CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

I spent a week trying to figure out how to use a Control Rig to drive the undercarriage animation of my X-Wing models before giving up and just baking the animation into its own asset, which I can reuse easily. Staying organized.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

There’s lots of blog articles about building a Twitter following, but I think they’re largely half-baked. You have strike a balance. This guide is going to be very detailed. It will be the longest article I’ve ever made. I want to see you build your account organically into the thousands.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Balancing pros and cons, it's probably not worth implementing it, but the door is open for it. On objects that provide their own baked AO, this value is harcoded to 0, to avoid SSAO from interfering with them. This allows beautiful mixing between baked and real-time. Produces ghosting effects in many situations.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Volumetric fog is making its first appearance in Godot 4, balancing a realistic look and fast performance, thanks to the use of temporal reprojection. You can stream regions, which makes the system applicable to large open spaces.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Speaking of AlphaGo, it is interesting to note that the architecture of the world’s best game-playing AI reflects this same search/heuristic balance, its Monte Carlo tree search uses heuristics to channel the raw power of pure look-ahead, efficiently searching the game tree for directions with the greatest average value, and its board-evaluation (..)

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Tools like ZBrush, Blender, and Maya help maintain a balance between detail and efficiency. Why it matters: Efficient UV mapping and normal map baking allow high-detail textures to be applied to low-poly models, preserving visual fidelity without unnecessary computational overhead. LOD optimization to balance quality and performance.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 29, 2024

How do we do game balance? Some of them were very half-baked. I still have a pile of my old issues, and they reliably make fun reading. At the time, tabletop RPGs were very much in their infancy. Everyone was trying to figure out how to make them work. How do you make good adventures? What systems need to be improved, and how?

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

One good reason is to know your inheritance, to reexamine it, to look for ideas which were baked into the very earliest version of the game and see if changing them could transform the experience. Why go back to revisit games that stand well on their own and, moreover, are part of a franchise that is continuing to succeed and grow.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So many games have that question baked into their core. As a multiplayer PvP (player versus player) game, it’s critical to get the balance right between crewmates and imposters. Finding out who is winning more often, when, and why, helped us to make changes to the balance and create a better experience for everyone.”

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Prioritize the scene to use lightmap to bake AO so that even if HBAO is turned off, the effect is still not bad. Do a good job of managing high, medium, and low-end models, and turn on corresponding combinations of after-effects on different grades of models to ensure a balance between performance and effect.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. Which is a difficult balance to strike. In the game, you run your own farm, create your own products, and sell to the local community through your own small business. And we don’t see this often enough in games. So it was a no-brainer why this title made our roundup.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Baked Lighting. Too much can make the game look washed out or fake, so aim for a balance that fits the game’s overall artistic vision. Balance Realism and Performance. Aim to balance amazing lighting with smooth gameplay. Voxel Cone Tracing. Light Probes. Iterate and Test. Don’t hesitate to experiment and adjust.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. But for a medium mob (4-6 enemies) in a cover-y arena you can just run in and safely slice up everyone. but you can only safely do this if you have 50% or more health already. You're trading health for ammo / convenience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In an attempt to make content more scalable, PVE design borrowed a page from PVP and the team built new PVE modes as rule-sets that could be applied to any map by a game designer through simple tooling vs. baked in-experiences on custom maps. while competition would ship 3x the features and find success with at least some of them.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players. Baking/Kitchen. So, I’ve become that person who decided to learn to bake during the pandemic. Develop your civilization on a military, scientific, cultural, and economic level. Description from Etsy. Meeple Pillow – $20.

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