Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. If the character needs to animate differently than everyone else (i.e. needs its own rig), that's time from a rigger to create.

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Animated ghosts show the right movement Hand snapping and reactive animations But in general every physical object in our game is fully interactable! Poses & Suggestive shapes / animations (hand & object). . ✓ The right shape and look of objects on scene. and how to differentiate the interactive ones from the decoration.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. It completely transforms the landscape of game development, digital animation, and especially in-game camera systems.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So… DikuMUDs started to add scripting systems , which were generally much more limited than the ones on LPMuds, but fit better with the whole “fill out some rows in a form to add content” development model. The scripting on WoC made for better combat too, because you weren’t stuck with just the built-in combat AI for your enemies.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. All the dynamic cutscenes and dialogue sequences relied on 4 player characters all bantering amongst each other like in Buffy or something.

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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. HOW TO USE YARN SPINNER A lot has changed since Yarn Spinner v1.0.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? They’re related, but the difference is this: A game writer’s primary responsibility is to promote the story that the game tells through the scripts they write. This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation. What is Narrative Design?

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