Game Developer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Only three Resident Evil titles have ever sold more than 10 million copies.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 6, 2025

Hungarian solo developer Csaba Putnai has poured over 3000 hours into his latest project, The Last Three. Its his second game after the release of his debut, Bob A Thousand Lives , which he developed in his forties. The Last Three is a game about the last stone tiger family that lives deep in a magical forest. They are the guardians of balance in the mystical creatures’ realm.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 9, 2025

GameFromScratch.com LVR 3D Lua Game Development Framework Today we are checking out LVR, a free and open source 3D Lua game and VR development framework heavily inspired by LVE. LVE is a popular 2D game development framework, recently made famous for powering the smash indie hit Belatro. LVR takes the ease of use of LVE and brings […] The post LVR 3D Lua Game Development Framework appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 9, 2025

Game server infrastructure has reached a critical inflection point. Traditional virtual machine deployments are no longer sufficient for todays dynamic gaming environments that require live operations with fast, frequent, and efficient updates. Modern technologies, like Kubernetes, are empowering game operations teams to be efficient. Part 1 of this blog series explored how containerization and Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) revolutionizes game operations with scalable solutions.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2025

The two Sony-published titles are nominated for DICE's best game of 2024 alongside Indiana Jones, Balatro, and Black Myth: Wukong.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2025

Hiwarp is an indie game studio based in Spain, run by solo game developer Elwin Gorman. He is known for the charming black and white game PiAwk , about a caged bird thats looking for freedom. His next game is called Naiad. In it you guide a freshwater nymph down a river and explore all its beauty and secrets at your own pace. That premise has a lot in common with the way Gorman likes to work.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 4, 2025

GameFromScratch.com New Blender Plugin Adds Photoshop Styling Painting There is a new plugin for Blender, Paint System by Tawan Sunflower that enables you to paint directly on your 3D models in Blender using a very familiar system to Photoshop users. Best of all the add-on is completely free although it does require a newish version of Blender to […] The post New Blender Plugin Adds Photoshop Styling Painting appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 7, 2025

The tech and video game conglomerate has insisted the move is a 'mistake.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 6, 2025

7thSage again. This time we’ll be working on adding a job system. Providing different stats and growth characteristics depending on which job a unit has. We’ll be loading in a.csv file, and creating a prefab for each job in code. We’ll also be adding some of the elements from the last couple lessons to our actual game characters. There is a lot of things we can add to a job system, but for now we’ll focus on the starting stats of each, and their growth rates.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 7, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Sky3D Add-On for Godot by Tokisan Games Today we are looking the powerful “new” Godot Sky3D add-on from Tokisan Games, the creators of the popular Terrain3D plugin. I air quotes around “new” because the Sky3D project is actually a revival of an earlier Godot 3 add-on by J. Cullar. That project however was abandoned, so Tokisan have […] The post Sky3D Add-On for Godot by Tokisan Games appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Cocos

JANUARY 6, 2025

While developing a web client using Cocos Creator version 3.8.4, I discovered intermittent frame drops during execution. Although the reproduction video shows that the issue occurs at similar intervals, the actual occurrences are irregular. Additionally, the frame drops persist throughout the execution rather than happening only once. Is there a solution to this issue?

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2025

The company has rolled out a new harassment policy to shield its workers from bad actors.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 9, 2025

It's not contradictory at all. What people should do and what they want to do are often not the same, usually because it is easier and feels better to do what they want rather than what they should. My friends tell me they should go to the gym and exercise regularly, but they want to play games on the couch. They aren't incompetent, they knows how and why to go to the gym.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 7, 2025

The US Department of Defense has added Tencent to a list of companies it alleges are connected to the Chinese military.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 6, 2025

Embark on this new dungeon exploration action RPG adventure where you'll play as ninjas Shin and Nobi on their quest to end the curse that hangs over Sogen. Learn ninja skills, upgrade your Dragon Gems, equip the Cursed Seals and level up. Avoid traps.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2025

Toadman began as a work-for-hire studio, and later became a direct subsidiary of its reformed parent company, Enad Global 7.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 10, 2025

