Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

The company will be shuttering its studios in New York and Montreal to ensure a 'sustainable future.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 3, 2024

Anima Flux , the latest game by studio Anima Flux, is exploring new territories in gaming. According to Andrey Songraf, Game Designer and Product Owner, this makes them pioneers of sorts. “We set ourselves a very difficult and ambitious goal that no one else has ever set before, to combine Metroidvania with co-op gameplay.” “ Anima Flux started as an idea for a visual novel or an interactive comic.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

From June 3 through June 7, we will be examining the cooking game genre and exploring what developers can learn and apply to their own delicious side dishes.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 3, 2024

Take-Two is planning to close or potential sell its indie-focused publishing label Private Division. That's according to an IGN report , which cites sources familiar with the matter who say almost all Private Division staff have been laid off. Take-Two has declined to comment. Management reportedly told employees in April that Take-Two would no longer support the publishing label, with only a handful of staff left to handle the remaining publishing deals.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

The publishing label is reportedly at risk of vanishing entirely.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 3, 2024

Agency is perhaps the most important distinction between video games and any other form of entertainment. You have no control over how the characters fare in any book, TV or film, but in games, the power is almost entirely in the hands of players. While this often translates to how well said characters do in combat or when confronted by puzzles, developers are exploring more ways in which players can shape stories as well.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

The troubled remake is still in the works at Ubisoft, which has called on the Watch Dogs: Legion team to help get it out the door.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

Cooking is both a deeply personal act and the lifeblood of armies and civilizations.

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Games 327

GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 3, 2024

John Romero's autobiography is set to be adapted as a series, and will also be the subject of a documentary. As reported by Deadline , 'Doom Guy: Life in First Person' will become a documentary directed by Rob McCallum, who's mainly known for 2023's Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe. The series adaptation doesn't have a director attached to it yet, but both projects will have Naomi Harvey serve as executive producer, via Golden Possum Productions.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

Developer Keven Brown tells us why he chose a chilly, bleak setting for a game about the social experience of eating.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 3, 2024

Hypersonic Laboratories has raised $7 million in a series A round led by Play Ventures. AppWorks, WTIC, KB Investment, and Alex Ekvall also contributed to the round, with the funding going towards further development of Helix. The sandbox platform aims at facilitating the creation of role-playing mods and servers. Helix is due to launch in a closed alpha later this year.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

The co-op horror game got off to a good start by launching as a free-to-keep game, and its fortunes have only improved since.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 3, 2024

The organisers of Gamescom Latam have announced David Alpert, CEO of Skybound Entertainment, as its inaugural keynote speaker. Alpert — who is also known as the executive producer behind The Walking Dead and Invincible — will take part in a fireside chat with video games investor Jon Goldman on June 28, midway through the first ever Gamescom Latam.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

PlayStation's newest VR headset can finally be used to play non-PS games, but the transition will lead to some compromises.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 3, 2024

UK games companies are invited to join this year's salary benchmarking project, which is a collaboration between GamesIndustry.biz and Brightmine. Brightmine is the new name of XpertHR, which is a well-established benchmarking service that is adopted by many other industries. It launched a pilot programme with GamesIndustry.biz last year, revealing incites into pay scales across the sector.

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Data Games Development 104

Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

I'd like to share with you what we learned while porting our FPS from mobile to PC.

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Indie DB

JUNE 3, 2024

PC storefronts are more open than they used to be, but visibility is an ever-increasing challenge.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 3, 2024

GameFromScratch.com 001 Game Creator Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle for game developers, the awfully named Royalty-Free Game Creator STEM Bundle. This is basically a bundle containing the 001 Game Creator game engine and several DLC packs for creating other genres of games such as Visual Novels and Point and Click Adventure games. As […] The post 001 Game Creator Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 3, 2024

In Godot 4.3, a large number of animation features have been reworked since 4.0, so it's time to migrate your animations.

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Game Development News

JUNE 3, 2024

We are delighted to announce David Sharrock, Executive Producer at Slitherine Software and Chris Molozian, CEO of Heroic Labs will be joining the line up of over 20 expert panelists from academia and industry, on the 4th July at Bournemouth University.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2024

If you've been curious about how world-leading game publishers are operating in 2024, you're in for a treat. Today, we delve into the unique player in the French tech scene: Voodoo. Headquartered in Paris and overseeing over 100 studios worldwide, Voodoo operates like a well-oiled, data-driven machine. If you’re an indie studio hoping to launch a hit game, you might want to think about partnering up with Voodoo, because they excel at what they do.

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Cocos

JUNE 3, 2024

Hi. I’ m using Cocos Creator version 3.8.2 currently. I imported assets packages exported by Cocos Creator version 3.4.2. And scene and code work fine in play mode. However, sometimes the editor show this error after editing source code (after displaying ‘script compilation in progress’ at bottom right of the editor). Error: [Scene] component already added at error (/Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.

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Cocos

JUNE 3, 2024

Hi, bro. Which name do you want to change? the forum nickname or other thing else?

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Cocos

JUNE 3, 2024

Help Needed: Issues with Initializing npm Packages in Cocos Creator v3.8 Hi everyone, I’ve been working on a project using Cocos Creator and recently upgraded from version 2.4 to version 3.8. In version 2.4, I successfully integrated several npm packages without any issues. However, after upgrading to version 3.8, I’m encountering problems when trying to initialize these npm packages.

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