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Cutscenes Related Topics 
Game Developer
MARCH 22, 2023
WB Montreal's Wilson Mui discussed how Gotham Knights ' cutscenes were made with its four heroes in mind, while ensuring they maintained their own individuality.
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Game Developer
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Emphasizing narrative using game music - 4th in an article series on music for trailers, cutscenes, & cinematics, by composer Winifred Phillips.
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Game Developer
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Pre-release versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies cutscenes contain different voiceover performances than those heard in the final game.
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GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 19, 2024
Developers that relegate their storytelling to cutscenes and linear dialogue are severely limiting themselves in how they tell stories — and likely driving players away.
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PreMortem.Games
JUNE 3, 2024
The game employs hand-drawn animated cutscenes to enhance its narrative, providing players with a detailed, dark world. “The hand-drawn animated cutscenes are crucial to the main storyline.
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Yotes Games
MARCH 26, 2025
It's starting to look and feel like a real Adventure Mode now, but it's not really "a thing" until there's cutscenes tying it all together, ya know? However,big important tasks have been done like putting NPCs on every map with movement behaviors, battle teams, and placeholder dialogue. See More
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Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Introduction I remember as a young product manager, working on major releases at Disney and Rovio how excited I was for the cutscenes. After release I was responsible for analyzing churn and sharing the results with the team: the cutscenes were driving users out of the game. The team poured their hearts into the work.
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Indie DB
OCTOBER 7, 2024
This week I worked on backporting some smaller features into previous missions, updated the loadscreens, and started work on the victory cutscenes.
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Played with Fire
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Unlike traditional games, where cutscenes or dialogue drive the story, VR relies more on player interaction , making storytelling a challenge. 3⃣ Environmental Storytelling in VR Worlds Instead of relying on cutscenes , VR should use world-building to tell stories. This enhances role-playing elements and deepens engagement.
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Indie DB
DECEMBER 31, 2023
It includes new boss, in-game cutscenes and localization system. New update for Hero's Story has been released!
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PreMortem.Games
APRIL 3, 2023
“From the moment I got the idea of making it like an old movie I called the people from Fehorama Filmes to work on the live action cutscenes”, says Rosa. The initial idea was for them to just work on the cutscenes, but they ended up executive producing the whole project.” They had the know-how as producers, so they stepped in.
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Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
I don't believe that gameplay will ever look like fancy prerendered cutscenes because gameplay has certain needs that cutscenes do not, and cutscenes have certain needs that gameplay does not. Here's what I mean. When you're watching a cinematic in a game like Spider-Man, what are you seeing on screen?
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Ask a Game Dev
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
I don't think that we'll ever see pre-rendered cutscenes go away permanently. 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.
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Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 12, 2024
Once upon a time, back when all cutscenes were pre-rendered FMV, it was tremendously expensive to make changes because making any small change required re-rendering the entire video which was enormously expensive. The cost of making changes entirely depends on how expensive the individual changes are to make.
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PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
“We also took it a step further, every cutscene in Parallel Experiment is presented as a beautifully illustrated comic book page, with nearly 100 pages created to tell the story.” Hes been drawing comics since childhood and his vision shaped the visual identity of our games.”
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Game Refinery
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
However, these storytelling elements go far beyond the main narrative, with cutscenes and dialogue seamlessly integrated throughout the experience to build a truly immersive world. Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes.
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GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 2, 2024
However, while Metal Gear Solid had many other instances of breaking the fourth wall, mostly through dialogues or in cutscenes, none felt as impactful to me as that one boss fight mechanic. For a while, I just thought of it as a great example of breaking the fourth wall. Read more
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GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 23, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Destiny 2 maker Bungie is posed to compensate and credit an artist's work that was featured in a new cutscene.
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Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 8, 2024
For features like cutscenes, it depends on how much difficulty it takes to build the cutscenes. That could mean combat, it could mean itemization, it could mean summoning magic, it could mean narrative, it could mean cutscenes/cinematics. In the original FF7, the FMV sequences were set in stone.
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Radiator Blog
JUNE 2, 2023
Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. All the dynamic cutscenes and dialogue sequences relied on 4 player characters all bantering amongst each other like in Buffy or something. But not really.
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Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene. needs its own rig), that's time from a rigger to create.
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Radiator Blog
MAY 19, 2023
Unlike Stardew Valley, there's no visible relationship meter or tutorial here -- only soft hints that a certain NPC might want to see the fish you catch, or that another is interested in unique plants, or a random cutscene where a character gets excited about electronics.
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Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 19, 2024
Cinematics are mostly for storytelling purposes, but they also hid a very real secondary purpose - we would do a lot of game setup during cinematics, like streaming data off of a physical disc while the cinematic is playing so that we can load what comes next.
