Game Developer

JUNE 5, 2024

The creators of this pizza-making title explain how real-life experience from a novice developer shaped the game's design.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2024

In the beginning, it was about respect. The video games industry in the 1990s didn't get any. Tom Kalinskie, who led Sega America during this time, recounts two stories that sums up the world's attitude towards gaming. The first came about during the famous 1993 – 1994 US senate hearings around violent video games. Kalinskie had been called in by his own senators to talk about the issue, and he explained how games are not just for kids.

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Game Developer

JUNE 5, 2024

Digital Cybercherries has been pushing Xbox owners toward Hypercharge, and players are responding to those efforts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2024

Supercell's Squad Busters generated an estimated $1.1 million on launch day, according to Sensor Tower. As reported by PocketGamer , the game also saw approximately 8.8 million downloads when the title released on May 29. Supercell also shared on social media that Squad Busters had reached 40 million pre-registrations at launch.

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Game Developer

JUNE 5, 2024

Movies and shows based on games keep coming out, but are the games able to fully meet the momentum these adaptations provide?

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Games 317

GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2024

Mobile games made up 49% of total revenue generated by the global games market in 2023 at $90.4 billion, according to Adjust's latest report. Conducted between January 2022 and January 2024, the 2024 Mobile App Trends report found that in-app revenue for games apps increased 6% year-over-year, while consumer spending decreased 2% to $107 billion. Candy Crush Saga, Honour of Kings, Roblox, Royal Match, and Coin Master were among the top five apps for consumer spending, according to the report.

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Game Developer

JUNE 5, 2024

The indie studio is based in Barcelona and led by former Ubisoft Massive boss David Polfeldt.

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Game Developer

JUNE 5, 2024

What a sad little article, Game Developer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2024

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. You can find all previous Playable Futures articles here. For decades, the conventions of fashion and style were well established. The 20-year fashion cycle would reliably roll around, bringing various styles in and out of vogue on a two-decade loop.

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Concepts Technology Games Code 120

PreMortem.Games

JUNE 5, 2024

top image: Bramble: The Mountain King by Dimfrost Studio. Author: Michal Napora of 32-33 Steam reviews can make or break a game. Sure, I might be exaggerating a bit here, but launching a game in a state of negative user reviews sucks. Big time. Not only do they make other players think twice about buying your game, but if the user review score is really bad, like Mostly Negative orange territory bad, Steam will punish you with less visibility.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2024

Games marketing veteran Michal Napora has announced a new publishing label, Unikat. Based in Perth, Unikat aims to support independent developers "who create unique and minimal games," with Tensori's liminal exploration title Pools and Voids Within's upcoming cyberpunk city builder Dystopika already on its roster. Napora is the founder and CEO of marketing agency 32-33, and has worked with studios including Bloober Team, Techland, and Frogwares.

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Indie DB

JUNE 5, 2024

A hand-drawn, card collecting, dungeon-crawler where you fend off countless enemies.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2024

Where will gamers be playing in the future? That's the question we're going to try and answer during a special panel at IGN Live on Sunday. GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring will lead a panel featuring former PlayStation exec, and current advisor to Tencent, Shawn Layden, veteran games analyst Michael Pachter and author, curator and historian Van Burnham.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 5, 2024

GameFromScratch.com ct.js Game Engine Gets New Catnip Visual Scripting Language The ct.js game engine we first covered back in 2020 then revisited in 2023 has advanced a great deal since then. Catnip is a free and open source 2D game engine available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Since we last looked at Ct.js they have released version 4.0 with several […] The post ct.js Game Engine Gets New Catnip Visual Scripting Language appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2024

The latest episode of the GamesIndustry.biz Microcast is now available to download or watch, discussing the biggest stories from the past week - and taking a look at the week ahead. This week, we discuss the annual array of showcases that are filling the void left by E3, starting with last week's State of Play from PlayStation. We discuss the highlights of Sony's presentation, as well as our expectations for the showcases ahead, including Summer Game Fest and Xbox.

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Indie DB

JUNE 5, 2024

JollyCo team is excited to announce the release of Sugar Mess – Let’s Play Jolly Battle VR on PlayStation VR2 on May 29, 2024. Now, the PSVR2 owners can purchase and enjoy the story-driven arcade shooter centered around a linear campaign, divided.

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Game Industry News

JUNE 5, 2024

Hey all, I’m back with another LitRPG for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s “Blade’s Rest Book 01” by Tom Watts. Plot: Josh, the main character, is hired by the developer of a hit VRMMORPG called Blade and Sheath to help them create some of the newest and best content for the game, which was notoriously driven almost purely by player created content.

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Nvidia

JUNE 5, 2024

NVIDIA Holoscan is the NVIDIA domain-agnostic multimodal real-time AI sensor processing platform that delivers the foundation for developers to build their. NVIDIA Holoscan is the NVIDIA domain-agnostic multimodal real-time AI sensor processing platform that delivers the foundation for developers to build their end-to-end sensor processing pipeline.

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Game Development News

JUNE 5, 2024

Tyler ‘Bynine’ McMaster, indie artist and game developer, tells Vince Pavey all about the work that went into making his retro platformer dreams into a reality Indie games have paid tribute to classic video game adventures for a long time, although outside of a growing fondness for the boomer shooter, they have largely seemed happy …

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Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

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

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Build 52

Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 5, 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 elevators and how much of a rat’s nest they can be. The first thing to note about elevators in video games is that many video game elevators are actually not actually elevators at all, but teleporters.

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Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

More Art Works : Available for more art works! 2D Cartoon Art Work Game Assets Service : I can work on fixed price (based on my $14 per hour rate estimate), I do need a list of the assets to calculate. You can email me at oryzano@gmail.com for more details For Cost reference : Character Design : $7 - $28 (depend on details) +add $7 - $14 per animation (4 - 10 frames) (depend on details) Item $5 - $14 (depend on details) Background $14 - $56 (depend on details) Buttons $2 - $7 (depend on details)

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Game Development News

JUNE 5, 2024

Jake Kulkowski, founder of Guillotine, tells us about setting up an influencer relations agency, and why being in the content trenches is rewarding, rather than just cut throat What is your job role and how would you describe your typical day at work?

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Content 52

Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

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

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Build 52

Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

axmol is just a fork of cocos2d-x-4.0: GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) axmol-2.0.0 release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) by @nowasm List of known issues maybe help wanted WebGL context lost not handled yet A demo avaiable on axmol gh-pages: cpp-tests.html, build from branch dev Note: Follow functionals require wasm pthread support, and needs server enable M.

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Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

public static showRewardedAd(callback: () => void) { ads2_script.rewardVideoCallback = callback; console.log(“callbackfunction”,ads2_script.rewardVideoCallback) if (ads2_script.rewardedAdClient) { ads2_script.rewardedAdClient.show(); } else { console.log(“Rewarded ad is not loaded yet”); ads2_script.rewardedAdClient.load(TestUnitId.RewardedAd, { onAdLoaded: () => { console.log(“Rewarded ad loaded successfully”); ads2_script.rewardedAdClient.show(); }, onAdFailedToLoad: (loadAdError) =

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Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

axmol is just a fork of cocos2d-x-4.0: GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) axmol-2.0.0 release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) by @nowasm List of known issues maybe help wanted WebGL context lost not handled yet A demo avaiable on axmol gh-pages: cpp-tests.html, build from branch dev Note: Follow functionals require wasm pthread support, and needs server enable M.

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Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm: line 904 17:49:37 [ERROR]: Sampler binding cc_spriteTexture at set 2 binding 12 is not bounded.

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