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How Drama and Fake Ads Convert To Real Profits

Deconstructor of Fun

Dylan Tredrea is a product & publishing consultant with over 12 years of experience in mobile free to play games at studios such as Disney, Rovio, Zeptolab, & CrazyLabs. I concluded from this experience: that narrative in mobile free-to-play games was often an immense waste of resources.

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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

iXie gaming

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. As a result, mobile gaming is pushed aside in favor of AAA titles, which have their own position in the market. But now, we have more complex 3D mobile games like PUB-G. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Additionally, the modern backend can implement rendering methods , such as forward clustered, mobile, and more in the future (such as deferred clustered, cinematic, etc.). and is intended to run on very old PC hardware as well as most older (still working) mobile phones. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

Cross-Platform Considerations Live-service games must be optimized for PC, console, and mobile. Unity HDRP supports cinematic-quality visuals at scale. Cloud-based asset management, procedural generation, and AI-driven automation are helping studios eliminate unnecessary delays and optimize workflows. Challenges include: (i).

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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

Logic Simplified

Cinematics: Cinematics are usually an interlude from the game used to inform the player about the mission of the game, goals, hand out clues, character information, maps, etc. They have a strong blockchain, mobile and ecommerce portfolio, and are well known as a Web3 Consulting Company. 05 RISINGMAX INC. Rising Max Inc.

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On the topic of cutscenes, do you think we will get to the point where fully pre-rendered cutscenes will be phased out entirely? Are there any other advantages to having a cutscene be pre-rendered rather than in engine besides the cutscene being “prettier” than the base graphics?

Ask a Game Dev

As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g. mobile, consoles with weaker hardware specs, indie games) for important parts. Certain genres of games (e.g.

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The 7 Coolest Filmmaking Pre-Production Tools of 2023

Filmustage

Mobile Accessibility ? Consider software that offers mobile apps or cloud-based solutions, allowing you to work from anywhere. And when you're on the move, StudioBinder's mobile app ensure you stay connected to your projects. ? Sharing your cinematic spell is effortless with Movie Magic. Security and Data Protection ?️