Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hey all, I’m back with another question for readers in this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s all about Game Subscriptions! Subscriptions?: By subscriptions, I mean a fee that you pay to continue playing a game, like the ones needed by MMOs such as World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV. What about them?: In this time of limited finances for many people, some might cut back on such things as game subscriptions to save some money.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We released Godot 4.0 beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. Some of the most notable changes in this update include: Editor: Add undo/redo history dock ( GH-65012 ).

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Building hyper-casual games is a great way to get into game development. With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry. But how do you get started building a hyper-casual game? What exactly goes into creating a hit in this genre?

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Laurie (Avocado Fire) to discuss stories in video games. In this Livecast they talk about the story in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Cloudpunk amongst other topics related to storytelling in video games. (*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. “ Let Sleeping Borg Lie ” is one of those Star Trek: Prodigy episodes that translates well for a younger audience but feels a little unsatisfying for older fans. I do not mean thematically but more from an in-universe perspective. Star Trek struggles a bit for fantastic villains, particularly as the franchise tends to welcome them into the fold later, developing them into admittedly complex parts of the community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. However, with the ever-increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Hey all! This is just a short little article where I will try to make the case for why I think Hearthstone: Battlegrounds (which I’ve gotten back into now that the Buddies system has been removed) should end after four players have been eliminated. Currently, for those who don’t know, HSBG is an eight-player FFA game. Typically, you might expect that whoever comes in first place is the winner, and the rest of the players are losers.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it will cease operation of its games in China beginning on January 23, 2023. This means World of Warcraft , Hearthstone , Diablo 3 , and Overwatch, among others, will become unplayable in the country beyond that date. The decision stems from the end of Blizzard’s ongoing business partnership with Chinese tech giant NetEase, which will not be renewed after the two parties could not come to an agreement this year.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today we’ll try to figure out the main peculiarities, styles, and differences of 2D art in game development. Even though some players consider 3D game art superior to 2D game art and believe that the latter is not so popular, we are sure of the opposite. Moreover, rapid tech advancements have given 2D video game art styles a chance to make a great comeback.

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Game Development for Beginners

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It all started with a modest team of 15. Under the brand name of iXie Gaming, Indium Software’s venture into games QA services was a small yet notable move into the ever-expanding gaming industry. Fast forward a decade to 2022 and iXie has emerged as one of the leading players in providing excellent QA services for game studios and publishers around the world.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In Today’s Email ? We follow up and expand upon the Playtika and social casino-discussion that took part in the latest “This week in games”-podcast by going through the latest earnings reports from Playtika (you can find the link to the podcast below) On the go? Listen to one of our podcasts from this week, we’ve got ? TWiG #208 - Layoffs, Earnings Reports, FTX Collapse & NFT Royalties Explained ?

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Gearbox Entertainment, the studio behind the Borderlands franchise, has announced that it will be taking over operations of Eidos Shanghai, which, going forward, will be known as Gearbox Studio Shanghai. Both Gearbox and Eidos Shanghai are owned by gaming giant Embracer group, and leadership will remain in place following this transition, according to the press release.

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Game Development for Beginners

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

When you create a new script in Unity, it creates a script with few namespaces and the Start and the Update function. It might be very useful when you are getting started. But in most of the cases we end up deleting a few functions and namespaces from the template. Wont it be good if. Read more.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The metaverse is the “next evolution of the internet, the 3D internet,” according to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The metaverse is the “next evolution of the internet, the 3D internet,” according to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. However, with the ever-increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What is Animation? Animation occupies an essential place in the video game development industry. Everyone has heard this term but does everyone know precisely what animation is? . In simple terms, animation means rapidly displaying still images in sequence to create the illusion of movement. Even though the technology sector is constantly advancing, the core concept of animation remains the same.

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Game Development for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Unity has two inbuild function called OnBecaseVisible and OnBecameInvisible that can be used to detect if an object is visible on the camera or not. There are few things that you need to know before using these functions. With all these in mind let’s see how to use these functions. Here is a simple example. Read more.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

On the path to becoming a pro game developer the hardest thing is not learning how to make games, it’s actually the un-learning you have to do. If you take the wrong path, or you follow low-quality resources you’ll pick up bad coding practices, poor optimization techniques, and overall a bad structure for a game project. That’s why we always emphasize to people what they need to learn and give them clear directions and guidelines.

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I have a design tool I call “Don’t Solve the Hard Problem” It consists of three steps Example 1: Meaningful NPC interactions Now, people working on the hard problem of NPC AI may be upset right now. The example I just gave is SO trivial.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The studio will be renamed Gearbox Studio Shanghai

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GameDev Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

There’s a pattern I’ve seen over and over again in game development. I’ve seen it in networking (currently wrestling with it now, in fact), UI, AI, and more. A pattern I used to frequently use myself. A pattern I’ve also.

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Perforce

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Find out why a component based development approach makes sense for teams with monoliths.

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

A thing I’ve realized making non-combat focused games is how expensive combat mechanics often end up being in the end. If you add combat… “The basics” to get you in the door take immense effort. Enemy design, encounter design, player design, attack/defense systems, game feel, all the art and fx.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The development leaves Blizzard without a foothold in China for the moment, but a new deal is likely to replace it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We released Godot 4.0 beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we’ve been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. Some of the most notable changes in this update include: Editor: Add undo/redo history dock ( GH-65012 ).

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

How do you cultivate a wildly productive generative engine of design creativity. Especially one detached from your ego? Design in this case means coming up with plans and specs for the thing you are making that fits the resource constraints.

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

So much mentoring I do is asking folks to treat themselves with kindness. Overwork, anxiety, external and internal pressure can put us into a dark hole. We find ourselves lacking mental resources to be playful.

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The joke goes: An expert game designer is 20x more effective than a newbie. They are correct 20% of the time instead of 1%. Why are game designers wrong 80% of the time? Sometimes they are wrong by a little. Sometimes by a lot. Is it poor planning? Are they morons? An expert painter does […].

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I have a design tool I call “Don’t Solve the Hard Problem” It consists of three steps Example 1: Meaningful NPC interactions Now, people working on the hard problem of NPC AI may be upset right now. The example I just gave is SO trivial. And isn’t the problem they are pouring their lives into […].

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

A thing I’ve realized making non-combat focused games is how expensive combat mechanics often end up being in the end. If you add combat… “The basics” to get you in the door take immense effort. Enemy design, encounter design, player design, attack/defense systems, game feel, all the art and fx. Then once you’ve got your […].

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

How do you cultivate a wildly productive generative engine of design creativity. Especially one detached from your ego? Design in this case means coming up with plans and specs for the thing you are making that fits the resource constraints. And the process of workshopping designs is where a designer coming up with multiple design […].

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Lost Garden

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

So much mentoring I do is asking folks to treat themselves with kindness. Overwork, anxiety, external and internal pressure can put us into a dark hole. We find ourselves lacking mental resources to be playful. – Danc (This was originally a Tweet: [link].

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