Is NVIDIA's AI-driven NPC tech just really expensive improv?
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
NVIDIA's AI tech can't beat out improv performances from real actors.
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Focus Entertainment's Q3 revenue dips 43% and it announces a rebrand
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Focus Entertainment released its third-quarter earnings report, posting a 43% decrease; this was partly attributed to no major releases during the three months ending December 31. The games firm also announced that on April 1, it will be rebranding to Pullup Entertainment.
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About 1,600 women received payments from Riot Games after discrimination suit
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
Riot's women staff saw the majority of its $104 million settlement, which arose from a 2018 lawsuit alleging the studio's yearslong culture of sexism.
UK recruitment firm OPM closes after 26 years
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Games recruitment specialist One Player Mission (OPM) will close down after 26 years. The agency currently employs 15 people. Managing director Kim Parker-Adcock said that with the current situation in the games industry, she "cannot see how OPM can remain profitable".
A whole lot of developers think conglomeration is a very bad idea
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
"Consolidation of wealth and power inevitably breeds complacency and contempt for workers and consumers.
An arms race for games industry tax breaks
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Consulting firm Nordicity is well-versed on the subject of tax credits for the games industry. It has worked with trade groups around the world, helping them explain to legislators how tax breaks can help make their regions more competitive. It has also worked on the other side of the equation, helping governments that are either exploring the idea, or have already settled on tax breaks but need help with the logistics of implementing them.
Riot Games overreached with "big bets" and now 530 people are losing their jobs
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
"Some of the significant investments we've made aren't paying off the way we expected them to.
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Deep Dive: Fleshing out the universe of Lunar Lander Beyond
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
Asking the right questions about the nature of humanity helped expand upon the game's humble arcade origins.
UK video game developer union membership has been on the rise
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The IWGB Game Workers union saw its membership increase by nearly half from December 2022 to December 2023. As reported by The Observer , people have joined in response to the mass wave of layoffs across gaming.
Netmarble liquidates Grand Cross: Metaworld studio Metaverse World
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
The South Korean publisher attributed the closure to "market changes" within the metaverse industry.
Newzoo: Global games market expected to grow to $189bn in 2024
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
The global games market is expected to generate $189.3 billion in 2024, Newzoo estimated in its latest report. Exploring upcoming trends, the data firm indicated that the market recovered last year and will slowly grow in 2024 and beyond. The compound annual growth rate from 2021 through 2026 was estimated at 1.3%. Newzoo said the market generated an estimated $184 billion in 2023, a small 0.6% increase over 2022, which itself was down 5% year-on-year.
Focus Entertainment to rebrand to Pullup in April
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
Focus' name change comes amid reorganizations and an expected slump for 2023-2024's third quarter.
Riot lays off 530 staff, Riot Forge shutting down
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced that it's laying off 11% of its workforce, representing 530 employees. The layoffs primarily impacted teams "outside of core development," CEO Dylan Jadeja said in a lengthy update on Riot's website. The employees affected will receive a minimum of six months of severance pay, a cash bonus, and extensive support including hardware if needed, job placement services, additional pay for health insurance, and more.
Square Enix is tossing Nier Reincarnation on the chopping block
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
The mobile RPG launched less than three years ago.
Announcing our closure
OPM Jobs
JANUARY 23, 2024
It is with a heavy heart that I share some difficult news regarding the future of One Player Mission. After careful consideration and evaluation, it is with great sadness that I must announce my decision to cease trading. This has been an incredibly challenging decision for me, and it comes after thorough examination of all available options. As we move into 2024, despite our best efforts I cannot see how OPM can remain profitable and overcome the difficulties that have arisen in the games indus
Overwatch 2 nets new Champions esports league with multi-year deal
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
After killing the Overwatch League late last year, Blizzard is rebirthing Overwatch 2's esports scene with a brand new league.
What Is IEC 81001-5-1?
Perforce
JANUARY 23, 2024
IEC 81001-5-1 is a healthcare standard that goes beyond covering medical devices, addressing cybersecurity at every phase of the SDLC for various types of health software. From medical diagnosis software to yoga apps, IEC 81001-5-1 helps organizations ensure software security.
Powell Group and Representing Games join forces to create an allround agency
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 23, 2024
The Powell Group , a full-service game consultancy, and Representing Games , the agency label of game industry matchmaker MeetToMatch, are collaborating. By joining forces the two companies will leverage their complementary strengths to create an allround agency for publishers and developers alike. The collaboration between The Powell Group and Representing Games will focus on providing support for developers and publishers, assisting them in growing their company.
