Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

The 24-person studio has been closed down in what Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester described as a 'difficult and drastic' move.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 18, 2024

Tencent advisor and former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has criticised the games industry's lack of patience during this period of widespread layoffs. Layden's comments came during the opening podcast for GI Sprint, which is a new series of videos, podcasts and articles around the subject of making video games cheaper, faster and better. The full podcast goes live later today.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

Sony's pseudo-PlayStation Portal is proving itself to be pretty useful in the hands of PlayStation 5 players in more ways than one.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 18, 2024

It was back in 2020 when Shawn Layden began sounding the alarm around rising game development costs. Speaking as part of Gamelab Live, Layden said the current rising cost of AAA game development was become unsustainable, and that when the industry moves to the PS5 and Xbox Series X generation (which was due to take place later that year), the industry might struggle to grow.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

This volume brings together the collected wisdom, ideas, tricks, and cutting-edge techniques from 20 of the top game AI professionals and researchers from around the world.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 18, 2024

With more games in the market than ever, it’s important to bring new ideas to stand out. That’s something Magic Hazard has at its core for its debut game Memory Lost. Set in the dystopian cyberpunk-inspired metropolis of Detraxis, it’s a top-down action shooter where you play as an AI, the Neural Network, implanted into the body of an assassin robot who’s fighting for their freedom and destiny.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

Palworld's gun-wielding 'Pals' got all the attention, but it's the automation mechanics that may have made it a big hit.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

The former PlayStation head thinks the industry jumped too many guns much too quickly, and the best way to sort things out is to not be so hasty.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 18, 2024

During today's Nintendo Direct, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond was given a release window for 2025, while a new addition in the Legend of Zelda series sees the titular princess finally become a playable character. Metroid Prime 4 was initially announced back at E3 in 2017, with Bandai Namco Studios at the helm. In the seven years since, the game restarted development in 2019 under Retro Studios – the original developer of the series – and is finally set to release next year.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

The remastered Grand Theft Auto games are allegedly doing very well on Netflix, with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas said to be the star of the show on iOS and Android.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 18, 2024

Paradox Interactive has cancelled its upcoming life sim Life By You. The publisher's deputy CEO Mattias Lilja shared the news on the Paradox Forum , citing that the game didn't meet its or the community's expectations. "Life By You has been in the works for a long time and we've been very excited about the promise and the potential of this game," Lilja wrote.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

Two brothers reunite, Samus touches down, and Zelda takes centre stage.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 18, 2024

George Willard and Sophie Atkin have co-founded new visibility agency Secret Sauce. Both Willard and Atkin previously worked for indie publisher Modern Wolf, where Willard was head of brand and Atkin was senior communications manager. Their new agency will focus on providing support for self-publishing titles, advice on branding, and helping publishers find and secure games.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

In this article, we'll explore the impact of generative AI on game development, the challenges it presents, and how developers can leverage automation tools to navigate this new frontier.

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Indie DB

JUNE 18, 2024

Hey everyone, A long overdue update is finally here. A lot has changed since the last update. In short, the game is evolving and gradually turning into something exciting.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 18, 2024

GameFromScratch.com GDevelop 5.4 Released — Adds Multiplayer Support The easy to use cross platform open source game engine GDevelop just released GDevelop 5.4. There are several new features in this release, but by far the two biggest are the addition of an easy to use multiplayer solution, as well as a rework of the game engine’s variable system. […] The post GDevelop 5.4 Released — Adds Multiplayer Support appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Perforce

JUNE 18, 2024

GitLab is an integrated solution that covers the entire DevOps lifecycle. And, Klocwork is a static code analyzer that has been designed to optimize DevSecOps processes, like CI/CD Pipelines. When used together, these tools provide software development teams with a powerful GitLab SAST solution.

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Game Development News

JUNE 18, 2024

George Willard, 30, and Sophie Atkin, 25, are the latest duo stepping up to the plate to create something new out of the rubble of the games industry layoffs this past year.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2024

Typically it takes more than one milestone for a publisher to decide to intervene. If the publisher believes that a project has gone off the rails there are two major options available. If they think the project is too far gone, they'll cancel the game and reallocate the workers, have a big layoff, or some combination of both. If they believe the project is still salvageable, the usual process is to replace the team's leadership (or assign them a new boss) and send in their [ rescue operators ]

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

I have created a node. I have added a Label I updated a string value but string value is not showing. Please find the attached screenshot for your reference.

