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Deep Dive: Player-centered narrative design in Slay the Princess

Game Developer

By building the foundations of our games with player agency in mind, we can better take advantage of our medium and build meaningful experiences that connect with even more people.

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CI Games lays off 10% of staff

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CI Games has laid off 10% of its workforce across the entire company, GamesIndustry.biz has learned. Sources pointed us towards affected staff posting on LinkedIn claiming the majority of the marketing team has been made redundant. GamesIndustry.biz was told that Lords of the Fallen developer Hexworks and Sniper Ghost Warrior studio Underdog had also been affected.

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Report: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour laying off staff in Montreal

Game Developer

The company has reportedly axed 45 roles at its Canadian studio.

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How the Prince of Persia can finally speak Persian

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox "I couldn't believe I was going to work on an actual Prince of Persia game!" Sepehr Torabi was shocked when he found out he was hired to provide the voices of multiple characters in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Torabi, an experienced voice actor, operates his own sound studio amusingly named 'Persian Dub Group,' which produces diverse content, including voice acting and music for Iranian digital games.

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GDC 2024 State Of The Game Industry: Devs discuss layoffs, generative AI, and more

Game Developer

Over 3,000 game industry professionals weighed in on this year's State of the Game Industry survey with opinions about layoffs, the use of generative AI, return-to-office policies, and more.

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4% December sales boost sees 2023 finish up 1% year-over-year | US Monthly Charts

GamesIndustry.biz

After 2022 saw US spending on games dip 5%, 2023 saw a return to growth, according to the latest figures from industry-tracking group Circana. Total US spending on games was up 1% to $57.2 billion in 2023, with slight gains in software, add-ons and subscriptions (up 1% to $48 billion) and accessories (up 4% to $2.6 billion) offsetting essentially flat hardware sales (down a fraction of a percent to $6.59 billion).

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Near half of game devs say they're working with generative AI tools

Game Developer

As generative AI becomes a bigger presence in games, developers use the technology while remaining wary of its impact.

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Rocksteady co-founders open new studio, Hundred Star Games

Game Developer

A year after leaving Rocksteady, Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill have reportedly opened up new studio Hundred Star Games.

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An introduction to video game production

GamesIndustry.biz

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 While many roles across game development do exactly what they say on the tin – artist, composer, programmer; it's hardly rocket science – one of the more essential roles is harder to define: producer.

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Ninja Theory is giving Hellblade II a digital-only release

Game Developer

Ninja Theory is going strictly digital for Hellblade II so the game can be as the developers want it to be.

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Rocksteady co-founders create Hundred Star Games

GamesIndustry.biz

Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have created a new London-based studio, called Hundred Star Games. As reported by Polygon , which found the company's Great Place to Work profile , the studio is set to make AAA titles, employing 100 developers. "Hundred Star Games is a video game start-up based in East London," the profile read. "Our ethos is of [sic] creating a small team of only 100 industry veterans and emerging talents, who are committed to crafting cutting-edge gaming exp

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Harmonix is ending Rock Band 4 weekly DLC drops to focus on Fortnite ?Festival

Game Developer

The studio says the final DLC pack will include a few tearjerkers.

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35% of devs affected by layoffs last year, says GDC survey

GamesIndustry.biz

Game Developers Conference organizer Informa released its annual State of the Games Industry survey today, giving a window into developer experiences and attitudes on a variety of subjects, including layoffs, generative AI, unionization, and on which engines and platforms they're making games. Informa's press outlet Game Developer worked with its market intelligence firm Omdia to survey more than 3,000 game makers last October, and found that the parade of headlines about layoffs in the industry

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GTA Online's Rockstar editor is losing last-gen support

Game Developer

Since GTA Online's PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version is turning 10, Rockstar's eliminating the in-game editor for those systems.

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Report: Behaviour Interactive lays off 45 employees

GamesIndustry.biz

Behaviour Interactive has reportedly laid off 45 staff. According to a report from Kotaku , layoffs at the Dead by Daylight studio started in December but this specific wave occurred between January 9 and 11. It impacted Behaviour's Montreal staff only, across various departments.

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Replacing MetroidVania

Game Developer

A playful dissection of the popular genre term and how video games can move on to better, more descriptive phrases.

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Wimo Games reportedly shuts down

GamesIndustry.biz

Texas-based Wimo Games seems to have closed its doors yesterday, as former employees shared the news on social media. Associate software engineer Walter Hill said on LinkedIn that the independent developer and publisher shut down. Principal concept artist Kevin T. Chin also shared the news on X. Hill told Kotaku that there were 35 people working at the studio at the time of its closure.

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What devs tackling morality can learn from War Hospital's card system

Game Developer

War Hospital's card-based triage system mixes card swipes, flavor text, and medical morality to put a face on the horrors of World War I.

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Amazon and Serenity Forge veterans announce new publisher Astra Logical

GamesIndustry.biz

New indie publisher Astra Logical just emerged from stealth, led by managing director Heather Jackson, formerly at Amazon Games. Jackson is joined by operations and finance manager Ryan Tagawa (previously marketing associate at Serenity Forge), head of marketing Laura Topakian (former senior marketing manager at Those Awesome Guys), and scout and developer relations manager Rachel Heleva (previously associate producer at Modus and producer at Astra Fund).

