GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 8, 2024

As reported by Polygon , developers are being informed that their games are being retired, such as Michael Molinari, developer of Soundodger+. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Warner Bros. Discovery is removing titles from its Adult Swim Games label on digital stores. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 12, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The Open Roads development team is no longer a part of the Fullbright game studio. As reported by Polygon , the collective, now known as The Open Roads Team, will continue to work with publisher Annapurna Interactive. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

Canadian developer Lincoln McCulloch, working under the studio name Uncle Grouch Gaming , spent the last five years creating the upcoming Dungeons & Kingdoms. The fact that it took him over five years to get to the point that it’s nearly ready for Early Access is largely due to learning the ropes of game development along the way.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 17, 2024

Talking to Game Developer (and confirming information from Polygon's Nicole Carpenter ), the developer said it'll continue supporting its online cosy sim Palia despite the layoffs, which represented around 40% of its staff. Singularity 6 has gone through another round of redundancies, laying off 36 people.

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Game Daily

MAY 2, 2023

As vice president of games at blockchain technology company Polygon Labs, Urvit Goel is a key link between publishers and their Web3 aspirations. Polygon’s Ethereum-based services are being used by game companies like Square Enix, Nexon, and more. “During that time, developers were bifurcated. .”

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That's according to data from research firm PitchBook, as featured in a Polygon report on discrepancies in investment support for marginalized developers. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In 2021, five women-founded studios received $1.2 million in funding, compared to the $4.1 Read more

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 4, 2021

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I think there are a ton of lessons to be learned from them, even for board game developers. Instead of using polygons for everything in the game, it relied heavily on matte paintings that, ironically, render better on modern TVs than old ones.

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It helps reduce the amount of detail by simplifying polygons and textures as they get further away from the camera. Example of different LODs on a 3D model and where they would be used in relation to the camera (Image: arm Developer) Which software do you need to create LOD models?

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

It enables developers to create, export, and stream one model into multiple platforms simultaneously–and in multiple levels of detail–with the model topology generated automatically. The more polygons that an object has, the more detailed it appears, but high numbers of polygons demand more computing power.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Live-service game development presents unique challenges that traditional pipelines werent designed to handle. Real-Time Collaboration: Unlike traditional game development, where asset creation follows a defined sequence, live-service game development requires tight cross-team collaboration. These include: (i).

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Best of Synty Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty GameDev Assets Bundle. This bundle if a huge collection of low polygon style game art packs from Synty.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

He got the idea after playing Factorio for hundreds of hours, but in the six years of development that followed, Ben Ryding came up with a delightful twist on the genre. Pretty impressive for a largely solo-developed game. “At The primary obstacle is just getting people up to speed on the code base and development practices.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

First released all the way back in 2007, Silo is a subdivision surfaces based polygonal modelling tool ideal for creating low polygon count models. GameFromScratch.com Silo 2023 Released Silo 2023 was just released by Nevercenter.

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Game From Scratch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Free Synty Battle Royale Asset Pack You can get an asset pack from Synty, the POLYGON Battle Royale pack is available for free on the Unity Asset Store in the Synty Sale. Be sure to use the code SYNTY23 at checkout, no purchase required.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky. 3D: Add flag to enable use of accurate path tangents for polygon rotation in CSGPolygon3D ( GH-94479 ). If youd like to support the project financially and help us secure our future hires, you can do so using the Godot Development Fund. Donate now

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

thatgamecompany (TGC) is a renowned game development studio celebrated for its distinctive approach to creating emotionally engaging games that foster human connections. This vision is not just a part of the gameplay and experience for TGC titles; it is also a developer mindset within the teams who build and run its games.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Spine is a 2D skeletal animation tool for game development and other animation projects. Our game app developers could hardly wait to adopt him! Here are some key features of Spine 2D animation software that stand out: Meshes - Instead of drawing rectangles, meshes help you specify a polygon inside your image. How does it work?