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Game Development News

JUNE 18, 2024

Antstream, the world’s leading retro game streaming service, is proud to announce that the cloud gaming service will be coming to the App Store in June, making the service the first of the major cloud gaming services to become available on iPhone and iPad, bringing competitive retro gaming to mobile gamers across the United States, …

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

Hey @sunilgv62 , Welcome to Cocos Creator! You might want to try using system fonts, as custom fonts can sometimes cause issues. Also, make sure you haven’t added an opacity node to Score or Result and set it to 0. It would be helpful if you could provide a zip file of your project or a snippet that reproduces the error, making it easier to diagnose the problem.

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Game Development News

JUNE 18, 2024

The finalists are ready. The trophies are engraved. Most importantly, the bubbly is cold! With only 48 hours to go, time is running out to book your tickets! Not only does this year’s awards coincide with England’s Euro 2024 group match with Denmark, but also with the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

I have created a node. I have added a Label I updated a string value but string value is not showing. Please find the attached screenshot for your reference.

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Game Development News

JUNE 18, 2024

CodeDev – The Unreal Guys opens its doors today as a new co-development studio specialising in Unreal Engine. The company was founded and led by Chairman Rik Alexander, CEO Myke Parrott and new CTO Ryan Woodland.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

I have created a node. I have added a Label I updated a string value but string value is not showing. Please find the attached screenshot for your reference.

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Artoon

JUNE 18, 2024

Are you developing your first mobile app? Confused between Flutter vs React […] The post Flutter vs React Native: Which One Is The Best in 2024 appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

Looks like there was no update to these versions. What is the difference between the 3.8 and newer spine software? is it significant? (I’m not yet starting with animations for my game so have no idea what we’ll use, just learning about it).

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

great stuff! I like the pixel art fighting game did you do a vector and then converted somehow to pixel art or started from pixel style from scratch?

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

I have created a node. I have added a Label I updated a string value but string value is not showing. Please find the attached screenshot for your reference.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

Hey @sunilgv62 , Welcome to Cocos Creator! You might want to try using system fonts, as custom fonts can sometimes cause issues. Also, make sure you haven’t added an opacity node to Score or Result and set it to 0. It would be helpful if you could provide a zip file of your project or a snippet that reproduces the error, making it easier to diagnose the problem.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

I want to ask a bit offtopic question, I hope it’s ok =). is there a big difference in weight of final game when using Spine animations vs spritesheets when let’s say most characters in the game would be 50-100px size, and it has about 20 characters total? (puzzle game so it’s not heavy on characters), is it worth using Spine animations or just exporting sprite-sheets will be not a big difference either?

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

Hey wonderful folks on the Cocos Dev Team! I am super impressed by how far this engine has come in the last 15 months! I work in cocos on an almost daily basis for my Job and you guys are really killing it with speed and quality of it’s development! Speaking of development… does anybody know or have an idea of when Cocos will be able to support spine versions 4.1 and up?

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

Here is my solution: this.node.on( Node.EventType.TOUCH_START, (event: EventTouch) => { if (event.target.isChildOf(this.showSomethingButton.node)) return; // disappear logic here }, this, true ); Attach this function to your top-most node (typically Canvas).

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

Hello! Imagine the following scene. There are many different objects on the scene. Some can be clicked on, some cannot. There are a number of objects that, when clicked on, something should appear above them. But at the same time, if you click on any other place (on another object or even on the same object), then the previously appeared object should disappear.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

I’m having problem with google play billing library in cocos. It seems to be working fine a few weeks ago but now it stoped working. I’m using com.android.billingclient:billing:6.1.0 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); obj = this; mContext = this; SDKWrapper.shared().init(this); billingClient = BillingClient.newBuilder(this).enablePendingPurchases().setListener(.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

Hello! Imagine the following scene. There are many different objects on the scene. Some can be clicked on, some cannot. There are a number of objects that, when clicked on, something should appear above them. But at the same time, if you click on any other place (on another object or even on the same object), then the previously appeared object should disappear.

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