Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2024

Of course cut content exists. On the latest shipped game that I worked on, I was hired for and spent months working on a significant game mode that was eventually cut. Our game mode was playable with a full game loop but the higher-ups decided it wasn't shaping up to be what they wanted for the overall game.

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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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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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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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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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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 18, 2024

"Asset flip" is just another term for a game reskin. This is very similar to the low-end ebook publishing market where a writer can publish a lot of content very quickly for a very low cost. Shovelware tends to proliferate in environments where the barrier to entry is low.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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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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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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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Cocos

APRIL 7, 2024

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 19, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Prototype to Publish Unity Humble Bundle The Prototype to Publish Unity Humble Bundle is a collection of 20 Unity assets for $15. Yes, there are no tiers to this bundle, and it is short lived, only lasting a week.

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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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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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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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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 17, 2024

When I have a large set of content, like lists of monsters, skills, or in this case, ancestries, I prefer that the “source of truth” exist outside of Unity. By keeping the content external to Unity, I have found my projects to be more resilient. We are going to build an Ancestry as a project asset.

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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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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

JANUARY 3, 2023

Accelerating 3D content creation with generative AI Connectors and extensions NVIDIA Omniverse is bringing in the latest and greatest generative AI technologies with Connectors and extensions for third-party technologies. GET3D enables you to rapidly generate 3D animals and other shapes and meshes to populate a scene.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The act of cutting content requires us not just to remove the cut content itself, but we also need to clean up all existing connections to that cut content so that the game doesn’t break due to missing assets. All of the new content from level 4 has already been re-distributed. How would we go about doing that?

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

a restart is required to ensure the registration of.shadergraph assets. Creating Asset Right-click in the Assets panel, select Create/Shader Graph to create a.shadergraph asset. Surface (Surface Shader) Unlit (Unlit Shader) Double-click the asset to enter the editing panel. In future versions >= 3.8.3,

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 9, 2023

Reusing well-used content like maps tends to offend a particular slice of the more hardcore demographic. Reusing assets is a great time-saver in order to afford the dev team more time to build new stuff within a limited budget, but the loudest players will complain a lot about such things.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2024

Most of these devs are likely going to be similar to the AI-supported youtube content farms that regularly violate copyright but make money by having hundreds of channels all regurgitating videos such that it becomes difficult to copyright strike them all.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. We saw that all our various asset concepts such as levels, prefabs, templates, or presets could be unified as they are all hierarchies of property containers.

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Cocos

APRIL 16, 2024

I imported assets packages exported by Cocos Creator version 3.4.2. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index. I’ m using Cocos Creator version 3.8.2 currently.

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Cocos

APRIL 16, 2024

I imported assets packages exported by Cocos Creator version 3.4.2. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index. I’ m using Cocos Creator version 3.8.2 currently.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

After several months of waiting ( obligatory joke ) and more importantly of development, the web frontend to Godot's Asset Library finally reached the beta status ! That the Asset Lib frontend is now officially public and that the community can start using it extensively. What assets can be submitted? What does it mean?

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The Liquid Fire

MAY 1, 2024

Start from a json document that holds all the information about Backgrounds, create a parser to turn that document into project assets (prefabs), and use Addressables to load the assets at runtime when we need them. That means the root is an object, and within that object I have a key to the array of content that I actually care about.

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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 Most indie studios don’t survive long after their first release.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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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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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Cocos

MARCH 13, 2024

I imported assets packages exported by Cocos Creator version 3.4.2. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index. I’ m using Cocos Creator version 3.8.2 currently.

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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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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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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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