Half Geek
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Some bug fixes and re-balancing. Thank you to players who have provided feedback! Fixed bug with new player Drone AI sometimes flying off into the void. Fixed a bug with Merchant NPC during random encounters, if the player is busy in conversation, and Pirates or Zerkers interrupt, it will now resume normal flight. The Starborn’s Corvette and Frigate had the RoF for Valiant Mk2 torpedoes reduced by 33%.
The GameDev Guru
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
And yet the question comes back to strike again. is pooling dead?
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Raph Koster
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer. But that’s not right – sandbox is not the older form.
DameDev.tv
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
SheepIT is a free Blender render farm that I've wanted to test for quite some time. Now that I've used it, I want to share my experience with you. The basic idea is very simple: you help in the rendering of other's people projects, and in exchange, other people help you to render. It's very easy to use, it's free and it has great community around it.
The Bottom Feeder
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
I’m only ever in it for the memes. Wayyyy back in the 70s and 80s, science fiction/fantasy/superhero content hadn't completely taken over the culture yet. New nerd content was rare and treasured. The Superman movie (1978) was mind-blowing. (I’m old enough to remember when Superman was a good guy.) A new Star Trek series was an impossible dream.
2d Game Art Guru
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
It’s been a while and I have quite a backlog of videos and tutorial material for Affinity Designer and Inkscape by now. I enjoy the creation process, finding solutions, and then recording a video or creating a quick tutorial strip. Sadly, I tend to neglect the website or my social media posts over it. There are simply too many interesting projects to cover… but I will try and catch up.
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Radiator Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
These are design notes about my process and intent, and it may spoil what happens in the level. I made my new single player Quake map "There a Certain Slant of Light" for the Quake Brutalist Jam , a 2 1/2 week long map jam focused around making chunky modernist concrete themed levels. I actually made most of this level around two years ago. I wasn't really happy with it, so I never released it.
Game Refinery
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Mobile game developers are constantly looking for new ways to bring in new players and keep existing players engaged with their games. One of the most successful ways of doing this is by introducing meta elements – gameplay elements and mechanics from other game genres – into your game. Over 70% of the US top-20% grossing casual iOS games now feature meta elements, whether that’s through the inclusion of platforming minigames or side missions with RPG mechanics, but renovation and construction e
DameDev.tv
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Industry veterans Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Yasmin Curren, to play Cult Of The Lamb and discuss the gameplay mechanics and features of the game and what it means to be a technical designer. Yasmin is inspired by technology and driven by creativity. She’s an enthusiastic storyteller, game designer and content creator. In her own words, she is “a media magician of creative concoctions!
Starloop Studios
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
As one of the forerunners in blockchain game development, NFT game development, and Meta game development we’re always looking to push the boundaries. What’s the next best step to continue and grow the new, emerging world of blockchain gaming? Now, with dozens of blockchain gaming titles in the works, we’re confident that we are [.].
2d Game Art Guru
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Designing Animated GIF images in Affinity Designer. Affinity Designer Video Tutorial. Animated GIF images are easy and popular to add animation to your designs. In this video, I will work with artboards [much like transparent pages in old-school hand-drawn animation] to create some simple animations. Affinity Designer has no ability [yet] to save animated GIF files.
Filmustage
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Hello! As you remember, this week we are dedicating our blog to the amazing and dangerous craft of stuntmen (you may also be interested in reading Stunt performers: Fairy behind the scenes ), so today we have compiled for you a selection of what Filmustage considers to be the most amazing stunts in cinema. Don't judge strictly, it's a subjective selection.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
We released Godot 3.5 in early August, and like any release, there are few rough edges to iron out which warrant making maintenance "patch" releases (3.5.x). Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. This helps guarantee that the overall production readiness of the stable branch keeps increasing. So this 3.5.1 release fixes a number of regressions that users reported after the release, as well as various other fixes to pre-existing bugs and usa
AWS Games
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Today’s game developers use analytics as a critical workload to deliver the best gameplay experiences possible for their players. As developers look to have more control over where their data is stored and to reduce the complexities of ingesting data from a variety of sources, many turn to AWS to help them create their own custom analytics pipelines and data lakes.
iXie gaming
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
State of Sony so Far. Sony holds its exclusive State of Play event every year where they announce new products, intellectual properties and exclusive content for previously released games. Along with the PS5 having released almost two years ago, the transition into a new generation of gaming has begun. Console game testing is an ever-changing skillset as there are more advanced hardware with bigger and more complex games every generation.
Rampant Games
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Yeah, a lot of my posts are VR-related these days. It’s how I roll, now. Not that all (or even most) of my gaming is in VR. I’m still retro-gaming regularly and I am really looking forward to the PC release of Persona 5 next month. But… VR is a wild and exciting frontier, and I’m still nowhere near jaded. While a lot of approaches and conventions have solidified for certain genres of games, there’s still nothing set in stone, especially as the tech keeps improving.
Raph Koster
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
W ell, twenty-five years is a long time. Half a life, in fact! Given that I actually started work on UO on September 1st 1995, it’s actually more than half. The fact that the game is still running is a testament to the devoted community and the ongoing maintenance over the years from countless people. I note a lack of thinkpieces and articles, this time around.
