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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).

Art

Art Asset Texture AI

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. Visitors to the Play and Learn Lounge could also play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

AI

AI Game Development Game Developer NPC

How do developers handle the removal of softlocking (I.E. the player places themselves in an inescapable position where they cannot progress in the game or backtrack to escape their situation)? Is the removal of softlocks treated the same way as glitches for developers or are they treated differently?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2025

invalid asset data). #2: However, this can become problematic in games with really large environments, because testing every square inch of every environment in an open-world game like Horizon Zero Dawn or Breath of the Wild is a monstrous task for QA. What is the FANTa project?

Clipping

Clipping Code Development Dev

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). 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.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Why don’t open-world sequels reuse (and/or add on to) old maps often at all? Seems like it would be a decent way to have more stuff in the game for the same amount of effort.

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.

Asset

Asset Open World Dev Animation

Cosmic storms and galactic monsters in Pastaspace Interactive’s Underspace

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2024

The creator of the ‘open world lovecraftian spacefighter RPG’ Underspace calls it a ‘vast freaky universe,’ and even that might be an understatement. This sci-fi world is not only rooted in science but goes full-on supernatural. I find something that doesn’t belong in space normally, and then I put it in space.

Console

Console Data Content Open World

The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The individual assets seem nice, but together they sort of clash -- a random junk prop will have the 4k photogrammetry HDR treatment, overwhelming the nearby gameplay pickup that you're actually supposed to notice. Felt like they had to cut down 50% of their planned content, which is never easy.

NPC

NPC Fighting Art Dev

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet launch is the second-biggest in franchise history

Game Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By and large, critics praised the open-world design that was tested in Pokémon Legends: Arceus , a spinoff game that was released in January of this year. “Throughout the game, there were issues with assets clipping into each other, models popping in and out, and huge frame rate drops,” Stanley said.

Open World

Open World Graphics Media Clipping

GenoTerra - The finished prototype.

Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

I used GenoTerra to research and reflect about the design process using procedural generation in the creation of base shapes that the designer/s in a studio can use to create a more coherent game world. “Open World Games" have the potential for countless hours of exploration and fun through their huge game worlds.

Prototyping

Prototyping Terrain Open World Rigging

Web3 gaming leaders face challenges of a ‘difficult year’

Game Daily

JULY 3, 2023

It’s beyond the importance of owning your digital assets. It’s really unfair that those players who contribute the value of their time and the content they bring to those gaming platform, don’t really benefit from it. Our second game is coming in next year, and it will be an open world where you can use your NFTs.

Sandbox

Sandbox Technology Games Build

New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Users can experiment with AI-enabled tools and create intuitively in real-time using assets from Squad, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and Mechwarrior 5. Enhanced RTX SDKs for open-world games It has never been easier to integrate real-time ray tracing in your games with Kickstart RT. The contest is free to enter.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing AI Game Development Game Developer

The Complete Guide To Lighting In Unreal Engine

Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

For the example assets we’ll use City of Brass: Environments which you can download for free on the Unreal Engine marketplace: When you download City of Brass: Environment, open the Demo_Palace scene located in City_of_Brass_Environment -> Maps folder as we’ll use that scene for our examples.

Engineering

Engineering Engine Point and Click Baking

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

2022 Predictions #2 How to win after Fortnite's and Why Going Cross-Platform is Mandatory for Mid-Core Games

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The most significant growth in revenue was seen in the following sub-genres: Open World Adventure is a newborn sub-genre that grew by 622% this year. These games often feature open maps with drivable vehicles and little to no power progression. The treadmill that only the largest studios in the world can sustain.

Cross platform

Cross platform Platformer Puzzle Mobile

What is Web3 Gaming? | Moonmana

Moonmana

APRIL 24, 2023

This means that the in-game assets owned by gamers are in the form of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), so players gain full control over them. The virtual assets can be traded in open marketplaces and even potentially transferred within various web3-based games. games and attracts players all over the world.