Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

Hello fellow developers! As the alpha of Godot 4.0 comes closer and closer, we wanted to spend some words to clarify the direction that Godot 4 has taken in regard of rendering back-ends. Will Godot 4.0 support OpenGL/OpenGL ES? OpenGL will most likely not be supported at the time Godot 4.0 is out. The renderer design and all resulting code had to be re-implemented entirely from scratch in order to support Vulkan and modern rendering techniques.

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Game Industry News

JULY 31, 2021

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS! “ Battle Lines ” does not tread new ground for either Star Trek or science fiction in general, but it does highlight the ways in which DS9 differs from TNG. “Battle Lines” feels very much like an early TNG script right up until the final scene when Camille Saviola lets us see Opaka’s unflappable demeanor fall away. DS9 lives best in this odd space between anxiety and resolve, unlike its predecessor series, and “Battle Lines” reminds us of same.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. But did you know that we actually hold back A TON of screenshots, lore tidbits, tutorials, and video walkthroughs each month?

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Tom Francis

JULY 29, 2021

Note: this was written around the time Void Bastards was released, but languished in my Drafts for years because I’d planned to make it longer. What’s there all still makes sense to me though, so I’m just gonna make it about the 3 things I did cover and throw it out there: Void Bastards is a roguelike first-person shooter about boarding randomly generated spaceships.

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 30, 2021

In this video from 2021 CIMFest, game designers and community managers discuss how to remove toxicity from game communities. Originally scheduled for 2020 GDC, this roundtable on Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities was canceled due to the pandemic. We are so grateful to the Georgia Game Developers Association for allowing this roundtable to occur during Columbus Interactive Media Festival (CIMFest).

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Nvidia

JULY 29, 2021

Developed by XeloGames, an indie studio of just three, and published by Headup Games, Escape from Naraka achieves eye-catching ray-traced lighting using RTX. Developed by XeloGames, an indie studio of just three, and published by Headup Games, Escape from Naraka achieves eye-catching ray-traced lighting using RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) and significant performance boosts from Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2021 edition. We selected 5 projects back in May, and the 5 students and their mentors have now been working on their projects for almost two months. We omitted to announce the projects formally (sorry about that!), but this first progress report written by each student will make up for it by giving a direct glimpse into their work.

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Mnenad

JULY 28, 2021

WATCH PAST STREAMS. 500 Discord Members Celebration - Countryball Potato Mayhem [Live Stream]. Let's play Countryball Potato Mayhem's Battle Royale together and celebrate every single one of our over 500 members on the official Countryball Potato Mayhem Discord server! watch stream. Countryball Oplympics with great prizes for you! Ever wanted to join the Olympic games and represent your country?

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That One Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

In this article I am discussing the available options for memory profiling on Windows for the C/C++ languages. The post Memory profiling on windows for C++ appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Filmustage

JULY 26, 2021

Cinema, like all art, is highly romanticised. Much of this image is built around the director as the sole creator and artist of the film. That is why many video essays and simple conversations tend to focus only on big names. And don't get us wrong, this is totally justified: there are a large number of talented directors in the industry, which of course deserves attention.

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Nvidia

JULY 28, 2021

Next week, Ray Tracing Gems II will finally be available in its entirety as a free download, or for purchase as a physical release from Apress or Amazon. Since. Next week, Ray Tracing Gems II will finally be available in its entirety as a free download, or for purchase as a physical release from Apress or Amazon. Since the start of July, we’ve been providing early access to a new chapter every week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

It's finally time for some extensive testing of the upcoming Godot 3.4 release, which is already quite feature-packed a mere 3 months after the 3.3 release ! And you read correctly, this is 3.4 beta 2 , even though we never had a formal beta 1 announcement on this blog. 3.4 beta 1 is available for download for comparison purposes, but since it had a major regression on C# support on Windows , I skipped its blog post. which gave me some more time to go through the huge changelog and list some of

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 26, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. Thoughts and opinions are his own and do not express those of his employer. Last month, I speculated on the rumors of Netflix’s impending push into gaming, guessing at what strategy they would take and laying out the strategy I thought would be most profitable.

