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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom shatters sales records in the UK | UK Boxed Charts

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the biggest boxed video game launch of the year in the UK. Its opening week sales eclipse the boxed sales of Hogwarts Legacy by more than 50%. This is just boxed sales, and Hogwarts, which was released on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S and X in February, did have a very strong digital launch. Switch digital sales are typically much lower than the other platforms, so it's unknown if the game outsold Hogwarts overall (Nintendo doesn't share digital data with

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Best Programming Language for Game Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Game Development for Beginners

Game development is an exciting and ever-evolving field that requires a unique set of skills, including proficiency in programming languages. Aspiring game developers often find themselves pondering over the best programming language to use for game development. In this article, we will explore various programming languages and their properties, use cases, and reasons why they.

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[Tutorial]Make the game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

When you’ve made an excellent 3D game, you definitely want it to run on more devices, not just high-end ones, as this would mean losing many users. In this article, I will share the methods I’ve learned from over a decade of 3D game development to make a game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices. Nowadays, we can see three common types of platforms: Native(iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Harmony, etc), Mini Games(Wechat MiniGames, Tiktok Mini Games), and H5(PC Browsers, Mobile Browser

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What Makes Gaming Such A Good Hobby For Everyone?

Game Wisdom

What Makes Gaming Such A Good Hobby For Everyone? Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com As far as hobbies go, gaming gets left off the list 9 times out of 10. That’s something we want to think about here today. Gaming is a great hobby to invest in; many of the products involved can carry … The post What Makes Gaming Such A Good Hobby For Everyone? appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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[Tutorial]Static-Occlusion-Culling, A great solution for improving culling performance during rendering - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

The fastest way to render a model is not to render it at all. This article will delve into the principles and code of the static occlusion culling solution in Cocos Cyberpunk. This approach enables our games to efficiently eliminate unseen static objects during rendering, reducing the rendering load and enhancing game performance. Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and

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Zelda Emulator PC: Here Is the Top 5 List

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You only should use a Zelda Emulator on your PC if you have bought the game from the official platform and want to play on the desktop for your convenience. Emulating a game on an unofficial platform can be illegal and wrong from an ethical point of view. To play The Legend of Zelda on your PC, you must have an emulator software. However, not all of these tools work better.

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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Firmware Not Found: 3 Best Fixes

Game Errors

Are you encountering RYU-0002: Firmware not found error while playing Tears of the Kingdom or any other Nintendo Switch games on PC using the Ryujinx emulator? Don’t worry. This article has the solution you need. Many companies make their most popular games exclusive to their own platforms. Zelda is one of them. As a result, like other titles from this game series, people cannot play Tears of the Kingdom on PC natively.

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Graphics Component - drawImage Support

Cocos

Hi, there, we are simulating the API set of Canvas graphics for frontend devs to be familiar with, but it’s not based on Canvas technically. The effect you want to achieve can be done with Mask with graphics stencil, you just set the stencil type to graphics, and use the related graphics component to draw the stencil as you normally do, and it will mask the rest of the image.

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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Crashing PC: 3 Ways to Fix

Game Errors

If Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom crashing issues appear on your PC, you can tweak a few things to fix this problem. This article will tell you about the reason and solution in detail. You cannot run this Nintendo Switch game on your PC without an emulator like Yuzu or Ryujinx. As a result, there is a high chance of crashing or other type of issues. But taking the proper steps can help to get rid of such situations.

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Extension Disabled?

Cocos

you should use derivation instructions with version macro such as #ifdef __VERSION__ >= 110 (or higher version)   float dx = dFdx(output7); #endif

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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Stuck on Loading Screen: Easy Fixes

Game Errors

Sometimes, you may notice that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is stuck on the loading screen after launching this game on an emulator on your PC. This article will explain why it happens and how you can fix it. To play this new Zelda game on your PC, you will need to use Yuzu or Ryujinx emulator for better performance right now. Unfortunately, both of these tools are affected by this infinite loading screen issue of Zelda TOTK.

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Shader Help required (UV distortion with cc_time[0])

Cocos

cc_time stores three values, namely cc_time.x (accumulated time /s ), cc_time.y (frame time /s ), cc_time.z (total number of frames played since startup) You can use these three components according to your needs.

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Realm Of Rivalry

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New abilities are showcased for this fantasy RPG indie

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Agora.io live stream video render?

Cocos

Hello, you can refer to this project, it in Creator 3.4.2 version to achieve the relevant functions: github.com cocos-awesome-tech-solutions/demo/Creator3.4.2_AgoraMediaPlayer at. 3.4.x3.5.x-release/demo/Creator3.4.2_AgoraMediaPlayer Cocos' Awesome Technical Solutions. Contribute to cocos/cocos-awesome-tech-solutions development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Multi-Window possible or not and if yes does it going to effect CPU usage in JavaScript?

Cocos

Hi everyone, I am in cards game, and now my task is to open multi-window upto 6 so my question is, is it possible in Cocos and if yes will it effect the game by using more CPU usage.

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How to handle process.env in external npm packages?

Cocos

Hello, Many npm packages use process.env variables ( process.env.NODE_ENV in particular) and when I include them in my CC project I get the process.env is undefined error. Is there any way to fix this issue?

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Multi-Window possible or not and if yes does it going to effect CPU usage in JavaScript?

Cocos

For web window management is handled by the browser, so as long as your game runs smoothly, there is no problem. Multi window for native desktop haven’t been finished yet, we only have some infrastructure support in C++, like github.com cocos/cocos-engine/blob/develop/native/cocos/platform/interfaces/modules/ISystemWindow.h / * Copyright (c) 2021-2023 Xiamen Yaji Software Co., Ltd.

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Error cocos with JAVA_HOME

Cocos

cocos creator show a message “Build Failed: Error: Please make sure java is installed and JAVA_HOME is in your environment” i have tried everything like set "enviorement variable " but nothing works

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How to handle process.env in external npm packages?

Cocos

There is no env in the Cocos JS environment because we don’t have node.js in the runtime.

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Google Play Instant in Cocos Creator 3.6

Cocos

Oh, this is not yet supported in v3, we haven’t got time to cover yet, sorry for that

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[Tutorial] Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

It’s cool!

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

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Multi-Window possible or not and if yes does it going to effect CPU usage in JavaScript?

Cocos

On which platform and target devices ?

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Extension Disabled?

Cocos

What version of engine are you using?

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Multi-Window possible or not and if yes does it going to effect CPU usage in JavaScript?

Cocos

on window/mac and web desktop.

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