iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue. Unity, a widely adopted game engine, plays a pivotal role in empowering aspiring game developers in making great gaming experiences, thanks to its user-friendly interface and strong community sup

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AUGUST 18, 2023

With Rovio now among its subsidiaries, Sega has a bigger presence in the mobile game market and another franchise to play around with.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Solo game developer Graham Reid has just released his latest game Super Space Club on Xbox and PC. The game blends the frenzied chaos of an arcade space shooter with the soothing sounds of lofi hip hop and jazz. “With both the visuals and the audio, I wanted to create a strong identity for the game that stood out amongst the crowd”, says Reid. He achieved just that, but it took great effort to finish the project.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 18, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sega has completed its purchase of Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment. The gaming firm announced the acquisition's finalization on social media.

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Game Development News

AUGUST 18, 2023

What’s it like to make games in Europe’s biggest non-capital city in Europe’s largest games market?

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Game Developer

AUGUST 18, 2023

David Vonderhaar has been with Treyarch since its early Call of Duty days, and is now leaving the studio to work on a currently unannounced project.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where players lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. They have to survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance the technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve their civilization. It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks.

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Game Development News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Head of communications at Liquid Crimson, Lauran Carter, gives us a heads up on what the award-winning creative studio has planned for Cologne - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Developer

AUGUST 18, 2023

Take-Two's DMCA takedown for Grand Theft Auto V puts the publisher in the thorny territory of mods that use AI to generate voice performances and dialogue.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

Interviewing is one of the most important aspects of any developer’s job. Your employer and colleagues decided to put their trust in your ability to identify their next hire. Taking into account not only their technical skills and knowledge, but also their soft skills, their eagerness to help and to learn, and their fit within the existing organisation.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 18, 2023

Take-Two has enforced a shutdown of a Grand Theft Auto 5 mod relying on generative AI, its creator has claimed. As reported by Eurogamer , the publisher issued a DMCA takedown which led to the removal of the Sentient Streets mod from modding platform Nexus Mods as well as a video showcasing its gameplay on YouTube. In a statement published to YouTube , the mod's creator, known under the name Bloc, claimed that "no-one from Take-Two Interactive contacted and asked [them] anything prior to this" a

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. If we want to support more complex Shaders, such as Blur, Depth of Field, and other effects, we need to work with the code to build it.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 17, 2023

Vogel spent years leading the Star Wars: The Old Republic team at Bioware Austin.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article discusses and compares male and female stereotypes in gaming for the purpose of analyzing common societal perceptions. It is important to note that these comparisons are not intended to perpetuate stereotypes or endorse any form of discrimination. We acknowledge that individuals may not conform to traditional stereotypes. Who is your target audience?

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the final episode of this series of the Playable Futures Podcast, Will Freeman chats to Mitu Khandaker, CEO and Co-Founder of mobile studio Glow Up Games, about the impact of AI on games and what they mean for the future of play. Whatever your views are on AI, it’s very much here to stay. But what does it mean for video games - and is it quite as terrifying as some might have us believe?

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 14, 2023

The game development process is a complex and challenging process involving ongoing iteration and improvement in order to develop an exciting and captivating final product. One vital approach used during game development is playtesting. It is one of the best ways to improve the game quality by focusing on real player behaviour and learning what players really think about particular aspects of your game.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 17, 2023

It's claimed the Paladins developer isn't just having AI clone performances of voice actors for its games, it's also reportedly not letting actors opt out of having their voice rights signed away.

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Cocos

AUGUST 12, 2023

I’m using Cocos 3.6.3. I tried another version 3.7.3 or the latest 3.8 with the same issue. I unpacked your package and pasted all of it into an empty project, is that right?

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

If you say the name Portal to most people in the games industry, what will jump to mind is Valve's classic first-person puzzle series. But for some of the leading developers and publishers in Sweden, they might think of the UK-based marketing creative agency led by Josh Heaton. Heaton is a familiar face to the team here at GamesIndustry.biz. He ran Gamer Creative, which was the multi award nominated in-house creative agency of our parent company and produced many impressive ad campaigns for publ

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Indie DB

AUGUST 17, 2023

Dive into The Desperation of Benjamin Corbit. Experience a heart-pounding online cooperative dungeon crawler featuring: Smash and Grab using the Starter Axe for efficient loot collection, Strategize at the Weapon Shop, wield the Revolver and Boomstick.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ubisoft continues to get its cards in order for Far Cry, and has assigned longtime employee Sandra Warren as VP for the whole survival open-world series.

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In this guest blog, the Rubber Duck Games team breaks down the journey to developing a boss fight for Evil Wizard – from design and prototyping to animation, testing, balancing, and finalizing the visual effects.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In recent years, mental health in the games industry has become a major point of discussion. The growing conversation around it has started to destigmatise talking about mental health in the workplace and organisations are now becoming better equipped to help their staff. Back in May, BAFTA and Safe In Our World held their first-ever Games Mental Health Summit.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 15, 2023

Create your own events with the game's event modding tool, learn more about it and our hopes for it in this article. Events have an effect on your characters' lives. They play a significant role in the game because they grant various bonuses or penalties.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 17, 2023

Microsoft said the move won't affect the ability to play or re-download games that have already been purchased.

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

High dynamic range (HDR) displays are increasingly available and capable of reproducing images with higher peak brightness and a wider color gamut for better contrast and color saturation. The Unity Editor and Standalone Players now provide cross-platform support for HDR output and full compatibility with the Universal and High Definition Render Pipelines.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In today's Microcast, we discuss two of the biggest stories of the week. First, we debate Microsoft's newly announced Xbox enforcement system , which will issue 'strikes' to players for violations of its code of conduct ranging from cheating and profanity to harassment and hate speech.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 13, 2023

The project is in the genre of survival, and the first thing that should work exactly is the daily time.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 16, 2023

In the latest Game Developer podcast episode, we dive deep on prototyping and iterative design with Charlie Cleveland, game director on Subnautica and Moonbreaker.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2023

Slowly but surely, Godot 3.6 is shaping up to be a great release. This third snapshot adds long awaited 2D physics interpolation, and another great optimization with 2D hierarchical culling.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

NetEase Games has announced the creation of a new development studio in Austin, Texas. Called T-Minus Zero Entertainment, the studio will be led by industry veteran Rich Vogel, of Ultima Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic fame. Vogel had most recently been working at Certain Affinity as VP of production and online services. Joining him as game director is Mark Tucker, former design director at Bethesda and game designer for the past 22 years.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 13, 2023

Pirate Dragons is now available on Steam, on sale for $2.69!

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Game Developer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Game Design Documents (GDD) have a long history and a different place in many designers' toolboxes. Here's how to write a useful, up-to-date GDD.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Hey all, this week for Retro Game Friday I’m back with a 2D platformer game that took its inspiration from Sonic the Hedgehog. It’s Bubsy. Plot: The plot is fairly mediocre. Bubsy has the largest collection of yarn, and aliens are invading to steal Earth’s yarn. So, he goes out to stop them and recover the yarn they are stealing. Honestly the plot is fairly standard.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Next week, the global games industry will be heading to Cologne, Germany for a week of conferences and trade show, and it all kicks off with the Devcom Developer Conference. Returning once again to the usual venue of Koelnmesse, the event will see more than 200 speakers spread across over 130 sessions, discussing every aspect of development, publishing and growing the games industry.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 16, 2023

See the wide range of procedural level generation possible in Shadow Survival.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

With the new Solo Self Mode, Blizzard finds a balance between Diablo III's inherent always-online nature and the wants of those who want to play it truly alone.

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