Game Developer
JUNE 24, 2024
As the game indstry continues through these difficult times, those surveyed by the Game Developers Collective believe they know the real core problems of the industry.
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 24, 2024
The upcoming Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori marks a significant departure from the familiar settings of this long-running horse-riding series. Traditionally set in modern-day Germany, the new game transports players to 13th century Mongolia. Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape.
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Raph Koster
JUNE 28, 2024
I t’s been years of work, and we are far from done, but I am super happy to finally reveal what I have been working on at Playable Worlds: Stars Reach. This is the game I have wanted to make for nearly thirty years. It is the spiritual sequel to Ultima Online and to Star Wars Galaxies. It has in it all the lessons of all these decades of online game development — and it looks forward, not back, to reinvent what an online world can be.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 27, 2024
Without a doubt, one of May's surprise hit games has been Little Kitty, Big City. Released on May 9, the wholesome adventure game about a cat looking for its way home has been massively successful, selling over 100,000 units within the first 48 hours of release, and garnering over a million plays on Game Pass. As of this writing, it also continues to hold strong among the top five downloadable titles on the Nintendo eShop.
Game Developer
JUNE 24, 2024
I want to shed light on a tactic that involves collecting data as you play, feeding this data into complex algorithms and models that then alter the rules of your game under the hood to optimize spending opportunities.
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 28, 2024
Games for Change , in partnership with HP and Google Play, announced the winners of the second annual Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge at the 2024 Games for Change Festival. The challenge is an initiative to improve representation and increase visibility for underrepresented game developers in the mobile gaming industry. Four mobile games from indie studios in the U.S., Europe and Africa received awards for ‘innovative stories, highly engaging gameplay, and real-world impact’.
Lost Garden
JUNE 27, 2024
I presented the Kind Games paper at GDC 2024! I found out afterwards that it ended up being a completely full session with (checks analytics) 140 people in the audience and 94% of respondent rating it Excellent. 6% rated it only Good. Well, at least there’s still room for improvement.
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Game Developer
JUNE 27, 2024
Weeks of racist backlash over Assassin's Creed Shadows prompted Guillemot to speak out and encourage the larger industry to not let this behavior stand.
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 26, 2024
Author: Michal Napora of 32-33 Should you take your demo down before the game comes out? Usually Steam marketeers would advise you to do so, but sometimes it’s smart not to listen to the experts and do the opposite. A couple of months ago I worked on the liminal spaces psychological horror POOLS from developer Tensori. The game came out at the end of April 2024, and since its release, it gathered a healthy 2.100 Steam User Reviews with an even healthier 94% User rating.
Real Programming
JUNE 27, 2024
Kids learn a lot more than the course material from their classes. The class may revolve around learning French, science, literature, history, or whatever else, but students absorb many indirect, secondary lessons. The public school system is designed not merely to impart domain knowledge to kids, but to help them socialize and collaborate with their peers, to become more engaged citizens , neighbours, and people.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 28, 2024
SAG-AFTRA has announced a new tier in its Independent Interactive Media Agreement. As part of this agreement, studios that have a project budget between $15 million and $30 million will benefit from union coverage, provisions against AI, and access to unionised voice actors and performers. Actors will be provided with informed consent and compensation for the use of digital replicas, and will be provided with additional payments based on the number of units sold.
Game Developer
JUNE 26, 2024
The Chinese tech giant is said to be making mass reductions after declining fiscal year profits, and it's unclear what this means for the games it's making.
Indie DB
JUNE 23, 2024
Hey everyone, Our game, Anima Flux, is now in its final stage of development, and to mark this milestone, we're hosting an AMA session starting on June 12th. Our developers, game designer, and community manager are here to answer all your questions.
Perforce
JUNE 27, 2024
Quality gates stop poor quality code from proceeding to the next stage of development. Learn about what is a quality gate, how quality gates work in the DevOps pipeline, and how static analysis tools enforce high quality code.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 27, 2024
Bethesda Game Studios Montreal has filed to unionise with the Communications Workers of America. The BGS Montreal union announced yesterday in a thread on social media that they filed for certification with the Quebec Labour Board. "As a union, we will strive to make BGS a supportive workplace that fosters creativity and talent," it wrote. "This will allow us to keep creating some of the best video games in the industry in the jobs and studios we all love.
Game Developer
JUNE 27, 2024
'We aim to make sure everyone receives fair compensation for their work and the value they provide.
Indie DB
JUNE 28, 2024
Car Company Tycoon has been refreshed! Welcome a major update that includes an advanced car creation editor with over 200 new parts and tire customization, the long-awaited rotary engine, balanced characteristics, updated graphics, and a new minimalist.
Rocket Brush Studio
JUNE 26, 2024
Explore how AI-powered techniques improve mobile app security testing. Learn about advanced threat detection, automated vulnerability analysis, and adaptive security measures. QASource leverages these strategies to ensure robust protection for mobile applications.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 27, 2024
Update : Gameloft has confirmed layoffs to GamesIndustry.biz , with a spokesperson saying it was "necessary" for the studio to "implement a reduction in workforce" due to the current situation of the games market. "As a company, we need to constantly review our production capacities," the statement read. "After careful consideration and in response to the ever-changing market conditions we are facing, it has become necessary to implement a reduction in workforce.
