Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. This is where, game techniques for years have been perfecting for decades and technology has caught up where the graphical quality is turning heads. Now we can get instant feedback and the art director can iterate faster than ever before.” Scott Knapp.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These factors include improvements in graphics, lighting, physics, animation, and scalability. Its advanced capabilities in areas such as graphics and physics provide game developers with the tools to create truly immersive and realistic gaming experiences. For its materials and graphics, it employs the widely used PBR technique.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Tap to grill, bake and prepare dishes to the top. In 2019, they approached Logic Simplified to build a crazy and fun cooking game with a similar concept to Cooking Craze, but with unique locations and classic restaurant dishes. Stunning graphics and catchy animations were well-optimized.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I’d like to talk about some of these examples today and examine how best to build meaning in our games. Consider the case of Fortnite, which started as a game about building forts while fighting off waves of zombies. Well, in Valorant, all animations, graphical effects, and sounds are only visible to the purchaser.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2017

And that's just as well, since a lot of work continues to be done every day to fix issues in the master branch and improve usability, and Juan even took the time to sneak in a couple past-deadline but very requested features, like a lightmapper for static light baking (to provide an alternative to the real-time but resource-heavy GIProbe).

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You have to build VR experiences the right way to make this happen. So many games have that question baked into their core. And many of the regular tricks that devs use to save on rendering costs are lost when building VR games. “It It does take much longer to build a great VR game. VR is all about immersion.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

This approach echoes strategies employed by gaming giants such as Valve, known for their emphasis on performance, even at the expense of graphics, in games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). It highlights that high-end graphics and expensive marketing campaigns are not always the keys to success.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The last time we met, we were right in the thick of preparing an early, pre-demo build of Kristala for unveiling at the PlayNYC virtual convention. After finishing up her work on the sacred crystals, Shelly then tried her hand at creating a couple "Game Save" icons and graphics to be used throughout the Kristala game.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

First off: I learned a lot about Unity’s build in batching system. This is mostly caused by the state changes done between the draw calls (such as switching to a different Material), which causes resource-intensive validation and translation steps in the graphics driver.   Draw call batching. That’s it. When

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. And the graphics are beautiful, but very demanding. If you’re going for an action theme, it doesn’t always have to be over-the-top guns galore. Vikingard by Netease. If done well.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On the other hand, parallelizing the traditional data compression algorithms has been challenging, due to fundamental serial assumptions “baked” into their design. High-performance systems have long embraced large-scale data parallelism to continue scaling performance for many applications.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. Both indirect light and voxel reflections are provided by this technique. Visual Scripting.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet. The first results will probably look noisy and with graphical artifcats, so I will spend some time implementing all the tips and tricks detailed in this wonderful article.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread. This implementation handles spatial indexing of objects and, every frame, building a render list of objects drawn. Truth is, the main advantage of using them is the ability to build render command lists using multiple CPU cores. Wait, why not Vulkan or DirectX12?

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