Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Most importantly, if the game crashes for any reason, the editor does not crash at the same time (which could cause data loss). Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 ended up making it into 4.4

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 1, 2024

billion, while spending on content (physical and digital games, add-on content, and subscriptions across all platforms) was up 9% to $4.25 Circana today released its sales report for US spending on games in March, showing growth for the fourth consecutive month. Overall spending was up 4% to $4.89

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

What had been brewing on PC for years before with games like Counter-Strike, was now dominant cross-platform and reaching the “masses” on console. Players often return to established titles after trying these new games, reflecting the powerful gravitational pull of long-established live services that are firing new content on all cylinders.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game. Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!

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AWS Games

AUGUST 19, 2024

Today, ToxMod empowers titles like Call of Duty : Modern Warfare III and VR experiences like RecRoom, to achieve comprehensive, cost-efficient voice chat content moderation. It then elevates severe violations and flags them to content moderation teams. ToxMod Executive Dashboard.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For quick answers, refer to our PDF featuring the essential data points from this article: GDEV x InvestGame – Feature #5 For a comprehensive analysis, let’s delve into the detailed investigation below. This timeframe allowed us to select the most accurate data using our proprietary deals database. What’s up with the exits?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Based on the number of users installing a game, the platform will trigger a fee depending on specific revenue and installation thresholds. Digitalization has resulted in a glut in gaming content and increased marketing expenses. And larger publishers already locked into the platform now face increased costs to their titles.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Widely regarded as the biggest trendsetter when it comes to entertaining content, the short-form video content platform, TikTok, has become the new home for viral content. You can tap into the community and scan the platform to pick up on trending themes that are familiar to yours so you can scale on creatives and ads.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 5, 2023

Steam Data Suite dove into Steam store pages to find out how much publishers change them and if that relates to being successful on the platform. Secondly, since not all distribution platforms make it easy to change store pages, why only do it for Steam? But doing so is leaving sales on the table.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The top 200 merge game titles (source: GameRefinery platform). GameRefinery’s motivational data shows Gossip Harbor does things differently than most merge games. Player motivations data: Merge games (Average) vs. Gossip Harbor (source: GameRefinery platform). Source: GameRefinery platform ).

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

While most types of game testing can be conducted by a keen-eyed tester who understands games, compliance testing requires talent with a deep understanding of the platform being tested on. But why is compliance testing so important and how does iXie deliver first-submission passes across platforms? Let’s have a look.

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Cocos

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mini-Game Runtime In China, many popular mini-game platforms, such as WeChat, Douyin (TikTok), QQ, and Kwai, have opted for Mini-Game Runtime technology architecture rather than the traditional H5/Webview as their runtime environment. Today, we will take Cocos Runtime as an example and answer the above questions with concrete data.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 24, 2025

Known for her data-driven approach, Marion specializes in making influencer marketing measurable, scalable, and profitable for user acquisition. If youre new to Influencer Marketing or looking to step up your strategy with a more strategic, data-driven approach here are some fundamental best practices to help you set up for success.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

I’ve been working in the gaming industry for some 28 years, creating for various platforms in numerous roles. We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. What challenges did you face during the process of integrating USD?

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Unlike traditional solutions, a comprehensive approach considers multiple factors - from content selection to optimal duration and technical quality. cloud-based platforms can help artists pinpoint the key elements that determine a presentation reel's impact. File Formats and Codecs The trusted studios recommend H.264

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In the next section, we will explain how games service teams can use the adapter pattern in conjunction with Global Accelerator to modernize existing game services platforms. The power of this pattern lies in its ability to continuously evolve the architecture into a modern platform without compromising player traffic.

