesIndustry , Scarlet and Violet represent the biggest boxed game launch of 2022 in the UK, supplanting FIFA 23.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

  I have to admit it was frustrating to work with a machine that cannot handle much heavy calculations at once (my Macbook from 2011) from time to time, but on the other hand this forced me to get into optimizing the game very soon, what might become a good base for expanding the complexity in near future. Draw call batching.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

The only difference is that they appear inside the editor after running the game. They use a messaging system to communicate between the editor and the running game. EngineDebugger manages the game side of the custom profiler. The yellow crosshair represents the mouse position relative to the game window. What's next.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Are you ready to get dark, dear friends?

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s not uncommon for me to get asked on Twitter (when I was active there) why we don’t unit test games? They then go on to call me a jerk face and tell me I make stupid games. Why don’t we unit test games like you would other software? Or Delores stands in the just the right spot and she clips into the desk.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2025

That said, there are a lot of possible situations where the player achieves a state where they cannot play the game. 1: Freeze or Hard Lock This occurs when all visible activity for the game stops - no more screen updates, input doesnt work, nothing at all. behind walls) where they might be able to move, but cannot play the game.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 4, 2018

It's not uncommon for me to get asked on Twitter (when I was active there) why we don't unit test games? They then go on to call me a jerk face and tell me I make stupid games. Why don't we unit test games like you would other software? The Sheriff picks up the phone and his animation isn't aligned correctly.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 17, 2004

The internet is filled with classic adventure fan sites centered around the LucasArts and Sierra games and a common thread is always how much people would like to see new ones being made, and why isn’t it being done. Assumptions 1) We’re building a classic 2D point-n-click adventure game. Yeah, I know.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Hello, and welcome back to another issue of the Kristala game dev blog! Now that Cass has completed (and kicked ass at creating) all the townhouses and row homes, he's moving on to another structural piece for the game - one that serves a really important purpose. Check it out!

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

The internet is filled with classic adventure fan sites centered around the LucasArts and Sierra games and a common thread is always how much people would like to see new ones being made, and why isn't it being done. 1) We're building a classic 2D point-n-click adventure game. 2) We're hiring real employees to build the game.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 6, 2024

Today, we’ll be talking about ladders and how they can cause all sorts of weird bugs in a game. Ladders are another common game feature that tend to cause all sorts of animation and game state problems. While in this state, player input is typically taken away from the player and a mounting transition animation occurs.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Today, we’ll be talking about ladders and how they can cause all sorts of weird bugs in a game. Ladders are another common game feature that tend to cause all sorts of animation and game state problems. While in this state, player input is typically taken away from the player and a mounting transition animation occurs.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Today, we’ll be talking about ladders and how they can cause all sorts of weird bugs in a game. Ladders are another common game feature that tend to cause all sorts of animation and game state problems. While in this state, player input is typically taken away from the player and a mounting transition animation occurs.

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