Game From Scratch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Pricing Changes With the game development world already reeling from the Unity Runtime Fee price change announcement, any talk of price changes for Unreal Engine are bound to cause more than a bit of concern. In a recent presentation, explaining the major layoffs at Epic Games, Epic Games CEO made some announcements … Unreal Engine Pricing Changes Read More The post Unreal Engine Pricing Changes appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Top image: Photo door Andrea Piacquadio, Pexels.com Community management has become a vital aspect of maintaining a successful gaming ecosystem. Jared Creasy , Senior Community Manager at Tripwire Interactiv e, shared his insights during his IndieGameBusiness Sessions talk. Toxicity in online gaming communities is not just a moral issue, it’s a matter of business survival.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The ex-BioWare workers claim their former employer has refused to properly compensate them for their tenure, with each of them having an average of 14 years at the developer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Five former executives from Ubisoft have been arrested by French police following a year-long investigation into sexual assault and harassment within the company. French newspaper Libération reported that three were arrested yesterday, with another two placed in custody today.

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Unity Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Achieve a high frame rate on a budget phone using GLES 3.0 with BatchRendererGroup, C# Job System, and the Burst compiler.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Mind Diver is an intriguing detective game where you travel in time to fix broken memories from a relationship, investigate the events of one fateful night and unravel the case of a lost loved one. It’s the brainchild of six developers from Copenhagen, operating under the name of Indoor Sunglasses. The game is still in early development, but Co-founder and Creative Director Victor Breum firmly believes in the concept: “It’s a delicious detective loop!

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

"It's important to remember that development isn't a zero-sum game. One team's success doesn't mean another team's failure.

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Perforce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

We surveyed game creators around the globe for insights on the future of game development & trends in the industry. Get an overview of our 2023 State of Game Development & Design Report.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. We meet Monique, a perky little heroine and cat burglar, who teams up for a spectacular heist involving a precious diamond. The point-and-click adventure unfolds in a stylish 1960s Paris that exudes both an inviting and eerie ambiance. Funny then that the game is made in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Former CCO Serge Hascoët and editorial VP Tommy François were detained by French police looking into their previously reported harmful misconduct.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox 2023 continues to be a difficult year when it comes to layoffs. In the past couple of weeks alone, companies including Ascendant Studios , Beamdog , Crystal Dynamics , Roblox , Blizzard , Epic Games , Team17 , Naughty Dog , Twitch and Keywords have all dismissed varying numbers of staff, ranging from 10 Hearthstone developers to more than 800 Epic employees.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Celebrating thirty years of doing whatever it is we do! We have officially announced our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation ! This is a giant remaster of one of our most popular games, with everything redone and tons of new material. You can learn about it here, see a trailer here, and wishlist it on Steam here. That was blatant self-promotion. There'll be more of it in March, when we release the game for Windows & Mac.

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Game From Scratch

OCTOBER 5, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Price Change — New Details Yesterday we discussed the new changes coming to the Unreal Engine pricing structure in 2024. This is a move to per seat licensing for non-game development projects, such as automotive industry, movie production, archviz and more. One unforeseen (by me) consequence of this change is the impact on the indie … Unreal Engine Price Change — New Details Read More The post Unreal Engine Price Change — New Details appe

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Witch Beam co-founder Sanatana Mishra explains how to interpret the "deluge" of feedback you'll receive from public demos at shows like PAX.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox US developer Puny Human has announced it is in the process of shutting down after 16 years of operations. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company is currently operating with just two full-time employees, having laid off fourteen during the summer and another two leaving voluntarily.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Introduction User authentication and authorization is a critical aspect of almost any application. For mobile games in particular, managing the authentication and authorization of your players can pose some unique challenges. Some of these challenges relate to the use of mobile devices themselves. Other challenges relate to securing the many backend systems a modern mobile game may interact with, such as game servers, social networks, and payment providers.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like many companies, Meta isn’t throwing the “metaverse” word around with quite the same enthusiasm as a few years back, but the company’s recent Connect presentation shows that it’s still very much in the game. During his presentation last week, company chief Mark Zuckerberg enthused about a ream of new launches and technologies ranging from augmented reality to AI trinkets, to camera-enabled Ray Ban glasses.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Months after reports of its multiplayer Last of Us spinoff was said to have stalled, Naughty Dog has reportedly laid off over two dozen contractors.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Pistol Shrimp was established by a group of veteran Toys For Bob developers who had learned the importance of owning what they make through first-hand experience. Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz , two of Pistol Shrimp's four co-founders Fred Ford and Dan Gerstein say it's an important consideration because while the medium itself has changed tremendously in the decades they've been making games, some things remain largely unchanged.

