PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

They have to survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance the technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve their civilization. Instead they settled for stylized graphics. “We Trying to develop an indie game on the scale of a AAA title is the reason why a lot of indie studios fail.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. For every animal we design, we try to come up with both a unique look and role in the game for it. Godot doesn’t feel quite as chaotic as Unity did at times.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 28, 2024

Four mobile games from indie studios in the U.S., Explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, complete quirky quests, and meet cute animal friends. Games for Change , in partnership with HP and Google Play, announced the winners of the second annual Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge at the 2024 Games for Change Festival.

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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. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture. You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! But not really.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The creator of Let Bions Be Bygones (LBBB) is indie game studio Bohemian Pulp , the brainchild of co-founders and life partners, Đorđe and Jasmina Marković. The game’s graphics showcase a distinctive fusion of modern 3D visuals with a nostalgic pixel-art look. “I decided to make a game that I can do by myself.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, I eventually felt the need for a significant change in my life, leading me to transition into the roles of a 2D rigger, animator, and game developer.” But with the added elements of illustrations, animations, and music.” My friend and I collaborated on a small indie game about the Wild West, called Dead Dust.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 15, 2024

French indie studio Seed by Seed appreciates the importance of players’ time. That immediately dictated the game’s graphical look. “In They fit the world and are much easier to animate. That’s why the play sessions of their narrative-driven, co-op multiplayer RPG Baladins last around an hour.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

In 2023, gaming is for everyone and we are proud to support the game developer community Video game creators are now able to share their vision and journey with a growing, global audience and gaming has been transformed by innovations in mobile devices, Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality and realistic, high-fidelity graphics.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” It’s the combination of art, coding, music, sound design, graphic design, writing, acting, animation, sculpture, and then at the end you can play it! It’s something different.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” It’s the combination of art, coding, music, sound design, graphic design, writing, acting, animation, sculpture, and then at the end you can play it! It’s something different.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

high resolution high quality character models performing high quality animations and visual effects). mobile, consoles with weaker hardware specs, indie games) for important parts. Smaller budget titles and/or titles with smaller teams will still likely lean on pre-rendered cutscenes (e.g. Certain genres of games (e.g.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It’s also important to consider that the bar for video games is being set ever higher, even for indies. Graphics Visuals are obviously a major part of games , and these may be the biggest area where your atmosphere will be developed. That means players have come to expect a certain level of polish in games.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. For every animal we design, we try to come up with both a unique look and role in the game for it. Godot doesn’t feel quite as chaotic as Unity did at times.”

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. Plus a chatty heroine that flogs her enemies with a sharp sword and even sharper one-liners.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What kind of graphic resolution and quality will you use? Undertale, Hollow Knight Lower budget, potential for high profitability AAA Game These require massive budgets to cover expenses such as high-quality graphics, voice acting, and extensive marketing campaigns. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V?

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Whether you’re an indie developer making 2D effects or a big studio creating realistic 3D visuals, choosing the right VFX tools is vital. Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation. It has a flexible system that uses bones to create smooth and expressive animations, which can be easily reused and customized.

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

2D technology uses simple graphic elements to create a basic and easy game for mobile phone gamers. Flash Technology For the game to be engaging and have interactive animation include the Flash technology in the smartphone games. By using these animation packages, it is easy to reach the targeted audience.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Developing high-quality and impressive graphics is an essential step that requires a great deal of time, effort, and skill. 3D artists are supposed to have strong skills, relevant experience, and rich imagination to create high-quality designs, complex graphics, and exceptional art. When it comes to game development, visuals do matter.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Zemeckis does not claim the laurels of an auteur indie film, but he and other visionaries of technology were not afraid to radically experiment with the forms of cinematography. For example, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) was the first feature film to combine feature film, animation, and CGI to such a significant extent.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

It’s a pleasing collection, including hits from down the years, such as Pong, Animal Crossing, Journey, and Candy Crush Saga. That’s worked hand-in-hand with the rise of the indie scene. In his new book, The Best Non-Violent Video Games , James Batchelor celebrates 300 games from the past 50 years.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The focus of this post is going to be for those who want to make game development their career and those who want to create indie games and sell them. The premise is you have nodes that represent actions, such as calculating two numbers, animating characters, and so on, and you connect the nodes to perform actions in your game.

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Big Games

AUGUST 30, 2021

These games have exciting gameplay, storyline, animation, graphics, sound, etc, and all these start with a brainstorming idea. From the classics to the indie games, including some of the most popular newer titles to your gaming shelf will help you come up with new game ideas easily. It is easy to start research work.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. For the graphics below, Shelly utilized the bright green of the nature-loving Nisargans.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. What is Unreal? What is the key to its success?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you can get front-row seats to the development process for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the first title from female-owned-and-operated indie game studio Astral Clocktower Studios. Game Production / Rigging / Animation. Check it out!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

My secondary hobbies are graphic design and video creation, both of which are evident based on my social media. FNF is the most recent smash hit indie rhythm game (which is also open source!) It's typically used for facial animations, like lip sync. Animating 3D stuff in-engine.

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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!). You can see the outcome of each option in the three graphics below.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Gameplay and Graphics of It Takes Two All excellent. If you've played a decent indie game in the last five year, It Takes Two probably has you play a superior version of that game for 10 minutes. This leads to the most infamous scene in the game, where you try to destroy the daughter's beloved stuff animal to make her cry.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There’s a lot of changes that I had to make within the game before I could make a polished trailer and if you guys are keeping up with the game development, you can noticed the significant graphic improvements as well as the subtle details added. If you enjoy anime just as much as I do, I think you’ll enjoy it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I consider how Godot's unique scene-node system, flexible graphics, scripting language, and open source code make it a promising alternative to standard agent-based modelling software. A quick demo on how to set up, rig and animate a 2D character in Godot Engine using 2D meshes and the Skeleton2D node.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. Indie gamers, e.g.: People looking for cool, smaller games to play, no matter the type. An Indie or Experimental Game : Steam, GOG, etc. a fighting game), is animation. Starting over, is the game commercially viable?

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

We’ve talked with many students in our online game development course for beginners , and we’ve seen great examples of beginners using all four of these game engines to produce spectacular indie games. Doing things like importing characters, animating them and making them interact with their world can be a daunting process.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2022

Mainly it is a breakthrough in computer graphics, which shows the new possibilities of CGI. The human brain will never perceive a film that is fully CGI as an actual "movie", because for us it will be more like animation picture. that support indie cinema and genre experimentation. However, it is worth noting that Warner Bros.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

However, the photorealistic 3D graphics of my past games are too heavy and slow for a mobile browser, so I need to make a 2D game even though I've neglected my 2D visual skills. When cool European indie artists do it, I can abide it, but if I do it, I just feel too smug. I made a browser game? What does the giant hole symbolize?

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Star Fleet Battles was really popular and had a ton of expansions, but it only had the original and animated series to draw from for material. Graphic design was their passion. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. But the lore is consistent!

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