April, 2024

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Why Doesn't Everyone See the Importance of Preserving Our Past?

Game Developer

The Entertainment Software Association recently came out against the preservation of past games. This short post is a plea for common sense and a recognition of the importance of videogame history.

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April Fools' 2024

Grumpy Gamer

As the world spins into chaos, the one constant that brings stability into your world is knowing that grumpygamer.com will always remains April Fools' joke free.

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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. The main design inspiration here is obviously Gone Home , with a central family-based ambient narrative, household duck homages, and gradually unlocked doors. Many would also compare this to The Witness' soft visual style and sprawling sunny gardens.

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Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions by Momo-Pi deserves more players 

PreMortem.Games

Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions is a game by Swiss indie game studio Momo-Pi. The tactical action adventure has much going for it. It looks great, bright and colorful and has gameplay that is both taxing and entertaining. Plus it features a cast of well known manga characters, straight out of the Shueisha universe. What more could you ask for?

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Hasbro's $1 billion bet on internal game development

GamesIndustry.biz

Last year was a massive one for Hasbro's video game business, with Monopoly Go and Baldur's Gate 3 providing the toy maker with two of its biggest hits in games to date. But those games were licensing deals, externally developed by Scopely and Larian Studios, respectively. And despite the success of those partnerships, Hasbro is actually investing considerably in building out its own internal development.

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The shortlist for the 2024 MCV/DEVELOP Awards!

Game Development News

After carefully considering the many hundreds of nominations, we have a shortlist!

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ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online

Game Developer

Libraries' attempts and proposed plans for archiving older games don't strike a chord with the ESA, which still thinks it remains publishers' burden.

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Edouard Caplain

Concept Art World

Concept Art World Edouard Caplain Edouard Caplain is a concept artist and art director currently based in Paris, France where he works at DONTNOD Entertainment. Edouard has worked in the game industry for companies like The Creative Assembly/SEGA, Ignition London, Frontier Developments and White Birds Productions. Link: Portfolio | Twitter | Instagram All images © Edouard Caplain Yang or their respective copyright holder.

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Detective Dotson by Masala Games is a cultural joyride through modern-day India

PreMortem.Games

When you live in a country that houses twenty percent of the entire world’s population, yet hardly see a genuine and honest representation of that country in video games, it’s time to take matters into your own hands. And that’s precisely what Shalin Shodhan is doing with his studio, Masala Games. In the outlandish adventure game Detective Dotson , modern-day India plays an equally significant role as the titular hero.

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Fallout 4 jumps to No.1 across Europe following TV show launch

GamesIndustry.biz

Sales of Fallout games have shot up across Europe, with Fallout 4 reclaiming the No.1 spot. The 2015 game’s sales rose over 7,500% week-on-week across Europe. This is GSD data that tracks digital game sales across all European markets, and physical sales across all major European countries (including UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). This is due to some heavy discounting on games in the Fallout franchise across all platforms.

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[From the Industry] Limit Break Mentorship opens applications for 2024 Program

Game Development News

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content.

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70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability

Game Developer

With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.

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Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials Brackeys is perhaps one of the largest, if not the largest, tutorial YouTubers for the Unity game engine. In 2020 Brackeys suddenly called it quits posting a goodbye video on YouTube. That seemed to be the end of this influential channel, until the entire Unity runtime fee fiasco occurred and […] The post Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Do you have any insight as to why annual sports titles have not gone the Live Service model yet given the fact each year it is mostly minor tweaks and roster changes anyway?

Ask a Game Dev

I've actually worked on and shipped more than one annual sports title over my career and I want say for the record that the idea that annual sports titles are "mostly minor tweaks and roster changes" is absolutely and categorically false. Annual sports titles absolutely do not have the same scope as AAA games with multi-year dev cycles, but they do absolutely have significant breadth and depth of scope each year beyond "minor tweaks and roster changes".

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Zoochosis by Clapperheads will make you fear those lovely animals in the zoo

PreMortem.Games

Like most times in horror stories, it starts out as a normal night. A rookie zookeeper straps on their bodycam and begins making the rounds on their first-ever night shift. But soon, you discover that things are far from normal in this zoo. A terrifying parasite is spreading, mutating some of the animals into grotesque, blood-thirsty monsters ready to kill their way out of their cages.

