PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I’m really very fast at creating artwork and assets. I’m really very fast at creating artwork and assets. As an artist, I see games as works of art, not just as interactive entertainment. I sketch many times, not only my concept art but even game mechanics. It’s a new way to make art.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

That’s where key art comes in. In this guide, we’ll reveal the secrets to making stunning key art. Are you ready to unleash your creativity and turn your love for art into a successful career in game marketing? Perfect for vector graphics, logos, typography, and making scalable assets for different platforms.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

A large majority of the art was created from scratch, but Hartley admits having used a few asset packs to help speed up development. “I I have one rule regarding the use of asset store packages though, I’ll never use a package ‘as is’”, he says. “I

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Juego Studio

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

If truth be told, in most games, the thrill of the game mechanics is truly felt after you have played for some time and leveled up slightly. Is it the gameplay?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

“Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.” The downside is that it doesn’t have anywhere near the amount of third-party assets that Unity does, nor some of the more specialist features like the DOTS package. ” The decision to switch engines was only made fairly recently.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Based on a long tradition in mobile gaming, the companies get inspiration and borrow mechanics from each other to the point when the original creator becomes hard to trace. While borrowing mechanics, they sometimes occasionally borrow something more: an expression of those mechanics. That depends on your perspective.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The indie studio was founded in 2022 by Kostia Liakhov , Game Director and Head of Art, and Samantha (Sam) Cable , Game Director and Head of Narrative. For the past eight years, they’ve worked together as an art director and writer duo in advertising, film, and animation.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

As AI continues to advance, the future of art and AI in game development holds tremendous promise. In this article, we’ll explore the evolving relationship between art production and AI, discussing their potential impact on the gaming industry. Producing these assets takes a long time and a lot of money.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Since I was a child, I always found myself surrounded by art, because most of my family were artists (ballet dancers, painters, musicians). One day I discovered video games could be much more than just ‘entertainment products’, and fell in love with the idea of mixing all the things I loved about art in a new medium.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. It can be visual, through storyboards, or conceptual art demonstrating what the character or environment may look like. Is it well-defined? What is the time frame?

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

And if you're making the typical aspirational photorealistic action game, you'll probably want UE's gameplay architecture and free photoscan assets too. But if you want high-end then UE5 Nanite / Lumen is light years beyond Unity HDRP anyway? Most recently, respected developer Ethan Lee has weighed in.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. All of the moving obstacles have implemented different mechanics, that make player behave in a certain way. Majority of props work on the same principles as the rest of assets. We had to focus on the matter of readability.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

It may cost more and come with more paperwork, but it provides legal protection of your financial assets in a way that sole proprietorships do not. You can’t protect mechanics, but you can definitely protect your brand name, lore, art, and other assets. You need to know how to protect your intellectual property.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This includes art, music & sound, programming assets such as character controllers and other resources that’ll help you with your games. It had a lot of commercial success despite the mechanics and artwork being very simple. Successful games don’t need to be highly technical, take Flappy Bird for example.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

USD technology supports large-scale, multi-user, diverse asset pipelines for video production. Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. Unlike asset data, everything is in small ASCII files. Of course we do.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

NFTs are digital assets that are indivisible and unique. For instance, NFTs can be utilized to tokenize game assets, such as weapons, artifacts, and skins. Another reason behind their increasing popularity is that they offer a transparent and decentralized system for players to interact with various digital assets.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

8: I did not finish the box art before the campaign. Pretty box art would have worked a lot better than the photo I’d initially used for my Kickstarter campaign. I was posting cool sci-fi art and corporate satire. Assets are taxable in the United States. James’ art deliveries continue to be fantastic.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I wait until I have all the art assets I need. The drafting mechanic allows for players to plan their road trips to a limited degree. All art is done. The final 100 play-tests start once I feel a game is basically where I want it to be. I only start the final 100 play-tests when I need to test the game for outliers.

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Using state-of-the-art software such as Autodesk 3ds Max, V-Ray, and Unreal Engine, visualization artists generate detailed 3D images and videos based on briefs, blueprints, and/or sketches. Modeling, texturing, and lighting additional assets (furniture, props, decor, etc.) What does an architectural visualization artist do?