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Game Industry News

JULY 25, 2021

Hey all I’m back with another Spring 2021 series for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s my Higehiro Episode 01 Impressions! Plot: The plot of this first episode is kind of sketchy, at least at first it opens with a young guy getting rejected and then getting drunk out of his mind. On his way back to his home from the station he sees a young teenage girl sitting under a streetlight.

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Harold Serrano

JULY 23, 2021

Hey guys, in this live stream I answer several questions related to game engine development. Feel free to jump to the specific question that you are most interested in. Thanks for watching.

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Wolffire Blog

JULY 21, 2021

Our New Game is Out Now! We are thrilled to announce our brand new 100% free experience, Low Light Combat. Long time Wolfire fans might recognise that name but this multiplayer shooter was developed from the ground up in the cutting edge Unreal Engine 5. In Low Light Combat light is your only weapon. Matches take place during a rapidly changing day and night cycle, meaning your fast paced fights quickly become tense and thrilling battles of wit.

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Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. As a result, more gamers than ever are enjoying the. Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. As a result, more gamers than ever are enjoying the beautifully realized lighting and AI-boosted images that you can only achieve with NVIDIA technology.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2021

Welcome to another developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! This week, we are interviewing Louis Durrant about his game The Garden Path. Introduce yourself in a few sentences. Hi, I'm Louis Durrant, and I make games under ' carrotcake '. I'm an illustrator living in Bristol, UK. The studio was me in my parent's attic to start off, but now it's me in a home-office, so we're making inroads.

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 21, 2021

Last year, I was planning to have another run of Game Writing Primer but the pandemic and subsequent lockdown made that impossible. I checked in with my former students and was delighted to hear of their successes, games , awards, job offers, start-ups, and even a pending wedding between two of them! PlayCrafting asked me to do a Webinar, which I knew could not be the same as the popular workshop series, Game Writing Portfolio Workout.

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Game Industry News

JULY 20, 2021

Hey all I’m back with a new series for this week’s Bookish Wednesday! It’s Island Jumper Book 01 by M.H. Ryan! Plot: This is a survival drama story, mixed a bit with the harem genre. The premise is this, Jack Sawyer is a deckhand on a ship in the Caribbean and wakes up on an uninhabited and incredibly tiny island alone, with the last thing he remembers being the ship he was on going into a storm.

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Harold Serrano

JULY 20, 2021

Hey guys, in this live stream, I test the scene editor of my game engine and answer several game engine development questions. I've added chapters to the live stream, so feel free to jump to the section that interests you the most. Thanks for watching.

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Filmustage

JULY 19, 2021

We've being digging so hard into your feedback, requests and experiences, that now we are happy to present our beta-testing of automatic sceduling feature. Having written extensively about film and its production, we understand how complex and time-consuming the process of planning the filming process is. We've experienced these difficulties ourselves on the set, so we're working hard to develop the most user-friendly and functional service to help all filmmakers create without the boring planni

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Nvidia

JULY 22, 2021

Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools. Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools. Content creation in game development involves multiple steps and processes, which can be notoriously complicated.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 19, 2021

Written by Tiffany Keller , Director of Product for Subway Surfers by Sybo Games , the most downloaded Android game in the world. Want to chat with real industry veterans about our games’ ATT impact? Want to discuss brand integrations or joining our team ? Drop me a message ! In “ Apple IDFA Change has Triggered 15-20% Revenue drops in iOS advertisers ”, Gamesbeat’s Dean Takahashi interviewed Brian Bowman, founder of marketing services firm Consumer Acquisition, on his heavily publicized anti-Ap

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 12, 2021

Update: This poll is now over. You can view the results here. It's this time of the year! Godot Community Poll 2021 is now out for everyone to take part. Let us know what your relationship with Godot is in this brief list of questions! The poll is completely anonymous, and you can see the results after filling it. It will remain open for a week. Completing the poll should take less than 5 minutes.

