Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The 2024 GDC State of the Industry report indicates one quarter of triple-A developers are seeing their games adapted for film or television. Will the workers reap the rewards?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

His debut game Unknown Number was the first game in what its creator Tom Keane called the ‘First Person Talkers’ genre. Now he’s ready to take talking games to the next level with his new project Dead Meat. It’s an interrogation game where you actually talk to a suspect and try to get a confession. “When we showed the demo at EGX, the average playtime was forty minutes and we were having to kick people off to let others have a go.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The beloved indie horror game is calculated to be doing extremely well in terms of sales and revenue.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. Monday was a day the games industry had been waiting for a long time, as UK retailer GAME reportedly informed staff that it would be exiting the pre-owned game market , and would stop accepting customer trade-ins of games beginning February 16.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Even a 2D metroidvania game like Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown can benefit by putting motion capture performers on a soundstage.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox There is a mode of thinking that is far from uncommon in the games business right now, which simply accepts as inevitable the idea that subscription services will become the dominant business model for video games in the coming years. Within that school of thought there are many schisms; there is plenty of diversity of opinion over which companies will end up as the dominant players, the role that game streaming will pl

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unity game developers can now make mobile games accessible to iOS and Android screen readers with the launch of Mobile Screen Reader support, available from Unity 2023.2 Tech Stream and above. This is the first of many runtime features slated to enhance gamer accessibility.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Palworld has barely been out for half a day, and it's already sold a million copies and netted plenty of players.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

73% of UK games studios surveyed by trade body TIGA are looking to grow in 2024 with only 6% expecting job cuts. According to TIGA's new Business Opinion Survey 2023-2024, UK games businesses are "cautiously optimistic" about the industry in 2024. Almost half of respondents were hopeful for their company's future, which was up 40% from last year. Over half of the studios surveyed have forecast their net profits will increase over the next 12 months, while 46% anticipate the economic and business

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

"Sega and Finschia will cooperate in developing web3 games utilizing Sega's popular game IP.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

2K-owned 31st Union laid off a small number of staff yesterday, the studio has confirmed. As reported by Kotaku , the studio said "less than ten" employees had been let go as part of "on-going efforts to best support [its] studio and games." "These situations are never easy, but we're confident in the trajectory of 31st Union," the games firm said. "The studio is continuing to actively recruit for key roles and to grow in other ways in the year ahead.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Cross-platform gaming is on the rise, with 76% of gamers today playing across multiple platforms. For gaming app marketers, this presents a significant opportunity: cross-device marketing.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

President Takashi Kiryu has shared his plans to slim down Square Enix's lineup of titles. During a financial briefing Q&A last November , which was only put online recently, Kiryu highlighted the "limited diversity" of Square Enix's line-up. "I want to structure our development function so that we are able to ensure higher quality from each title by slimming down our lineup," he said.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

President Takashi Kiryu says Square Enix's future lies in fewer, albeit better games that get proper time to shine.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 19, 2024

Rotten flesh was suppose to release as an early access title, however today we made the decision to release it as a full game instead, given it's linear gameplay and style which does make sense.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2024

"Today 31st Union parted ways with a very small number of team members.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

Mighty Kingdom shareholders today voted against a resolution brought by the studio's former CEO Shane Yeend to oust its current board of directors. "With less than 10% of shareholders voting for resolutions proposed by shareholder Mr. Yeend aimed at replacing the Board, this [Extraordinary General Meeting] signifies a commitment for stability and trust in the future direction of the company," the studio said.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 19, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Godot Little Camera Preview Add-On Earlier this week we discussed the excellent Phantom Camera Add-on for the Godot game engine. One of the nicest features of this add-on was the optional camera preview window, something I commented about being missing from Godot. In a quirk of timing a new add-on was released that adds exactly … Godot Little Camera Preview Add-On Read More The post Godot Little Camera Preview Add-On appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

This article is part of our Get into Games special , offering students insight on life in the games industry and advice on how to get into the business As a huge global business rivalling the film and music industries, there is a lot that goes into the making of a game, and as we've seen more games focus on being story-driven and having an emotional connection with players, quality music, writing, and acting has become even more important.

