iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Consistency in Style & Quality: Every new asset must seamlessly integrate with the existing world. Art direction, lighting, and animations must remain uniform, even as new artists or external studios contribute to asset creation. Differences in lighting and animation quality across updates. Common pitfalls include: (i).

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

Genshin Impact The open-world RPG added a permanent TCG minigame Genshin Impact hasn’t waned in popularity since storming onto the mobile and console marketplace in 2020 with its high-quality production values, cel-shaded visuals, open-world RPG mechanics, and strong narrative focus.

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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?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 9, 2023

There were complaints about Sony’s devs reusing certain animations in God of War Ragnarok, about Guerilla Games reusing animations in Horizon Forbidden West, about Pokemon reusing assets between games, about Volition reusing assets between Saints Row games, and so on.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Another demonstration will allow lounge visitors to play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2024

Look at how long it takes the player to approach the Colossus in this animation. This means that making travel time take longer actually makes something feel bigger, because our brains tell us "the longer it takes to get there means the further away it is", even if it isn't actually that far away.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Players will mainly be focused on idle, walk, run and attack animations. Most open world RPG games use tilesets as it’s easier to create good looking backgrounds for larger worlds and is more time efficient. Should Pixel Art Backgrounds Be Created With Tiles or Created Whole? (1:17:21

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

Its versatility extends beyond game design to architecture, live rendering, production, animation, and automobile design. It started as an ambitious open-world project but was streamlined into a mobile game with a few missions. “ A skills gap in her team prompted Bukola to initiate an Unreal Engine training.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

It has an amazing open world that you can zip around using magic and is one of the biggest AAA titles to feature the Isekai or transported to another world plot device that has infected Anime and Light Novels the past eight years or so. It’s a game that I’m really, really looking forward to.

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Cocos

MARCH 3, 2024

If it catches your interest, I kindly request you to support us by purchasing the game and leave a positive review.

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Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

While Japanese games have traditionally been associated with distinct gameplay mechanics and anime-style aesthetics, the line between Japanese and Western games has become increasingly blurred in recent years. Japanese games are known for their distinctive art styles, such as anime and manga, which have become popular around the world.

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iHobo

JULY 5, 2023

But precisely because we live in a world of 'stories everywhere', we need to be careful to understand how games engage with narrative. Games love to fool the player into believing that they have control and influence in the game world (which they do - but only of a much narrower kind that we tend to recognise).

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iHobo

JULY 12, 2023

In many respects, Final Fantasy VII and Bioshock that were mentioned in the context of the narrative motive highlight this very split: the Japanese took Wizardry and choose a form that prioritised the narrative motive for its storytelling (hence the 'animated movie cut with a game' that followed in the 1990s).

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Big Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Honkai Impact 3rd Honkai Impact 3rd combines stunning anime-style visuals with intense action gameplay. You’ll unleash powerful combos and special moves as a Valkyrie tasked with saving the world from supernatural threats. Genshin Impact Genshin Impact has set new standards for open-world RPGs on mobile.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then.

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Game Errors

MAY 12, 2023

You realize that the game files download error Genshin Impact makes it impossible for you to play this anime game. Instead of panicking, we advise you to take a deep breath in and dive into our ultimate solutions for troubleshooting this issue! The post Game Files Download Error Genshin Impact [Quick Fix] appeared first on Games Errors.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By and large, critics praised the open-world design that was tested in Pokémon Legends: Arceus , a spinoff game that was released in January of this year. Reviews for Scarlet and Violet have painted an interesting picture of a franchise in its 26th year.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

I used GenoTerra to research and reflect about the design process using procedural generation in the creation of base shapes that the designer/s in a studio can use to create a more coherent game world. “Open World Games" have the potential for countless hours of exploration and fun through their huge game worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For the first time ever, Godot also comes with a GI technique that can be used with large open worlds — signed distance field global illumination ( SDFGI ). Read more about animation changes in this blog post by Juan. Among them is the new animation retargeting system. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone!

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Video games that integrate elements to create a “realistic and open world” aim to be more than just a source of entertainment. Let’s now discuss the ways to develop a detailed and realistic game world. Paying attention to small details Small details matter when it comes to building an immersive game world.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you follow that link, you’ll see open world events occurring as the quest proceeds, done without zone or quest locking, etc. But it’s also visible in the Holodeck, or in anime like Sword Art Online (which was directly inspired by Ultima Online !). Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. There are two open world regions, Redfall Commons and Burial Point. But not really. OK you get the idea.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2025

Animations still play, sound still plays, UI still updates, timers may still tick down, but the game will not respond to any player input. The solution to this is to find the code that was executing while it crashed and either fix the code itself so it doesnt crash, or fix the circumstances that caused the code to crash (e.g.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Animation has long been a cornerstone of the gaming industry, breathing life into characters and worlds that captivate players. However, the choice between 2D and 3D animation styles has a profound impact on how games are experienced. The Basics: What is 2D and 3D Animation? Key Differences Between 2D and 3D Animation 1.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

Suzuki-san and his colleagues often try to paint this series of games as a precursor to the open world genre. Indeed, in the Kickstarter for Shenmue III , the text expressly tries to make this claim: Shenmue defied all convention and created the genre that later came to be known as "open world." But so what?

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Things like color palettes, textures, and lighting all help to build a mood, as well as animation and how things in your world move and interact. Is your world stormy and moody, or bright and sunny?

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Game Daily

JULY 19, 2023

Futuristic landscapes are often spectacular, offering artists myriad opportunities to create juxtapositions and scenes that might be more challenging in more ordered worlds. Future worlds, in which society has broken down offer opportunities for narrative conflict, including wild animals, monsters, and zombies.

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Game Errors

MAY 10, 2023

The objective of Rust the game is pretty straightforward: you are alone in an open world of wilderness, and you have to survive for as long as possible. Since it is an open world, you can do a lot of things in Rust that are not possible in many other survival games. That’s it.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 30, 2025

Dodge attacks + quicker takedowns to go along with the existing, slow-mo sequences Filling in of existing animation gaps (more realistic parkour movements & NPC dialogue interactions, refined enemy spawn movements, etc.) Projectile-Throwing & Climbing Enemies (and yes, they can climb onto village rooftops, too.

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