Hey y’all! This is just a quick post to let you all know that the 2nd edition of CLOCKWORK GAME DESIGN, my second book on game design, is now available from the publisher’s site. Some quick thoughts on this edition: It is massively, massively improved in my opinion from the first edition. It was rather painful to go through, because I now find some of the stuff I said to be… getting way out ahead of my skis in some ways in the first edition.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 10, 2025

Infold Games' Infinity Nikki has generated $16 million in player spending during its first month on mobile.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 4, 2025

If you're a fan of Buckshot Roulette and just love its adrenaline-fueled, unpredictable gameplay that blends chance and strategy, you're sure to enjoy the strategic battle in ARSONATE, a unique first-person card-based strategy game that draws inspiration.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 7, 2025

'Thank you to everyone who supported us throughout our journey here at Jar of Sparks, we look forward to updating you all with our next step in our journey.

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2025

Hello everyone. Im using Cocos creator to build a small game as side project. Im building for Android and Windows at this stage but Im having issues with the windows build (Android works no problem) When i kick the windows build I get no error and the build gets outputted properly, but when i try to run the exe file (both debug and release version) I get this kind of error: Exception thrown at 0x00007FFCCCD33020 (msvcp140.dll) in TestGame.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 9, 2025

Metaverse platform Infinite Reality has raised $3 billion in a funding round, bringing the firm's total valuation to $12.25 billion.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 6, 2025

When we thought of applying for the IndieDB contest, we were hopeful for a Top 10 spot. Some of us daydreamed over the idea of being Top 1, a spot that other games in the slasher genre managed to achieve. And somehow that daydream became a reality, as.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2025

Emrich previously designed tabletop and video games such as Master of Orion and Totaler Krieg, and coined the now famous strategy game term '4X.

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 8, 2025

Best Adventure Games of 2024 Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this part of my favorite games of 2024, it’s my favorite adventure/narrative games of the year. 0:00 Intro 00:45 Clem 1:47 Sucker For Love: Date to Die For 2:59 Minds Beneath Us 4:20 Prim 5:38 1000XResist… The post Best Adventure Games of 2024 appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 8, 2025

Splash Damage has cancelled its 1-4 player online action game, Transformers: Reactivate, putting an unknown number of jobs at risk.

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Games 112

Indie DB

JANUARY 7, 2025

New robot concepts, enhanced automation, and Martian landscape improvements dive into the latest AGRONOM updates!

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Concepts 105

Game Developer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Meta began to put its business-oriented headset to bed back in October, and now it's no longer available to buy.

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Cocos

JANUARY 10, 2025

start with some basics of TS typescriptlang.org The starting point for learning TypeScript Find TypeScript starter projects: from Angular to React or Node.js and CLIs. Total TypeScript Beginner's TypeScript Tutorial Free interactive video tutorial that will help you get started with TypeScript. typescriptlang.org TS Playground - An online editor for exploring TypeScript and JavaScript The Playground lets you write TypeScript or JavaScript online in a safe and sharable way. then refer to the API

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 8, 2025

Polish transmedia developer Wonder Legends Studio has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by the SMOK Ventures fund.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 5, 2025

Grab a copy of Scrub! from the upcoming 1.19 update, for free, from Itch.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Gotta earn fast.

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Cocos

JANUARY 10, 2025

Hello, I am loading a CDN based presigned URL through assetManager.loadRemote. I am using cocos 3.8.3. The url contains a png. However the URL doesnt end with .png, hence I am passing the extension as mentioned in the doc. My code is as follows - if ( url.includes("png")) { ext = " png"; } assetManager.loadRemote (url, {ext: `${ext}`}, function (err, imageAsset) { if (err) { reject(err); } e.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 7, 2025

Former Annapurna Interactive staff have reportedly acquired indie label Private Division's portfolio after forming a new company.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 8, 2025

Today, Tactics of World War I is released on Steam. A real-time tactics game set in the First World War.

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Games 104

Game Developer

JANUARY 9, 2025

IO declared the bundled version of the Hitman reboot trilogy as the 24-year-old series' most successful entry.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2025

Today's blockbusters use visual effects in more than half their runtime. These effects turn impossible ideas into breathtaking reality. VFX has changed how we tell stories in science fiction. Filmmakers now create vast universes and bring fantastic creatures to life with incredible realism. VFX merges live-action footage with computer-generated imagery to produce spectacular scenes.

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