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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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

As reported by Game Developer , senior animator Eric Webb shared on LinkedIn last Friday that the studio "had to lay off most of [its] staff." Something Wicked Games has reportedly cut an unknown number of staff.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Hey all, I’m back with a look ahead at the upcoming season for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s my Most Anticipated Winter 2023 Anime! After I write this post, I’m going to be looking up exactly what the heck that is.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 2, 2023

The goal is to free the writer from “programming” and focus just on the writing and logic of the scene. fist_pump} calls an animation on actor saying the line and (mocking) is direction for the actor and ignored by the engine. The writer will write (for example): guybrush: “Aye, Cobb.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 30, 2024

We have found several significant errors and inaccuracies that don't represent his perspective and values (including topics such as animation, writing, technology, AI, and future projects)," it reads. Read more

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! GH-91333 ) The names of imported blend shapes and animation libraries from glTF files have changed as unsupported characters are automatically removed. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Hey all I’m back with a look ahead for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s my Most Anticipated Fall 2021 Anime! We shall see, as of writing this no announcement of a debut date or postponement has been released. The post Anime Sunday: Most Anticipated Fall 2021 Anime appeared first on Game Industry News.

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Febucci

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

You can add text animations in your Unity games using my plugin called Text Animator. It works based on the package TextMeshPro and it shows text dynamically ( typewriter -like), includes multiple built-in text effects and lets you easily create your own text animations and text effects. Animate texts in Unity.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

I wanted to learn techniques that not everyone knows like coding and animations. ” Animation, writing and marketing are the three majors Simpson decided to take. Animation was my first choice because I wanted to do cinematic animation. My course covers writing and animating for games, which I enjoy.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This post will talk about animation retargeting, a new feature coming in Godot 4.0. I am so honored to write this blog post as a member of Godot's animation team. What is "Animation Retargeting"? Godot has a simple animation system. In most cases, your bones will be terribly fractured by the animation.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 15, 2023

Houser is looking to have Absurd Ventures write stories for video games, live-action shows, animation, books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts. Read more

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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 Industry News

JULY 25, 2021

Hey all I’m back with another Spring 2021 series for this week’s Anime Sunday. That sounds incredibly sketchy just writing about it, and I’d highly advise any young women to avoid doing anything this series portrays, most people are not nearly as nice as Yoshida, our male lead. It’s my Higehiro Episode 01 Impressions!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 25, 2018

After a long time coming, and as part of the trend of modernizing many old Godot subsystems, the animation tree has been rewritten from scratch and it's now brand new, with plenty of new features. Save for animation, any of those nodes can contain other types of nodes. It's a run of the mill animation blend tree. Compatibility.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Several other areas got improvements, like the editor (which has been vastly reworked), UI system, multiplayer, navigation, audio, animation, etc. Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data. Loading those animations require a lot of memory and loading them takes a lot of time.

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

By writing that, we have defined our vertex and pixel shaders and it’s time to begin our routine. If we want a white color, we can write all ones (since white contains all the color). Start writing our variable inside the Properties block. Now we have to write it again in our Pass (line 27). Placing Vertices. ENDCG } } }.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

For the past eight years, they’ve worked together as an art director and writer duo in advertising, film, and animation. ” Inspired by the rising issue of pet abandonment, Cable wanted to write a script that demonstrates the complex and nuanced world of cat ownership. Sometimes all at the same time as well,” Cable shares.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. For example, all the audio is made by Sam Houselander , all the music by Olli Oja and all the animations are done by Nacho de Andres. Once we had that idea, the rest came really naturally, and it’s one of my favorite features!”

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anatomy Understanding anatomy is essential whenever drawing humans, animals, or plants. helps you illustrate, sculpt, or animate more realistic poses and movements, such as walking, jumping over a fence, or picking up an object from a table. featured] Think of early artist sketches for animation storyboards.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

They created interactive installations, motion graphics animations, experiential web pages, mobile apps, and lots of other creative projects. We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This post will talk about animation retargeting, a new feature coming in Godot 4.0. I am so honored to write this blog post as a member of Godot’s animation team. What is “Animation Retargeting”? Godot has a simple animation system. In most cases, your bones will be terribly fractured by the animation.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This guide comes in four parts: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Rule writing can be business-like, resembling technicial writing in a lot of ways. Brandon: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? How do you test your rules?

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 15, 2024

They fit the world and are much easier to animate. After that, everyone is the boss of their own part of work, whether it’s design, art, writing, coding etc. With Baladins we want to show that the RPG scene can be welcoming for everyone and that we can imagine new ways to write fantasy.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Usually it starts by observing some kind of unexpected behavior in the game - a move does too much or too little damage, the game crashes, the wrong animation plays, etc. The bugs I fix as a technical designer are very different than those an animator or an environment artist would fix.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I don’t write any code; instead, I handle data from our games or the market to guide the company’s direction. Lazy afternoon “When I joined the industry, I noticed that many game developers try to do everything—coding, animating, designing, and writing. I focus on data at Dash Studios,” says Ikpeme. “I But it felt uninspired.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 9, 2024

It takes place before the final timeline of Madoka Magica’s anime, and it details a time when the time traveling Homura Akemi is so broken and despondent at her failure to save her friends yet again in a timeline that she just gets on a train and ends up in Karakura where she meets the Kurosaki twins.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Increasingly successful or growing games are delivering on that promise with character driven, typically short scenario form writing eerily similar to a Desperate Housewives episode. Fake ads promise tension & drama. The game has to then deliver on that promise. Of course, theres still an attractive woman- now with even less clothing.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If the character needs to animate differently than everyone else (i.e. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene. Adding in two new animations (e.g. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Harvest Island is a single-player farming simulator that allows players to farm, fish and pet all sorts of animals to their heart’s content. The cost of development is cheaper if you know how to draw, program, and write music. My creative process is to watch anime and movies. What are the biggest advantages of working solo?

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

If you don’t know what Rive is, Rive is basically adobe after effects that’s lightweight and allows you to create complex animations and game UI that can be interactive without writing a lot of code. This will enhance your game experience and decrease development times!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2023

We then continued to weave between general world building and story writing.” “As for the creative process it was a team of people talking with each other in a room about world building and story writing with some concept sketches done in between.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Brandon asked me to write a few guest posts for you all to give the perspective on games from someone who plays, but isn’t what most would consider a “hobby board gamer.” I’ll also be writing future posts like: . I actually forgot about this game until I sat down to write this post.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. For example, all the audio is made by Sam Houselander , all the music by Olli Oja and all the animations are done by Nacho de Andres. Once we had that idea, the rest came really naturally, and it’s one of my favorite features!”

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Cocos

MARCH 10, 2024

If you don’t know what Rive is, Rive is basically adobe after effects that’s lightweight and allows you to create complex animations and game UI that can be interactive without writing a lot of code. I put in a ticket for support for the Rive app and I encourage everyone to put in a ticket request themselves to show the priority in it.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Often writes the least code overall among the engineers, but the code she writes is also the most mission critical because she has the best understanding of how everything fits together. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. Builds, adjusts, and maintains animation skeletons for animators to make motions with.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

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