Tales of Old: Dominus - New area
Indie DB
JANUARY 23, 2024
Showcase of a new area: Hillstowe Abbey - A hamlet rests near, where inhabitants lend a helping hand to pilgrims - "The Name of the Rose" vibes here.
From Challenge to Triumph: Gaggle’s Journey in Overcoming DDoS Attacks with AWS Shield Advanced
AWS Games
JANUARY 23, 2024
In this blog, we explore the challenges Gaggle Studios faced with DDoS attacks due to the success of their online game, ‘Goose Goose Duck.’ We’ll delve into how they navigated these challenges and implemented effective mitigation strategies. ‘Goose Goose Duck,’ a game of social deduction created by Gaggle Studios, stands out in the online gaming realm.
Madrigal - Wraith combat test
Indie DB
JANUARY 23, 2024
Madrigal Wraith combat test, the scythe weapon ground strike was a lot of tricky work using animation events to trigger all the fx etc, it also has a damage collider attached to the prefab projectile trail which follows the trajectory to damage the player.
UK games industry recruitment agency OPM has closed after 26 years
Game Development News
JANUARY 23, 2024
One Player Mission (OPM, formerly OPMJobs and OPM Response) has announced its decision to close down after 26 years of providing recruitment services to the UK games industry
What makes Cross-platform game development popular in 2024?
Juego Studio
JANUARY 23, 2024
Accessibility is crucial to building high-quality and popular games in today’s era. As the technologies evolve, there is a paradigm shift towards creating cross-platform games among developers to cater to the growing demand.
Critical Path: January 2024 – Highlights for the month!
Game Development News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Here are the key upcoming events and releases to mark in your calendar for January 2024
My friend is making an arcade racer and I’ve been playtesting his builds for him. He didn’t go into it thinking it’d be easy but there’s a ton of things he didn’t at all realize would be a headache going into it. Obviously all games are hard to make but some are more apparent about their daunting nature. Which genres are deceptively difficult even if reasonably possible by a small indie team? What surprised you when you hit the big leagues?
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 23, 2024
Whenever I do solo dev work, the feature that always takes the longest and tends to require the most work to get something playable by actual players is the UI. Building out the gameplay features is always a lot of fun, but you can only go so far by fiddling with variables and restarting. There's always a significant amount of UI groundwork that needs to be done in order to make a game playable at all, just because of how much information needs to be conveyed to the player.
The Darkest of Difficulty Design Discussions
Game Wisdom
JANUARY 23, 2024
The Darkest of Difficulty Design Discussions Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this roundtable discussion, our group talked about Darkest Dungeon 2 and the rise of difficult games. Why it’s a lot harder than you might think to make a hard game, and what are the reasons and … The post The Darkest of Difficulty Design Discussions appeared first on Game Wisdom.
How to serializable for Generic type in cocos creator?
Cocos
JANUARY 23, 2024
Is it possible to serializable for Generic type? @ccclass('Dictionary') export class Dictionary<K> { @property([String]) keys: string[] = [] @property([K]) //Can not do this, cause K is a type, not a value value: string[] = [] } After this, I have a component storage the Dictionarty value @ccclass export class DComp extends cc.Component { @property(Dictionary/**<cc.Component>**/) dic: Dictionary<cc.Component> = new Dictionarty<cc.Component>(); } So, the DComp only
Playdemic founders Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby are opening a new studio, ForthStar Games
Game Development News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby have announced that they’re opening a new mobile free-to-play game studio
Broken Android build process
Cocos
JANUARY 23, 2024
I use Creator 3.8.0 and for some reason, for last couple of days, when I’m trying to build native Android app, after “Build” step, there’s no files in ‘buildandroiddatasrccocos-js’. Make step works fine, but after that I have broken APK which shows only black screen, because it couldn’t load ‘srccocos-jscc.js’. I tried turning on “MD5 Cache” Build option and then I got error ‘’[Assets] ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename ‘[PROJECT_PATH]buildandroiddatasrccocos-jscc.js’ → ‘[PR.
NEW USERS READ THIS! New User Guidance
Cocos
JANUARY 23, 2024
Welcome New Users! This has a few quick tips to get you started. Why can’t I do certain things? New users are somewhat limited for SPAM reasons.
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