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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? What are the common technical pitfalls to avoid with regard to font choices, text string composition (especially regarding item names), baked-in text, etc? What is Narrative Design? If so, you probably want to be a game writer. Organization.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

As of yet, there is no distributed baking. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine. Game developers can switch from 2D to 3D, from real-time play to cutscene, and from the traditional first-person shooter view to a camera that follows the action up close and personal.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

TUTORIAL The tutorial happens across 3 in-game loops. During this time, mission selection is restricted and progression is heavily scripted / controlled.

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