Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The other day I was told that my writing is appreciated and that I need to write more… so I’m taking a moment to write about a rabbit hole that I’ve fallen down since working on BlueSuburbia!
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
For months now we hear the heart wrenching tales of thousands of games industry professionals losing their jobs. We are anxiously checking the number of layoffs like we are watching the Doomsday clock slowly creeping towards midnight. But what do the numbers say? Well, according to Newzoo , the games industry is bouncing back from the decline in 2022.
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Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Composers Gordy Haab and Stephen Barton were celebrated alongside Taylor Swift, Victoria Monet, and Miley Cyrus at last night's ceremony.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Final Fantasy maker Square Enix released its financial earnings for the nine months that ended on December 31, 2023.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Crop Circle is one of many studios from Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain, and is at work on an unannounced project.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
This interview is part of GamesIndustry.biz’s Black Voices Progress Report, offering insight into the different experiences Black professionals have in the games sector. You can read more about the project and check the other entries on this page. Danielle McRae was interested in voice acting from a young age. She knew that people voiced the cartoons she watched, that someone somewhere had to record those lines as a job.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Despite the lack of upward pay in 2023, most developers are hopeful for some kind of raise to come through in the next year.
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Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Without a proper monetization plan and licensing fees to pay, Tencent pulled the plug on Nier's second mobile spinoff.
Game From Scratch
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio Code January Update The Visual Studio Code team have just released the somewhat oddly named January Update and it expands on one of the greatest new features of the recent (also oddly named) November update. That release gave Visual Studio Code the long awaited ability to break off code tabs to their own … Visual Studio Code January Update Read More The post Visual Studio Code January Update appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Could some of Microsoft's biggest first-party releases eventually land on rival hardware?
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Almost $3 billion was spent on boxed games and hardware in Japan last year, according to Famitsu's annual report. The total sales of physical games products amounted to ¥403.8 billion ($2.7 billion) from December 26, 2022 to December 31, 2023 – a 7.8% increase compared to ¥384.6 billion ($2.5 billion) in 2022. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was the best-selling game of the year with 1.9 million boxed copies shifted since it debuted in May.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Respawn celebrates Apex Legends' fifth birthday with a new in-game leveling system for its battle royale modes.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
A number of Crop Circle Games developers are reporting the studio has undergone layoffs, as spotted by Game Developer. The outlet spotted LinkedIn postings from three developers at the studio saying that they had been let go. GamesIndustry.biz subsequently found profiles of five more Crop Circle developers who had posted today that they were either laid off or needed to find a new role, with another five profiles of Crop Circle full-timers not posting but carrying the "#OpenToWork" banner on the
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Snatcher is usually regarded as a cult-classic that lays the foundation for Kojima's later work. It is more than that, however.
Logic Simplified
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Demographics have changed the nature of gaming over the course of time and the industry has evolved above gender, age, and other demographics. Today people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds play and enjoy video games, while their preferences and consumption habits may vary. Needless to say, Demographics like age, race, ethnicity, gender, income, education, and employment provide valuable insights that guide game development companies during the process of creating, marketing, and maintaining
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Unravel the minds of a group of people in the gritty but vibrant New York of the late 80s in this FMV game, created with footage actually shot in 1989
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Nailing the mobile games scene is all about grabbing users' attention, getting them excited to download your mobile game, and ensuring they have a great time playing it. However, as a mobile game developer, you might find yourself at a crossroads when it comes to executing user acquisition campaigns. This could involve establishing an in-house user acquisition team within your studio, leveraging the expertise of a mobile marketing agency, or collaborating with a mobile game publisher.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Let’s take a look at the common issues game accessibility experts tackle.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox James Batchelor and Chris Dring discuss the biggest news from the past week. The main topic this week is the recent rumours that Microsoft may bring key first-party exclusives such as Starfield and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to other platforms , including PlayStation 5.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Players can experience this exciting turn-based tactical space game early during Steam Next Fest
DameDev.tv
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Previously, in Part I , and continuing into Part II of this tutorial series, we delved into a handful of useful concepts. Some of these are specific to the Unity engine, such as animating a button press with coroutines or working with Unity events and utilizing TextMesh Pro. On the other hand, concepts like building a tokenizer, a recursive descent parser, or an Abstract Syntax Tree (commonly abbreviated as AST) are fundamental and can be found in many applications.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Explore iconic paintings in this hidden-object artventure, through a charming demo, available from February 5th to 12th.