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Cocos
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Unreal has Sequencer, Unity has Timeline, what do people use for Cocos Creator?
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Cocos
OCTOBER 16, 2023
You can check out Animation Panel which supports animating the properties of nodes and calling the event functions of the Animation Events.
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PreMortem.Games
JULY 15, 2024
“They handled functionality, building everything off the first game, letting me focus on creative aspects like story, cutscenes, music, voiceovers, and art,” he notes. This division of labor was new for Jones, who was used to doing everything himself. ” Jones hadn’t initially planned on creating a sequel.
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The Bottom Feeder
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Each time you find a “Geoglyph," you watch a cutscene which shows a sliver of what happened to Zelda. Problem #3: Key Character Cutscenes Are Too Similar The story of Z:TotK is a mixed bag for me. When the companion joins you, there is a long cutscene where your companion kind of links with their ancient counterpart.
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PreMortem.Games
JUNE 29, 2023
Put more simply, if your game doesn’t have spoken dialogue and cutscenes, the editing can (and probably should be) much more simple. Usually that’s when the trailer has to juggle many different visuals and audio, or weave so many different threads.
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Game Development for Beginners
JULY 3, 2023
In first person shooter games, camera zoom is implemented for aiming and in some games, it’s used for cutscenes. Some games take the player experience to a different level using zoom effects. If you are looking for a tutorial to create a similar effect, then you are in the right place. In this tutorial, we. Read more
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Ask a Game Dev
OCTOBER 31, 2023
I don't believe that gameplay will ever look like fancy prerendered cutscenes because gameplay has certain needs that cutscenes do not, and cutscenes have certain needs that gameplay does not. Here's what I mean. When you're watching a cinematic in a game like Spider-Man, what are you seeing on screen?
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Radiator Blog
MAY 5, 2021
This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful.
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Game Errors
APRIL 22, 2023
This happens mostly after cutscenes (at the end of the race, in the Career mode (I can’t even play Career mode, because the game always crashes after the first cutscene)) and also when I was about to enter an online race. At some points, the screen just turns black and after about 30 seconds I stare at the desktop of my PC.
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Designer Notes
AUGUST 15, 2022
They discuss how to play Prison Architect without a prison, why the game needed cutscenes, and how to design an economy when the world is ending. This episode was recorded on March 24, 2022.
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Jaunty Bear Games
JANUARY 31, 2023
Cinematography and cutscenes: Using in-game camera work and cutscenes to create cinematic and visually impactful moments that help to advance the story and immerse the player in the game world.
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Game Errors
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
In addition, different players reported FFX Remaster green screen cutscenes while playing the game. The game may have some bugs so the most common issue that players confirmed on forums is the Final Fantasy X green screen on Steam. First, make sure that your PC meets the minimum system requirements below.
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Game Errors
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
People reported having a crash: on startup after first mission after shooting range not enough resources crash cutscene when customizing to desktop display driver crash Why does Deus Ex: Mankind keeps crashing? Crashes are pretty frequent and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is no exception.
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Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 19, 2014
we were speechless :P). We appreciate any support, thanks!
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 29, 2024
Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To Like Seoul-based Funnylocks with their recently released horror action shooter Unstoppable.
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Radiator Blog
APRIL 1, 2022
The monster closet approach is less work, Though in the late 1990s, gamers started deriding Doom's monster closets as unrealistic and "un-immersive", reaching a fever pitch when Doom 3 had the audacity to pair monster closets with cutscenes. But I think monster closet theory has evolved a bit since Doom 1 / Doom 3.
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Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Can show gameplay, cutscenes, menus, etc., Feel free to send a bit more for the editor to pick if you wish, although it will most likely be cut to a shorter length. No sound required in the video (we will put music on the showreel). but no trailer/marketing overlays. See previous videos below for examples. Author (person, company or unnamed).
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Ask a Game Dev
JULY 9, 2024
If keeping the beat is the most important thing in the game, then you build the game around keeping the beat. There are many different ways to approach the problem, but if I were building such a system myself, I would start with a system to handle a data-driven beat (e.g.
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Game Global
JULY 12, 2021
When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? What is Narrative Design? Beautiful shots of heartfelt dialogue, with characters saying a great deal by speaking a few carefully chosen words? Do you want to make people laugh at the silly things the game’s troops say if you click on them enough times?
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Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. Recording cutscenes that will be displayed as pre-recorded videos in the final game. With the addition of non-real-time video recording, Godot opens itself to these new use cases. What is Movie Maker mode for?
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Keith Burgun
APRIL 28, 2024
The side quests and smaller interactions in the game are good, those cutscenes are great. This explains the otherwise confusing use of the title “Remake” for a game that… isn’t(?) actually a remake?
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