Filmustage
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Hello, Filmustage is on the phone. Filmmaking is a global industry that is not based on the names of directors alone. We've always been interested in exploring the hidden parts of our favorite industry because it's the only way to discern the individual personalities of the people responsible for a cool movie. This week we're dedicating our blog to the hidden figures of the filmmaking industry - the stuntmen.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
NVIDIA recently announced Ada Lovelace, the next generation of GPUs. Named the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, these are the world’s most advanced graphics. NVIDIA recently announced Ada Lovelace, the next generation of GPUs. Named the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, these are the world’s most advanced graphics cards. Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology.
AWS Games
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Epic Games (Epic) went all in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2018 to deliver the storage, analytics, and scaling capabilities critical to its business, which had exploded with the release of Fortnite—an online game that’s seen over 15.3 million concurrent players during live events. Fortnite runs almost entirely on AWS, including its worldwide game-server fleet, backend services, and websites.
iXie gaming
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Avalanche Software and Warner Bros. Entertainment are slated to release the new Hogwarts Legacy game set in the world of the long-running Harry Potter series. There was footage of the common rooms and brand-new gameplay that was released earlier this month- which gave an insight into the game mechanics, setting, and characters to an extent. Along with the pre-order already live for the release in February 2023, the game is garnering a lot of traction in the media.
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
We released Godot 3.5 in early August, and like any release, there are few rough edges to iron out which warrant making maintenance "patch" releases (3.5.x). We've had successful testing of a first Release Candidate for 3.5.1, and a few more fixes got backported in the meantime so let's have another round of testing before publishing 3.5.1 stable.
Rampant Games
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
As a long-time fan of the dice-and-paper RPG for Cyberpunk, designed by Mike Pondsmith, I was absolutely thrilled to learn that CD Projekt Red was tacking that game universe. That was back in 2013 or something when they did this absolutely amazing concept video. They nailed the “feel” of the game world… which of course borrowed liberally from genre stories by authors like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Walter Jon Williams, and George Alec Effinger.
Filmustage
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
We can hardly imagine a more conservative industry than the film industry. For all its analogies, the process of filmmaking is endowed with many technological solutions that do not fit into the conventional framework at all. That's why it's funny how cinema has instilled in people a fear of artificial intelligence, and now it's actively incorporating these technologies into the production process of a film.
Febucci
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
I didn’t know if I’d attend Gamescom this year (it would have been also my first one), but after a bit of courage and going there anyways by myself, I really cannot wait for the next one to come. It was a wonderful experience, met some incredibly talented and passionate developers and said hi to some close and new dev friends in person as well. I wanted to make this post with a few notes in order to prepare for next year, and I hope they’ll be useful for you too!
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Written by Laura Taranto , Javier Barnés , and Anette Staloy. Make sure to listen to the podcast below to dive even deeper into Clash Quest. After 16 months in soft launch, Supercell’s Clash Quest has reached the end of its run. The game has not achieved the business objectives set by Supercell and the game will shut down. Following an excellent postmortem by Laura Taranto, Javier Barnes and Anette Staloy, host Ethan Levy sits down with the writers to discuss what went right and what areas of im
Yotes Games
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Some people have been wondering what's up with the name change, so why not answer it here? To keep it concise, it's about looking way into the future. Beyond making games alone. Could be shows, movies, toys, board games, conventions, anything involving delivering people a good time. As well as any number of other business ventures to keep this thing independent and afloat as we strive to create the best of the best in entertainment.
Grid Sage Games
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Most roguelikes apply some sort of randomization to their items, which makes a lot of sense for a genre focused on replayability. This can take the form of enchantments, prefixes, suffixes, or even randomized stats or different properties not necessarily reflected directly in an item’s name like the above list. The various possible combinations can really stack up and turn an otherwise limited pool of base items into a wider variety of interesting problem-solving tools, one that the player
Mircosoft Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. We aren’t done yet, but today marks a major milestone on the road to Godot 4.0. Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 is now ready and available for download. We know that everyone is eager to get their hands on Godot 4.0 and this is a major step in getting there.
Filmustage
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Art by @nadi_bulochka Alejandro González Iñárritu is the third person in cinema history to win two consecutive Oscars for directing. He is the first Mexican to win the Oscar for Best Film. At the same time, there is not a single film of his that has not been nominated for a golden statuette. Iñárritu is part of a company of three Mexican directors, the "three Amigos", which in addition to him includes Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro.
DameDev.tv
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Industry veterans Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* take a deep dive into games that require low brain power, the design of them and what makes them work. Not all games require your full brain power. Watch our Devology Livecast as Rick and Tim play Super Auto Pets and Iron Snout and demonstrate why low brain power games can be a lot of fun! Listen to the whole chat here: [link] Our 'AHA' moments Not all games require your undivided attention Low brain games require very little thinking
Starloop Studios
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
As blockchain networks and NFTs grow in popularity, so too do blockchain games and NFT games. As the popularity grows, it’s important that developers know which blockchain platform to choose. As the integration of blockchain into gaming and NFTs into gameplay is becoming more common, the play-to-earn type of gameplay is appealing to many [.].
Real Programming
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
No one knows better than parents how incredibly busy kids are nowadays. Kids often have hectic schedules between school, sports, friends, gaming, and other activities. Parents themselves feel the demands of a child's busy schedule, driving them from home to school to ice hockey practice and finally back home while managing their own work, interests, and essential responsibilities.
Click Nothing
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
For those wondering what I've been up to for the past while, here's the news; a year or so ago I moved back to Montreal, and have been working on an upcoming Assassin's Creed game. Assassin's Creed: Codename Hexe was.
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