iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

How do top game studios maintain a constant flow of high-quality assets without bottlenecks? With the right strategies, game studios can accelerate asset creation, streamline workflows, and maintain artistic consistency, ensuring their live-service games remain visually compelling and player-focused. Key solutions: (i).

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2016

By emphasizing the effects of well-implemented mechanics in thoughtfully crafted games, I’ve helped game designers learn how to create games by using examples of success. Assets beget assets in Monopoly. Not only do players with early assets dominate the game, but asset acquisition feels entirely arbitrary.

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Unleash your creativity and make Tropico 6 your own - create new maps, modify or replace assets or bring entirely new mechanics into the game. The Tropic 6 Mod Kit is here to help you bring your vision of mods for Tropico 6 to life.

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Perforce

APRIL 28, 2023

Studios are using premade, free game assets to help them iterate more quickly before committing to any particular feature or game mechanic. Here, we will discuss how you can use free game assets — such as Unity free assets — for your video game prototype, and how a digital asset management tool can help.

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Cocos

MARCH 13, 2025

Were seeking an experienced Cocos Creator developer to join our team in developing an exciting web-based 2D Collectible Card Game (CCG) with play & earn mechanics. This is a contract position where youll work alongside our established team of UI/UX designers, game artists, backend developers, and blockchain specialists.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

I thought that the core mechanic in this 2D game was extraordinary, so I contacted the developers. The Swap The initial idea that ignited the project was the core mechanic: The Swap. It was also important that the environments would be suitable for various gameplay scenarios and mechanics.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Such VR tools breathe life into the video game mechanics , allowing players to interact with the characters and environment of the game very well. This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 29, 2024

So, what sets our game apart is its blend of authentic ’90s rally racing experience with modern gaming mechanics. We tested numerous physics plugins from the Unity Asset Store, but each fell short, being either too realistic or not flexible enough for our vision.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hexasort with its new matching mechanic executed so well, is an industry darling. However, these games typically acquire players through marketing assets showcasing gameplay- though there are many using fake ads as well. Current Character/Drama Focused Quest UI The quest UI in 2025, far more gameplay/mechanic progression focused.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Based on a long tradition in mobile gaming, the companies get inspiration and borrow mechanics from each other to the point when the original creator becomes hard to trace. While borrowing mechanics, they sometimes occasionally borrow something more: an expression of those mechanics. And that is what is lacking. One is legal.

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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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Juego Studio

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

If truth be told, in most games, the thrill of the game mechanics is truly felt after you have played for some time and leveled up slightly. Is it the gameplay?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The downside is that it doesn’t have anywhere near the amount of third-party assets that Unity does, nor some of the more specialist features like the DOTS package. There are also some good online resources for learning, and Godot’s official documentation is top-notch. “Some ideas also come from our community.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I’m really very fast at creating artwork and assets. I’m really very fast at creating artwork and assets. I sketch many times, not only my concept art but even game mechanics. We’re talking about Mario Malagrino, developer of Remote Life and the upcoming Crude. What’s your creative process?

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Cocos

AUGUST 5, 2024

Cocos Creator only packs assets that are being used in your project. After you know more about Cocos, you will manage the mechanism of the assets management. If you just want to create 2D projects, select the Empty(2D) when creating a new project. If you don’t want to use the built-in skybox, remove it on the scene Inspector.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

It may cost more and come with more paperwork, but it provides legal protection of your financial assets in a way that sole proprietorships do not. You can’t protect mechanics, but you can definitely protect your brand name, lore, art, and other assets. Last but not least, open a separate bank account for your business.

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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

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

And if you're making the typical aspirational photorealistic action game, you'll probably want UE's gameplay architecture and free photoscan assets too. But if you want high-end then UE5 Nanite / Lumen is light years beyond Unity HDRP anyway? Most recently, respected developer Ethan Lee has weighed in.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

We wanted to have a mechanic to highlight that being a stray cat is not all fun and games. This approach made it easier to blend custom-made assets with 3D models from asset stores, saving time and effort without compromising quality. This duality reflects another narrative technique the team employs – moral choices. “We

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 17, 2024

Deeper story One of the standout features of Doki Doki AI Interrogation is its underlying narrative, which intertwines with the AI-driven interrogation mechanics. While many focus on cost reduction through AI-assisted asset and source code creation, he is more intrigued by the new game experiences that AI can enable.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

USD technology supports large-scale, multi-user, diverse asset pipelines for video production. Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. Unlike asset data, everything is in small ASCII files. Of course we do.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

NFTs are digital assets that are indivisible and unique. For instance, NFTs can be utilized to tokenize game assets, such as weapons, artifacts, and skins. Another reason behind their increasing popularity is that they offer a transparent and decentralized system for players to interact with various digital assets.

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Juego Studio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Good graphics, game mechanics, and game story are the three important factors that players look for in a good video game. From these, graphics refers to all the visual elements in the game including the characters, environment, props, and other game assets.

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The Liquid Fire

MAY 1, 2024

If you are not already familiar with this game mechanic, you may read about it here. 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.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 19, 2024

If we need to load a bunch of assets, it's much better to hide that in a cinematic than pop up a loading screen or force a decompression area like a tight locked corridor to hide the new environment popping in.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Level design is a part of video game design that focuses specifically on designing game levels (an area or stage a player must complete before moving on to the next one) while keeping in mind the architecture, layout, video game mechanics , and pace to keep the players invested in the game. Define the gameplay mechanics.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Caching is essential in the development of large, immersive games to ensure efficient asset retrieval and performance optimization. For instance, Unreal Engine uses a mechanism known as the Derived Data Cache (DDC) for this purpose. It accommodates both network I/O and disk I/O operations with the help of I/O credit mechanism.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of C# programming to effectively manipulate game objects, create gameplay mechanics, and handle events. Familiarize yourself with key components such as the Scene view, Inspector window, and Project window to efficiently navigate and manipulate your game assets.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

It contains the game’s proposed design like the concept of the game, genre, core game mechanics, gameplay, timeline, illustrations/sketches, story and characters, levels and monetization strategies. Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

These models can produce game content, including music, textures, characters, mechanics, and even levels. As a result, it improves the overall game mechanics and makes the game more challenging yet exciting for players. Well, the generative AI models are trained on existing game assets.

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

Design the game characters, environments, and assets: Create 3D models of the game characters, environments, and other assets to bring your game to life. Code and program the game mechanics and features: Develop the game mechanics and features that will engage players and keep them coming back for more.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This includes art, music & sound, programming assets such as character controllers and other resources that’ll help you with your games. It had a lot of commercial success despite the mechanics and artwork being very simple. Successful games don’t need to be highly technical, take Flappy Bird for example.

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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.”

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Modeling, texturing, and lighting additional assets (furniture, props, decor, etc.) There is a growing demand for architectural visualization artists in real-world architecture, along with other industries such as product design, engineering, mechanics, and entertainment. using 3D software.

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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Encounter Let’s begin by fleshing out the Encounter asset a bit more. I want this asset to define a list of places where the hero party members will spawn, and I also want it to define a list of “something” that defines both a monster and position for the monster. In the inspector we can implement the new fields.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 17, 2024

We are going to build an Ancestry as a project asset. Uh-oh, Unity has serialized them as their base value (an integer), not as their English readable name in code, so now all of your assets have wrong values! All of our assets are magically updated to the new structure with a minimal amount of effort.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Practically speaking, a mechanism for managing Unity licenses may be necessary. For example, when building a client for iOS, it is necessary to run a build using Xcode on a Mac, but other asset imports and Xcode project output processing can be performed in Unity on Linux. For this reason, a retry mechanism is essential.

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