Brand Game Development
JANUARY 25, 2021
It’s no secret that if you want to make a great board game, you’re going to have to test it a bunch. Games are complex systems. You make one tweak, and twenty things change. That’s why it’s important to learn how to identify and fix problems with your board game. I’ve written before about the usefulness of documenting your playtesting.
The GameDev Guru
JANUARY 14, 2021
Learn how to measure your assembly compilation times to uncover these time robbers that are making you release a worse game.
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Concept Art World
JANUARY 13, 2021
Concept Art World. Mitchell Mohrhauser. Mitchell Mohrhauser is a concept designer and illustrator working in the game industry. He has worked on games titles such as Ghost Of Tsushima , EVE Online , Dust 514 , World of Darkness and various other AAA games. He is currently working as a Senior Concept Artist at Sucker Punch Productions and freelancing as an illustrator.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 31, 2021
This analysis is written by Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid and Grit, and Lloyd Melnick , General Manager at Chumba Casino. Access all of our previous predictions. Signup for the newsletter. Apply for our Slack group. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games.
Game Design Advice
JANUARY 29, 2021
It seems undeniable at this point that we’re living in demented times. Our political order is slowly dissolving around us. Huge portions of the populace involuntarily lead monastic lives and even then thousands of people are dying a day. GameStop is somehow a thing that people care about. What is happening? Why is it that on every side it feels like things are slipping away, and yet at the same time it feels like we’re caught in an interminable stasis?
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 28, 2021
After 4 months of development it's time to aim for the 3.2.4 stable release to bring the numerous new features and even more important bug fixes to all Godot users. So here's a first Release Candidate to get broader testing of everything that has been iterated upon in the past 6 beta builds. You can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release.
Brand Game Development
JANUARY 11, 2021
We all have a tendency to make mountains out of molehills sometimes. The biggest killers of productivity are, at their core, really simple, such as noise, interruptions, and temptations of the Internet. After all, what destroys perfectly good new year’s resolutions are usually flashy events or crises. It’s tempting to ask “how to I become more motivated” or “why am I so lazy?
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Filmustage
JANUARY 25, 2021
I have had a script in hand I wanted to deal with. Hiring an Assistant Director wasn't my case. To break down a script, I usually use Final Draft Tagger: it has helped me before, significantly saving my time. With Tagger, I can tag all the items in the Final Draft file and then export a.sex file. After that, it can be imported into Movie Magic Scheduling.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 25, 2021
This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Access all of our previous predictions. Signup for the newsletter. Apply for our Slack group. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games.
Grumpy Gamer
JANUARY 20, 2021
Farside image removed due to DCMA takedown notice*. *Yeah, seriously. I've unsubscribed to the Farside RRS feed.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 21, 2021
Hello fellow Godoters! Our online GodotCon meetup for contributors, users and game developers, will happen online this Saturday, January 23rd , from 8:45 UTC to 16:00 UTC. We hope to have you join us for this long-awaited moment of knowledge sharing! We have received many talk submissions from people from all over the world and while it was a heartbreaker, we had to make some selections to fit in the schedule.
Brand Game Development
JANUARY 4, 2021
Over the holiday break, Maria and I found ourselves all alone, physically isolated from our family because of the coronavirus pandemic. After talking her family, to break the eerie silence of a just-ended video call, I said, “you want to pull out the old Nintendo 64?” Only upon literally breathing life back into the dusty old cartridges were we able to get it to start again: Mario Party.
The Astronauts
JANUARY 18, 2021
In the previous post I did a survey of various GPU format compression libraries. I just got an Apple M1 MacMini to help port some of these compression libraries to it, and of course decided to see some performance numbers. As everyone already noticed, M1 CPU is quite impressive. I’m comparing three setups here: MacBookPro (2019 16", 8 cores / 16 threads).
Filmustage
JANUARY 24, 2021
So, let’s say you’ve decided to make your own film. You have a brilliant script, and what you need now is to break it down to be able to plan your production, create a shooting schedule, cast actors, book locations, and so on. How to make a script breakdown using the Filmustage app? In this post, we are going to talk about that in detail. Filmustage is based on the artificial neural network trained to search for elements in the script text and distinguish the elements depending on the context.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 21, 2021
This analysis is written by my friend, Buğrahan Göker who focused on 4X games, and Yours Truly. Access all of our previous predictions. Signup for the newsletter. Apply for our Slack group. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This is done through in-depth research, insights, and case studies as well as innovative marketing solutions and education materials.
Nvidia
JANUARY 15, 2021
In this interview, Miguel Molina, Director of Developer Relations at SplitmediaLabs, the makers of XSplit, discussed how they were able to easily integrate. In this interview, Miguel Molina, Director of Developer Relations at SplitmediaLabs, the makers of XSplit, discussed how they were able to easily integrate NVIDIA Broadcast into their vastly popular streaming service.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 20, 2021
Starting from today, there is a new User groups page on the Godot Engine website! This page replaces the old User groups page by featuring a community map that can be freely navigated and contributed to. What is the community map? The community map on the User groups page allows you to see where physical and online communities are located around the world.
Astral Clock Tower Studios
JANUARY 14, 2021
Hello, loyal Kristalans and faithful fantasy fanatics! Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you'll get a front-row seat to the development process for the inaugural title from the leading ladies at Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-owned indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. It's been a hard year for all of us, especially for independent creators.
