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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

Game Refinery

Promotional collaboration events in the top 10% (Revenue) of US iOS games (source: GameRefinery SaaS platform) Some of our favorites last year included Free Fire looking Marvel-ous with a Spider-Man crossover, Roblox turning pink with Barbie, and even Nier: Automata’s android 2B slicing her way into NIKKE: Goddess of Victory.

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5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4 

iXie gaming

The Unreal Engine is a 3D game engine that was first developed by Epic Games in 1998. It was initially developed for first-person shooters and was first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game, Unreal. What is the Unreal Engine?

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The Story of Battlebit Remastered with Max Fink (theliquidhorse)

Game Dev Unchained

Steam playtesting is a feature introduced by the platform that allows developers to offer a separate testing application for players, enabling them to participate in the development process without owning the full game. While it may seem like this indie game has hit a golden formula, Max seems surprised by their success.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

Yes, Cinemachine is a plug-in for Unity, but what makes this plug-in great for this platform is the fact there are many other plug-ins to choose from that can work seamlessly with Cinemachine. As of yet, there is no distributed baking. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine.

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Among Us VR dev talks about how to create immersive worlds

Game Analytics

Being able to actually play as an Impostor or Crewmate in first person was just so appealing to players.” So many games have that question baked into their core. When recreating Among Us for VR platforms, Schell Games only made two major changes to the original game. “We Among Us VR is similar here, too.

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