Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2025

The engine maker wants to help developers 'push the power' of the Switch 2 without compromising performance.

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Engineering Engine Development 247

Game From Scratch

APRIL 2, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Ucupaint – Turning Blender into Substance Painter Ucupaint is a completely free and open-source add-on for Blender that when combined with Blender’s existing painting tools adds a Substance Painter like experience. This enables you to easily texture your 3D objects directly inside Blender, with new more sophisticated layering tools and more.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2025

Nintendo's next-generation device features a larger 7.9 inch LCD display, upgraded dock with 4K support, brand new voice chat functionality, and more.

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Feature 242

Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2025

Yes, Gameplay Programmer is a specialization. Gameplay Programmers are the engineers who work directly with designers to make the designs actually work in game. This primarily means writing code to make the systems and rules that the designers come up with work. Gameplay programmer goals tend to be building systems that allow designers to create new content.

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Graphics Dev Engine Engineering 59

Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2025

'Paying your employees a livable wage as a multi-trillion dollar company is the least they could be doing.

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Played with Fire

APRIL 2, 2025

How Virtual Reality (VR) Enhances Reflexes and Coordination Virtual Reality (VR) is revolutionizing the way we train reflexes and coordination. By immersing users in dynamic, interactive environments, VR offers an innovative platform for improving motor skills, reaction times, and hand-eye coordination. This article explores how VR enhances these abilities and its real-world applications across various fields.

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Esports Educational Education Balance 52

GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2025

ZeniMax Workers United has "overwhelmingly voted" to authorise a strike against Microsoft.

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Media Development 105

Indie DB

APRIL 2, 2025

This is a free puzzle game focused on gravity like mechanics (bombs, bouncy blocks, portals) that features 150 levels, online levels and a level editor that is now released.

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Editing Puzzle Mechanics Feature 98

GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2025

Unity has pledged to support game developers with "official support for Nintendo Switch 2.

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Development Game Developer Game Development Games 91

Indie DB

APRIL 2, 2025

What are the best Vampire Survivors clones available?

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Games 94

Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

Let me show the pinball: now when I runs the canvas, the ball would normally drop and finally stop at slot 3. But I want to do something different: The result from server is 3, I need an animation that the ball drop to slot 3, so I need to randomly generate a drop ball animation that the ball goes to slot 3, here is the following pseudo code: 1.Get the required result from server, which is 3 (eg:Need an animation that the ball drops to slot 3) 2.Set the random position x of the ball 3.Simulate t

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2025

Tokyo's digital and in-person indie game event - the Tokyo Indie Game Summit - saw its third event more than double last year's attendance.

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Indy Games 88

Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

For example, if I have a pinball game, the ball starts dropping at position x,y, finally stops at slot 1, would the result be the same (position that the ball stops) at all platforms and browsers? Also, would the simulation be affected by the frame rate (eg: Would there be a situation that because sometimes the device is slow and frame rate drops and hence the dt to update decreases, resulting different simulate result for same initial positions and velocities)?

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Platformer Simulation Games 40

GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2025

The Nintendo Switch 2 will release on June 5, the console manufacturer revealed in its Direct livestream today. The price for the base Switch 2 unit was confirmed as $450 (or £396 in the UK), with pre-orders opening on April 9.

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Console 70

Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

Has anyone been able to use Vitest along with Cocos Creator? I compiled a custom ESM build of the engine and set up Vitest. However, as soon as I add any *.spec.ts file to the assets directory, I get the following error: Error: We currently do not support the package 'imports' field. Is there any way to exclude spec files from the game build? I already tried adding assets/src/**/*.spec.ts to the exclude section of tsconfig, but it didnt help.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2025

A new UK-based independent games publisher has launched today, called The CoLab.

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Indy Games Development 70

Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

Has anyone been able to use Vitest along with Cocos Creator? I compiled a custom ESM build of the engine and set up Vitest. However, as soon as I add any *.spec.ts file to the assets directory, I get the following error: Error: We currently do not support the package 'imports' field. Is there any way to exclude spec files from the game build?

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Asset Build Engineering Engine 40

Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

For example, I have a SubComponent: cc.Class({ extends: cc.Component, properties: { myCallback:{ type:cc.Component.EventHandler, default:null } }, onLoad(){ this.scheduleOnce(function(){ this.myCallback(); }.bind(this),3); } }); it would trigger myCallback after 3 seconds, the callback in Canvas: cc.Class({ extends: cc.Component, properties: { }, test(){ alert("test callback"); } }); Which already set the function at the UI: but when running it, some errors: TypeError: this.myCallback is not a f

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Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

Cocos3.8.6 has been released, you can find the new component called UISkew. please use it for a try.

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Sprite 52

Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

Lets show the canvas, the pinball canvas: I want the pinball bounds exactly the same way and always drop to slot 1 finally for all platforms (at least for web-mobile with all browsers), is cc.RigidBody already has this behaviour?

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Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

For example, suppose I have a pinball game, the ball may finally drop to slot 1 - slot 8, each slot has a detector to notify if the ball drops on it: Canvas: cc.Class({ extends: cc.Component, properties: { ballRigidBody:{ type:cc.RigidBody, default:null }, }, onLoad(){ cc.director.getPhysicsManager().enabled = true; } }); Detector: cc.Class({ extends: cc.Component, properties: { isCollided:false }, // will be called once when two colliders begin to contact onBeginContact: function (contact, self

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Cocos

APRIL 2, 2025

Well, I found a very hacky way to do it in the preview build. Basically, you need to mock the vitest import. But I wonder if theres a better way to configure SystemJS imports. <script type="text/javascript"> const systemJSPrototype = System.constructor.prototype; const originalResolve = systemJSPrototype.resolve; systemJSPrototype.resolve = function (specifier, importer) { // Handle vitest imports by returning a mock module with test functions if (specifier 'vitest' || specifier.startsWi

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