This ain't your Sims 3 baked French toast
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JUNE 6, 2024
A fond look back at video game cookbooks and the delicious dishes that inspired them, including a recipe based on The Sims 3.
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Game Developer
JUNE 6, 2024
A fond look back at video game cookbooks and the delicious dishes that inspired them, including a recipe based on The Sims 3.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 16, 2025
The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the development on Twitter. Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature.
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Logic Simplified
APRIL 4, 2025
Lag, desync, and glitchesthe unholy trio that can kill a multiplayer game faster than a rage-quitting gamer smashing his keyboard! Ever wondered why some multiplayer games feel smooth and lag-free, while others frustrate players with constant glitches? Synchronization: Ensures that game states remain consistent across all clients.
The GameDev Guru
JUNE 8, 2020
This famous Unity asset lets you drastically reduce your draw calls so your game runs at substantially higher frame-rate. Today, I had the pleasure to interview Ian Deane, the developer behind Mesh Baker. Let's see what he has to say.
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Porting fixes to Embedded/Floating Window mode The Embedded/Floating game window option added in 4.4 With some further fixes like GH-102424 , GH-102497 , and GH-102477 , lightmap baking got a nice upgrade in this snapshot.
Game Development News
APRIL 24, 2023
GamesAid is hosting its first ever national baking competition and sale
Radiator Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. The Witness fully commits to hundreds of puzzles at the scope of an open world game. Which means this isn't just a puzzle game. How do we filter the clues?
Yotes Games
JULY 21, 2024
Check out Itch for Backer Beta Update #3! Approaching the final few issues between this demo and launch day. Play the Early Access Beta!
CG Spectrum
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. One important technique to master, particularly for video games, is level of detail (LOD). What is level of detail (LOD)?
Deconstructor of Fun
APRIL 25, 2022
This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2.
Brand Game Development
APRIL 17, 2017
I didn’t mean to be a board game developer, but everything I did to get here was on purpose. As a child, I was intensely interested in board games and video games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. from the cartoon on TV.
Game Refinery
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features.
Logic Simplified
AUGUST 5, 2024
At Logic Simplified , a leading game development company , we created an FPS game Mr. 45. Seasoned gaming studios like ours love Maya for its features and flexibility. With that I have to create a low poly model of the gun on which we will bake the high poly details. I have always been fond of guns as a child.
Brand Game Development
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted the first article in my 19-part suite on game design. It’s called How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game. ” Need help on your board game? Click here.
Cocos
MAY 4, 2024
The common workflow in developing 3d game is importing an exported model from DCC. In case this model contains an animation, how do I know the final position of the model in world coordination?
Brand Game Development
JANUARY 30, 2017
If you’re game developer, you’re an entrepreneur. Even if you’re not in it for money, the amount of physical material, labor, and funding you’ll need to organize to make your game real will make you into an entrepreneur. Just take a look at these Google results… Need help on your board game?
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 11, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It took me a long time to get this game ready for blind play-testing.
Cocos
MAY 14, 2023
This approach enables our games to efficiently eliminate unseen static objects during rendering, reducing the rendering load and enhancing game performance. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. The essence of offline culling is: pre-baking scene visibility and quickly culling unseen models during rendering.
Brand Game Development
MAY 22, 2017
I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.
Cocos
MARCH 26, 2023
Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. Improvements • Move the Light Bake entry from the top item settings menu to the panel menu. •
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 8, 2020
Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0
Nvidia
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Theia is known for pioneering the use of real-time rendering for non-game mixed reality and interactive development. Because the lighting is baked in, it’s difficult to test out multiple lighting scenarios. So pre-baking all of those options would have been nearly impossible.
Nvidia
APRIL 9, 2021
This year, Microsoft’s free Game Stack Live event (April 20-21), starting at 8am PDT, will offer a wide range of can’t-miss sessions for game developers, in. Until now, this has not been possible in video games. Register to Game Stack Live today here. We hope you’ll join us!
