Epic acquires AI-powered 3D asset tagging technology Loci
Game Developer
APRIL 3, 2025
The Fortnite maker says the tech will help 'automate artist workflows and improve discoverability of content.'
Unity Quick Start Bundle – $300 in Assets for $1
Game From Scratch
JANUARY 22, 2025
GameFromScratch.com Unity Quick Start Bundle – $300 in Assets for $1 There is a new bundle over on the Unity asset store – The Unity Quick Start Bundle. This bundle contains $300 worth of Unity assets for just a single $1. The bundle ends on Monday, January 27th!
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Garry's Mod removing all Nintendo content after takedown notice
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 25, 2024
Facepunch Studios has received takedown notices from Nintendo and is currently in the process of removing all Garry's Mod content related to IP owned by the platform holder. The developer posted an update on Steam altering its community to the takedown notice, adding that all Nintendo-related workshop items will be removed.
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Yahaha Studio facilitates user generated content with a no-code solution for game creation
PreMortem.Games
JULY 27, 2023
This is the era of user generated content. Players are no longer content with just playing their favorite games, they want to build their own games out of the ones that already exist. For novices with no prior game development experience, the platform offers a no-code solution together with a library of over a million 3D assets.
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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling
Nvidia
MARCH 1, 2023
In addition, due to the topology creation process, 3D modeling is time consuming and has a high entry barrier for content creation. Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs.
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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines
iXie gaming
MARCH 2, 2025
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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AWS to showcase tools for breakthrough gaming experiences at GDC 2025
AWS Games
MARCH 13, 2025
Tap into AWS for Games services to quickly create game assets, accelerate development, and unlock new player acquisition, engagement and monetization opportunities. Meet with AWS for Games experts to learn about the transformational power of generative AI and cloud game development. Experience, exploreand PLAY!
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Scaling Your Game Content With Unity Addressable Prefabs
The GameDev Guru
DECEMBER 24, 2019
Those happen when greedily using countless assets from the store. Don't dump the assets, just adopt a clever strategy with Unity Addressables Prefabs. Do you have a Christmas present for your players? Well, just make sure it's not a memory crash.
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Godot XR update - February 2025
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 6, 2025
from GitHub or the Asset Library. Platform SDK The Platform SDK allows developers to access features of Metas store and online services, including: User profiles (including authentication and checking entitlement) In-App Purchases (IAP) Downloadable Content (DLC) Friends, Parties, and Group Presence Achievements Leaderboards and much more!
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Detective Dotson by Masala Games is a cultural joyride through modern-day India
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 9, 2024
At first, we went looking for some assets in the marketplace to get a running start, but soon realized that there are no 3D assets representing modern India out there! We hope to address this issue after our release, by giving assets back to the community so other creators dont hit roadblocks in telling their stories from modern India.
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Emerging Trends in Game Art: Real-Time Rendering, Stylized Game Art, and Beyond
iXie gaming
MARCH 28, 2025
This article explores the latest trends shaping the future of game art, including real-time rendering, stylized game art, AI-assisted creation, and the rising influence of user-generated content in shaping artistic directions. Struggling to balance cutting-edge visuals with performance optimization?
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Unreal Engine Real World ArchViz Assets Bundle
Game From Scratch
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Real World ArchViz Assets Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Evermotion Content Creators Collection: Architectural Visions bundle is a collection of real world game ready assets for Unreal Engine.
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At what stage of the developing process of a game mocap is recorded? How much time does it usually take? And in case of expansions/DLCs are actors called again or they record this content together with the content for the main game?
Ask a Game Dev
OCTOBER 23, 2023
For DLC/expansion content, we usually try to reuse as many assets as we can, and schedule any new recording sessions as soon as we get the green light. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?
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Addendum to cut content: people find remnants of cut content in game files often enough. So/but is there any even rough estimate you could give of cut content that’s dug up versus cut stuff that could never be found?
Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 10, 2024
The kind of games that have the least cut content are annual sports titles - they have the most stringent schedules and know exactly what they are committing to with each annual cycle, so they have significantly less wiggle room than a project with a longer schedule and bigger scope (e.g.
