AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

One of the world’s most anticipated games industry events, the conference brings together developers, publishers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers from around the world alongside the gaming community to celebrate industry achievements and discuss the trends shaping the industry’s future.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Game developers are exploring how these technologies can accelerate their. Game developers are exploring how these technologies can accelerate their content pipelines and provide new gameplay experiences previously thought impossible. Open-ended conversations with NPCs open up a world of possibilities for interactivity in games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Moonwards is an in-development open source sandbox MMO built with Godot. In this guest post, some members of the Moonwards team give us insights into how they approach building such a complex project with Godot. Moonwards is the experience of building a world together. Yes, we know that’s awfully ambitious. But that’s OK.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. These characters are designed to integrate.

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

Metaverse can be used to build virtual environments that reflect the actual world or can use them to create wholly new fictional worlds. Both of these technologies are massive engines necessary to support the building of the metaverse project. AI is crucial in the development stages of the metaverse.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During re:Invent 2023, the AWS for Games team showcased the latest ways our customers are using AWS game development tools and introduced several new purpose-built guidance and partner solutions that are now available in the AWS Games Solution Library.

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AWS Games

JUNE 20, 2024

From increasing player engagement and monetization to detecting fraud and optimizing performance, data analytics has become a vital tool for game developers. To address these problems, AWS developed the Game Analytics Pipeline (GAP). For developers, the AWS SDK can be integrated into your game to collect data.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2024

The architecture that we describe here is a solution guidance to create non-player characters (NPC) for games using generative AI services. The pipeline builds and tests the application, deploys it into a QA environment, runs system tests on the deployment, and if they succeed, deploys the infrastructure changes into production.

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

Using LLMOps improves the efficiency in which models are developed and enables scalability to manage multiple models. Use cases for LLMOps in Games Let’s explore some use cases in the games industry to see how customers are leveraging Generative AI to improve developer efficiency and game play quality.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) SHINY ART STYLE: The most obvious difference vs its Skyrim mod roots is the art style -- it went from 2011 pre-PBR Skyrim to 2020 UE4 Quixel 4k photoscans with subsurface scatter'd Character Creator NPCs.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2024

MOBs that exist within the world independent of players At least one quest that the players are able to accept, progress, complete, and obtain rewards A functioning leveling system that allows players to level up and obtain rewards Functional UI - combat, looting, character inventory, NPC interaction (e.g.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

About nDreams nDreams is one of the world’s biggest virtual reality game developer and publisher at the forefront of XR innovation. Amazon GameLift FlexMatch makes it easier for game developers to use FlexMatch standalone from Amazon GameLift game servers.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here ). Including art!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! As we near a place where we’re ready to package our build for PlayNYC, Will’s been working hard to tie up any loose ends in Unreal. Check it out!

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There’s a lot of changes that I had to make within the game before I could make a polished trailer and if you guys are keeping up with the game development, you can noticed the significant graphic improvements as well as the subtle details added. This helps to build the feeling of the game being cute and wholesome.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

We're officially in the final development crunch for the vertical slice demo of Kristala! Below are two videos that showcase the throwing functionality; the first is an in-depth peel into the actual programming process within Unreal Engine 4, and the second showcases the throwing in action within the Kristala game build. We hope well.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Kristala at Play NYC 2021. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. Featuring the latest releases from studios large and small—and from developers old and new—Play NYC celebrates every facet of gaming in a way that only the Big Apple can. Concept Art.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. Perhaps as a result, Egor is one of the least interesting and less developed characters in the game unfortunately. It would feel terrible. Kind of sad.

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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. Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

Ultimately, the aim is to make the game accessible to a wider market without ruining the game experience that the developer intended. It may look easy when we receive a project and the developers provide us with a rich localization kit full of design documents, scripts, explanations, and possibly an early version of the game itself.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing.

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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. Stay tuned to hear more about the Cathedral and the mysterious attic NPC in future social posts and development blogs!

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. Some of this was used to just add nicer NPCs, with conversations, reactions to the environment, etc. And above all… quests.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to our regular jobs and personal lives, we've really been amping up development for Kristala over the past couple weeks (hey, just look at this dev blog issue for proof). We're pumped to get this into the game build once all five are completely finished. so things have been a liiitle hectic around here. Level Design.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Despite beginning development in the 90s and continuing off and on for the next couple decades, unlike some of its contemporaries ADOM did not add truly randomized items beyond the usual enchantments or ego-style modifications in the form of prefixes and suffixes. Other types of NPCs can modify or convert other types of items.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Here's a peek at Amanda's original design, followed by the final version of the new ACS logo. Have a look!

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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. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? Convenient, right?

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Today, Sovereign Moon Studios, the makers of your favorite NoCode game development course , are excited to bring you a new tutorial that will show you how to use triggers and switches within Unity’s free visual scripting add-on called Bolt. How to add Triggers & Switches Using Bolt. Let’s jump in! Want to Make Video Games?

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

As in, it says that developers are ALLOWED to do a certain thing, not that they HAVE to do it. Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. How does any developer know? We have announced our next game, Queen’s Wish 2: The Conqueror , an all-new, innovative, Empire-building indie RPG, coming later Summer.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the place where we break down the development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game currently in development by the talented team at women-owned indie games studios, Astral Clocktower Studios. It's home to a special NPC we haven't revealed yet too.one who plays a very important role in Kristala's core storyline.

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Though Nasahara's streets were damaged, many of its buildings and structures remain standing to this day.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? Do you want to make people laugh at the silly things the game’s troops say if you click on them enough times?

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Today, Sovereign Moon Studios, the makers of your favorite online game development course , are bringing you a comprehensive tutorial on how to use Godot’s visual scripting tools designed to help game-makers create video games without having to know how to code. How to Use Godot’s Visual Scripting Tools. Want to Make Video Games?

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

As this video talks about, as players play more and more games, it becomes more difficult for them to find this sense of wonder in new games – even more so when they become game developers themselves. It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We know it's been a miiinute since we've shared some in-depth development updates from Kristala with you, but we're SUPER STOKED for you to see everything we've been working on since the last time we met. GDC is the game industry's premier professional event, championing game developers and the advancement of their craft. Stay tuned!

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