PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“What interested us as game makers is the idea of building worlds that have depth and substance to them. Transdimensional portals Nightingale is a first-person, PVE, open-world survival crafting game played solo or cooperatively online. An area that springs to mind is just the balance of survival systems.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

AWS will be joined by game studios and technology partners for panel discussions on generative AI, cloud game development, and building game development backends. AWS for Games GDC 2024 session highlights Wednesday, March 20 10:30-11:00am: Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!, Be sure to RSVP here if you plan to attend.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Titan Image Demo showcased advanced techniques that can be used to solve real-world image asset creation tasks using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 11, 2024

We’ll discuss how to balance intuition with structure, share real-world success stories, and provide best practices for overcoming challenges. Exploratory testing is about balancing structured testing and free exploration. Here’s how to balance them: Scripted Testing First. To build this culture: Educate and Train.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

3D Animation- This includes building models and animating them within a virtual 3D space. Art and Asset Creation Focuses on building 2D characters, environments, and assets on a two-dimensional plane. Popularly used for RPGs, action-adventure, and open-world games, which demand realism and extensive features.

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Real Programming

AUGUST 17, 2023

It isn’t easy balancing a busy schedule , and you don’t want to get your child’s hopes up for a fun online coding class only to have them dashed because they’re the lone student. In some cases, our teachers not only played Minecraft but learned how to build custom Minecraft modifications in RP4K classes they took as students!

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I considered a lot of options here, going as far as thinking of building a new generator from scratch (one that would make encounters much easier to implement), but I liked the established and consistent core theme of existing Garrisons and didn’t want to mess with that.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. And building it on Unity’s new engine means they will be able to continue releasing updates and fixing bugs – something they were blocked from doing for a while.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 98

Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Players step into the boots of Arthur Morgan, a Van der Linde gang member, as they navigate a world on the brink of modernization. With stunning graphics, a vast open world, and a rich storyline, the game offers a blend of action, exploration, and moral choices.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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