Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How creator Sebastian Kostka is making sure certain arcade conventions don't go the way of the dodo.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox After more than two decades as the industry's most prominent trade show, E3 is dead. Its demise is unsurprising (even expected, depending on who you talk to) but this still marks a significant moment, and one that saddens much of the games industry and the media.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Slipgate and 3D Realms may be the newest developers to get caught up in Embracer's reductions as 2023 comes to a close.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Europe posted a solid month for video game sales during November, driven by Call of Duty, EA Sports FC 24 and PS5. 24.6 million video games were sold across tracked European markets, a rise of 20% over the year before. However, this is because November 2023 was a 'five week' month compared with the four weeks of November 2022. If we just look at the same four week period, sales were actually down slightly by 2%.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Longtime employees for Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering have been hit hard by Hasbro's new string of layoffs to close out the year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This article discusses a minor spoiler, an item unrelated to the main quest appearing in the game's Act 3. Read at your own peril. This is the least and most surprising Game of the Year piece I have ever written. Coming into the year, I knew Baldur's Gate 3 would be my Game of the Year. It's the latest title in my favourite franchise, following up on my favourite games of all time.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Game director Hideo Kojima is hoping the movie adaptation will birth the "Death Stranding universe.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Chief games officer, Agostino Simonetta, joined the company from ID@Xbox in 2021 but is now bowing out.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox MyGamez has received €1.5 million in a private financing round. The investment round included participation from Supercell co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, Small Giant Games co-founder Timo Soininen, Reworks co-founder Ilkka Teppo and ex-Riot China head of operations Daniel Wang.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

With Fortnite now focusing on user-generated content, industry devs have formed Barnyard to get in on the trend.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Newly established Barnyard Games has raised $3.4 million in a seed funding round. The studio aims to develop AAA Epic Games on the Unreal Engine for Fortnite.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

"The next week I started to explore putting fog into my render engine.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unreal Engine , created by by Epic Games, is one of the most advanced tools for creating and rendering photo-realistic visuals and immersive experiences. This is needed to power the latest games and the Metaverse. Traditionally, such experiences required a thick client, a desktop computer for example, with a discrete GPU. Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming allows the running of Unreal Engine applications on a server in the cloud and streaming its rendered frames and audio to browsers and mobile dev

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Manipulating the first pass.

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Godot Google and The Forge Partner to Improve Vulkan Support The Godot Foundation just announced a new 3 way partnership between Godot, Google and game engine experts The Forge to improve Vulkan support on mobile devices in the Godot game engine. Details of the announcement from the Godot blog: We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to … Godot Google and The Forge Partner to Improve Vulkan Support Read More The post Godot Google and

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Indie DB

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Lueur and the Dim Settlers has a DEMO on IndieDB, give it a try! A Miniature survival builder perfect for short and relaxing gaming sessions. Rebuild and manage your realm, collect resources and decide the fate of your people. Explore the darkness and.

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Godot New Global Illumination System – HDDAGI Godot lead developer Juan Linietsky recently tweeted several tweets about a new global illumination system for Godot, HDDAGI, or Hierarhcial Digital Differential Analyzer Global Illumination. This is meant to be a drop in replacement for SDFGI (Signed Distance Fields Global Illumination) released in Godot 4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to bring some helpful performance optimizations to our Vulkan mobile backend.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Career games journalist Stephen Totilo has gone independent and unveiled Game File. The new website will be a reader-supported platform and newsletter covering video games.

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Game Wisdom

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Returnal Can’t Handle the Risks of Roguelite Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Returnal was a game I was very eager to play given the chance — a third person roguelite shooter from Housemarque who have made a name for themselves with high action and arcade design. Returnal is their biggest reach yet … The post Returnal Can’t Handle the Risks of Roguelite Design appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A24 and Kojima Productions, led by Hideo Kojima, have announced that they will be teaming up to produce a live-action Death Stranding movie. Death Stranding was released in 2019, and in November 2022, it amassed a player count of more than 10 million.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Star Trek as a franchise has spanned nearly six decades, so one would assume that attitudes about society and representation would have changed over time. Certainly, female costumes have acquired far more fabric as the years have marched onward, and ideologically, we’ve seen a great number of changes. However, I want to use today’s column to discuss one in particular as it strikes me as an interesting alteration, and that is the differences in how Trek has defined what it is to be human.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Thunderful has reshuffled its leadership, with chief games officer Agostino Simonetta leaving the company and four new executives appointed. VP of studios Claire Boissiere has been promoted to executive vice president of studios and development. She will continue being Jumpship's studio director in addition to her new position. Thunderful's VP of marketing Harriet Hughes has become its new executive vice president of publishing.

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Juego Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While video games are all about fun and entertainment to users, there is an intricate business perspective to it for developers.Game monetization strategies are determined ahead of the development and launch to ensure the game fetches ample revenue shortly.

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Game Errors

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Don’t be alarmed if you experience issues while playing House Flipper 2, such as crashing, won’t launch, being stuck on the loading screen, stuttering, lagging, or low FPS. I ran into similar problems when I initially started playing the game. Yet, thanks to my past knowledge and various methods I learned from veteran gamers, I was able to solve them quickly.

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Perforce

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Learn about the top five technology trends shaping our digital landscape in 2024.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Since the old topic is closed, I’ll open a new one. A new version (version 2.0+) of R Mahjong - Riichi Mahjong for 4 players has been released. Main innovations in this version are: R Mahjong now has a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) called SUO (Super Oracle), based on neural networks. How strong is artificial intelligence? In my estimation, the AI has a strength equivalent to 6.8-7.0 stable dan (as defined on tenhou).

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The best way to get better at being a systems designer is to design game systems for games. This doesn't have to be designing systems for video games - a lot of system designers I know are extremely proficient card, board, and tabletop game designers too. Remember, the purpose of system design is to create an elegant set of game rules that convey a game experience to the player.

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Game Wisdom

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Top 3 Ways To Stream The Latest Esports Matches Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Esports and traditional sports have many key differences. One of the biggest relates to how matches and events are broadcast. In a traditional sport – like soccer – each league negotiates the streaming rights with big broadcast companies. These deals … The post Top 3 Ways To Stream The Latest Esports Matches appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I have a VideoPlayer node and a simple picture on that node. When i play VideoPlayer, the sprite node always hidden. Some one help me fix that pls. I use CC 3.7.

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Artoon

DECEMBER 14, 2023

React.js for Front-end Development is one constantly evolving technology trend that is […] The post Uses Of React.js in Front-end Development in 2024 appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Hello everyone. How do I sort my sprites into layers? I read about the sorting component, but I have prefabs that have a lot of nodes, I will have to add this component to all these nodes. If I want to change the layer, I change it again on all nodes. In Unity, you just needed to change the position of the parent object along the z axis to achieve the same effect.

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