Game Errors

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s one thing for a game to spit out an error or two every now and then. But it’s a totally different issue when the game keeps crashing every time you start it. FIFA 22 crashing is one of those nagging issues with this franchise that even its most ardent fans are finding it hard to keep enjoying the game. Save it to your disk.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Interesting fact: Did you know that science-fiction games like The Invincible often have intricate storylines and mechanics that can be sensitive to the slightest system changes, leading to launch problems? Overlays and Services Interference : Overlays from other applications and certain services can interfere with the game’s launch process.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. I've been working continuously making indie video games longer than, let's say, anyone. (The GDC free lunch was lousy, but hey, it was free.) So let's get to it: There are too many indie games.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When just starting out in game development, it is very common to want to jump right in to making your dream game. To do your game justice, first develop some skills. With this approach in mind, this project is an ideal starting point for beginners. Click the “New Project” button. Getting Started.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

Session-based multiplayer games are a popular form of online game, as they provide players with a quick, engaging experience that they can jump into at any time. However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Breakout style games have an array of blocks along the top of the board for the user to destroy. Edit Blocks. You could edit them one by one, but that would not scale well, especially if you had dozens or more blocks to fix. Unity does actually have a feature that allows you to perform a bulk edit. Edit A Prefab.

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The Knights of Unity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There is a high probability that you wanted to create a database and make it editable with ease for either a developer or a designer. I personally have been using it in systems like holding items or skills data for my RPG game. This is a great way to hold data as it’s simple and robust, especially with multiplayer games.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

At some point, you will always find that some of the features you want to use require the use of a script. In the Project window, right-click on the “Scripts” folder. Right-click on the Script, and choose “Open” to open your script for editing. Create A Script.

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AWS Games

JULY 29, 2022

Game developers increasingly require cloud technologies to support their games and provide the best experience to their players. Creating and maintaining all of these systems from scratch can take crucial developer time away from building those fun, innovative gaming experiences that can satisfy and delight players.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the hardest things to get correct in a game is the placement of a character's hands. In this article, I will use Inverse Kinematics (IK) to give that extra polish to my game when ledge grabbing. Open the Animator and Edit the Animator Controller for your character. Enabling IK on the Animator. float weight = _useIK

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Setting Up Input Mapping I think the biggest things in Godot that are a bit different with input are that the mouse scroll wheel is considered a button click. One click for each ‘tick’ the wheel scrolls. It will mean that if we decide to update it in the future, we won’t have two places to edit map data.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this tutorial you’ll create a zombie horde shooter game with Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints. The game is simple but is packed with tons of behind the scenes features that will allow you to understand the “why” behind the “how” a game is created in Unreal Engine 5. Download The Assets.

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The Liquid Fire

AUGUST 16, 2023

The TextMeshPro Text (UI) component has the ability to render HTML tags, and to handle things like determining where in the rendered text a user has clicked. A more complete game may want something more complex, but you could always use these to load assets by the same name – something like the way we handle the Entry.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… How to Add Triggers and Switches Using Bolt (No-Code Game Dev). In this tutorial we’ll learn how to add triggers and switches to your game using Unity’s bolt add-on. Triggers are powerful tools in the world of game design because you often use triggers to accomplish common game objectives.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from Board Game Geek.

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Game Designing

JULY 23, 2023

Animators must make it a point to upload their best clips on their websites. Video Games Globally, revenues from video games amounted to almost $347 billion in 2022. New gaming systems and computer hardware are enabling video games to be more immersive, realistic, and advanced than before.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 18, 2022

C++ is the most effective and widely used programming language for creating video games. It’s also the language Unreal Engine, arguably the most popular game engine in the world, uses too. In this post we’ll cover in depth the differences between C++ for software development and C++ for Unreal Engine game development.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lights are one of the most important part of any game. With lights you can create a different athmosphere and make your games look stunning. Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. Next we have the Point light. Before we start talking about Directional light, let us add it in our game.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, you can subscribe here. Now it’s up to you to fill it with a great game & matching business case.

