Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
Developers at Pearl Abyss, Round8 Studio, Shift Up, and other studios say developers and players in the region want to break out of the free-to-play market.
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 14, 2024
Former banker turned game developer, Daniel Macharia , has always been passionate about sharing his knowledge. His journey began with a comprehensive 20-part YouTube tutorial series on developing his debut title, Wana Savana that learners could follow along. This passion for teaching led him to become a lecturer at the Africa Digital Media Institute (ADMI), where Nairobbery was first conceived and later launched.
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Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
The SteamOS will make its way to third-party handhelds, but Valve is still working on expanding the capabilities of it and the Steam Deck.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Gamescom is more than just a week in Cologne. The world's biggest games show has expanded dramatically in recent years with the launch of satellite events in other markets; first with Gamescom Asia in Singapore, which debuted in 2021, and this year heading to Brazil with the first Gamescom Latam. The Cologne show already prided itself on being an international event, attracting companies and visitors from all over the world and representing different nations with the country pavilions found in t
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
According to Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galante, you can talk the success of Vampire Survivors up to open source tools and a bit of delirium.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Valve is introducing new rules regarding store page descriptions on Steam, forbidding the inclusion of external links within the text. Developers will no longer be allow to link to other websites, including social media pages, with Valve emphasising that the latter are covered by the specific link fields already available. Store descriptions must also not link to other games on Steam, or use any embedded imagery that mimics Steam's UI or buttons, such as wishlist buttons.
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
Joke user reviews are still approved, but Valve's new Steam system helps players learn what others actually think before buying a game.
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Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
The Cyprus-based studio will use the cash to develop a Souls-like shooter and establish a publishing team.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Baldur's Gate 3 has won the award for Best Game or Interactive Work at the Hugo Awards. It is the second video game in history to do so, the first being Hades when the award was introduced in 2021 as a temporary category. The World Science Fiction Convention, who present the awards, voted to make it permanent last year as reported by PC Gamer.
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
The TerraTech developer said it has been impacted by the 'struggles affecting the wider games industry.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
A new report by mobile game company Sandsoft says that 81% of mobile developers are working on a new title, while 83% have raised capital to develop, launch, or market a game. The Publisher Perception Report, made in partnership with Atomik Research, surveyed 454 developers across the USA, Spain, and France between June 4 and June 10, 2024. The majority of developers (47%) are testing a prototype, while 9% are at the soft launch stage.
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
Like other CEOs, Matt Bromberg thinks genAI can be a boon to game development, but he isn't putting his full faith in the technology just yet.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Scottish Games Week has hit "pause" for 2024. Scotland's biggest B2B games event says it has cancelled this year's show due to "disruption across the video game ecosystem and political landscape in 2024." However, the event will return in October 2025 "with a larger, more diverse programme of events supporting the whole video games ecosystem.
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
'We have been seeing more and more store pages that are effectively advertisements for other store pages on Steam.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Intel has sold its $1.18 million stake in British semiconductor company Arm. Disclosed in a regulatory filing , Intel reportedly raised an estimated $146.7 million from the sale based on Arm's average stock price between April and June, according to calculations by Reuters. Arm debuted on the Nasdaq Fund Network in September last year , ending its first day of trading at $63.59 following an IPO price of $51.
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
Prime Video is reportedly getting back in the video game adaptation business, this time with a show encompassing a variety of titles.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Amazon Video is reportedly developing a new adult-animated anthology series based on video games called Secret Level. According to Deadline 's sources, the same team behind Amazon's Love, Death & Robots series has also signed up to create original short stories "set within the worlds of beloved video games, such as Amazon Games' New World, Spelunky, and unspecified "PlayStation titles.
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
The industry's current issues and a lack of government support have put the annual Scottish event on ice, but next year's comeback is already underway.
Indie DB
AUGUST 14, 2024
As I reached adulthood, a village bully murdered me and abandoned my body in a temple. My fearful parents didn't seek revenge but, worried about my wandering spirit, arranged a ghostly marriage. This allowed me to rest peacefully in a suitor's ancestral.
Game Developer
AUGUST 14, 2024
A quick-to-the-point interview with Rob Moody about starting up and running an animation outsourcing studio.