Nvidia
APRIL 14, 2021
Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists [link] Finding ways to improve. Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists Finding ways to improve performance and visual fidelity in your games and applications is challenging.
Nvidia
MAY 26, 2021
Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.
Awesome Tuts
JANUARY 2, 2023
Lights are one of the most important part of any game. With lights you can create a different athmosphere and make your games look stunning. Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. The Sky light is not meant to be a light source in terms of providing light at a specific area of the game.
Nvidia
APRIL 1, 2021
Game and professional visualization developers need the best tools to create the best games and real-time interactive content. To help them achieve this goal, Game and professional visualization developers need the best tools to create the best games and real-time interactive content.
Nvidia
JUNE 4, 2021
Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. Integrating RTX has never been easier – gain access through popular game engines such as Unreal Engine or through standalone SDKs.
Catnip Games
MARCH 19, 2022
Material polygons are created as invisible objects in Blender and exported into the game. They are now baked into tiles, so map editing is much easier. I got rid of that and switched to a polygon based approach which plugs into Box2D. I also changed the way fences are placed on the map.
Logic Simplified
JULY 18, 2022
Game Genre. An addictive, fast-paced and time management cooking gaming app that keeps entertained for hours. An addictive, fast-paced and time management cooking gaming app that keeps entertained for hours. What makes this game interesting is the array of ingredients, kitchen appliances, and dishes. Entertainment.
iXie gaming
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. The constraints of mobile hardware demand innovative solutions to ensure games not only look stunning but also run smoothly.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 13, 2023
The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). What's new. OpenXR: Add Pico controller profile ( GH-70167 ).
Game Refinery
MAY 30, 2024
Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. All these crossovers come in different shapes and sizes too, spanning everything from fashion brands, automotive, anime, TV, movies, and even other video games. Their secret to success?
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 24, 2021
Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, so here's another maintenance release to fix them.
Raph Koster
JULY 3, 2024
On UO, we could only change the totals every 64 tiles, and we couldn’t reflect it visually at all, because the map was baked down and static). And like both games, crafting also uses these resource types and statistics. Again, you can wishlist the game here. Like UO, every “tile” knows what materials it is.
Cocos
MAY 5, 2023
Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine team to showcase the engine’s capabilities of making heavy 3D games and boost community learning motivation. I hope to help everyone advance further in 3D game development. This camera is the one to roam the scene when the game begins.
Nvidia
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Mebratu: Ultimately, I wanted to explore the potential future of real-time lighting for the next generation of games and real-time graphics. Most current and upcoming games still need to rely on a prebaked global illumination system to some extent.
Real Programming
JANUARY 29, 2024
Math concepts are baked into programming when kids start learning, though it definitely gets more advanced as they pass through the courses. Jobs Finally, knowing how to code opens the door to countless jobs, including in fields adjacent to video game design or programming. the answer may sadly not always be affirmative!
Nvidia
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
It is a typical midrange configuration for a gaming machine nowadays. This is naturally expected, especially when compared to other games using many ray tracing effects at once. For instance, for game scenarios with ray traced shadows and ray traced ambient occlusion only, an NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super could be an acceptable solution.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 19, 2022
using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Also check out Raffaele's Beat Invaders released earlier this year.
Cocos
APRIL 13, 2023
The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. Today, I am thrilled to share with you an amazing 3D shooter game project that I think you’ll love.
Nvidia
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Now we have 500 RTX games and apps using RT or DLSS. These games shaped my love for art and real-time graphics.
Game Designing
AUGUST 23, 2023
And we’ll do lots of baking: Lightmaps with multiple Scenes Navmesh data with multiple Scenes Occlusion Culling data with multiple Scenes Lesson 6 Video Transcript Hey there everyone. In the previous lesson, we added some UI to our game for the first time while creating this main menu of sorts.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 28, 2025
What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. A busy year inside the project as well.
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