Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2024

Summer Games Fest's pricing structure for trailers is pricey, and can help (or hurt) smaller developers marketing their game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other's work. This entry was contributed by Joe Henson, game designer and marketing director at Digital Cybercherries, which has just released Hypercharge: Unboxed onXbox Series X|S and Xbox One. When I reflect on my childhood filled with gaming, many cherished memories come to mind, featuring a host of remarkable games.

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Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2024

Now that it's split from Arc Games, Rogue Snail is on the hunt for a new publishing partner to keep its Early Access shooter alive.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

At Reboot Develop Blue 2024, Unity's Micaela Hayes appeared on stage to tackle the subject of online toxicity, how to fight it and how important it is to confront it not only from an ethical point of view but, frankly, as a business decision. Between 2021 and 2023, she explained, the number of people experiencing some form of toxicity has gone from 68% to 76%, and roughly 49% of players have stated that they avoid specific games for this reason.

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Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2024

Square Enix's HD-2D franchise has found an audience ahead of its launch on Xbox Game Pass and current-gen systems.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

GAME has been undergoing some changes over the past few days, dropping its reward scheme, Xbox All Access, and reportedly increasing the move of its stores to smaller concessions. Eurogamer confirmed with the UK retailer that it will no longer offer Xbox All Access, which lets players buy an Xbox Series X|S console across 24 monthly instalments (also including Game Pass), by the end of June.

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Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2024

Insiders tell Bloomberg how Rocksteady went from single-player hits to a live-service dud.

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Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2024

A fond look back at video game cookbooks and the delicious dishes that inspired them, including a recipe based on The Sims 3.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

Sony is following the formula for success it found with Helldivers 2 by offering its next live service game, hero shooter Concord, for the same lower price. Push Square points to the upcoming title's listing on the Australian PlayStation Store, which is selling pre-orders for the game's standard edition at AU$59.95 – the same as Arrowhead Games' Helldivers 2.

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Indie DB

JUNE 6, 2024

Enjoy the Prologue of the game with two combats and the story part which is the prequel of the main campaign.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

Microsoft recently confirmed that the upcoming annual Call of Duty premium release will enter its Game Pass multi-game subscription service at launch. This promises to boost interest in Game Pass and disrupt Sony’s full game business, but by how much? While it’s challenging to predict the specific commercial impact, Activision’s product strategy, and the agreements made during its acquisition by Microsoft, means the impact will not be as far reaching as it might have been in th

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2024

In our previous blog, Operationalize generative AI applications on AWS: Part I , we covered the basics of how companies are using generative AI and Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps) on AWS. We discussed use cases for game companies using generative AI, ways to customize LLM, and a high-level architecture for the LLMOps solution on AWS. In this blog we will dive deeper into the architecture.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

A new UK studio from Mediatonic alumni just came out of stealth, called Kindred Spirit Games. Co-founders Megan Ralph and Joel Herber made the announcement on Linkedin , saying the studio was created six months ago. Ralph is the firm's design director and Herber its technical director. Ralph and Herber previously worked together at Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, respectively as lead level designer and lead client engineer.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 6, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio Code May 1.90 Update Released The popular code editor Visual Studio Code just received it’s monthly upgrade. In the May update (formally Visual Studio Code 1.90) the follow new features were added: Key Links Visual Studio Code 1.90 Release Notes Visual Studio Code Homepage Visual Studio Code GitHub Repository You can learn more about the […] The post Visual Studio Code May 1.90 Update Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

The Asia, Middle East, and North Africa (MENA) games market increased 4.6% year-on-year to $85.5 billion in 2023, and is expected to rise to $97.1 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Niko Partners. The study covers China, India, East Asia (Japan and Korea), Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) markets.

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Designer Notes

JUNE 6, 2024

In this episode, Soren interviews noted game investor Mitch Lasky, best known for his work as a venture capitalist at Benchmark, as the CEO of JAMDAT, and as an executive at Activision and Electronic Arts. They discuss how the industry’s business models have always affected design, why he was wrong about the Halloween pack ruining League of Legends , and why the litigation leaks are better than GDC.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 6, 2024

askagamedev : Welcome to Harder Than You Think, a series about things that seem fairly easy to an outsider but can rapidly spiral into extremely complicated or expensive behaviors. Today, we’ll be talking about ladders and how they can cause all sorts of weird bugs in a game. Ladders are another common game feature that tend to cause all sorts of animation and game state problems.

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Cocos

JUNE 6, 2024

I have created a project using Cocos Creator v:3.8.3, no scripts or plugins, just an empty project with a minimal scene containing only one sprite at the center. I created a build for web-mobile target and then tested it on Android Official Emulator with API 26. Opening the game in chrome of emulator unfortunately fails. Looking at logcat, I can see this line related to this problem: I chromium: [INFO:CONSOLE(24)] "Error: [link] [link] (SystemJS [link] source: [link] (24) It seems there is an er

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Game Development News

JUNE 6, 2024

Silja Bernecker, Team Lead for Talent Acquisition Management at InnoGames, talks about the benefits of open information sharing, and how it is an essential part of what they do. What differentiates your studio from other developers? Unsurprisingly, it’s a combination of factors that makes us different. Firstly, we foster open information sharing.

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Artoon

JUNE 6, 2024

React Single Page Application (SPAs) are web applications that load a single […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Mastering React One Page App appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

JUNE 6, 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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Cocos

JUNE 6, 2024

you need to know how to listen to a button’s click event use director.loadScene(sceneName) to load your scene. btw: do you use English?

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Cocos

JUNE 6, 2024

Hola, quería saber como programar los botones para que cambie la escena

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Cocos

JUNE 6, 2024

i use cocos creator 2.4.13 and import bignumber.js 9.1.

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