Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 3, 2025

This is done by exaggerating certain features that humans typically find endearing and downplaying the features that humans find alarming, while keeping the visual recognizable. This works with animals. Bright colors, a stylized happy face, with no features that could be considered off-putting. It works with the undead.

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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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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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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a DreamWorks animated movie from 1998 for this week’s Movie Monday. Plot: This movie is an animated adaptation of the Book of Exodus. Art: This was DreamWorks’ first traditionally animated film, and the team had many former Disney artists working on it. It’s The Prince of Egypt.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 3, 2024

.” The visual flair of Anima Flux is another standout feature. 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. .

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

look with fluid animations in a sports game. Their solution was a unique blend of hand-drawn 2D sprites and animations in a 3D environment. Julien explains: “For a fast-paced sports game such as ours, we wanted the sprites to move and animate in 8 directions.

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Unity Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Our new e-book aims to provide animators and technical artists with an in-depth understanding of the animation features in Unity.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As an animator at Logic Simplified, with nearly a decade of experience, I've had the chance to work with a wide range of animation software. Each one, from Autodesk Max and Maya to Blender and Spine 2D animation , has carved out its own niche in my workflow, contributing something unique and valuable. Let me confess.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 28, 2024

Any game developer who wants to build and enhance a Unity game can do so using its 3D models, audio files, animations, scripts, plugins, and so on. Advanced Features of the Unity Asset Store Game app developers at Logic Simplified believe it’s important that there are no barriers in the development process.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration. It was a complex feature to make, and aside from making it look cool, we also had to solve a range of technical challenges. “We

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Starloop Studios

JANUARY 24, 2023

Animation and visual effects are two of the artistic pillars of game development. On the most basic level, animation refers to the movement of objects and characters, whereas VFX refers to actions, polish, immersion, and [.]

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

A standout feature of Chasmal Fear is the multiple player choices system and randomized events. “After we had the main gameplay features and ‘hooks’ of the game written down to the last detail in a design document, it was then that we began writing the story,” Mojsovski shares.

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Starloop Studios

JANUARY 5, 2023

Of course, this advancement wouldn’t be possible without animation and VFX (visual effects). Animation and VFX are two integral components of game design and development that contribute to [.]. From simple pixel graphics to complex, life-like open worlds, the visuals of modern video games are unparalleled.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While there certainly are games which feature India as a setting, both from Indian studios and international companies, they tend to focus on fantasy or mythical aspects of the nation. Later, at Pixar, he worked on animated classics like Toy Story 3 and Brave that went on to win three Oscars.

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Game From Scratch

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Jam packed with new features including vastly improved animation tools, the marquee feature of Unreal Engine 5.5 GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.5 Released A mere 5 weeks after the launch of Unreal Engine 5.5 preview and Seattle Unrealfest Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 5.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 3, 2024

a large number of animation features have been reworked since 4.0, so it's time to migrate your animations. In Godot 4.3,

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Choosing the Right Networking Solution Unity offers multiple networking solutions, but selecting the right one depends on the game's complexity, player count, and required features. Non-interactive objects should have their physics features disabled through Rigidbody.isKinematic and Collider.enabled settings. Look no further!

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Animation has come a long way since ancient Greek pottery drawings. Animation is the art of bringing 2D drawings or 3D models to life. Learn more about this fun and expressive art form and how to get started as a digital animator! Learn more about this fun and expressive art form and how to get started as a digital animator!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

The game is still very early in development, but I’m excited to see how several of the planned features will work out, especially what relates to the ‘courier’ gameplay and packing your inventory for long trips, Ruppert says. I’m really happy with how our animations are turning out.

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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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I remember when an Early Access update added the overworld feature. Disappointed by the lack of integration of the overworld feature into RimWorld, he further developed his idea. We discovered that in some cases, it took twice as long as normal to implement features. It looked really exciting to me, he says.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

Now the time for proper enhancements and features entirely unique to this development cycle has come, and this blogpost will aim to highlight them to the best of our ability. As always: with new features comes new bugs (probably), so the sooner we can get feedback and bug reports in, the better. It is developed by Binogure Studio.

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Indie DB

MAY 14, 2024

Read about new features coming to Pre-Alpha soon like Large Worlds, Animal Breeding, Donkeys, Mills, and More!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x,

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Raph Koster

MARCH 3, 2025

This also unlocked our third stretch goal, the Hyugon playable species that you see animating over here. We also have done sneak peeks of upcoming features, sessions with other devs on the team, and more. And sometimes you get a good result! Last night we hit the $500k mark on the Stars Reach Kickstarter. But that’s far from all.

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Game Wisdom

MAY 24, 2024

Animal Well Can’t Quite Climb Out of Its Own Puzzles Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Animal Well is the latest metroidvania to do more than just challenge players with jumping and moving. While the … The post Animal Well Can’t Quite Climb Out of Its Own Puzzles appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. There are even plans for a third saga in animated format targeted at babies and toddlers, featuring singing characters.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

feature freeze, so our energy has been focused on addressing any new regressions or the aforementioned bugs. Animation: Add validation for rotation axis to SpringBoneSimulator3D ( GH-101571 ). Animation: Clarify SpringBoneSimulator3D s gravity units and improve documentation ( GH-101652 ). feature release. beta1 snapshot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

which is the Release Candidate : all features are in place, the most critical regressions have been tackled, and so were confident that its now ready for production use. 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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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

In todays dynamic game development world, animation plays a vital role in defining player experiences and shaping game aesthetics. From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. How did 2D and 3D Animation Evolve in Gaming? So, lets dive in!

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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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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Quaternius Free 3D Assets When it comes to free game development assets we live in bountiful times, as todays featured site Quaternius will demonstrate. Quaternius contains thousands of 3D assets, often game ready, rigged and animated in a wide variety of genres and themes.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Plot: The plot is interesting, and the secret of NIMH itself is also interesting, but it’s still a children’s animated movie so don’t expect anything too deep. Artwork: The art is pretty great given this was done in the time of hand drawn animation of the early 80’s. The rest of the characters are just as well cast.

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Cocos

APRIL 7, 2024

Hi all, I need to interrupt attack animation clip state of marionette system when unit dies, however if I seed trigger or boolean variable “Die” to true, unit continues to play attack animation clip till it end and just after it starts transition to “Dead” state… How can I make it to stop “Attack” animation clip/state and move it straight away to “Dead” (..)

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2024

In Pirofauna , players take on the role of a cute little flame that uses its searing powers to bring light into the dark and misty forest and save the animals from all sorts of nasty creatures. “I’ve Ostafin: “The feature I’m most proud of is setting fire to everything you can!

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