Indie DB
AUGUST 14, 2024
A sandbox survival game, set on life-sized voxel planets with realistic phyisics.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Eschatology Entertainment has raised $11.3 million in series A funding, led by Krafton. The funding round also included participation from GEM Capital and The Games Fund, both of which invested $4 million in the game studio in 2022 which supported initial development and hiring. This new investment will be used to help launch the release of its first title, a Souls-like first-person-shooter set in the apocalyptic Wild West.
Game Development News
AUGUST 14, 2024
The inaugural AI and Games conference, set to take place on Friday 8th November 8th at Goldsmiths University in London, aims to gather around 200 experts in video game AI. Attendees will have the chance to learn, network, and exchange ideas on the latest trends and developments in the field.
Cocos
AUGUST 14, 2024
vanhaodev: [PreviewInEditor] Cannot read property 'enabledContactListener' of null TypeError: Cannot read property 'enabledContactListener' of null at PhysicsContact.emit (C:ProgramDatacocoseditorsCreator3.8.3resourcesresources3denginebin.cachedeveditorbundledindex.js:194408:21) at PhysicsContactListener._onPreSolve [as _PreSolve] (C:ProgramDatacocoseditorsCreator3.8.3resourcesresources3denginebin.cachedeveditorbundledindex.js:194831:13) at PhysicsContactListener.PreSolve (C:ProgramDatacocosedit
Ask a Game Dev
AUGUST 14, 2024
That's an excellent question. You may remember the term [ Decision Paralysis ] used before on this blog. It's when a decisionmaker is presented with so many choices that they refuse to make (or put off making) a choice out of fear of making a mistake. Decision Paralysis affects everyone, including game developers like me. We can get so wrapped up in finding the perfect solution that we never commit to any one, for fear of that's solution's drawbacks. even though any solution that we commit to wi
Game Development News
AUGUST 14, 2024
The inaugural AI and Games conference, set to take place on Friday 8th November 8th at Goldsmiths University in London, aims to gather around 200 experts in video game AI. Attendees will have the chance to learn, network, and exchange ideas on the latest trends and developments in the field.
Cocos
AUGUST 14, 2024
it have been changed to 3.8.x, so in 3.8.x not only needs collider component but also rigidbody component, and you can change it by refering link: Is Engine's Error? - #11 by Tom_k. BTW, we have built a issue( collide Events needs rigidbody in Cocos 3.8x but dont need in Cocos 3.7.4 · Issue #17541 · cocos/cocos-engine · GitHub ) to address it.
Game Development News
AUGUST 14, 2024
The MCV/Develop Women in Games Awards has announced that Airship Interactive is the headline sponsor for the 2024 event. Airship offer full end-to-end games art and implementation services to leading international game developers and AAA studios.
Cocos
AUGUST 14, 2024
I’m pretty sure that both the trigger and the object being detected both have to have a rigid body in order for the box to the engine to identify it. If you need the trigger to not have collisions, then it can be at a “sensor“ which should be a checkbox. If you need the thing that’s been detected to not be affected by physics then you could make it “static“ and then keep moving it via whatever input you have.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Games industry veterans have formed the Sustainable Games Alliance, a non-profit organisation dedicated to "helping the games industry become sustainable." Backed by noted industry professionals such as Unity Technologies founder David Helgason and Remedy co-founder Petri Järvilehto, Sustainable Games Alliance – which is overseen by managing director and co-founder Maria Wagner – is working to make games "the most sustainable form of entertainment on the planet" by creating acti
Cocos
AUGUST 14, 2024
In Cocos Creator 3.8.3, I have a spine asset which consist of one spine.atlas file, one spine.png file and multiple json files like spine1.json, spine2.json and spine3.json. I am encountering error when importing the spine asset due to cocos editor tries to find spine1.atlas, spine2.atlas and spine3.atlas. I was able to do this in cocos 2.4 by altering spine-meta.js in the engine but I wasn’t able to locate the same file or its counterpart in 3.8.3.
Cocos
AUGUST 14, 2024
Continuing the discussion from [Share]Mini-Games On YouTube Playables Created with Cocos Creator:
Cocos
AUGUST 14, 2024
I am using cocos2d-x v3.17.x js. After converting the Maya exported model to.c3t I can see that some Mesh are using default material. However, these textures do not exist. How can I set them to use the cc.SHADER_POSITION_COLOR and set the color as I want?
Cocos
AUGUST 14, 2024
Hello, I have an existing Cocos2d-x project built with Cocos2d-x 3.10. Is there a way to use the new Cocos Creator 3.8.4 engine in my existing project?
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