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Nvidia

APRIL 7, 2021

It is an open, multi-GPU enabled platform that makes it easy to accelerate development workflows and collaborate in real time. The Omniverse platform is comprised of multiple components designed to help developers connect 3D applications and transform workflows: Move assets throughout your pipeline seamlessly. Manage and store assets.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Succinctly, the Play Pendulum theory suggests that the video game industry alternates between two primary types of innovation: content innovation and distribution innovation. With this framework in mind, we can explore how different eras of the industry have oscillated between content and distribution innovation.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

AWS-expert led chalk talks, workshops and sessions dive into using AI to boost developer productivity and enhance the player experience, among other exciting topics. Technical Director Ivan Marcin is back for another groundbreaking session that will guide attendees through building a multi-modal agent using Amazon Bedrock.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

These emerging players are at the forefront of consuming game-related content alongside their active involvement, emphasizing the growing trend of watching gaming-related media alongside playing. More than one platform Almost half of all gamers actively play on more than one platform.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important. Some organizations use a hub-and-spoke model, with one main region for uploading data and multiple regions for reading only.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon is being built with Didimo’s Popul8 character creation platform and Inworld’s AI-powered character engine. ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content. These franchises have stood up and maintained their longevity on the back of content creators.” They push these games to the next level.

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 19, 2024

A Content Management System helps users create, manage, and modify digital properties like apps and websites. That's where an ecommerce content management system comes in. A good website cannot be defined using a brief list of CMS features because there is so much more to it than just that.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 16, 2024

It's relatively easy to build a game out of a generic system and task our engine programmers with getting that generic system working on each of our target platforms. As for why Square-Enix decided to go platform exclusive with FF16 and the FF7 Remakes, it is likely that Sony offered them a seemingly-better deal.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 15, 2024

CRMs are important because they help teams manage and share data across marketing, sales, and customer service, thus providing a better customer experience. It integrates Customer Relationship Management (CRM) capabilities into the website, allowing for collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer data directly from the WordPress dashboard.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A big part of this strategy was the integration into Light & Wonder , a cross-platform games company known for creating physical slot machines, i-gaming products, and innovative game experiences that connect content, hardware, and systems across platforms and channels.

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AWS Games

APRIL 8, 2024

Turning pixels into stories is the focus for HUDstats , a Netherlands/Hague-based esports data and analytics company on the forefront of benchmarking innovation in the global esports market. Moving from there to building a whole AI-driven data infrastructure and generative AI storytelling solution for the esports industry felt pretty natural.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

Games are increasingly cross-platform and online, and game developers need to develop secure and scalable backend features to support these online elements of their games. Developers also want to allow players to play with their friends across platforms, and move gameplay between those platforms to provide a seamless player experience.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When a platform matures, the following things tend to happen: Consumer expectations around content quality and polish go up. This doesn’t make large outcomes impossible – the open nature of the platform makes these more likely than in mobile – but it lacks the tailwinds that make venture scale growth easier to achieve.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. It truly shows how data driven Uber.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

We launched the GameRefinery Live Events Tracker to provide an all-in-one platform that allows users to monitor their competitors and live events in real-time, get daily updates, and analyze the features and mechanics proving the most popular with players. It can open up new ways to interpret and integrate live event data.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Looking at current popularity data of the highest-grossing games of the US market (top 200 grossing games), 23% of casual games and 47% of mid-core games are utilizing minigames. Very nifty way to, for example, map out LiveOps requirements and content of your next live event project.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In order to solve this, the any third party developer needs to build a system that can take data from any supported service and translate it in real time so all players on other platforms understand what's happening in the game. Every sale within that walled garden typically earns the platform owner a 30% cut.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “ Tribes of Midgard.” The team collaborated with Epic to ensure a successful launch on all platforms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. The monetization didn't look that bad.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Content stays king. Despite generating substantial revenues, major platforms like Twitch continue to struggle with profitability. Among the more notable trends on the horizon are the expanding efforts around transmedia strategies, as major entertainment companies adopt cross-platform approaches. year-over-year. billion (3.6%

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Filmustage

MARCH 3, 2025

Through seamless integration of cloud-based platforms, producers can create safer and more efficient production environments before cameras start rolling. Try Filmustage Understanding AI Script Analysis The industry-standard script analysis tools have transformed the way studios evaluate content. At Warner Bros.,

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