AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

AWS Fargate The headless game test client used a stripped-down version of the game built using Unreal Engine. Setting up a headless game client with Unreal Engine To create a headless game client, nDreams built a Docker container of the game client running on Linux with some bespoke commands to let the game play by itself.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities. Generating Game Content Every video game features countless unique models, animations, sounds, graphics, and more. Producing these assets takes a long time and a lot of money.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. All the content in the game was just data in fields. Dikus were entirely hardcoded.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In order to initiate these changes, however, it was vital that we had proper environmental and character concepts to work from so that our 3D modeling team was fully capable of bringing the Kristala that exists in our minds to life in Unreal Engine.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. Maturity and fullness means that as an online game, Lost Ark’s artistic expression meets the tastes and needs of mainstream players and is massive and varied in content.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional 3D modelers: Maya ZBrush Blender Mari Substance Painter Unreal Engine (and other real-time engines) Houdini 3D modeling jobs in the industry 3D modelers are sought after in film, games, and virtual production, as well as beyond the creative industries in areas such as product design and 3D visualization.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

By comparison, let’s talk about Baldur’s Gate, the original game, a game very much in the same genre, that uses literally the same (awful) Infinity Engine for its combat. I am charmed. I played a good 10 or so hours in that game and the “I am charmed” moment never came.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

One of the magic staves James designed below was created for a super important Kota character that we'll be revealing in our upcoming Patreon content. To highlight this, Ian worked with the spline tool in Unreal Engine to add vines, ferns, weeds, and other flora and foliage to the level. 3D Character Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Here's just a few of the dozens of incredible screenshots Tiff snagged from Unreal Engine while working this sprint. Have a look!

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Future WHAT IS YARN SPINNER IN 2022 The Yarn Spinner project is made of two main parts, which can be confusing: Yarn Spinner "Core" , generic dialogue engine processor thing ("virtual machine") + script compiler written in C#. All dialogue must be in a node; nodes start with a title header, then to begin node content, and to end the node.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Whenever an NPC is about to dump backstory and exposition on you, they'll ask you to take a seat. During big long quest chains, there are periodic quest stages where you have to wait 1-2 in-game days before checking in with the NPC again. Diegetically, the NPC has to prepare a machine or potion, or get supplies, or whatever.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. me) or PvP buff but conceptually rather boring Aether (cloak + invisible to laser sensors, attacks cancel it, can be upgraded to only consume mana while moving). It would feel terrible.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Well, we've been carefully and strategically saving some of our best content in anticipation of finally launching the official Kristala Patreon campaign. Why, you might ask? BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want? What does the casting agency or sound engineer need to know about this recording session? Which other teams’ work will this feature affect?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. He also addressed some last-minute, temporary needs - like writing the content for our PlayNYC build's tutorial widgets. Take a look! Check out these shots Allie grabbed while working.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

link] Not only does this new trailer feature a ton of sweet cinematics created right in Unreal Engine using our own models and animations, but it also showcases two new characters you’ll meet in gameplay during Kristala too. What we can tell you is that the place beyond was once home to a prominent NPC you'll meet during gameplay.

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