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The Unreal Engine Asset Bonanza Bundle

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com The Unreal Engine Asset Bonanza Bundle There is a massive collection of open world game assets available on Humble right now in the Unreal Engine Asset Bonanza bundle.

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

iXie gaming

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

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.

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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.

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There were complaints about Sony’s devs reusing certain animations in God of War Ragnarok, about Guerilla Games reusing animations in Horizon Forbidden West, about Pokemon reusing assets between games, about Volition reusing assets between Saints Row games, and so on.

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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?

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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.

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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024

AWS Games

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. Workstations HP Anyware with Epic Games Unreal Engine 5 for Windows 2022 , a virtual desktop partner solution, brings the latest offering in On-Demand Game Development.

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Cosmic storms and galactic monsters in Pastaspace Interactive’s Underspace

PreMortem.Games

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.

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