Game Developer

JULY 2, 2024

Multiple former employees have shared the news, which comes less than three months after the studio's debut title launched.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

An unknown number of employees have been let got across the Gamurs Group's various publications. Former staff revealed the cuts via social media, although it is unclear how many of the group's sites have been affected. Affected staff include Destructoid's social video lead Brett Medlock and video editor Dan Roemer , PC Invasion writer Alejandro Josan , and Dot Esports staff writer Scott Robertson.

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Game Developer

JULY 2, 2024

Minimum's resume includes recent Capcom hits like Dragon's Dogma II and Resident Evil 4, so it's no wonder Capcom decided to grab the studio via share acquisition.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

Surgent Studios has reportedly laid off an undisclosed number of employees. The cuts come just three months after its latest release, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, released to strong critic and fan reviews. Whilst neither the studio itself nor founder Abubakar Salim has commented publicly on the layoffs, former Surgent devs have discussed the redundancies on their personal social media profiles.

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Game Developer

JULY 2, 2024

Singularity 6 has conducted multiple rounds of layoffs since the turn of the year, but will now join the Daybreak family.

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Development 290

GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

"Should we bother with Summer Game Fest this year? Are there other shows better suited for our title? Should we do our own event?" Every year, I see the same questions getting thrown my way when it comes to what used to be E3's spot in the calendar. What was once a singular event that brought every publisher, developer, journalist and gamer together to celebrate the industry and its latest and greatest has since morphed into a series of smaller events scattered about before, during and after the

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Games Platformer Development 131

Game Developer

JULY 2, 2024

Communication can become challenging in work settings, especially in unfamiliar environments or urgent situations necessitating quick problem resolution. I'd like to share some lessons I learned from my first large-scale team game development project.

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Communications Development Game Developer Game Development 212

Game Developer

JULY 2, 2024

With a solid player base and an anime project on the way, Arc System Works is all-in on Guilty Gear Strive.

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Animation Animation 246

GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

A UK employment tribunal has ordered Cloud Imperium Games to pay a former employee £27,748 in compensation following a discrimination claim about its return-to-office policy. As reported by Game Developer , senior programmer Paul Ah-Thion was dismissed in 2022 after his requests to permanently work from home to accommodate his disability were denied.

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Game Developer

JULY 2, 2024

Voodoo cut the roles at BeReal reportedly to "refocus" on its talent stationed within France and the UK.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

Nintendo of America has filed lawsuits against two individuals it accuses of violating its copyright by trading and selling "circumvention devices". In court papers uploaded to Torrent Freak , Ryan Michael Daly of Modded Hardware – a website Nintendo believes has contravened the DMCA by selling modded consoles, pirated games, and mod chips – has been accused of trafficking in circumvention devices, copyright infringement, breach of EULA contract, and tortious interference with contra

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Technology Console Games 122

Game Developer

JULY 2, 2024

The company specializes in strategy, simulation, and RPG titles.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

Games companies in the UK still have time to enter the GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2024. We have revamped our questions for 2024, focusing in on the areas that truly matter in what has been a tough year or games companies and their employees. This year, games companies can also take part in our special awards separately from our main badge process.

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Games 109

Game Development News

JULY 2, 2024

As we await delivery of the print edition (hundreds of copies of which will be available for you to swipe from Develop:Brighton should you be so inclined) the digital version of MCV/DEVELOP #997 is ready for you to flick through right now!

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

Daybreak has acquired Singularity 6 as a wholly owned subsidiary. The Palia developer will continue to operate independently under the leadership of its co-founders Anthony Leung and Aidan Karabiach. Singularity 6 will use its expanded resources to invest in development, bring Palia to its 1.0 launch, and make the game available across multiple platforms.

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Platformer Development Games 117

Indie DB

JULY 2, 2024

Are you interested in a classic vertical scroller, old western theme, shoot 'em up arcade game? Smoking Gun may be for you!

Games 97

Games 97

GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 2, 2024

BeReal has been affected by a wave of layoffs following its acquisition from Voodoo. The social media app's COO Romain Salzman shared on LinkedIn that 28 employees across its engineering, QA, and marketing divisions had been affected "as part of a re-focus on France/Europe-based talents." Last month, Voodoo acquired BeReal for €500 million with Wizz CEO Aymeric Roffé taking over from the app's former CEO and founder Alexis Barreyat.

Media 120

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Logic Simplified

JULY 2, 2024

What is Customer Experience Optimization? A business must understand its customers and improve its holistic experience by understanding what the customers want and what it can afford to offer. Customer Experience Optimization or UX optimization ensures a business does that and increases customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. Customer experience optimization takes into account every touchpoint of your customer's journeys, making it efficient and beneficial for customers without causing any

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UX Mobile Mobile Software 75

Game From Scratch

JULY 2, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unreal July 2024 Asset Giveaway It is time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for July 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and July is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets, […] The post Unreal July 2024 Asset Giveaway appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Asset Engineering Engine Games 69

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

1.You should install a http server, that you can browser the index.html correctly. 2.You wanna confirm the start scene is the scene you want to show. 3.Are there any errors occur during loading the game. After checking these steps, you can browser the game on the website.

