Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene. Using some napkin math, let's consider costs.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

If you want to do anything more technically advanced than static monster placement in vanilla Quake, you basically have two options: (1) build a "monster closet" and open the door to start a fight, (2) build an inaccessible room filled with inactive teleporters, and trigger the teleporters to spawn-in monsters.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Being able to build a plane and cruise over the enormous landscape is a hoot. Each time you find a “Geoglyph," you watch a cutscene which shows a sliver of what happened to Zelda. Problem #3: Key Character Cutscenes Are Too Similar The story of Z:TotK is a mixed bag for me. This moblin tree fort layout is pretty cool.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This isn't a big apocalyptic video game betrayal cutscene where a villain reveals himself and destroys a castle, instead it's a smaller deeper betrayal that instantly brought me back to being a teenager. After all, how many games offer you a "suffering musician" build? You talk but they don't listen. Fine, be that way, see if I care!"

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Jaunty Bear Games

JANUARY 31, 2023

World-building: Creating a consistent and immersive game world that players can explore and interact with. Cinematography and cutscenes: Using in-game camera work and cutscenes to create cinematic and visually impactful moments that help to advance the story and immerse the player in the game world.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Like Seoul-based Funnylocks with their recently released horror action shooter Unstoppable.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Want really good fireball skills?

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 9, 2024

If keeping the beat is the most important thing in the game, then you build the game around keeping the beat. There are many different ways to approach the problem, but if I were building such a system myself, I would start with a system to handle a data-driven beat (e.g.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. Beautiful shots of heartfelt dialogue, with characters saying a great deal by speaking a few carefully chosen words? And that’s valid!

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iXie gaming

JUNE 19, 2024

Game artists can leverage the power of 3D art to create 3D cutscenes and cinematics that deliver compelling narratives. Real-time rendering enables developers and artists to build interactive 3D entertainment experiences in real-time. Also, it will empower them to build more realistic, complex, and detailed 3D environments.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 7, 2023

This is one of those situations where simply putting it into a cutscene would easily cause a separation of the player from Kratos - it’s a reminder to the player that Kratos is someone who would have to do such a horrible thing, which serves as a bit of a shock. Build your content in a way that facilitates player activity, not passivity.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

By the end of the game, that threat has disappeared and your build is fun and OP. TUTORIAL The tutorial happens across 3 in-game loops. During this time, mission selection is restricted and progression is heavily scripted / controlled. So then the golden loop schedule ends up feeling too simple and doable. And it was.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. But on a few Dikus, it led to making quests too, and it was actually a lot easier to build quests in a “quest system” than to one-off hand code them in an LP mudlib that didn’t implement a “system” for it. And sandbox does not have to be devoid of content.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I think character permadeath (my watered-down version of Aincrad’s lethal stakes) is bad for building the community that you want in an MMO, though it can work great in smaller-scale multiplayer games. Gun Gale Online seemed to take a hybrid approach, with players building up their stats over time to use better equipment.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

Part of the “golden path” you just haven’t seen yet – If it’s your first playthrough, and you’re watching the first cutscene, whatever is in the next cutscene is not a “secret”, it’s just information that the player hasn’t encountered yet. They are findable.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Art, since the Ancient Greeks/Forever, has always heavily dealt with the workings of the basic building block of human civilization, the family. However, your Sims child will inevitably die from starvation, drown in a swimming pool, or get forever lost in the serial killer maze you build in the basement. Stab it with a sword.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

In the case of Auro , the game originally had a full Story Mode with a final boss and cutscenes and everything – but we deleted it at a certain point because we really wanted to focus the attention on the replayable ranked play mode (and a few other reasons). In any case, when humans get involved, they build culture.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

The opening cutscene literally made me cry. In JRPGs, when the battles are fun, it’s actually usually that the party-building / character configuration mechanics are good. The Good The writing starts off incredible. And the battles kind of suck. Let’s talk about that.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

You don’t have to build a fully functioning economy or put something behind every single door, or whatever. The first example that comes to mind for me was the courtroom scene in Chrono Trigger, wherein the fact that I went to pick up a piece of jewelry before checking if my companion was okay was used against me in court!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

The map models are rich and varied in terms of items, buildings, and terrain changes, which offsets outdated graphics performance. Animation: Two perspectives, the separation of cloud and mud Lost Ark has a sincere visual performance, among which are various cutscenes from a top-down perspective. The rough cutscene).

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

UEFN, however, opens doors for creators to build original worlds and content, using existing Unreal assets but with some restrictions. UEFN comes equipped with its in-built game mechanics and physics, allowing creators to focus more on the gameplay and user experience rather than building a game from scratch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 19, 2025

Players spend it on: Buildings Flower beds Animals Resources Once all areas and buildings are unlocked, soft currency loses most of its value. Players spend it on: Buildings Flower beds Animals Resources Once all areas and buildings are unlocked, soft currency loses most of its value.

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