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. We can't get refunds on development time or effort spent and we only have so much to spend on the total game.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other's work. 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.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2024

The important thing to think about when it comes to development is that we can't build the game sequentially, we have to build as much of the game in parallel as we can. For features like cutscenes, it depends on how much difficulty it takes to build the cutscenes. In the original FF7, the FMV sequences were set in stone.

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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. or approximately $2,500 per development week per person.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. But not really.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. 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 Si-wooks’s deep passion for game development inspired Hee-sang to take a leap of faith.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Developers run out of time and budget eventually. Is there a way to add variety with minimal developer and test time? 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.

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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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Designer Notes

AUGUST 15, 2022

In this episode, Soren and Leyla interview independent game developer Chris DeLay, co-founder of Introversion Software and best known for his work on Uplink , Darwinia , Defcon , and Prison Architect. This episode was recorded on March 24, 2022.

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Jaunty Bear Games

JANUARY 31, 2023

This can include developing characters and their backgrounds, creating a believable and consistent game world, and crafting a compelling plot with meaningful choices for the player to make.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2014

As you know, Okam Studio, the company that develops Godot Engine, also makes games. One of our oldest projects is The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizza Boy , a 2D point & click graphic adventure that we’ve been developing in-house as a side-project, and we’ve launched a Kickstarter to raise the funds to finish it.

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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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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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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Some games do all their cutscene scripting and even enemy AI in Yarn Spinner, because really, it's just a simple scripting language that does whatever you tell it to do. However, it isn't in active development anymore, and maintenance since 2021 will be a bit spotty. > Bob is weird (choice 2) Bob: I'm not that weird, am I?

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

The side quests and smaller interactions in the game are good, those cutscenes are great. I really wish big AAA game developers would stop stretching everything as thin as possible. Other pros and cons PRO : The combat is extremely developed and really fun and cool. actually a remake?

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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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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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Game Designing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a child, he gained a deep appreciation for film and developed a refined taste in the medium that would inspire his work for years to come. Kojima always had a knack for creating and worked on film and writing projects before deciding to enter the video game industry in the mid-1980s after securing a job at game developer Konami.

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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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Game Errors

MAY 9, 2023

Friday the 13th: The Game Black Screen When you join a game and it starts, you don’t get into the cutscene Jason hacks the person and they all run away, eventually, when the game starts the screen is black, and all you can see is the mini-map on the bottom right. This is what the black screen issue looks like.

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Game Errors

MARCH 27, 2023

FIFA 23 is a one-of-a-kind football video game developed by EA Sports, but it can generate several annoying issues, such as low FPS while playing. Why is my FIFA 23 FPS so low in the cutscenes? Confirm the process by pressing the Uninstall button. Restart your PC. Windows will attempt to reinstall the driver.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 19, 2024

This technology allows game artists and developers to create high-quality and interactive 3D experiences using real-time rendering. This means that developers and artists can now make dynamic and immersive environments that players can enjoy in real-time, whether through virtual reality (VR) headsets or traditional mobile or computer devices.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Mobile game developers face the daunting task of acquiring and retaining players in today’s fast-paced mobile gaming world. Therefore, game developers have had to embrace modern tactics to succeed and continuously improve their game’s performance and design.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Mobile game developers face the daunting task of acquiring and retaining players in today’s fast-paced mobile gaming world. Therefore, game developers have had to embrace modern tactics to succeed and continuously improve their game’s performance and design.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. It completely transforms the landscape of game development, digital animation, and especially in-game camera systems. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

There are many situations where the developer can’t automate the optimal position finding. Player-guidance Traditionally scripted camera sequences (cutscenes) are very helpful to direct the player’s gaze, Unfortunately won’t work in VR – would cause locomotion sickness. pochodzi z serwisu Played With Fire | VR Developer.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I have mentioned elsewhere, I’m starting pre-pre-development on an RPG of my own, and so this is something I’m thinking about a lot for that game. Developers (or producers) feel like they cannot justify building content that most players won’t see. What are secrets in videogames? They are findable.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This would be an absolute win (but a budgetary nightmare as a developer). Cutscenes in an MMO? In the Sword Art Online: Progressive novels, certain plotlines are punctuated by forced events which are effectively cutscene events. We now have a handful of MMOs built from the ground up for VR, with a few more in development.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So… DikuMUDs started to add scripting systems , which were generally much more limited than the ones on LPMuds, but fit better with the whole “fill out some rows in a form to add content” development model. By spending around five times more money than any other virtual world developer ever had in the history of mankind.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2024

Making a successful Match-3 is one of the most challenging tasks a mobile game developer can tackle. That’s why so many of the top Match-3 games belong to a handful of developers. The team developing the game must have invested a lot of time and effort into the production of the story. and Dream with Royal Match.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Perhaps as a result, Egor is one of the least interesting and less developed characters in the game unfortunately. TUTORIAL The tutorial happens across 3 in-game loops. During this time, mission selection is restricted and progression is heavily scripted / controlled. Kind of sad.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You can’t put the nuance of human relationships in gameplay, and telling story through cutscenes kind of sucks. Another good recent example of an ambitious developer being ridiculously and excessively hassled is here.) You might say creators should just ignore this. That's easy for you to say.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It is worth buying this game just to see what it’s like when a game's developers really pay attention and never miss a chance to give a bit extra. It's really sharp and well-observed, and it isn't a cutscene. The visuals are endlessly inventive and interesting. It's exhilarating. I have a couple nitpicks, but why bother?

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

The opening cutscene literally made me cry. But everything else just feels like it needed another 6-12 months of development on it. Even when these developers get something sort of right about gender roles, they talk about it like they’re kind… of still not over it? The Good The writing starts off incredible.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

As this video talks about, as players play more and more games, it becomes more difficult for them to find this sense of wonder in new games – even more so when they become game developers themselves. It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on.

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