Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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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Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
As generative AI becomes a bigger presence in games, developers use the technology while remaining wary of its impact.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Apple has detailed how direct payments will work on iOS following the resolution of its long-running legal battle with Epic Games – and it will claim a 27% commission on proceeds generated through these methods. According to the revised guidelines , developers must now apply for an 'entitlement' (detailed below), and must still include the option to purchase through Apple's own billing system.
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GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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).
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
A year after leaving Rocksteady, Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill have reportedly opened up new studio Hundred Star Games.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 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 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.
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
A playful dissection of the popular genre term and how video games can move on to better, more descriptive phrases.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
Peter Willington, Production Director at Auroch Digital shares insight into how game developers can predict the future with correct forecasting techniques.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
Since GTA Online's PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version is turning 10, Rockstar's eliminating the in-game editor for those systems.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
The company has reportedly axed 45 roles at its Canadian studio.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
The studio has previously worked on notable projects including Fallout 76, Call of Duty Vanguard, and Sons of the Forest.
Indie DB
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
The Polish studio said the layoffs were "tough but necessary.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
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).
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
The studio says the final DLC pack will include a few tearjerkers.
Unity Blog
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2024
It is easy to come up with one idea. It is much more difficult to come up with multiple ideas.
Game From Scratch
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
AWS Games
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Game Industry News
JANUARY 18, 2024
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.
Cocos
JANUARY 18, 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.
Game Industry News
JANUARY 18, 2024
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
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 18, 2024
"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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