Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

Ward joined TSR during Dungeons & Dragons' first boom, and worked on several add-ons for the TTRPG, plus his own science-fantasy game, Metamorphosis Alpha.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

This GDC marks the comeback of an iconic panel, with 1ReasonToBe returning in person for the first time since 2019. Hosted by Pincer Games CEO and Uruguayan Game Developers Association president Laia Bee, the panel will take place on Thursday at 11:30am PT, featuring five women who will share their 'one reason to be' in the industry, and their stories in games.

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

Larian Studio's creative content manager Ben M-J shares good insight into what makes TikTok tick and worked for Baldur's Gate 3.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Ubisoft has shown three behind-the-scenes demos at GDC this week on the potential of AI when it comes to building NPCs. Dubbed NEO NPCs, Ubisoft's efforts involves combining AI responses with narrative back stories and prompts designed to avoid making the NPCs appear 'soulless'. The project is an R&D initiative led by Ubisoft’s Paris alongside its Production Technology department.

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

Do NEO NPCs dream of electric sheep?

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Something Wicked Games has reportedly cut an unknown number of staff. As reported by Game Developer , senior animator Eric Webb shared on LinkedIn last Friday that the studio "had to lay off most of [its] staff." Graphics programmer Andrew Woloszyn also posted to LinkedIn writing that he had been "caught up in the layoffs at Something Wicked," while lead narrative designer Jessica Sliwinski shared that she is currently looking for work.

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

[Interactivity] is a way to increase player engagement in story moments, which in turn maximizes immersion.

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Cinematics 320

Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

The fate of Bungie as a developer is now also tied up in its Marathon reboot, which it wants to get out the door by 2026.

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Studios Development 305

GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Sensor Tower has acquired mobile marketing firm Data.ai for an undisclosed sum, which will involve an unknown number of layoffs from the latter's workforce. As reported by TechCrunch , Sensor Tower plans to utilise Data.ai to strengthen its position in digital marketing and mobile, and to expand its customer base and products. Sensor Tower said its platforms will remain as standalone offerings "with no additional consumer-focused changes" following the acquisition, and its leadership team will r

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

Plunderstorm gives WoW players a new mode, and Blizzard gets to test the waters for future limited-time events.

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Nvidia

MARCH 19, 2024

Speech and translation AI models developed at NVIDIA are pushing the boundaries of performance and innovation. The NVIDIA Parakeet automatic speech recognition. Speech and translation AI models developed at NVIDIA are pushing the boundaries of performance and innovation. The NVIDIA Parakeet automatic speech recognition (ASR) family of models and the NVIDIA Canary multilingual, multitask ASR and translation model currently top the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard.

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

Developer AstralShift talks about the artistic inspirations and thought processes that went into creating the beautiful daytime and horrifying nighttime of the fantasy world of Little Goody Two Shoes.

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Fantasy Development 289

GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Thunderful Group has secured an extension of its long-running partnership with Nintendo, in which it handles the distribution for all of the platform holder's products in the Nordic and Baltic regions. The agreement between Nintendo and Thunderful-owned distributor Bergsala was due to end on March 31, 2024, but has now been prolonged for another two years, with the same terms as the current arrangement.

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

Steam Families offers more centralized oversight for parents, making it easier to monitor what their kids buy (or play).

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox PlayStation veteran Connie Booth has joined EA as its new group general manager of action RPG. As reported by IGN , Booth will report directly to EA's entertainment head, Laura Miele.

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

PvE was previously pitched as a big new part of Overwatch 2, but is now actively collapsing underneath the hero shooter's foundation.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

A year after being removed from Steam, Ironmace's Dark and Darker will be available on the Epic Games Store. As reported by PC Gamer , the developer announced the move on its Discord server. The game is currently in early access, with no release date as of yet. Dark and Darker launched on Steam in February 2023, but was delisted after Nexon alleged that the game began as its own prototype project P3.

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Game Developer

MARCH 19, 2024

EA needs blockbusters, and it's hoping Booth's expertise in making hit after hit at PlayStation will work in its favor.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Neowiz has announced that Lies of P has reached seven million players Read more

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Studios 117

Unity Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The new Shader Graph Feature Examples sample set is now available to import now from the Package Manager to help you create a wide range of effects and techniques using Shader Graph.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nazara Technologies has announced that it will commit $100 million to expand via mergers and acquisitions. The gaming and sports media firm said its pledge will be conducted across the next two years.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 19, 2024

GameFromScratch.com BuildBox 4 Announced – AI Powered 3D Game Engine BuildBox is perhaps the easiest to use game engine on the market. BuildBox is also a company known to make some pretty stupid business decisions. This one however, does not feel like a bad business decision. In fact it feels like one of the best uses of AI technology in […] The post BuildBox 4 Announced – AI Powered 3D Game Engine appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Nvidia