CrazyLabs
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
We asked all of our gaming experts at CrazyLabs to share their top predictions and trends for 2024 in the mobile gaming industry. Below, each department shares their insights: HYBRID-CASUAL “The mobile gaming industry is changing significantly, especially within the hybrid-casual games sector. The reasons for this are the market’s saturation with hyper-casual games; specifically, […] The post Cracking the Code: CrazyLabs’ Gaming Experts Reveal 2024 Mobile Gaming Trends appear
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Psychological adventure about how to deal with stress by looking a flat surface.
Nvidia
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
This week’s Model Monday release features the NVIDIA-optimized code Llama, Kosmos-2, and SeamlessM4T, which you can experience directly from your browser. This week’s Model Monday release features the NVIDIA-optimized code Llama, Kosmos-2, and SeamlessM4T, which you can experience directly from your browser. With NVIDIA AI Foundation Models and Endpoints , you can access a curated set of community and NVIDIA-built generative AI models to experience, customize, and deploy in enterprise applicatio
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
God destined to make a comeback thanks to this new visual novel.
Cocos
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Dear developers, kylin is here. Today, I would like to introduce a developer and the project “Cocosmos” created by him to you. I hope this can showcase the potential of using Cocos Creator for developing non-game 3D projects. Showcase Link： [link] The following is the main content： Hello everyone, I’m Shengzi, a programmer from a large internet company in China.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Lots of events and "festivities" planned for Lunar New Year.
Cocos
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Dear developers, kylin is here. Today, I would like to introduce a developer and the project “Cocosmos” created by him to you. I hope this can showcase the potential of using Cocos Creator for developing non-game 3D projects. Showcase Link：[link] The following is the main content： Hello everyone, I’m Shengzi, a programmer from a large internet company in China.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
2D action title now out on Steam in demo form.
Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
My very first job in the game industry was working on a game in a genre I had little personal interest in, programming parts of the game I never had any particular interest in. I was quite far away from the kind of games I grew up playing or dreamed of making, but I did my best anyway because I knew that it was the best opportunity I had to get to where I wanted to be.
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Throwing out predictions is easy. Tapping yourself on the back for a correct prediction is rewarding. But being open about your track record is essential. We certainly don’t get it always right. And you can count on us to be the first ones to call ourselves out when that happens. Our track record for 2023 predictions: 4 correct 3 partly correct 1 wrong See what where we missed and why.
Cocos
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
In Spine using an image like this: You can set the image to “Additive” and this way remove the black parts of the JPG and making it transparent: What is the equivalent setup for blending modes (Srd Blend Factor and Dst Blend Factor) in Cocos Creator 2 to make this happen? I’ve tried to play around with it and layering images to blend them, but without succeeding.
Game Development News
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Stuart Pentelow, programmer at d3t, tells us that when it comes to becoming a video game developer you can’t control luck, but you can improve your chances with hard work
Cocos
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Hello my friends, I’m having an issue with the iOS 17 (17.0, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3) and I have a feeling that it can be solved by Cocos 3.X engine side. Its related to the Safari-browser, which used to send a resize event (for example on orientation change) and the engine catch that change within short amount of time so the game can adjust the Canvas size.
Indie DB
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
This update improves how the game looks and plays entirely and comes with a completely polished Aclendi Woods level that is 5x larger than the old one.
Cocos
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
How to load spine skeleton data from a bundle? I have tried using this: bundle.load (path, (err, skeletonData) => { if (err) return; this.skeleton.skeletonData = skeletonData; }); But it always error.
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