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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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Through Occlusion Culling the performance improves due to effective rendering of objects which extend past visible camera range. Open-world multiplayer games experience smooth performances when they implement LOD together with occlusion culling systems.

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Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

PreMortem.Games

The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. Similarly, Amazon Game Studio announced the termination of 180 jobs. And Digital Bros and Kongregate also joined the ‘ wave of video game industry layoffs.’

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging. The compatibility backend is based on OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 / WebGL 2.0

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

Visual scripting is ideal for non-programmers, or for programmers exposing behaviors to game designers, artists, etc. will bring a new and more powerful animation tree, modern occlusion culling, improved rendering and a GLES 2.0 to the canvas, greatly improving usability. Help make Godot better!

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Puzzle Dependency Charts

Grumpy Gamer

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let's delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. My rational for left to right is I like to put them up on my office wall, wrapping the room with the game design.

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Puzzle Dependency Charts

Grumpy Gamer

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let’s delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. My rational for left to right is I like to put them up on my office wall, wrapping the room with the game design.

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