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Juego Studio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Good graphics, game mechanics, and game story are the three important factors that players look for in a good video game. From these, graphics refers to all the visual elements in the game including the characters, environment, props, and other game assets.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

A single shot or asset will often travel through numerous artists and multiple departments before being finalized. General skills and knowledge required to work in film and games "The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art." - Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Level design is a part of video game design that focuses specifically on designing game levels (an area or stage a player must complete before moving on to the next one) while keeping in mind the architecture, layout, video game mechanics , and pace to keep the players invested in the game. Define the gameplay mechanics.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

The simplicity of the 2D style laid the foundation for gameplay mechanics and player interactions, particularly in platformers and side-scrollers. Over time, this evolved, incorporating more detailed pixel art, smooth pictorial Movement, and realistic effects. These games used 2D sprites, with each frame presenting a specific pose.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Core game loop is a base of your game’s mechanics, that will be repeated by the player. In most cases, Mechanics will be the biggest and most elaborated part of the document. Assets & animations. Core game loop. It is usually presented in the form of a graph. Don’t restrict yourself to referring only to other game titles.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“In the end we’d rather tone down some of our more ambitious features to get acceptable performance, and deliver a bug-free and polished release to our players.” “Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.” ” The decision to switch engines was only made fairly recently.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 7, 2020

Cars are moving on the invisible Bezier Paths to simulate slot cars-like mechanics of movement, and it allows us to control the behavior of cars – we were able to decide when it should fall of the track or jump through a ramp. Here is a snippet of a code that does just that. Another challenge we had to undertake was optimization.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day. Similarly, Buffs are the kind of changes that are made when certain features or video game mechanics need to be tweaked to make them significant in the game.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 26, 2022

It includes earning interest, borrowing, lending, buying insurance, and trading by-products or assets. With the escalating number of users and ever-growing infrastructure of Web 3.0 , real-world concerns such as digital asset validation and copyright claims will be less of a problem in the future. NFT in gaming. and avatar casting.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

UEFN, however, opens doors for creators to build original worlds and content, using existing Unreal assets but with some restrictions. UEFN comes equipped with its in-built game mechanics and physics, allowing creators to focus more on the gameplay and user experience rather than building a game from scratch.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Animation is the art of breathing life into the inanimate for films, games, and advertising. 2D Animation is the art of creating movement by combining a sequence of images together in a two-dimensional space. 3D Animation is the art of bringing digital characters, vehicles, props, and full scenes to life in a virtual 3D space.

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Game Design Advice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

MDA stands for “Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics”, it’s the organizing principle of Marc LeBlanc’s GDC game design workshop which I’ve been a part of for many years and was written up in 2004 as a white paper by Robin Hunicke, LeBlanc, and Robert Zubek. So what are the problems?

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“A mature toolset will allow our team to explore brand new game systems, themes and mechanics in almost the same amount of time that it would take to describe them… We are building … a game authoring platform that is designed for innovation. Execs also see AI taking a role during in-game live events, such as player support.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 25, 2022

These tokens are unique and provide the token holders with proof of ownership as well as the authenticity of the underlying asset. Making NFT-based transactions requires cost-effective methods, as not every transaction will require the exchange of millions of dollars in works of art. Eventually, decentralization is jeopardized.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Our containerization approach includes the game-server lifecycle, such as packaging game binaries and assets, as well as running and disposing of the game server. Game server images contain executable binaries, graphics, sound, network, and physics assets media files that can take up gigabytes of storage.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 7, 2023

Let’s dive in deeper and learn how these incredible works of art and technology are made. These engines offer powerful rendering capabilities, physics simulations, and asset management systems necessary for creating realistic virtual environments. Why is AR/VR different? Sound design is critical for an immersive gaming experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. No matter how cool the art, players have no use for Prophet Minera. By eliminating power creep, every purchased asset will retain its utility in the game, and thus their desirability for players. In my heart, I am a game designer.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overview My very first blog project involved creating mechanics for a Tactics RPG. Board Data Let’s begin by creating a ScriptableObject that can live as a project asset and hold all the information we will need to represent a board for our combatants to fight upon. The "Load" method will copy from the asset to our local data.

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