PreMortem.Games
JUNE 29, 2023
Most games do not call for the flashy or stylistic trailer editing you see in a typical Hollywood movie trailer. MORE editing does not mean BETTER editing and LESS editing does not mean WORSE editing. Of course, there is a fine line between flashy and simple editing. The reverse also applies.
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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Keith Burgun
APRIL 28, 2024
The side quests and smaller interactions in the game are good, those cutscenes are great. The worst stuff is when they have to write the 18th Epic Trailer Edit version of One Winged Angel. This explains the otherwise confusing use of the title “Remake” for a game that… isn’t(?) actually a remake?
Deconstructor of Fun
MAY 15, 2022
This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. Animation: Two perspectives, the separation of cloud and mud Lost Ark has a sincere visual performance, among which are various cutscenes from a top-down perspective.
Game Designing
APRIL 21, 2022
Game developers can switch from 2D to 3D, from real-time play to cutscene, and from the traditional first-person shooter view to a camera that follows the action up close and personal. This is great for replacements and cutscenes, especially those that have variable scenarios. You can even change the edit and color grading.
Raph Koster
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Most Dikus could, with minor text editing, share their zone files, because they almost all played exactly the same! Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. On the flip side, adding data was really easy. It’s stuff that single-player game designers know how to do. Expensive, but at heart predictable for the developer.
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. // custom markup example: "[g]" hooks into Unity C# to make certain text glow and jiggle in-game Alice: I dance like I am [g]possessed by a ghost[/g].
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