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

Dear friends, I’m property, a high school student from China, only 17 years old. I’ve created a one-click Steam plugin to help you publish your games to Steam. It allows you to access the SteamAPI very easily and can save you much time. I’ve been spend much time on this plug-in, suffered hundreds of hours of technical precipitation andthousands of failures.

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Tom Francis

JANUARY 19, 2024

It’s snowing, and I have a mic that make me audible outdoors! So I got mildly snowed on while I rambled about board games as roguelikes, what matters when making games ‘different every time’, and how Dune Imperium pulls it off so well.

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

With Cocos Creator 3.8.1 our last project reports a lot of errors. This device does not support WebGL2. That’s weird because 95% of browsers should be compatible with WebGL2. I found that the game is little lit slow during the first 10 seconds and 3D Particle Systems are not working. But after 10 seconds the game works well with all FX OK.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

The gaming industry has achieved significant milestones in recent years, and 2023 was no exception. Recent data has shown that 2023 has been among the best years in the gaming sector. It has the highest number of top-rated games in two decades, making it an exceptional year for the industry. But was it all rosy? It’s no secret that as the gaming world evolves, new trends and issues emerge.

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

I put the spriteFrame image behind the Cube and the 3D Cube in front of it. The spriteFrame image on the viewing angle of the main camera blocks 3D Cube. Why? Version 3.7.2 This problem occurs in both 2D and 3D modes. Version 2.4.3 is fine and can be used normally.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

A significant paradigm shift in terms of game testing has been occurring in recent times. More and more organizations are outsourcing game-testing activities to vendors. This approach helps the in-house teams to focus more on developing games. By outsourcing game-testing activities to reputable testers, companies can achieve better quality games while ensuring game developers focus more on what they do best – building games.

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

I put the spriteFrame image behind the Cube and the 3D Cube in front of it. The spriteFrame image on the viewing angle of the main camera blocks 3D Cube. Why? Version 3.7.2 This problem occurs in both 2D and 3D modes. Version 2.4.3 is fine and can be used normally.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 19, 2024

askagamedev : Hey Dev! I’ve got a question for you! Sure thing. It’s what I’m here for. What kind of question is it?

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

let quat = Quat.fromEuler(new Quat(), this.node.eulerAngles.x, this.node.eulerAngles.y, this.node.eulerAngles.z + 1); this.node.setRotation(quat); using Quaternion still can’t rotate more than 90 degrees I am using Cocos Creator 3.6.

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Artoon

JANUARY 19, 2024

Bodyweight exercises don’t require expensive gym equipment or extensive workout space, making […] The post Top Bodyweight Exercise Apps to Transform Your Fitness Routine appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hi there, I’ve been working on AdMob plugin for hours, and after a few hours, I could build integrated project with AdMob on Android Studio. But now I don’t know how to use it! I can’t find any references. I’ve found RewardedAdClient but after calling load() and show() nothing will happen.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Kwalee has announced that Pocket Gamer will be its official media partner for the Gamemasters Summit.

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

eulerAngles is a Vec3, x and y will be 0, 180, or -180, Math.abs(z) will not be more than 90, I don’t know how the engine works, but the solution is assign the value of eulerAngles.z to this.node.angle this.node.angle = this.node.eulerAngles.z; then use this.node.angle to calculate the rotateValue, then add the value to this.node.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Obelisk Studio has secured £1.

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Cocos

JANUARY 19, 2024

it’s a 2D Node protected update() { let rotateValue = 1; let eulerAngles = this.node.eulerAngles.clone(); eulerAngles = new Vec3(eulerAngles.x, eulerAngles.y, eulerAngles.z + rotateValue); this.node.setRotationFromEuler(eulerAngles); } in the above code it will just stop at 90 degrees which faces left. I could do it using this.node.angle+= rotateValue , but I can’t get the angle when the node’s rigidbody2D is having angular velocity, I can only get the angle using this.node.eulerAngles in this s

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