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How Drama and Fake Ads Convert To Real Profits
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
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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Unity's push for "responsibly sourced" AI tools
GamesIndustry.biz
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Despite the debate surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in games development, Unity has been a big proponent for adding AI-powered features into the process, announcing its Muse suite of features earlier this year as well as signing partnerships with AI-driven asset creators. Read more
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Beyond User Acquisition: How to Win with Influencer Marketing
Deconstructor of Fun
MARCH 24, 2025
The content format allows the inclusion of tracking links at multiple touchpoints to maximise tracked traffic and it is generally better at driving long-term impact as it doesnt depend on instant virality. But one of the most impactful means to drive conversions is using custom in-game assets.
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Error while remote asset bundle loading using asset manager in cocos version@3.7
Cocos
APRIL 7, 2023
When I try to load an asset bundle using assetmanager.loadbundle in cocoscreator version3.7 Contents of the asset bundle folder I created: =>Script.ts =>Scene.scene If we remove typescript file it works fine even in the 3.7 then it works fine. and project@2.4.7: [link] Where the 3.7
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Unity Addressables: PlayFab Integration
The GameDev Guru
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
How would you cut your content update iteration times by 10x? You know, these 5+ days you may spend to ship a new build with updated game assets. Let's see how to improve these times with addressables and PlayFab.
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Doing this on anon for obvious reasons but is there any chance of getting hired as an entry level game dev in 2025? I’ve been unemployed for nearly two years since graduating from uni and I’m just getting rejection after rejection from game companies. All the posts are looking for senior devs, team leads, or managers. I have friends who’ve given up on the industry entirely. Is there any hope? Or am I fighting a losing battle here…
Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 16, 2025
Create art assets, build gameplay systems, create game content, do stuff to level up and grow your skills. Regardless what it is you find, find something to earn some money while you try to get the real job you want. Secondly, work on your own game dev project in your spare time.
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The Hunger Games for User Generated Content: Case Fall Guys
Deconstructor of Fun
MAY 31, 2023
E pic’s user-generated content (UGC) domination has required thousands of employees and 5 years of development but pays off with 40% of player game time and $350M generated from creator worlds. How did Fall Guys add User Generated Content mid-flight?
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Elevate Game Content Creation and Collaboration with NVIDIA Omniverse
Nvidia
APRIL 7, 2021
And as many developers concurrently work on a project, they need to be able to manage version control of a dataset to ensure everyone is working on the latest assets. Omniverse Connect opens the portals that allow content creation tools to connect to the Omniverse platform. Manage and store assets.
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Keep your store page active and alive – or lose sales and money
PreMortem.Games
MAY 5, 2023
The shocking numbers Looking at store pages for games released after 2020 found that many assets have never changed. Steam is quite unique in how easy it is to change store page assets like descriptions, images and videos. Who knows, these things can even end up helping make product decisions!
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Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which is Better for Android Game Development?
Big Games
MARCH 27, 2025
Its massive Asset Store and extensive community support make game development more streamlined and efficient. A large asset library speeds up production. Asset Store and Marketplace Unity It has an Asset Store, which is a treasure trove for developers, offering pre-built assets, plugins, and tools.
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The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools
Logic Simplified
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Its capabilities for VR content creation include comprehensive 3D modeling tools, advanced texturing and shading, animation and rigging, and integration with VR Devices. This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more.
Google’s Blockchain Content Policy: Better Late than Never
Deconstructor of Fun
AUGUST 2, 2023
After a long wait, Google made its move with its latest Developers Blog post and new policies regarding blockchain-based content ! The former dedicates a separate post and policy for blockchain content while the latter just squeezes in a couple of new rules. The 8-month-long wait may seem really long.
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Analysis • Sony moves away from customer electronics to become a media empire
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 6, 2023
Dominant position In Sony’s case, to help sell its headphones and television sets it ensures there is ample content available that showcases the full capability (e.g., In its most recent earnings report, the combined revenue for digital software, add-on content, and network services was $5 billion. Blu-Ray) of its devices.
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Detective Dotson by Masala Games is a cultural joyride through modern-day India
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 8, 2024
At first, we went looking for some assets in the marketplace to get a running start, but soon realized that there are no 3D assets representing modern India out there! “But to make the characters truly pop, we decided to make the world 3D and a bit more realistic. So we had to build all of that on our own.
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NVIDIA 2023 Highlights: Driving Generative AI, LLM, HPC, Robotics, and Virtual Worlds Breakthroughs
Nvidia
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Rapidly Generate 3D Assets for Virtual Worlds with Generative AI New generative AI technologies on NVIDIA Omniverse enhance 3D asset creation in virtual environments. Subscribe to the Developer Newsletter and stay in the loop on 2024 content tailored to your interests.
