Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 9, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Best of Synty #2 Returns – 48 Hours Only The Best of Synty POLYGON Game Dev Assets #2 Remix is back for 48 hours only. This is a collection of over 20 different Synty low polygon art style assets in Unreal Engine, Unity and raw FBX (so any other game engine such as Godot is supported) formats.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

They must create art that is optimized for mobile devices, easy to understand, and engaging for players. All these and more are key to developing a successful game, and this article will focus mainly on tips that serve as art production solutions for developers. So, let’s dive in!

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 20, 2024

GameFromScratch.com GB Studio 4 Released GB Studio, the free and open source retro game engine for creating GameBoy style (in fact… GameBoy ROMs!) games have just released GB Studio 4. It provides everything you need to create a game from art, level and music creation tools to an intuitive game programming interface.

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Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 3, 2014

I'm looking for some good recommendations on modern 2D point-and-click adventure game engines. These should be complete engines, not just advice to use Lua or Pascal (it's making a comeback). I want to look at the whole engine, not just the scripting language. Big bonus points if you've actually used the engine.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Tips for Aspiring Game Artists Whether you’re new to game art or have years of experience, mastering lighting can greatly enhance your creativity and storytelling. Here are some key tips: Lighting as a Core Element Treat lighting as a vital part of your game’s visual design, not an afterthought. Join Groups.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This exhibition attempts to sidestep the reactionary debates of whether “games can be art “and instead highlights works that have already put an end to this question. Game art has struggled for wider recognition within some contemporary art canons when it doesn’t conform to spectacle.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Unreal - Game Engine Unreal Engine is a powerful and production-proven RT3D (Real-Time 3D) computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games. The latest releases of Unreal Engine have allowed many developers to use Unreal Engine to create award-winning VR experiences for Oculus headsets.

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 17, 2023

AAA game development is a complex process that requires well-oiled teamwork from an experienced team. The AAA game development process is an intersection of art, technical skills, writing, and many more disciplines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

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. Developed by CaveLiquid ( Bluesky , website ), the game was just released on Steam. Highlights We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.4

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If you don’t have time or patience to practise, there’re plenty of avenues online to get stuff needed to build games. This includes art, music & sound, programming assets such as character controllers and other resources that’ll help you with your games. You’d think I was talking rubbish, right?

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Best of Synty POLYGON Game Dev Assets #3 There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty POLYGON Game Dev Assets #3 Remix.

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Juego Studio

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The game engine that is used to create a game is sometimes as important as any of its other aspects. Because games are pieces of software. Even though these are entertainment and art, at the core, these are lines of code, pieced together to form a coherent gameplay. Hence, the proliferation of game engines.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Manish came up with this character art on one such day - with its unique personality and aesthetic. The pose in the original art was such that it needed to be changed in order to make things doable for the animator. The Process Before Abhishek could begin working on animating Manish’s art, a lot of consultation and discussions ensued.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 23, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Using Aseprite with Godot Aseprite is a popular pixel art creation tool and it works incredibly well with the Godot game engine. A few months back we covered the Aseprite Importer for the Unity Engine.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Development Services The wider the range of Unreal game development services, the better, of course! 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. Will the game be 2D or 3D? Is it well-defined?

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

Fresh from raising $13 million in funding, Avalan Corp is beginning to outline its vision for Web3 game development, most particularly the company’s belief in creating development tools that aid world and asset creation, as well as interoperability between games. Martial arts, magical powers, can be encompassed within a ruleset.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

This guide will help you pick the best software to create amazing effects and take your games to the next level. 2D VFX Software While 3D VFX often gets the most attention, 2D effects are still very important for many types of games, like side-scrolling platformers and top-down RPGs. Pyxel Edit: Perfect for creating retro pixel art.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I currently work at a game company called Directive Games as a technical artist where I first learned the general workflow of creating games and how to use a game engine. I've always been drawn to cinema, especially art house movies. Drawing inspiration from art-house cinema. So, I signed up!

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. Most people who want to write a video game need to buy a piece of software called a Game Engine. It's the tool you use to make games. That are negative.

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can create a good game only through a dedicated software or a game engine. Game App Development Solution The demand for game apps on mobile phones has increased, and many game development companies are interested in developing mobile games. The engine has game physics with the visual editor.

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play. However the dark lighting and texturing transform much of the play area into an unpleasant mid-brown mess, and its reliance on Source displacements leaves it feeling a bit blobby and melty.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 21, 2018

If you are into game development, chances are that you've heard of Ben Tristem and his GameDev.tv team, as they are making some of the best-rated online courses on Udemy for game engines like Unity3D and Unreal Engine 4, as well as art making tools like Blender and The GIMP. Ben tells us why they support Godot.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2023

Advancing the art of virtual reality (VR) storytelling is one the primary objectives of Meta’s Oculus Studios, the division that publishes popular multiplayer games, including “Population One,” “Onward VR,” and “Beat Saber.” While this ensures unique player experiences, it can also present game development and hosting complexities.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I'm sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. Not only did I upload all the source, but I also uploaded all the art and the entire FMOD project (many thanks to FMOD). It's just an adventure game engine. there's more.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 24, 2020

I’m sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. But wait… there’s more… (wait for oohs and ahhs) Not only did I upload all the source, but I also uploaded all the art and the entire FMOD project (many thanks to FMOD).

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the past I've written about video game brutalism. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. If we faithfully followed the spirit of brutalism, we would only use solid colors or wireframe rendering. Because brutalism.

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Game Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

” Cheap, sophisticated, and easy-to-use game engines are one of those prerequisites, he said. But later on, as we get further into the book, we see that people have used it to make beautiful works of art.” “Well, we have to have both,” Stephenson replied.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

Over time, this evolved, incorporating more detailed pixel art, smooth pictorial Movement, and realistic effects. Art lacks depth and perspective in this type as it’s made on a two-dimensional plane. Art and Asset Creation Focuses on building 2D characters, environments, and assets on a two-dimensional plane.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 28, 2024

Unity Asset Store contains art packs and tutorials to help you get started as a creator, and advanced solutions for complex projects. 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. Rightly so!

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

To be able to use the renderer in a game engine, you must either prepare a conversion pipeline instead of a renderer or use a game engine. How have artists, technical artists, art directors, and studio executives reacted to the move to USD?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

When working on Harvest Island, it would sometimes progress very slowly because of the things I didn’t like to do, like art. Pick a good game engine because the quality of a game can affect my player base. It takes a lot of time to finish things when working by yourself. Too many things to do.” It just took 3.5

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

As for programming, Gabe loves 3D computer graphic modelling and rendering and visual arts. While he loves teaching coding to students of all levels, he has worked hard on our latest experimental course, Elite Game Engine. He also enjoys writing science fiction in what little spare time he has.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In mobile game development , where hardware resources are limited, implementing LOD is essential for maintaining a balance between performance and visual fidelity. It’s also beneficial to create multiple LOD versions of assets, allowing the game engine to choose the appropriate version based on the device’s capabilities.

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Wolffire Blog

APRIL 21, 2022

Not only that, but we're also permanently reducing the game’s price by a third worldwide, from $29.99 Only the code is getting open sourced, not the art assets or levels, the reason is that we don't want someone to build and sell Overgrowth as their own. To be clear, this is not “the next big engine”. We're using the Apache 2.0

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