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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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together. In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market –

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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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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 3, 2023

I posted this chain on Mastodon, but am reposting it here. Getting AI to write your game dialog is about the same as getting some C- high school student to do it. At least with the later you be giving a high school student a job. I really hope the TV writers can get something meaningful from the strike. I'm skeptical only because big companies taking advantage of creatives is burnt into their DNA.

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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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Game Developer

MAY 31, 2023

A Variety profile of Activision Blizzard CEO includes claims that do not line up with reporting about the company.

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Game Refinery

MAY 31, 2023

When Apple introduced its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy in April 2021, it forced companies to seek permission from app users before tracking their data and activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes. This major privacy update has greatly impacted mobile marketers and advertisers by making it more difficult for them to access the data they rely on for user acquisition purposes.

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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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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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iHobo

MAY 23, 2023

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the release of Ghost Master. Of all my hundreds of game projects, this is still the title where I am most proud of the game design, the project where I beam with pride when I think of the incredible team and the contributions everyone made to make such a memorable and unique experience. Destiny was stacked against the game, but it did not pass unnoticed, and to this day I am forever discovering new fans who played - and loved - this extraordinary haunting si

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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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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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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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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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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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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 2, 2023

I posted this chain on Mastodon, but am reposting it here… Getting AI to write your game dialog is about the same as getting some C- high school student to do it. At least with the later you be giving a high school student a job. I really hope the TV writers can get something meaningful from the strike. I’m skeptical only because big companies taking advantage of creatives is burnt into their DNA.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 17, 2023

Steam will stop using Google Analytics going forward, Valve announced. In a blog post , the firm said Google's "tracking solutions don't align well with [Valve's] approach to customer privacy," adding that it will be working on improving its own solution going forward. This decision was made in the context of Google's Universal Analytics being sunset in July.

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Game Developer

MAY 10, 2023

John Cooney's GDC talk on Flash, from its humble beginnings, creative explosion, and later days.

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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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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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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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Game Developer

MAY 5, 2023

Open sesame.

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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 Developer

MAY 11, 2023

Time is running out on Microsoft's merger with Activision Blizzard, and the CMA's newest move puts the two developers further on the backfoot.

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Game Developer

MAY 12, 2023

Bet it all on somewhere that's not Steam.

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Game Developer

MAY 12, 2023

Square Enix starts 2023 off on a down note, with financial dips across its various divisions and its premium games not performing to expectations.

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Game Developer

MAY 15, 2023

Nightdive described Atari as the "ideal partner.

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Game Developer

MAY 3, 2023

The company has rolled out an update that limits the number of trailers devs can place before screenshots on Steam store pages.

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Game Developer

MAY 5, 2023

The dev team said finding the bug was like searching for a "needle in a haystack.

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Game Developer

MAY 8, 2023

Sonic Frontiers isn't just selling well, it's now the best-selling 3D entry of Sega's series.

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Game Developer

MAY 23, 2023

This new fine marks Activision Blizzard's second loot box-related controversy for Europe and Diablo Immortal.

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Game Developer

MAY 11, 2023

I create life! with Unreal Engine 5.2.

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Game Developer

MAY 11, 2023

Bravely Defunct.

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Game Developer

MAY 22, 2023

The Xbox maker said the merger has been granted "unconditional clearance.

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