MARCH 19, 2024

At GDC 2024, NVIDIA announced that leading AI application developers such as Inworld AI are using NVIDIA digital human technologies to accelerate the deployment. At GDC 2024, NVIDIA announced that leading AI application developers such as Inworld AI are using NVIDIA digital human technologies to accelerate the deployment of generative AI-powered game characters alongside updated NVIDIA RTX SDKs that simplify the creation of beautiful worlds.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 19, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Prototype to Publish Unity Humble Bundle The Prototype to Publish Unity Humble Bundle is a collection of 20 Unity assets for $15. Yes, there are no tiers to this bundle, and it is short lived, only lasting a week. Contents of this bundle include: EXPLORER – Stone Age Runtime Asset Database Sounds Good – Easy & […] The post Prototype to Publish Unity Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 19, 2024

The GamesIndustry.biz Microcast takes a quick dive into the biggest stories from the business of video games over the past week - and the latest episode is available to listen to or watch now. This week, editor-in-chief James Batchelor is joined by staff writer Jeffrey Rousseau, who makes his Microcast debut while regular co-host Chris Dring is attending GDC 2024.

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Rocket Brush Studio

MARCH 19, 2024

Businesses across the globe recognize the critical role that automation testing plays in pushing the boundaries of innovation and efficiency. Understanding which automation testing companies in USA lead the pack has become necessary for businesses aiming to secure a competitive edge. This guide spotlights the 10 top automation companies that are not just reshaping the way we approach quality assurance but are also setting new standards in software excellence.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 19, 2024

Hi, 7thsage again. I’m back for part 4. State Machines. We got most of the setup done last lesson so this time around we can focus mostly on just the state machines. State Machines A very useful pattern that you will frequently run into in game design is the State Machine. A state machine is like a little box of behavior that we can attach to an object and swap out as things change to modify the behavior.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 19, 2024

I decided to make a word cloud that lays out some of the associations between certain qualities of a game, and the term “RPG” Check it out, and let me know what you think.

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Cocos

MARCH 19, 2024

here is my windows platform environment and I made it same on this mac os Windows 11, MacOS Ventura 13.6.3 NDK_ROOT=C:CocosEnvAndroidndkr22b JAVA_HOME=C:CocosEnvjdk-17 ANT_ROOT=C:CocosEnvapache-ant-1.9.7 ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=C:CocosEnvAndroidsdk cocos creator : 2.4.13 cocos dashboard : 2.1.2 nodejs : v11.15.0 python : v2.7.10 cmake : v3.29.0 ant : v1.9.7 openssl : v0.9.8k visual studio : Visual Studio 2017 Community gradle : v7.4.

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 19, 2024

Understanding Difficulty in Game Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" Continuing our discussion from soulslikes, for this key to games podcast episode, we’re talking about what it means to understand and breakdown difficulty.… The post Understanding Difficulty in Game Design appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

MARCH 19, 2024

Hi I have implemented script native bridge module by following docs url. This works on android platfrom on window OS but does not work on iOS platform on the mac OS. I suspect cocos dashboard is not reconizing the custom cocos2d-x engine source. How would I resolve this problem? Thank you in advance. [link] [link] [link] GitHub GitHub - cocos/engine-native: Native engine for Cocos Creator v2.x Native engine for Cocos Creator v2.x.

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Artoon

MARCH 19, 2024

In recent years, Single Page Web Applications (SPAs) have become highly favored […] The post What are Single Page Web Applications or Single Page Apps (SPA)? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

MARCH 19, 2024

Hello. I am looking to process a tap anywhere on the screen in cocos. To do this, I create a Node called TouchNode in Scene and attach the following source code. import { _decorator, Component, Node } from 'cc'; const { ccclass, property } = _decorator; @ccclass('TouchNode') export class TouchNode extends Component { start() { console.log('START'); this.node.on(Node.EventType.MOUSE_DOWN, (event) => { console.log('Mouse down'); }, this); } } This source code was adapted from the first descrip

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Artoon

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s digital age, the term “web application” has become increasingly prevalent. […] The post What is Web Application Development? Steps, Types, and Benefits appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

MARCH 19, 2024

Hello. I am looking to process a tap anywhere on the screen in cocos. To do this, I create a Node called TouchNode in Scene and attach the following source code. import { _decorator, Component, Node } from 'cc'; const { ccclass, property } = _decorator; @ccclass('TouchNode') export class TouchNode extends Component { start() { console.log('START'); this.node.on(Node.EventType.MOUSE_DOWN, (event) => { console.log('Mouse down'); }, this); } } This source cod.

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Artoon

MARCH 19, 2024

In Node JS development services, understanding and implementing multithreading in Node JS […] The post How To Use Multithreading in Node js appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Development 40

Cocos

MARCH 19, 2024

Hello. I am looking to process a tap anywhere on the screen in cocos. To do this, I create a Node called TouchNode in Scene and attach the following source code. import { _decorator, Component, Node } from 'cc'; const { ccclass, property } = _decorator; @ccclass('TouchNode') export class TouchNode extends Component { start() { console.log('START'); this.node.on(Node.EventType.MOUSE_DOWN, (event) => { console.log('Mouse down'); }, this); } } This source cod.

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