Game Developer
JUNE 27, 2024
The company didn't disclose how many employees have lost their jobs, but it's being reported that almost 50 people have been made redundant.
Indie DB
JUNE 26, 2024
Prince of Thieves (2024) is a personal reinterpretation of a project developed in 2016 for Public Domain Jam 3. It is an early 80s style fixed screen arcade game, designed with the philosophy of reviving classic video games.
Game From Scratch
JUNE 24, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Audio Arcade by Ovani Game Audio Humble Bundle The Audio Arcade: The Definitive Collection of Music and Sound by Ovani Humble Bundle contains a large collection of sound effects, game soundtrack and audio game engine plugins for Godot, Unity and Unreal Engine. As with most Humble Bundles it is organized into tiers: 1$ Tier Rhythmic Music Pack Vol […] The post Audio Arcade by Ovani Game Audio Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 25, 2024
No industry has been left untouched by the looming presence of artificial intelligence – and gaming is no exception. But the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney have somewhat obfuscated the fact that AI has been influencing development in one way or another since at least the 1980s. There is a broad consensus that AI is "new" to the space, says Tommy Thompson, director of consultancy firm AI and Games, speaking on a panel as part of our new GI Sprint series about how to
Game Developer
JUNE 25, 2024
If the studio's numbers are to be believed, Stellar Blade has had a 'smooth,' successful launch that's paved the way for a future PC release.
Perforce
JUNE 24, 2024
Get ready to achieve successful ERP testing with the Discover-Test-Protect approach. In this blog, Jim Dugger takes a deep dive into this unique testing method.
Indie DB
JUNE 27, 2024
The Mobius Machine Update 1.1.0 is live on Steam, Playstation5 and Xbox Series. This update adds new bosses, new itema, new shortcuts and maybe even a possibility to change the fate of our intrepid explorer.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 26, 2024
Atari's Infogrames label has picked up the Surgeon Simulator series from TinyBuild. The publishing division was relaunched by Atari in April to focus on games outside of Atari's core portfolio of IP. Alongside that launch, the firm announced the acquisition of the Totally Reliable Delivery Service, also from TinyBuild. Surgeon Simulator is a comedy medical operation simulator developed by Bossa Studios.
Game Developer
JUNE 27, 2024
An expanded budget range for game projects lets union actors lend their voice or physical performance to more games from developers outside the triple-A sphere.
Game From Scratch
JUNE 26, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unity Forums Being Closed After being a depository for knowledge and discussions on the Unity game engine for over a decade Unity Forums are being shut down the end of July. In their stead the content will be merged with Unity Discussions and hopefully not too much information will be lost in the process. […] The post Unity Forums Being Closed appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Indie DB
JUNE 22, 2024
Welcome to the Everwayne community We aim to earn the trust of future players, so this fantasy world with unique characters is hand-drawn.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 28, 2024
During the pandemic, studios quickly adapted to working remotely. This way of operating seems to have stuck, with many studios opting to stay fully remote rather than returning to the office. Two developers that have adopted this way of work are Bossa Studios and FuturLab, both based in the UK with employees working remotely worldwide. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz for GI Sprint , Bossa co-founder and CEO Henrique Olifiers and FuturLab head of production Toby Adam-Smith discuss the benefits of w
Game Developer
JUNE 25, 2024
The studio said it has cut ties with the popular streamer 'to maintain our principles and standards as a studio and individuals.
AWS Games
JUNE 27, 2024
When developing multiplayer games, you are constantly creating new game client and game server builds. Being able to test the latest changes quickly is important for getting feedback on feature updates and bug fixes. This fast iteration cycle allows you to keep developing without interruptions. There are many aspects to automating the build and deployment cycle, and in this video walkthrough, we’re focusing on fast game server build updates using Amazon GameLift Anywhere, and the recently launch
Game From Scratch
JUNE 28, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Fixing Godot 4.x UI Lag Do you ever get the feeling the Godot 4.x is simply more sluggish than Godot 3.x was? Well, you’re not alone! Kenney on KenneyNL fame made the following tweet: This is certainly something I had noticed at a subconscious level, but I hadn’t realized how profound the performance difference actually […] The post Fixing Godot 4.x UI Lag appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 27, 2024
More players are choosing to use a controller while playing games on Steam, according to Valve. In an update issued by Valve , it found that since 2018 daily average controller use has increased from 5% to 15%, with 42% of these sessions involving Steam Input, which allows players to use different types of controllers. There are over 300 supported controllers that players can use on Steam.
Game Developer
JUNE 25, 2024
The publisher's live-service and MMO-specific studio was already losing money, and 2023's launch of Blue Protocol may have exacerbated that team's issues.
Indie DB
JUNE 23, 2024
Two new starfighters have been added to Stellar Squadron and numerous improvements after months of development.
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