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Indie developer Threaks is shutting down

Game Developer

After 15 years and developing the likes of Battle Planet and All I Have is Time, Threaks is definitively calling it quits later this year.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle leads Microsoft's 2024 lineup

GamesIndustry.biz

Microsoft laid out a slate of five big games for its 2024 software lineup in a Developer Direct video today, capping the event off with the news that MachineGames' Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will arrive on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass "later this year." The company also has a number of games to tide players over until Indy's arrival, starting with Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, which arrives on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass May 21.

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Lords of the Fallen developer CI Games cutting 10 percent of jobs

Game Developer

The Polish studio said the layoffs were "tough but necessary.

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Until Dawn is getting a movie adaptation

GamesIndustry.biz

PlayStation Productions and Screen Gems (part of Sony Pictures Entertainment) are working on a movie adaptation of Supermassive horror hit Until Dawn. Swedish director David F. Sandberg, known for Annabelle: Creation and the two Shazam movies, will be helming the film, The Hollywood Reporter said. The script was originally written by Polaroid and The Invitation screenwriter Blair Butler, but will be revised by Gary Dauberman, who wrote all three Annabelle films as well as The Nun and It Chapter

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The Realities of Narrative

Game Developer

It is easy to come up with one idea. It is much more difficult to come up with multiple ideas.

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Smithy Skills and Struggles

Indie DB

Launching on January 26, my game "The Mine" takes you to Elsborg, where you meet Henrik, the hardworking blacksmith. He's overwhelmed and needs your help at the grindstone, a key task for keeping the mines running. You'll work closely on the grindstone.

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Outsourcing studio Obelisk nets $2 million to create original horror title

Game Developer

The studio has previously worked on notable projects including Fallout 76, Call of Duty Vanguard, and Sons of the Forest.

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LDtk 1.5 Released

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com LDtk 1.5 Released LDtk, or the Level Design Toolkit, is an open source 2D level editor from the director of Dead Cells. LDtk is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. LDtk 1.5 was just released with several new features and improvements: Key Links LDtk Homepage GitHub Repository You can learn more about LDtk … LDtk 1.5 Released Read More The post LDtk 1.5 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Forecasting work in video game development

Game Developer

Peter Willington, Production Director at Auroch Digital shares insight into how game developers can predict the future with correct forecasting techniques.

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Dive into the URP 3D Sample

Unity Blog

The Universal Render Pipeline (URP) 3D Sample features four environments for developers to explore how to best use the latest URP features, such as Forward+ rendering, Decals, Lens Flares, Physically Based Rendering materials, Shader Graph, Volumes, and Post-processing.

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How Games24x7 delivers millions of push notification using AWS

AWS Games

This post is co-authored by Sachin Sangle, Senior Software Engineer; Deepak Mishra, Engineering Manager; Dhiraj Prajapati, Engineering Manager; and Anil Kumar, Senior Engineering Manager, at Games24x7. Games24x7 is India’s most valuable multi-game platform. It is fueled by a dedication to blend science with cherished nostalgic games, crafting captivating online experiences for over 100 million players.

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Michael Blaker’s Bookish Wednesday: “Fates Parallel Volume 03”

Game Industry News

Hey all, I’m back with the third entry in a Xianxia genre book series for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s “Fates Parallel Volume 03” by Dark Technomancer. Plot: Jia and Eui are further entrenched in the murky politics that have overtaken the academy, and they must deal with former enemies and also a tournament in which they need to prove themselves to their instructors.

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Invalid 3D Cube Z axis?BUG?

Cocos

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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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47 Examines Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Waltz” Episode

Game Industry News

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is perhaps the best of 90s Trek because the setting, that of a space station rather than a spaceship, forced the characters to wrestle with the consequences of their choices. They couldn’t simply warp away to the next mission or the next new world, and for that reason, the writers could craft stories that forced the characters to face challenges to their Starfleet morals and worldviews that simply wouldn’t arise for an Enterprise crew. “ In the Pale Moonlight ” is perh

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Since you mentioned asset flips, what are you general opinion of them, and how numerous they are on steam/other game stores?

Ask a Game Dev

"Asset flip" is just another term for a game reskin. Game reskins generally exist in the shovelware niche - low cost and quick development targeting purchasers who don't really know or care what they're buying. Shovelware tends to proliferate in environments where the barrier to entry is low. If you can keep costs low, you don't need a huge number of sales to make a profit.

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The finalists have been announced for the Game Developers Choice Awards 2024

Game Development News

The list of finalists for this year’s Game Developers Choice awards has been announced

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Balancing In-House and Augmented Teams in Game Development

Juego Studio

Game development is a highly specialized and profitable niche. The advent of technology in this industry enables the making of high-quality and variety of video games.

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Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have quietly opened up a new games studio

Game Development News

Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have announced a brand new games studio

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