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. What artists or studios have influenced you? Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

That’s why, for this year’s Mobile GameDev Awards, we’ve been celebrating the achievements of the mobile market’s live event champions, looking at the most innovative ways leading studios have kept players invested in their pocket-sized interactive worlds.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Also, upgrade Android Studio to 2022.2.1. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. JDK needs to be upgraded to JDK 17.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 16, 2025

Studios keep their color management as perfectly matched as synchronized swimmers. The best studios craft their breakdowns like master storytellers, leading viewers on a journey from rough sketches to jaw-dropping final shots. Studios are now pushing around 15 TB files like they're sending text messages. That's no accident!

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The most recent product from Lightspeed Studios, RTX Remix, is designed to bring path-traced lighting to many retro games, too. Minecraft is also more challenging to render because its worlds are by design dynamic and user-modifiable, so you cannot bake anything at all or make map-specific tweaks.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

He got his start in game development when Commodore approached him to create a piece of software, believing his company to be a software house and not, in fact, a baked bean distributor. Molyneux took the contract and did not reveal the error.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more.

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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. And once it finishes compiling, it will add it to this object and we can double-click it to open in Visual Studio. Here we go.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

There’s lots of blog articles about building a Twitter following, but I think they’re largely half-baked. So with that in mind, I advise you to stick by a few principles: Unless you’re representing a full studio, go by your name. This guide is going to be very detailed. I’ve broken this up into six sections.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

In an era where large studios often release glitch-ridden, half-baked games only to spend months patching them up, these developers offers a refreshing contrast. It was built with a focus on inclusivity, ensuring it could run on all systems without requiring high-spec PCs, which is not always the case with many current games.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

They launched a new game from a new studio entering the most competitive genre on mobile in the midst of Apple’s privacy apocalypse and has generated a billion dollars in revenue in two years. Just to repeat: Dream Games’ achievement to date is unprecedented. Wonder how they will expand their Royal-verse.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Convenient, right? link] Rigging / Animation.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Lets break down the seven critical phases of the game art pipeline and explore how studios bring stunning, optimized visuals to life. Why it matters: Efficient UV mapping and normal map baking allow high-detail textures to be applied to low-poly models, preserving visual fidelity without unnecessary computational overhead.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Triband is a studio that creates comedy games. So, when a studio makes games that turn everyday, mundane activities into grotesque acts of cartoon foolery, can you really expect an everyday, mundane interview with the co-founder/creative director? Mix all-purpose flour, vanilla sugar, and baking powder and add to the bowl.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Levin noted that studios like Warner Bros. In the past, these studios treated gaming as a secondary product, often licensing their IPs to third parties. This misalignment often leads to half-baked adaptations that fail to capture the essence of the original game. Legacy media companies are catching on.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Army Commander by Lion Studios. But Army Commander by Lion Studios seemed to nail this on the head. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. Casual strategy games have definitely made their mark in 2022.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Here you'll get an inside look at the detailed development work done for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the inaugural title from the team behind Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-lead indie studio based in Central PA, USA. We can't wait to see how all three Kota variants and their detailed armor sets once they're completely done.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

Let’s look at what it means in practice, though keep in mind that it will vary wildly depending on the game genre, project structure, studio, and even country. What are the common technical pitfalls to avoid with regard to font choices, text string composition (especially regarding item names), baked-in text, etc? Organization.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 18, 2023

That is, the studios at that point noticed the talent and potential of Jackson. Alien masks were baked in his parents' oven. First of all, by the time he began his work on the Tolkien adaptation, the director had already released "Heavenly Creatures" (1994) with Kate Winslet and the witty horror film "The Frighteners" (1996).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. Speaking of more important tasks, Shelly has become the resident texture expert of the Astral Clocktower Studios dev family.

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And that was baked into the design from the beginning. I had fallen in love with the original Gameboy version of the game in 1999, and it seemed obvious to me that however Greg wanted the core gameplay to work (sim, puzzle, or RPG), we had to learn from Pokémon 's incredible bestiary.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi. Nobody believed mobile shooters could be big in the west.

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