Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

"Your livelihood is not protected without a voice on the job.

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JANUARY 26, 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. It was another brutal week in the industry right from the start, with Riot Games laying off about 530 people on Monday while reciting a lot of the familiar lines we've been hearing for the past year.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

App Store devs interested in using third-party services in the EU will need to agree to new terms, and a fee that could eventually cost them €0.50 per install.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 26, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Apple Introduce New Run-Time Fee In response to the EU’s newly instated Digital Markets Act, Apple have just implemented a new Unity-like run-time fee for developers that wish to take advantage of the laws new provisions. The DMA or Digital Markets Act aims to provide the following benefits: In what can only be described as … Apple Introduce New Run-Time Fee Read More The post Apple Introduce New Run-Time Fee appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

The PUBG publisher reportedly failed to investigate an alleged assault and terminating the victim months after reporting it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

Square Enix has revealed that several people have been criminally charged for distributing counterfeit merchandise in China. In a press announcement , the publisher detailed that nine people were charged in May 2023 in Guangdong province. Six were involved with distributing the products, while three were charged for manufacturing. Counterfeit products involving Final Fantasy and Nier: Automata characters were seized as a result.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

Technical issues within Odyssey's engine forced Blizzard to cancel the MMO despite it getting positive internal reception.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

The EU's Digital Markets Act will let Epic sell Fortnite on iOS through its own marketplace, but the way Apple has engaged with the new law has the company riled up.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

Nexon's live-service multiplayer Warhaven is shutting down on April 5, 2024, four months after entering global early access. In an announcement shared on Steam , the developer said sales of Warhaven's battle pass will be suspended today, and it will update players of the exact shutdown schedule at a later date. "Warhaven has come this far, thanks to everyone's love and support," it said.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

Bushiroad is giving its upcoming Love Life! mobile game a staggered death months after it'll have its worldwide launch.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Polish developer Reikon Games has reportedly dismissed a significant portion of its workforce. Sources told GamesIndustry.biz that around 70 people have been laid off, while former producer Rafał Basaj claimed it was around 60 people via a Threads post.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2024

How the transition to a unified.NET has impacted platform support, and re-adding the ability to port to mobile.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 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 Working in game development is a dream for many people around the world. It's a hugely popular form of entertainment that sees developers working on the cutting edge of both art and science. At EGX 2023, XR Games' talent acquisition manager Andy Driver shared his tips on how to land your first job in game development.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 26, 2024

Learn the basics of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), an end-to-end architecture used to optimize the output of an LLM. Learn the basics of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), an end-to-end architecture used to optimize the output of an LLM.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox German developers and publishers largely have a negative outlook when it comes to the year ahead for the country's video games industry. That's according to the annual industry barometer survey conducted by German trade body Game.

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 26, 2024

From Modder to Designer With Unearthed Studios Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this developer interview, I’m speaking with Charles from Unearthed Studios who went from modding to working on a game with the Titan Quest expansion Eternal Embers for a chat about his studio, ARPG design, and more.… The post From Modder to Designer With Unearthed Studios appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

The games business experiences more than its fair share of controversies, but there's been a clear front runner in the controversy stakes over the past decade or so, and that's free-to-play games. Though they're now firmly part of the landscape, and quite a few of the most successful games of the past years have used F2P business models, there's still a vocal group of consumers who are rubbed in all the wrong ways by this model.

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 26, 2024

New Mobile Casinos: Everything to Know About Gambling On the Go Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Online gambling has absolutely boomed over the last decade, with the mobile market being the most recent area of expansion for casinos. In just fifty short years, we went from only being able to gamble at casinos to gambling online … The post New Mobile Casinos: Everything to Know About Gambling On the Go appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Fntastic has responded to claims of misinformation regarding The Day Before's development and financial performance. As reported by PCGamesN , the studio issued a statement in a now-deleted social media post about the title's circumstances.

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Cocos

JANUARY 26, 2024

I’m having hard times positioning nodes in the scene, whether it’s 3D or 2D. For me everything is invisible till I press it (except Camera and several others node that have icons enabled). When I compose nodes for example with colliders, or nodes where sprites in different places, I can’t assess correctly size of prefab, group of nodes etc.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox For the past two weeks, we've been publishing a series of articles and videos aimed at students, designed to offer insight on life in the games industry and advice on how to get into the business – all under the banner of our Get into Games special. The full series, sponsored by Wrexham University, can be found below, covering everything from how to get into certain fields (such as voice acting, art and video game

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Cocos

JANUARY 26, 2024

Hey! Thanks for the reply. If it is possible for developer like myself to draw gizmos through GeometryRenderer in editor (not in game) - no need to look through this with cocos team. I think I will give a shot myself at developing extension for Cocos Creator with additional gizmos in editor. Is it possible to draw gizmos in editor preview window?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2024

As a double-feature release, Godot 4.1.4 and 4.2.2 are ready for testing with their respective release candidates!

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Cocos

JANUARY 26, 2024

Handle the input like a keyboard event and get the keycode. Cocos api defults KeyCode.MOBILE_BACK to 6 and KeyCode.BACKSPACE to 8 (docs[dot]cocos[dot]com/creator/3.8/api/en/enumeration/KeyCode?id=MOBILE_BACK). I had to do it manually, because both Android phones here (8.1 and 13) return 8 for both back and backspace. ie. input.on(Input.EventType.KEY_DOWN, this.onKeyDown, this); onKeyDown(event: EventKeyboard) { if (sys.isMobile) {// just in case if (event.

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Cocos

JANUARY 26, 2024

Hello cc community. Has anyone found a solution for integrating Jest with Cocos Creator v3 for unit testing? Currently facing ‘Cannot find module ‘cc’’ errors and seeking guidance. Any insights or successful configurations are appreciated.

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Cocos

JANUARY 26, 2024

I can cheat cocos creator by copy few times from the packed Atlas file and rename it as same as the json file, but it seem too stupid, could you please slightly adjust the sp.Skeleton component can choose Atlas rather than check the same name for later version?

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Cocos

JANUARY 26, 2024

I created Spine projects, shared image sequence for the effects. I utilized the Spine Texture Packer to consolidate them. However, Cocos Creator only recognizes Spine JSON, PNG, and Atlas files with same names. Otherwise, it displays an error. Any method to use same Atlas and PNG with different spine json?

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