Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Physics interpolation is a technique that allows you to run your physics update at a very low FPS while maintaining smooth movement. Building upon the latter, Fredia Huya-Kouadio completed the proof of concept started by Bastiaan Olij years ago, to add support for using the Android editor on XR devices using OpenXR ( GH-96624 )!

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If this sounds terrible, that’s because it is :P The performance of realtime software scaling is no good, with a first iteration tanking my FPS from 240 to 40, and that one wasn’t even working right. Once it got “fixed” the real FPS was more like 24, definitely far below acceptable. But it did work!

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Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

Although you are a fan of the FPS genre and SF themes, the game’s concept may turn you off even though you want to enjoy it. The primary campaign in Destiny 2 has a solid story that is easy to follow even when it’s your first encounter with motifs of this world.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Setting up the correct memory management from the very start is important because it will make sure our game plays on our desired FPS and we don’t get unneccesarry bugs in our game. Memory management is an important concept to understand so that you can manage your object properly and not cause any memory leaks in your game.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The concept for Scaravan 66 evolved from Lithic’s initial brainstorming. It kept everything looking accurate-ish while actually working at 60 FPS,” Bellemare says. This time they’re slamming the accelerator with Scaravan 66 , a high-octane car combat roguelike straight out of hell.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Games” concept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). I tend to think that “genres” in videogames are believed in, or thought to be real in a way that is massively over-stated.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I think the only way to understand this bubble – and to identify whether there is real value to be had here – is to understand the components, and then evaluate each scheme, investment or idea based on whether it benefits from the underlying opportunities from these four concepts, or whether it is simply a confection of ideas with no true substance.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

After the loss of my father, I began working on the Bob project and realized that the story and concept had been with me for years, he says. In the upcoming Sci-Fi Action-Puzzle FPS IHAS , from Ukrainian solo developer Vladyslav Pidiashenko , players wake up aboard a giant, desolate spaceship swarming with hostile robots.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We also expect that you know and understand how nodes work and the Blueprint editor works overall as we will not explain these concepts in this tutorial. But if you’re creating a FPS game for example, or any other game from any genre, you’re going to use texture materials as well. Texture Materials.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere’ vs ‘Game-Feel’ In game development, there is also another closely related concept of ‘game-feel’. A great example of this is the FPS-puzzler Portal. Rather, each game is made great by a purposeful use of atmosphere that helps to communicate the developers’ vision for the world and how the player should feel about it.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 1, 2023

There are a number of clever and reasonable ways to work around these conflicting concepts. As a design exercise, can you think of other methods of a final FPS boss fight that maintains the boss's humanity but still makes it reasonably engaging? Here are a few general methods of doing this that I thought of off the top of my head.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Concept Art. Now that our concept art team has nearly completed the designs for all existing assets and items in the Kristala build that needed to be replaced with fresh assets, they're now able to move on to creating brand new items that don't yet have 3D counterparts. 3D Modeling.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Snap has iterated on this concept by introducing cards with the ability to appear in specific turns (“Starts in your opening hand”, “You always draw it in turn 2”), thus removing the need for a mulligan (reroll) mechanic for the opening hand.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As a consequence, most Chinese players had only played CoD offline campaigns, since there were no official servers running in China, and their experience of the franchise was less around the twitch-y FPS brand CoD was known for, and more about cinematic single player missions.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The game says you must kill her first, like this, always -- and if she always dies so early, that means her concept doesn't get to interact with anyone else. Not that her concept makes much sense; why does this apocalyptic suicide cult leader like poison gas specifically? no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

A mainstream audience, e.g.: an RPG, FPS or strategy game. The difference can be with either an innovative gameplay concept, or an art style that was not seen before in a game. Just try to picture who is going to play the game. Common answers are: Everyone, e.g.: this is a nice puzzle, tower defense, casual, etc. Making a prototype.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. If anyone under the age of 100 knows of Anthony Comstock at all, it's maybe as the racist preacher supervillain of the 2013 FPS game Bioshock Infinite.

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