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Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store
Jaunty Bear Games
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
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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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024
AWS Games
MARCH 27, 2024
The Titan Image Demo showcased advanced techniques that can be used to solve real-world image asset creation tasks using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games.
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Importing 3D assets from Blender (GameDev.tv)
Mircosoft Game Dev
JUNE 6, 2018
He is collaborating with Yann Burrett and Ben Tristem on their upcoming Godot course on Udemy , and offered to share a tutorial on how to import 3D assets from Blender using Godot's "Better" Collada exporter. Importing 3D assets. So you want to import 3D assets into Godot? Let's do it! On a Mac it's slightly different.
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What are NFTs in video games and how they might work?
Logic Simplified
MAY 21, 2023
With games like Axie Infinity, a top P2E title, non-fungible tokens can not only be used as abilities, characters and other virtual in-game assets but they can be bought and sold for real money. NFTs or Non-Fungible tokens are blockchain-based tokens that are used to represent virtual assets or items in video games. billion by 2027.
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iOS native build failed: [Assets] Please check if Xcode is installed
Cocos
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
editor and all works fine except iOS native build says: [Assets] Please check if Xcode is installed. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/tools/cmake/share/cmake-3.24/Modules/Platform/iOS-Initialize.cmake:4 CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/tools/cmake/share/cmake-3.24/Modules/Platform/iOS-Initialize.cmake:4
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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 22, 2023
To get the cars drifting, Haman fixed a fundamental flaw in the Unity assets he used: “Two lines of nasty-hack later and the cars felt great and realistic.” I’m really very fast at creating artwork and assets. But why work solo? “I My speed may not be compatible with everyone. The game is successful enough for me to support myself.
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One question I see once in a rare occasion is “Why not just give game developers assets someone else has made for free in their own time?”whether it’s sent to them from a fan or a dev off work, without using the production’s budget to make them. I know this isn’t fundamentally possible, but I don’t know how to describe it. Maybe you can?
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 9, 2023
ALT The primary issues with accepting external content submissions are legal. There would need to be some kind of legal agreement set in place to establish the rules (as well as potential damages if those rules are breached) for the use of that content that all parties agree to.
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How to programmatically access to assets when in `executeInEditMode`
Cocos
APRIL 24, 2023
Is there any way to programmatically get the list of assets in a given folder (giving that now I can get the assets itself with the loadAny method) ? I think I need a bit of help, I’m only able to load by uuid so far, (no path or dir are working right now and I can’t really figure out why, the documentation doesn’t really help).
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Your answer about cut content reminded me of one of the early Star Wars games (sorry, can’t remember the title). Evidently Obsidian cut a lot of content that was later added back by modders. Are you familiar with this? How was this possible?
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The partially-built endgame content was locked off from the game but left on the disc. This is, in large part, because leaving unused assets on disc usually ensures more stability than it risks by removing those assets in case any of them are behind-the-scenes dependencies for other assets or game features.
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Enhancing Game and Media Workflows with Global File Systems on AWS
AWS Games
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important. For instance, game development studios use GFS solutions to manage game assets, build distribution, and engine data for collaborative work among game designers, developers, and artists.
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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 15, 2023
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. There is also a risk of running out of memory if too many assets are loaded in parallel instead of streaming them. Better real-time refresh of assets if they were modified externally (and checked out).
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NFT 2.0: The next version of NFT you must know
Logic Simplified
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
They have evolved into valuable assets with numerous applications in both the virtual and physical worlds. allows ownership of unique tokenized digital assets, NFT 2.0 broadens the possibilities by creating a new digital asset market with enhanced utilities ( NFT use cases ). enables infinite nesting of assets.
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Web3 metaverse MMO Avalon unveiled in new trailer
Game Daily
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Furthermore, all assets and worlds are owned by players and authenticated by Avalon through the DAO [Decentralized Autonomous Organization] … The Avalon ecosystem allows fluid importing and exporting of items between user-created worlds as well as external games and platforms.” ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content.
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iOS native build failed: [Assets] Please check if Xcode is installed
Cocos
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Fixed by running: sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer The issue was in xcode command line tools being installed but not working properly.
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Will Roblox’ new advertising rules make a difference?
Game Daily
MARCH 30, 2023
Mounting complaints Prior to the new guidelines, advertisers were able to behave pretty much as they pleased within Roblox, placing surreptitious ads that were not tagged as marketing assets. ” The statement continued: “Our approach is to empower developers to self-identify advertising content in their experiences.
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