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Cocos

MARCH 25, 2024

I do know that I saw this person selecting multiple nodes in the hierarchy at various points and making blanket changes to all of them at once. At some point our animator was no longer able to enter animation editing mode from within prefab edit mode… he would click enter animation editing mode over and over and nothing would happen.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). x point releases (which we are now intending to do more often, allowing several releases per year). Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Not being involved can make you feel left out, which is unfortunately the case when several people want to play traditional video games. Fortunately, advancements in gaming systems are helping solve this problem, especially in the field of VR. As a result, only one person can play VR games. What Are Asymmetrical VR Games?

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

However, a look at Madonna's ad for BMW M5 shot by Guy Ritchie reveals many of his signature directorial cues - head-banging clip editing, daring shots and angles, slowing down and speeding up the image as well as his trademark visual humor. The numerous techniques used by Ritchie can be grouped into one category called "clip editing".

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

Since Godot is gradually entering the competitive market, dominated by only a handful of fully featured engines, it is only intuitive that it should support Godot game developers with a strong version control integration from within the editor. In-graph editable nodes. Right-click for node search dialog. Introduction.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

I’ve talked about how board game developers can get big on Twitter and use Facebook to its fullest potential. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This represents an enormous opportunity for board game developers like yourself. Click Submit.

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AWS Games

MAY 4, 2023

Building dedicated servers is challenging, and developers need the ability to quickly test and iterate on their games. The plugin makes it easy for Unreal Engine developers to use an Amazon GameLift Anywhere fleet to test their game server on a local workstation without the need to upload a build to Amazon GameLift.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today’s game developers use analytics as a critical workload to deliver the best gameplay experiences possible for their players. Direct integration with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: Choose this option if you want to publish events from your games and services directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) without the solution’s API Gateway.

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Catnip Games

AUGUST 7, 2022

The navigation mesh was a separate layer of points and links with its own custom editing mode. I converted the navpoints into regular game entities. Now the only custom code is the test mode (move origin/destination points around, editor draws the resulting path). Finally, I upgraded all the editor icons.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Edited by Nathan Graves. In part one of our series , we discussed the importance of management and governance of your AWS resources for Game Development Studios. For more information on the AWS IAM Identity Center announcement click this link. Written by Adam Hatfield, Pawan Matta and Daniel Whitehead. Tagging AWS Resources.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

With 95% of game makers developing or maintaining a live service game, live events have become one of the most important elements of finding and maintaining success in not just the mobile market, but PC and console too. You should start thinking of your LiveOps strategy from the moment you start developing your game.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The next bullet point here is an IDE, which means it’s something that lets us edit code. We need to download this since Unity doesn’t natively have an IDE built in like it can’t edit code by itself, so we’ll be getting Visual Studio alongside it. So I’m going to open another tab here. (01:52)

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So I decided to keep the visual style of this project as a simple 2D game and to make my boards with a Tilemap so that I could demonstrate solutions for those questions. This asset will be sort of abstract data, and can be “skinned” with specific tiles at a later point. The "index" is (y * width + x).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Tile atlas editing. The first mode allows editing the atlas properties and creating/removing base tiles, the second one allows selecting and editing tiles properties, and the last one is to paint properties over the tiles. The view is not constrained anymore and panning can be done with the right click. TileMap layers.

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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. This was recently added to GitHub head and, while overall 2D editing is a bit unstable right now (due to a massive reorganization of the 2D editor), it will be soon be possible to fully make use of this feature.

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DameDev.tv

JULY 19, 2023

Right-click on the Project content tab and from the context menu that appears, select Export Package. " " Before you click on Export. This is our starting point in a new Unity project. Click Yes to proceed and let the editor restarts itself. Now, go to Edit → Project Settings and find XR Plug-in Management.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In video games, the small effects add up to making your game look stunning. And popular games like Batman Arkham Asylum have this effect: Other notable games that have this effect are Mortal Kombat – which they implement when the characters perform special attacks on each other. What Is a Shader?

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