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Tropic 6 Mod Kit is here to help you bring your vision of mods for Tropico 6 to life. Unleash your creativity and make Tropico 6 your own - create new maps, modify or replace assets or bring entirely new mechanics into the game.

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Game From Scratch

OCTOBER 5, 2023

GameFromScratch.com The Best Game Development Frameworks If you are looking to create a game but perhaps want to craft your own game engine from existing technologies, or you prefer to work at a lower more code focused level, using a game framework instead of a game engine may be right for you. Today we look at … The Best Game Development Frameworks Read More The post The Best Game Development Frameworks appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Worms developer is undergoing redundancies that's resulted in the loss of its CEO and much of its QA staff.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. This industry is terrified of transparency. From the secrecy around development to the unnecessary NDAs on everything from ex-employees to underwhelming embargoed news, the games industry likes nothing so much as playing its cards close to the chest.

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OPM Jobs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You finally got that call, email or carrier pidgeon in with the news: You’ve been offered an interview at a game studio! So, how do you prepare for your first games industry interview and leave a great first impression? Lets start, straight off the bat, with a key piece of advice: It’s ok to take notes into an interview. It’s ok to refer to your notes when you’re asked a question.

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Game Development News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The full story of how MCV came about and how it's managed to survive in print for 25 years. And some other stuff.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says the company began running into financial problems "about 10 weeks ago.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox As Grasshopper Manufacture hit 25 years of operations, CEO Goichi "Suda 51" Suda insists to GamesIndustry.biz that the studio's motto of 'Punk's not dead,' a message that its creative works will shock and or stimulate people is "still alive and kicking." Suda notes that the studio's name is an homage to both the song "Grasshopper" by British rock band Ride and a reminder to himself of how it feels like working in game d

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Game From Scratch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Evergine 2023.9 Released The Evergine (previously known as Wave Engine) engine just released version 2023.9. This version represents a fairly significant upgrade as it adds a Metal renderer and iOS as a target platform. The Evergine game engine is free to use, with commercial support and source code licenses available. What’s new in … Evergine 2023.9 Released Read More The post Evergine 2023.9 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Development News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The PC Gaming Show is coming back this November to put the spotlight on 25 upcoming video games - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While proud of his time and accomplishments at Epic, Galyonkin believes he's no longer a good fit for the developer and its plans going forward.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Naughty Dog is laying off at least 25 developers this month with no severance, according to a Kotaku report. Citing two sources familiar with the situation, the outlet said the cuts are coming from the studio's contractor workforce, and do not include full-time employees. While the layoffs span a variety of departments, most of the people losing work are coming from the QA team.

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Game From Scratch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Rendering Introduced at SIGGRAPH 2023 was a paper called 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering that set the graphics world on fire. A technology for capturing the real world in 3D similar to NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields), Gaussian Splats have one major advantage that is especially important to game … Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Rendering Read More The post Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Rendering appeared fi

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Perforce

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Helix DAM, or digital asset management, offers a visual, web-based UI that lets teams store, use, review, and share creative assets.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Hato Moa attests she hasn't received payment for her popular avian dating sim in the last two years.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Epic Games is raising the price of its Unreal Engine for developers outside the gaming industry. Speaking during a presentation at Unreal Fest 2023, as captured by Fortnite Creative developer ImmatureGamerX on social media and spotted by Game World Observer , Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney revealed that from next year, industries outside game development will only be able to access Unreal Engine via a seat-based enterprise software licensing model.

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Filmustage

OCTOBER 6, 2023

From breathtaking action sequences to otherworldly landscapes, VFX plays a pivotal role in bringing the wildest imaginations to life on the silver screen. This article explores the multifaceted role of VFX in modern filmmaking and its profound impact on the art of storytelling. A Brief History of VFX ?️ The Birth of Visual Effects: Silent Era to Early Talkies The history of visual effects in filmmaking is a captivating journey through the evolution of technology, creativity, and storytelling.

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Mods now available for Core Keeper, the game where you mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

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