Game Developer

MAY 16, 2023

A few of the best tools for creating 2D and 3D art assets for games, including Blender, GIMP, Piskel, Krita, and more.

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Unity Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Marc Whitten shares an overview of Unity’s vision for the future of AI for the Editor and runtime in 2023 and beyond.

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Unity Blog

MAY 16, 2023

In this interview, we get tips on DevOps best practices for shipping successfully from Cygnus Entertainment’s Amber Johnson and Jon West, and Unity’s Marc Nelson and Marie-Christine Babin.

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Game Developer

MAY 22, 2023

Developers from all kinds of backgrounds discuss their processes for including fat characters and expanding body diversity in their games.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. Combining the world of ice hockey with a roguelite may seem like an odd match, but for game designer Hugo Julien and his fellow co-founders Jean-Nicolas and Mathieu Fortin, it was a natural choice. As Canadians and self proclaimed sport fanatics, hockey is ingrained in their daily lives.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 22, 2023

The indiepocalypse has been discussed at length over the last few years. It's the idea that there are so many indie games available on the market that it becomes unsustainable. Indie consultant Rami Ismail (co-founder of the late Vlambeer) discussed this at length during a talk at this year's Reboot Develop Blue conference in Croatia. Ismail observed that the number of indie games has drastically increased in recent years, making it also incredibly difficult to get published.

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That One Game Dev

MAY 4, 2023

A lot of people comment about rust enums being really powerful and I wanted to showcase how one can achieve the same functionality in C++ The post Rust Enums in Modern C++ appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 3, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unity Layoff 8% of Workforce Unity Technolgies have just announced they are laying off 8% of the workforce, the 3rd such round of layoffs in the last year (round one here, round two here). The announcement comes shortly after Unity announced their first profit quarter since going public and announced they would be profitable every … Unity Layoff 8% of Workforce Read More The post Unity Layoff 8% of Workforce appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

MAY 15, 2023

The CMA thinks its fellow regulator made the wrong call in giving Microsoft permission to merge with Activision Blizzard, and reasserted its own decision to block it.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

Spanish solo dev Daniel Manzano (aka Dr. Kucho !) likes working alone. He calls himself ‘very persistent and solitary’ and he won’t stop until he reaches the desired end result. But the 8 years it took to create Moons of Darsalon really took a toll on him. “The first four years were almost absolute happiness. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2023

Sega has announced it will make 121 redundancies at Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment. Sega says it is restructuring the studio to focus on core franchises, including the Company of Heroes series. Company of Heroes 3 launched on PC in February and arrives on consoles this month. The Vancouver-based studio is also known for the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series, and in 2021 it developed Age of Empires 4 for Microsoft.

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That One Game Dev

MAY 16, 2023

In this article I will explore a library for C++. It is called GSL and it is an open-source library by Microsoft under the MIT license. The post The Microsoft.GSL Library appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Unity Blog

MAY 29, 2023

VFX artist Sakura Rabbit shares how she approaches digital art production and provides tips for creating realistic characters in Unity.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 3, 2023

GameFromScratch.com GameMaker 2023 Development Roadmap GameMaker Studio just announced their 2023 development roadmap (learn more about GameMaker here). There are several major new features in development on GameMaker including: A New Runtime (Beta) The new runtime will now compile natively to each platform meaning you will no longer need to choose between the VM and … GameMaker 2023 Development Roadmap Read More The post GameMaker 2023 Development Roadmap appeared first on GameFromScratch

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Game Developer

MAY 15, 2023

Smith was a programmer at Atari during the 1980s and worked on a number of titles such as Star Wars: The Arcade Game and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 5, 2023

Making changes to your store page. For some an exciting challenge for others a chore. You could think it’s good enough, nothing is perfect anyway, and call it a day. But doing so is leaving sales on the table. Steam Data Suite dove into Steam store pages to find out how much publishers change them and if that relates to being successful on the platform.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 1, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In under 18 months, PlayStation has announced three studio acquisitions all dedicated to live-service games. It started with a big one in January last year – Destiny developer Bungie. It followed that with Haven Studios in March. And just last week it revealed it would be picking up Firewalk Studios.

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That One Game Dev

MAY 23, 2023

In this article I show a smart way to do variant matching in C++ using a few clever macros and the std::visit function. The post Rust enums in Modern C++ – Match Pattern appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Unity Blog

MAY 9, 2023

In this blog, Unity’s Kristijonas Jalnionis walks through updates he has made to the original Sponza environment to help Unity developers.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are conceived, produced, and played. Game developers are exploring how these technologies impact 2D and. Generative AI technologies are revolutionizing how games are conceived, produced, and played. Game developers are exploring how these technologies impact 2D and 3D content-creation pipelines during production.

