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Using generative AI to build the ultimate VALORANT esports team

AWS Games

This new hackathon will put the latest generative AI tools in the hands of fans to unlock new ways to build and develop stronger esports teams. VALORANT is a tactical first-person-shooter game by Riot Games, combining precise gunplay with unique agent abilities in a strategic 5v5 format.

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Rebots by FlatPonies launches after 6 years “We’re ready for more ambitious projects”

PreMortem.Games

FlatPonies , a Copenhagen-based game development studio, is finally launching Rebots , a first-person automation game that invites players to explore a universe full of quirky robots and expansive worlds. Jake Rasmussen , the game’s director, wanted to create a game about building and programming robots,” says Porkoláb.

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Zofia

Indie DB

This first person RPG indie discusses updates to their demo build

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Team17 opens Cover 6 Studios to co-develop Hell Let Loose

GamesIndustry.biz

Cover 6 Studios will co-develop Hell Let Loose, the strategic World War 2 first-person shooter by Manchester-based developer Expression Games. The announcement also says it will work with Expression to "build the next chapters" in the Hell Let Loose franchise.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Understanding that a game wasn’t going to build itself, I quit my job and just went for it.” He spent two years building Oakenfold after a successful Kickstarter campaign got him part of the necessary funds. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. Then he discovered the Unreal Engine and everything changed.

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Solo dev Josh Salley (HALbot Studios) “I believe in keeping a good work life balance”

PreMortem.Games

He now works under the name of HALbot Studios on not one, but two first person survival horror games, House of Lies and The Nightmare Escape. How do you know that the game you are building is genuinely scary? “It’s “I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” Why did you become a solo developer?

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Solo dev Evan Polekoff of Critter Crossfire “Motivation is a limited resource” 

PreMortem.Games

For the last five years, off and on, he worked on Critter Crossfire , a turn-based tactics and first person shooter hybrid. After that, if you want to ship something, you need to build discipline.” After reaching larger milestones, I send playtest builds to friends to get feedback and polish things up.

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