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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

Titles like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Genshin Impact have redefined player engagement through frequent content drops, seasonal events, and community-driven updates. How do top game studios maintain a constant flow of high-quality assets without bottlenecks? Automated asset management and version control. (ii).

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Filmmaking in Unreal Engine — how Hanny created her arthouse cinematic

CG Spectrum

Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. So, I signed up! Lighting the scene.

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How Drama and Fake Ads Convert To Real Profits

Deconstructor of Fun

Beyond Cutscenes : Todays dramatic content isnt yesteryears skippable cutscenes. Narrative content, on the other hand, is virtually unconstrained. Not an AI Story: While AI dramatically reduces content creation costs, its merely a tool which is well suited to untapped audience demand. Its likely precisely what youd expect.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Additionally, the modern backend can implement rendering methods , such as forward clustered, mobile, and more in the future (such as deferred clustered, cinematic, etc.). It means that assets are pulled from disk on demand (loaded only at the time they are needed), rather than as a part of a larger stage. Low level rendering access.

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So how much $ (in general) does it cost to produce a fully animated/rigged, fully voiced 1-3 minute cutscene in a game that’s in ongoing development (something like SWTOR, where they have a lot of prebuilt assets)? Like just a general low range and high range? I’m seeing a lot of people complaining about prioritizing content they want, and don’t know enough about the behind the scenes costs to properly communicate they’re being unrealistic with their complaints.

Ask a Game Dev

The cost of any content in game dev is directly proportional to how much new stuff needs to be created for that content. The bulk discounts only really work if the things we're paying for can be reused multiple times though - the more specific an asset is (e.g. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes.

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Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Unity Technologies Assets. The Addressable Asset System allows the developer to ask for an asset via its address. Once an asset (e.g. TextMeshPro.

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What do you think is best bang for your buck for dev time to player time (besides multiplayer)? Alternately, what’s the worst (but still worth it)?

Ask a Game Dev

The ultimate result of this kind of system-driven combinatoric gameplay is generally in one of two core gameplay paradigms: Procedural content generation , i.e. the game systems themselves create new content through a bunch of randomized decisions resulting in novel game content for each playthrough.

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