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Game Developer

MAY 1, 2023

Today we all know the names of video game industry legends like Jerry Lawson and Mabel Addis. But what kind of work did it take to preserve their legacies?

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Game Daily

MAY 23, 2023

Artificial intelligence aims to simulate humanity’s most complex mental activities, but there is surely none more fraught and complicated than the matters of relationships, romance, and love. Life’s Meta from Buenos Aires-based Widow Games is in development and fund-raising mode right now. It’s attempting to convincingly simulate the dating experience, using AI.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 5, 2023

Over the past year or so, a note of discord has crept into the generally enthusiastic response to Microsoft's current console strategy. Game Pass has been beloved, Xbox Series X is a superb piece of console hardware, Series S is an unprecedented marvel in terms of bang-for-buck performance, and from Phil Spencer down, the company's execs and spokespeople have perfected the art of making all the right noises to make game consumers feel good about the platform.

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That One Game Dev

MAY 30, 2023

In this article you will learn on the basic level what shaders are and how they are used in graphics programming. The post What are Shaders? appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Unity Blog

MAY 5, 2023

From Code Monkey’s in-depth tutorials to Dapper Dino’s expert insights, discover a wealth of knowledge and inspiration for developers on how to approach building a successful multiplayer game.

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Nvidia

MAY 5, 2023

System latency is an important gaming performance metric. In many cases, it is more impactful to the overall gaming experience than frames per second (FPS). System latency is an important gaming performance metric. In many cases, it is more impactful to the overall gaming experience than frames per second (FPS). While FPS is relatively easy to measure, system latency has traditionally been difficult to measure.

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Game Developer

MAY 8, 2023

After the recent leak of the upcoming Zelda game, Nintendo's going after developers of Nintendo Switch emulators that have been used to play the game before its official release.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 21, 2023

The advancement of technology has enabled various sectors to flourish and develop in unimaginable ways. One area that has been able to capitalise on these developments is the gaming sector, which has created an entirely new universe for gamers. One of the latest breakthroughs to hit the video gaming market is NFTs. NFT video games are facilitating unprecedented expansion in the gaming business by providing players with an opportunity to make money while they play.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 5, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox New details have emerged from the Riot Games gender discrimination case, with a report saying that 1,548 women will receive compensation. Axios reports a court filing by Rust Consulting, which has been managing the process, confirmed the number of women who were wither staff at Riot or contractors that will be receiving payments.

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Game Daily

MAY 21, 2023

Nordic Game conference takes place this week in the lovely city of Malmo, in Sweden. It features a wide variety of speakers from around the world, addressing some of the most interesting and urgent issues in modern gaming. Here are ten highlights from the days ahead. AI Development Concerns The first talk is by Andre Schenini Moreira (managing partner, FMA Legal), and it addresses a matter that’s top of mind for game developers and publishers right now – artificial intelligence.

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Filmustage

MAY 25, 2023

Central to their creation is an efficient script breakdown, an often complex yet rewarding process. This article delves into the unique challenges and solutions for script breakdown in multilingual films. Understanding script breakdown Script breakdown is a crucial phase in pre-production that transforms the screenplay into actionable components for film production.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 16, 2023

GameFromScratch.com JetBrains Rider for Godot Engine Development The Rider IDE from JetBrains is increasingly becoming their go to IDE for game developers, with Unreal Engine, Unity and now Godot Engine support. Rider is a cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) IDE build on their Resharper refactoring tools, originally for.NET development, but increasingly focusing on game development. … JetBrains Rider for Godot Engine Development Read More The post JetBrains Rider for Godot Engine Devel

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Game Developer

MAY 10, 2023

Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom carries over scrapped ideas from its direct predecessor, and implementing them required a change on multiple fronts from Nintendo.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2023

A fresh portion of stability improvements and bugfixes for Godot 4.0 projects, 4.0.3 covers almost every area of the engine. It also comes with a massive bump in documentation coverage thanks to the newly updated rendering docs!

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 16, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has increased its stake in Electronic Arts. According to Seeking Alpha , a new filing published yesterday for the three months ended March 31, 2023 shows the fund purchased more shares in the FIFA publisher during Q4 2022.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

One of the many interesting presentations at Nordic Game conference next week (May 23-26) comes from Kate Edwards , head of Geogrify , a company that advises game and tech companies on international cultural issues. Edwards’ talk is titled Cultural Interoperability: The Biggest Challenge to the Metaverse (and Beyond). We know that interoperability is a technical term mostly used to describe the movement of avatars and digital assets between metaverses.

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Game Errors

MAY 10, 2023

Fallout 4 is one of the most popular worldwide games, but it seems like many players are reporting experiencing an annoying crash while trying to play it. Fortunately, there are some solutions that can effortlessly fix it. If you’re here, then you’re facing the same issue. Make sure you completely read our today’s guide and discover the best ways to get rid of it.

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