PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape. Equine realism While the game will have a narrative, its main appeal is expected to be the open-world exploration and system-driven gameplay.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 21, 2024

He had been building giant open-world games like Fallout and Skyrim in large teams for years. So, as a first time solo developer, in order to keep things simple he decided to make his first project a… giant open world game. The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game that is launching tomorrow. “If

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 4, 2024

The Believer Company has today released its internal development tool Friendshipper as an open-source project. The studio was founded by veterans from Riot Games and is currently working on a next-generation open-world multiplayer game. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

RuneScape maker Jagex has acquired Gamepires, the Croatian studio best known for open world survival game Scum. Building game communities is the lifeblood of what we do at Jagex, and this shared passion is why we're delighted to welcome Gamepires into the fold," said Jagex CEO Phil Mansell.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It's really just a series of supply fetch quests and "find yet another character whose name rhymes with 'son' (in this big huge open world)" but it feels like you are helping establish an entire new town in the wilderness - leaves you with a genuine "I helped people" feeling. Quests that do world building.

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Half Geek

MAY 5, 2019

I had two game in mind that I wanted to work on moving forward, a fantasy open world with empire building inspired by Heroes of Might & Magic (3), or a new sci-fi space epic focused on large fleets & empire building.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2024

He had been building giant open-world games like Fallout and Skyrim in large teams for years. So, as a first time solo developer in order to keep things simple he decided to make his first project a… giant open world game. The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game. “If

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 19, 2023

He had been building giant open-world games like Fallout and Skyrim in large teams for years. So, as a first time solo developer in order to keep things simple he decided to make his first project a… giant open world game. The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game. “If

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Game Development News

JUNE 29, 2023

Hooded Horse has announced that it has signed the open-world survival game Necesse - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Development News

JUNE 29, 2023

Hooded Horse has announced that it has signed the open-world survival game Necesse - MCV/DEVELOP

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s an open-world survival craft game where you tame monsters and put them to work. Both feature large open worlds and show the same exact environmental indicators (e.g., The hottest game these weeks is Palworld by Japanese developer Pocketpair. And it has earned more than $200 million in its first five days.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

Building the ecosystem Bukola discovered her passion for marketing after reading a Times Magazine article. She shares, “I can’t remember the name of the building but one of the four sides of that building was used as a digital board. So from my second year in university, I knew I was going to go into advertising for sure.”

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Genshin Impact: miHoYo uses a combination of handcrafted assets and procedural generation to sustain its ever-expanding open-world environment. Enables dynamic world-building with non-repetitive assets. Supports scalable level design for large open-world environments.

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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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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. Sense of history Flynn sheds light on the studio’s design philosophy.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

An ambitious game that combines medieval city building and kingdom defense with ARPG combat and monster hunting. “So, Now that I’m working with a publisher that has a strong interest in seeing indie devs like me succeed, I talk through some things with them and share alpha builds, screenshots etc. I definitely want to build a team.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 9, 2023

Reusing assets is a great time-saver in order to afford the dev team more time to build new stuff within a limited budget, but the loudest players will complain a lot about such things. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having buildings that are scaled larger than normal in video games contributes to a sense of grandeur. Without a reference point that can break the illusion, our minds will fill in the gaps by constructing its own consistent world view - that castle looks this big, so it must be this far away.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

External validation rarely comes your way, especially while seeking attention on social media – which is absolutely required to build a community and get to be known by players. I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 11, 2024

Combining the looks of a Ghibli movie with the condensed open world of that game, gave birth to the idea of an apprentice witch delivering packages. And all the relationships and life lessons you’ll build and learn by talking to the townspeople of Orilla Town.”

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iHobo

JUNE 28, 2023

Later Elder Scrolls games cleaved to the now over-familiar formula of the Grand Theft Auto open world, shaping the world through chains of waypoints. For the open world game to truly satisfy the curiosity motive, the landscape has to be crafted in order to raise questions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Streaming is the most important feature missing for managing large scenes or open worlds. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2024

The creator of the ‘open world lovecraftian spacefighter RPG’ Underspace calls it a ‘vast freaky universe,’ and even that might be an understatement. This sci-fi world is not only rooted in science but goes full-on supernatural. Operating out of Wisconsin, USA he spent the last ten years building his passion project.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Comparatively, the original Skyrim mod felt like more of a city with more buildings, more organization, more density. Why would they build (and maintain) a big theater space that they never use? Worldbuilding wise, it doesn't quite make sense. This community doesn't care about art or theater.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Dark Arisen is a huge open-world game in which players start an epic adventure with three AI companions called Pawns. As we said, there are a few issues with the game that makes it hard to play due to errors such as fatal error failed to open the file on Dragon’s Dogma.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

Suzuki-san and his colleagues often try to paint this series of games as a precursor to the open world genre. Indeed, in the Kickstarter for Shenmue III , the text expressly tries to make this claim: Shenmue defied all convention and created the genre that later came to be known as "open world." But so what?

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

It’s really just a series of supply fetch quests and “find yet another character whose name rhymes with ‘son’ (in this big huge open world)” but it feels like you are helping establish an entire new town in the wilderness - leaves you with a genuine “I helped people” feeling.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this article, we'll explore some key building blocks of game design fundamentals. Good level design is crucial for creating engaging and challenging gameplay, as well as for keeping players immersed in the game world. Art and Sound Design Finally, art and sound design are critical components of game design that often go overlooked.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The game allows you to jump in and enjoy short gameplay experience, or you can deepen your immersion in the game by joining groups and building up your space empire. So if you’re looking for a big open world space game like EVE Online (but with a lot less complexity), then Vendetta Online would be a great game to check out.

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Big Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

This strategy game offers a captivating journey through different eras, challenging you to build, trade, and conquer. With its intricate gameplay and stunning graphics, Rise of Cultures is a must-try for fans of city-building and strategy genres. Genshin Impact Genshin Impact has set new standards for open-world RPGs on mobile.

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Game Daily

JULY 19, 2023

It also helps that depopulated worlds – or at least those populated by easily replicated baddies – are much cheaper and easier to produce than well-ordered, sophisticated societies. Gershenfeld recalled his days working on open world games at Activision. “Open worlds are complex, expensive.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Things like color palettes, textures, and lighting all help to build a mood, as well as animation and how things in your world move and interact. Is your world stormy and moody, or bright and sunny?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Many fixes have been made in the master branch since then, so it's time for a new build with Godot 3.2 The Mono build for beta 2 did not run properly on Windows, and we are still hard at work trying to solve that together with upstream. For changes since the last beta build, see the list of commits. development build.

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Game Errors

MAY 10, 2023

The objective of Rust the game is pretty straightforward: you are alone in an open world of wilderness, and you have to survive for as long as possible. Since it is an open world, you can do a lot of things in Rust that are not possible in many other survival games. That’s it.

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