Concept Art World
JANUARY 12, 2021
Concept Art World. Ignacio Bazan Lazcano. Ignacio Bazan Lazcano is a freelancer concept artist and illustrator working for many game industry companies including Gameloft, Sabarasa, Timegate, GlobalFun and others. Ignacio is currently working from his studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Link: Portfolio | Facebook | Instagram. All images © Ignacio Bazan Lazcano or their respective copyright holder.
Hopscotch
JANUARY 12, 2021
Please meet this week’s Hopscotch top creator — SilverSong. Current Hopscotch forum curator, awesome digital artist, and one of the kindest Hopscotch community advocates, they help with creating official projects-challenges and judge Hopscotch coding competitions. Here are some of their projects: Let’s see what they have to say about their experience with Hopscotch: Hopscotch: Can you tell us about your first experience with Hopscotch?
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 19, 2021
Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This is done through in-depth research, insights, and case studies as well as innovative marketing solutions and education materials. Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable, and relevant information along with tips, tools, and solutions to help you grow your business.
Catnip Games
JANUARY 9, 2021
Tiny Player version 1.4 is out now. This update brings the following changes: Dark mode support New icon set Optimizations & bug fixes This version of Tiny Player requires iOS 13.0 or newer. I know this leaves some users behind. Sorry. I need to modernize the code to keep adding new features.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 19, 2021
Welcome to the second developer interview following the introduction of the new Showcase page ! This week, we've interviewed Monolith of Minds about their latest game Resolutiion. Introduce your studio in a few sentences. We’re Monolith of Minds, two brothers from Germany who set out to tell tall tales of stray heroes and kind monsters. Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc.
Filmustage
JANUARY 9, 2021
Sometimes, when you watch your favorite movie, you probably try to guess how much work lies behind what you see on the screen. Everybody has in mind some image of the famous “Lights, camera, action!” – but there is so much to do before the director says the words. Filmmaking consists of 5 essential stages: Development, starting from the mere idea of the film and ending with the project financing and finalizing the script.
Tiny Hydra
JANUARY 8, 2021
Job boards are one of the quickest and most straightforward ways to apply for jobs. Luckily, the games industry has a whole bunch. The advantage of industry-specific job boards is that they are much more targeted than general listing sites like Indeed or Monster, meaning you don’t have to wade through a ton of FinTech. The post A Complete List of Game Industry Job Boards appeared first on Tiny Hydra.
Grumpy Gamer
JANUARY 4, 2021
Making progress. I expected to be farther along but New Years has taken more time away than I wanted and tomorrow it's back to work. This thing is way over engineered. Lost of small sub-pieces like this: But the more I put it together the more I realize that it's actually engineered for "fun". The whole thing could have been constructed a lot simpler, look just as good (most of what I'm building is completely hidden) but wouldn't be as much fun to put together.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 13, 2021
Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This is done through in-depth research, insights, and case studies as well as innovative marketing solutions and education materials. Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable, and relevant information along with tips, tools, and solutions to help you grow your business.
Lost Garden
JANUARY 3, 2021
As game budgets expand once more, the success of a title often depends on producing large amounts of high quality content. This is not a trivial task. Mistakes setting up your content plans can easily result in panic, shipping delays, scope cuts, rework and crunch. Modern developers live on the content treadmill so we might […].
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 16, 2021
While our main focus stays on the 4.0 branch, the current stable 3.2 branch is receiving a lot of great improvements, and the upcoming 3.2.4 release is going to be packed with many new features. With this beta 6 build, there are several recently merged changes that will require heavy testing to be stabilized before 3.2.4-stable: New CPU lightmapper using Embree for raytracing and OIDN for denoising.
Filmustage
JANUARY 9, 2021
Have you ever thought about how a film script usually looks? How many details do the screenwriters provide in the text? Do they report every single element you see in the scene? Not really. Sometimes the scene can be described only briefly, with some phrases as simple as "Jane is at the party” – but after the filmmaking crew has worked on the script during pre-production, the full set dressing comes out.
Nvidia
JANUARY 11, 2021
In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. He also discusses roadmap plans. In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. He also discusses roadmap plans for the recently announced RTXDI SDK , which allows easy experimentation and integration of direct illumination.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 10, 2021
Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. This is done through in-depth research, insights and case studies as well as innovative marketing solutions and education materials. Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable and relevant information along with tips, tools and solutions to help you grow your business.
Filmustage
JANUARY 9, 2021
What do you think what lies beyond these well-known words "Camera, Action!"? Most people can hardly imagine what it is. How is it possible? Such a great number of professionals work together in a team/crew, seem to be one organism, understand each other perfectly clear in their movie-language and even capable of ending each other's thoughts. Everyone who has ever tried to build a team knows how hard it is to make team members work together harmoniously.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 7, 2021
While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see recent devblogs on glTF 2.0 scene exporter , Complex Text Layout , Web export improvements , and a physics work package ), a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2 branch for the upcoming Godot 3.2.4. This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 4, 2021
Who am I? Hi everyone, beginning a new 2021. I am Ernest Lee, a core contributor to the 3D pipeline of Godot. I enjoy contributing to new features and bringing new possibilities to the broader community. You can contact me on @iFiery on Twitter , fire on GitHub or on my chibifire.com website. What is glTF 2.0? glTF 2.0 ( GL Transmission Format ) is a fully open-source, widely implemented interchange format with built-in support for physically-based rendering standards. glTF is a growing 3D forma
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