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Games 52

Ask a Game Dev

JULY 2, 2024

Production makes the final call on bug prioritization, but they take the advisement of the other departments under consideration while making those choices. You are correct that the bugs that stop people from working are the top priority. Below broken builds, live issues that allow players to exploit or grief others are often top priorities. Other than that, it's a jumble of completing the remaining tasks that need to be done for our next release (especially those that allow others to work) and

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Bug Dev Build Games 52

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Hi, I’m trying to implement push-noti, ads, iap into my game, so I heard that SDKHub can do this Some posts told me to install SDKHub through Cocos service panel, but when I open Service Panel, it showed only 3 options like below Can someone please tell me how to have SDKHub in the list? Thanks so much! PS: I’ve tried to install SDKBox from SDKBox official website but it seems too old & installing SDKHelper caused error panic: Get "[link] dial tcp: lookup download.sdkbox.

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Games 52

Catnip Games

JULY 2, 2024

Tiny Player version 2.1.0 is out now on iOS. What’s new? Open tinyplayer.net in your browser and the running Tiny Player app will appear automatically. You don’t have to type the IP address anymore. There had been a few minor releases since 2.0: 2.0.4 Fix seeking in files with less common sampling frequencies Fix saving of playlist 2.0.3 Add support for m4b audio book files Fix crash during file management operations 2.0.2 EQ tweaks 2.0.1 Show list of supported file extensions on fro

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Bug 52

Indie DB

JULY 2, 2024

The game Wrath of Skeletar Origins is officialy released!

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Games 87

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Download Links Windows Mac Update Notes Engine New Features Pool supports setting a shrink threshold to ensure that the size after shrinking will not be less than the shrink threshold. Support for mouse-leave and mouse-enter events. Added Vec2.toVec3() interface. Added Vec3.toVec2() interface. Added ResolutionPolicy.getContentStrategy(). Added ContentStrategy.strategy.

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Artoon

JULY 2, 2024

Choosing the right mobile app framework is crucial, and the Ionic vs […] The post Ionic vs React Native: Which Mobile App Framework Is Best in 2024 appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Mobile Mobile Development 40

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Hello. I would like to inquire about the web version volume issue. I’m using Cocos Creator 2.4.12. There is an issue that plays the volume low when playing from the Galaxy Tab A8 terminal to the speaker. There are no issues when using earphones. AudioSource and AudioEngine all have the same issue. There are no issues when using HTML Audio. Is there a solution?

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Mobile Mobile 40

Artoon

JULY 2, 2024

Unity is the leading engine for cross-platform development, popular among aspiring developers […] The post Unity Game Engine Download: Empowering Your Game Development Journey appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

Game Engine 40

Game Engine Engine Engineering Cross platform 40

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Download Links Windows Mac Update Notes Engine New Features Pool supports setting a shrink threshold to ensure that the size after shrinking will not be less than the shrink threshold. Support for mouse-leave and mouse-enter events. Added Vec2.toVec3() interface. Added Vec3.toVec2() interface. Added ResolutionPolicy.getContentStrategy(). Added ContentStrategy.strategy.

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

I use Post Process on many cameras but the clear flag “DEPTH ONLY” indicator does not work. The last camera covers all objects behind. Can someone help me? Sorry for my bad English. Cocos creator 3.

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Hello @mr.kylin , I think the main reason for this not working is due to the below mat4 sent as uniform. Even if we try a simple mat4 its not working in iOS (works fine in web and android). Do you have any clue on this? @zhangxm Do you have any idea why this is not working in iOS or anything we are doing wrong here? UnGamer: uniform inMatrix { highp mat4 inTransform; }; In.ts we are directly setting the Mat4 like below. let material = this.coverSprite.getSharedMaterial(0); material.

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Shaders 40

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

We don’t have Galaxy Tab A8, so it is hard for us to fix it. And i am curious with the usage: Why play both speakers and earphones? As i know, we can only play in one mode? Did you mean the app plays video and uses Audio engine to play audio at the same time? How did you record audio?

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Mobile Mobile Engine Engineering 40

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Hello, I am currently experiencing an issue with a Button in Cocos Creator. The Transition: SCALE does not work on Android after I build the APK file, even though it works fine in the browser and Simulator during testing. I would appreciate any help from the community. Thank you!

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

We don’t use speakers and earphones at the same time. When playing on speaker : the sound is played low When playing with earphones : Sound is played normally There are cases where sound effects and the like are played during video playback. However, rather than using video and sound effects at the same time, please check the part where the size of the sound is different for each device.

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