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Game Daily

JULY 26, 2023

The new game is being engineered from scratch with an original physics engine, along with back-end and infrastructure partnerships with Polygon and Immutable. “Immutable works day and night to improve its gaming ecosystem, developer tooling, and publishing capabilities – the Immutable zkEVM is a testament to this.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is from an unnamed RPG by developer bitbrain (working title "cave"). The game started development with Godot 3.x, Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 5, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Best of Synty #2 Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty #2 Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle is a collection of low polygon asset packs from Synty Studios.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Let’s understand the array of features that create such next-level user experiences. Shared Experiences 6. People Occlusion 7.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 20, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Low Poly Game Dev Humble Bundle There is new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Low Poly Game Dev Bundle is a collection of low polygon game assets from Eldamar Studio and AnimPic Studios.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 25, 2022

How to decide on the best blockchain for NFT development? With so many blockchains available these days, it is becoming harder to select the one that will best serve as the foundation for your NFT development. However, there are a number of factors that must be considered when looking for the best blockchain for NFT development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 11, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Gamefam has settled a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint with developer Joshua DeBoer following his allegations of retaliation over discussing pay concerns with coworkers. Read more

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Part 1 is an industry history of Quake's cursed development at id Software, Part 2 is a primer to 25 years of Quake community modding, and lastly Part 3 is a how-to guide for getting into Quake and enjoying its mods. For Rock Paper Shotgun, I recently wrote a three-part series "Quake Renaissance". Hell has no gods.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting started with your first NFT game development venture can be interesting. But is the NFT game development market worth entering? So, yes – NFT game development is worth it. And how do you start your first NFT game development project? Why is NFT Game Development Becoming So Popular? billion by 2028.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 20, 2015

2D Shadows with Polygonal Occluders. New 2D Navigation Polygon support, for efficient 2D pathfinding. Navigation Polygons can be edited visually and combined, disabled, etc. With this release, Godot becomes one of the best options out there to develop modern 2D games. 2D Materials. 2D Independent Z ordering per-node.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Introduction: In a world where pixels and polygons collide to create magic, we present to you our handpicked selection of the top 10 most anticipated video games of 2024. From cutting-edge graphics to immersive gameplay, join us as we unravel the veil of the future and unveil the game development wonders that await.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2018

Currently, Godot is pretty comfortable for doing 2D cutout animation , with several games in development making use of this feature. Once open, go to the newly added Polygon section of he editor. 4-Setup polygon for painting. To create this, push the "Sync Bones to Polygon" button. 5-Painting bone weights.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. The introduction of Unreal Engine 5 is an exciting development for the game development industry. What is the Unreal Engine?

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

Over 28,000 developers, artists, visionaries, and storytellers came from around the world to meet, learn, share experiences, and celebrate the global video game industry at the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco March 20 – 24. Learn more about Cloud Game Development solutions on AWS.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Dynamic Open Worlds Full of Geometric Detail With the introduction of Nanite and Lumen in UE5, developers can create games that contain massive amounts of geometric detail with fully dynamic global illumination. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is from an unnamed RPG by developer bitbrain (working title “cave”). The game started development with Godot 3.x, Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Core: Fix polygon generation in BitMap ( GH-68732 ). As we are still in the early beta phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Optimize animation blend tree process ( GH-68593 ).

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

Fresh from raising $13 million in funding, Avalan Corp is beginning to outline its vision for Web3 game development, most particularly the company’s belief in creating development tools that aid world and asset creation, as well as interoperability between games. “A metaverse is going to appear,” he says.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 6, 2021

Art: The art has aged pretty well since it’s mostly 2D pixels rather than 3D polygonal that was released a decade later. Developers: Namco. Overall: A very classic game that is worth a play just for fun, but is by no means a must play. It’s a very simple game. For those who like: Arcades, Bullet Hells, Top Down Perspective.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). The illustration picture is from Scrabdackle , an upcoming action/adventure game with endearing hand-drawn artwork, developed by jakefriend.

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