Stellar Blade dev Shift Up eyes PC port and sequel in studio growth plans
Game Developer
MAY 20, 2024
Shift Up wants to build Stellar Blade into a franchise as it actively begins to start up a new project to become a hopeful cross-platform giant.
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Game Developer
MAY 20, 2024
Shift Up wants to build Stellar Blade into a franchise as it actively begins to start up a new project to become a hopeful cross-platform giant.
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Cross-platform mobile games are a trend that is quickly taking over the […] The post Why do you Need to Build Cross-Platform Games in 2023? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.
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Further reading How Amazon GameLift works New Solution Guidance for building scalable cross-platform game backends on AWS How to host your Unreal Engine game for under $1 per player with Amazon GameLift GitHub repository: amazon-gamelift-toolkit
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Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development.
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With Xsolla you can easily launch your own cross-platform player account system Let your players stay connected and engaged no matter which platform they play on. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games. 4 High entry barrier. 5 Marketing excellence.
iXie gaming
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Big Games
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Logic Simplified
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The creators of the popular JetBrains Rider IDE wrote on their blog“ At present, Unity stands out as one of the most popular and versatile cross-platform game engines available, catering to the creation of 2D, 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality games. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”.
Grumpy Gamer
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AWS Games
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And the beauty of this museum being a virtual experience is that theres no space to rent or building to upkeep, so I can afford to make it free! The cross-platform support was a big selling point to me as well! So I really want my project to pay that goodwill forward as much as I can. How did you discover Godot?
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If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The spring bone is an open source cross-platform module that is distributed by the VRM consortium under the MIT license. or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from.NET 6 to 8.
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iXie gaming
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AWS Games
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In order to solve this, the any third party developer needs to build a system that can take data from any supported service and translate it in real time so all players on other platforms understand what's happening in the game. This requires a fairly hefty engineering effort.
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JUNE 20, 2024
If we're developing a cross-platform game, we aim for the best performance we can squeeze out of our lead platform. We aim the majority of our dev time for that first and then we adjust up/down for the other platforms we're building for to stay within reasonable performance specs. GHz, and so on.
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iXie gaming
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iXie gaming
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AWS Games
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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. Simpler Asset Creation2D assets such as sprites and backgrounds require less detailing, which makes them easier to build.
Big Games
JANUARY 8, 2024
Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. But that’s not all!
AWS Games
OCTOBER 4, 2023
If you need multi-platform support, look for systems that support cross-platform functionality that allows players to use the same account across different devices. This includes reviewing what SDKs are available for platforms such as iOS and Android, and for programming languages such as C# and JavaScript.
AWS Games
JUNE 6, 2023
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