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth leads surge of new hits | Japan Monthly Charts

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was the biggest-selling game at Japanese retail in March, shifting 310,596 units and leading a slew of new releases that took over the Top Five in the boxed games charts. Famitsu's latest data, shared with GamesIndustry.biz , shows that the second part of Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 remake saw the second biggest launch month ever in terms of physical sales for a PS5 game in Japan.

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Anima Flux Demo Update 2

Indie DB

Attention all gamers and adventurers alike, brace yourselves for an electrifying update in the realm of co-op metroidvania games! Prepare to plunge into a 2D platformer like no other as Anima Flux unveils its latest Demo, promising an adrenaline-fueled.

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Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity

Game Developer

Unity's Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.

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Godot x The Forge Collaboration Over

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Godot x The Forge Collaboration Over We reported back in December 2023 of a collaboration between Google, The Forge and Godot focused on improving Android support in the Godot game engine. Essentially Google paid for several months of The Forge development time focused on Android improvements, although the major improvement of Vulkan optimization will help all […] The post Godot x The Forge Collaboration Over appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades has left the Xbox studio

Game Developer

Antoniades co-founded Ninja Theory two decades ago.

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What the game industry must do to prevent occupational burnout

Game Developer

Game industry working conditions are improving, but occupational burnout still runs amok. Studios and workers have the power to slow it down.

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Atari relaunches Infogrames, immediately buys Totally Reliable Delivery Service

Game Developer

Infogrames has returned and is eager to acquire some franchises.

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Take-Two is making layoffs weeks after dropping $460M on Gearbox Interactive

Game Developer

The publisher will spend up to $200 million on a cost reduction program that will also include project cancellations.

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Raph Koster wants developers to get back to 'the game of making games'

Game Developer

Veteran game designer Raph Koster thinks there's a lot of room to explore what "fun" is in game design.

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UK studio Kwalee is making layoffs to create room for new hires

Game Developer

'We are reshaping our business and our team to best capture the significant growth opportunities that currently exist in the sector.

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Descent 3's source code has been released for free use

Game Developer

Programmer Kevin Bentley put out (most) of the 1999 game's source code for players to help maintain and use for their own ends.

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Obituary: Jeremías Babini, Storyteller co-designer, has passed away

Game Developer

Babini's decades-long career includes original games like Storyteller and Piopow, and various Cartoon Network games for Flash and HTML5.

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Did you know Tears of the Kingdom has 'a physics engine for sound'?

Game Developer

Lead sound engineer Junya Osada says making a procedural sound system allowed Nintendo's sound team to work more closely with other departments.

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Gamedev.world launching Global Games Fund to support devs in emergent territories

Game Developer

'Any developer, anywhere, and in any language, deserves access to funding structures and opportunities to make great games.

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Crash 4: It's About Time has sold over 5 million copies

Game Developer

Crash Bandicoot's 2020 return was more successful than you may have believed.

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Warren Spector says the next logical step for immersive sims is multiplayer

Game Developer

The Deus Ex director is still taking inspiration from tabletop with Otherside Entertainment's Thick as Thieves.

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Obituary: LucasArts veteran Matt Shell has passed away

Game Developer

Shell contributed to the success of Star Wars titles including Jedi: Survivor, Battlefront, and Empire at War.

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How to build branching narrative without breaking the bank

Game Developer

Freelance game writer and narrative designer Nessa Cannon wants devs to know they can craft meaningful narrative choices without overscoping.

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Owlchemy Labs' CEO has some advice for other industry leaders: 'Don't chase trends, chase players'

Game Developer

'It's always easy to get seduced by the trappings of it all–and not get to the core of 'why do players enjoy this?

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Playdate devs have earned over $500,000 through Catalog

Game Developer

With more than 70,000 units sold and over $500,000 in gross revenue dished out to developers through Catalog, Playdate continues to grow.

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Dwarf Fortress has topped 800,000 sales in just over a year

Game Developer

Small but mighty.

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Unity sees WebGPU as a growing market for game development

Game Developer

According to Unity, games that can be played "instantly" present new possibilities for game developers.