iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

ASTC for mobile, DXT5 for PC), and eliminate over-resolved images. URP is tailored for performance-sensitive titles such as mobile or VR, while HDRP enables cinematic fidelity for high-end PC and console games. Reduce variants, embrace GPU instancing, and bake lighting when possible. Shader management is critical.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Balancing quality and performance is done by controlling the game’s internal rendering resolution. It uses ray tracing to provide infinite bounce in indirect lighting, without the need to bake lighting or create multiple light setups for scenes. With Reflex Stats, gamers can get per-frame PC Latency without any special hardware.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

This ensures great compatibility with all desktop PCs, mobile devices and WebGL 2. 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. Rasterizer design.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This isn’t as true or a high priority in PC and console games. It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. So many games have that question baked into their core. There are many objects in PC and console games that are just… there. Which is fine.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile. Which is a difficult balance to strike. It’s obviously simplified (they only released 10 legends on mobile, compared to the 20+ on console and PC). And we don’t see this often enough in games.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 98

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

It’s the #18 PC game of all-time on Metacritic – and the number one strategy game this century. 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. A Civ-like, so to speak.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 98

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Making Call of Duty free Back when CoDO was conceived, consoles didn’t officially exist in China, AAA Mobile gaming was not yet a ‘thing’ and PC gaming mostly happened at Internet Cafes, where gamers paid to sit in front of computers to play, watch videos, eat, smoke and chat.

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