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Game Industry News

JULY 13, 2021

Hey all I’m back with a question for you all that I’d love to get some answers to for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It’s all about E3, Relevant or Irrelevant? Wait what?: So in recent years E3 has become less and less important with the withdrawal of companies like Nintendo and Sony from participating. Those two aren’t the only ones, but when two of the three big console makers decides not to show up it has made the entire show less than it used to be, which was es

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Harold Serrano

JULY 13, 2021

Hey guys, In this live stream, I go through the process of adding functionality to remove entities with the editor. I also talk about what is the purpose of a scenegraph and why you should implement it in your engine. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

What is Narrative Design? When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? Beautiful shots of heartfelt dialogue, with characters saying a great deal by speaking a few carefully chosen words? Do you want to make people laugh at the silly things the game’s troops say if you click on them enough times? If so, you probably want to be a game writer.

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Nvidia

JULY 21, 2021

In just two weeks, on August 4, Ray Tracing Gems II will be available to download for free in its entirety, or to purchase as a physical release from Apress or. In just two weeks, on August 4, Ray Tracing Gems II will be available to download for free in its entirety, or to purchase as a physical release from Apress or Amazon. We’ve been counting down to this date by providing early releases of select chapters once every week in July.

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Filmustage

JULY 12, 2021

There are directors whose work is difficult to understand definitively, because their filmography is so varied and extraordinary that it would be worth writing a whole book about all the artistic techniques and directorial style. Today our blog is about such a director - Martin Scorsese. The importance of Scorsese's contribution to filmmaking cannot be overstated, as each film he directed was an incredibly immersive viewing experience.

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Digital Ephemera

JULY 10, 2021

Last month, Inkle shared a post on their Patreon with an example of some code from their recent game Overboard! (2021). Within the code was a function called oneChoice() that limits the number of choices within a set. While seemingly simple, it solves a particularly interesting problem in Ink: dialogue trees! Often, when working in Ink to create a narrative-based game, a set of dialogue responses might be needed.

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Catnip Games

JULY 9, 2021

Both Tiny Player for iOS and Tiny Player for Mac have been rewritten in Swift. It took a lot of time & effort but it was a necessary step and I’m happy with how it went. Generally I wanted to keep the app working at the end of each programming session. I started with a few refactorings of the Objective-C code that I knew would make things easier later.

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Game Industry News

JULY 9, 2021

Hey all I’m back for this week’s Retro Game Friday with a game I can’t believe I haven’t covered yet. It’s Gradius! Gameplay: This was one of the pioneers of the shoot em up genre as well as the bullet hell genre. Frankly I can’t believe I have yet to cover this game considering how influential it is. The premise is simple, get through each level while collecting power ups and destroy as many enemies as you can without getting hit.

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Tiny Hydra

JULY 8, 2021

AAA games make up the minority of games released each year, but receive the vast majority of news coverage, consumer hype, and cultural mindshare. Because of that, you’d assume that anyone would be able to definitively say which games are and are not AAA, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The post The Problem With Defining AAA Games (and How to Fix It) appeared first on Tiny Hydra.

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2021.3 is now available for download! Nsight Systems is a system-wide performance analysis tool, designed to help developers tune and. NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2021.3 is now available for download ! Nsight Systems is a system-wide performance analysis tool, designed to help developers tune and scale software across CPUs and GPUs.

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 6, 2021

This year, when I interviewed numerous aspiring game writers and narrative designers, I discovered that many were a bit fuzzy on the actual day-to-day tasks of the job. It was much like when people ask about game design and then find out with surprise that the actual job entails spreadsheets. Game writers and narrative designers often look at spreadsheets too!

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Wolffire Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Summer Sale. It’s finally summer which means it's saving time! You can now get all Wolfire games , including Receiver 2 and Overgrowth, at discounted prices as part of the summer sale. But act fast because the sale ends on the 8th of July! If there is a game of ours that you’ve been wanting to try, now is the time to complete your Wolfire collection!

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