Game Developer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

'The act of over-hiring to then do layoffs is a horrible practice and a bad experience for employees.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I have always wanted to visit Nigeria, partly fueled by my Nigerian brother-in-law. Unaware of this fact, in 2023, Michael Oscar Esio made my wish come true when he invited me to visit the bustling city of Lagos. During my stay, I had the incredible opportunity to witness Esio, the founder and program coordinator of Africacomicade , take charge of video game industry discussions at Lagos ComicCon and work the room at the tight-knit Xbox game developer community meetup at Microsoft’s Lagos

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Everywhere developer Build A Rocket Boy has reportedly been hit with layoffs. As reported by PCGamesN , redundancies have allegedly affected an unknown number of staff across multiple departments, including publishing, QA, and art across the developer's three studios in Edinburgh, Budapest, and Montpellier. The layoffs were reportedly announced internally on February 19.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Godot Developed Non-Game Applications One of the strong points of the Godot Game engine is it’s use to develop non gaming applications. In the video below we run through 15 non-gaming applications that were developed using the Godot game engine. The applications are: The Godot Editor Material Maker [Learn More] Pixelorama [Learn More] RPG […] The post Godot Developed Non-Game Applications appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Valve said the milestone represents a new platform record.

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That One Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this article I will give you an insight on how to include compiled GLSL shaders into your project build step using CMake. The post How to compile shaders with CMake appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It's been a perfect storm. The global economic situation is tough, interest rates have risen, people's disposable income has taken a hit, and there has been economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the dream of globalisation has been ended with destabilisation in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And then in games, sales are falling, the number of launches has risen, the big live service titles are sucking up hours out of the market, there was too much venture money spent on

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It's claimed the company has refused to negotiate with union representatives since announcing the cuts.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many PC games are designed around an eight-core console with an assumption that their software threading system ‘just works’ on all PCs, especially. Many PC games are designed around an eight-core console with an assumption that their software threading system ‘just works’ on all PCs, especially regarding the number of threads in the worker thread pool.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The past few weeks have seen almost endless discussion and speculation about Microsoft's future strategy and what it might mean for its role in the console hardware business – so much so that it's arguably overshadowed some broader questions about the console hardware market more generally.

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Concept Art World

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Concept Art World The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two About the Book Journey into the making of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two and discover the incredible creative process that brought this new installment to life. The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two captures the breathtaking behind-the-scenes journey behind the making of Dune: Part Two, the second film in director Denis Villeneuve’s six-time Oscar-winning film adaptation of author Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

'Disruptive Games has sadly had to let go of many amazing, talented game developers.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the upcoming horror platformer Unlife , players have to navigate a post-apocalyptic world where mankind is all but wiped out from a nuclear war. Dark oceans have swept the lands and the main protagonist roams the decks of an old WWII submarine in search for ways to survive and -hopefully- a cure for the parasite inside him. Developer Dmitriy Gusev , operating under the name Diedemor Studio, made this game by himself.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. You can find previous Playable Futures articles and podcasts here. For decades, games' digital nature has been defining their very existence. They pull us away from reality into their virtual realms, never existing as physical reality.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Valve Open Source Steam Audio Valve have just opened sourced their 3D audio solution Steam Audio that was used in such games as Half Life: Alyx and DOTA 2. The code has been released, along side with the code for the Unreal Engine and Unity plugins, on GitHub under the liberal Apache-2 open source license. […] The post Valve Open Source Steam Audio appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

'Our message to Ubisoft’s management is clear.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. The newsletter is free but you can support the existence of LTPF with a small subscription fee. A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Console gaming is dying. If you've been in this business for more than 15 years, you've probably heard a sentence like that before. In the early 2000s, it was PC gaming that was dying. Consoles were booming, piracy was putting off publishers, and the same old games were topping the charts. Forget PCs, it was all about PlayStation. Then Steam came along, and the indie scene, and, well, let's just say nobody is predicting the end of PCs anymore.

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Perforce

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

MISRA C++:2023 introduces a number of new rules. Among them, MISRA C++:2023 Rule 9.5.2 helps you avoid bugs in range-based for-loops. Read on to learn how this rule guards against undefined behavior.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

'Our goal is to provide more control to developers.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Posting this chart every year only gets more and more fun! Every once in a while, I come up with a clump of topics too small for their own posts. 1. Geneforge 2 - Infestation Demo Available! Since almost 14000 new games were released on Steam last year (Really!) and the pace isn’t slowing, getting anyone to actually learn about your tacky wares is almost impossible.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Activision Blizzard is reportedly planning redundancies at its Irish office located in Blackpool, Cork. As reported by the Irish Examiner , Irish deputy prime minister Michéal Martin said 136 people would be affected by the reported cuts. The Cork office employs an estimated 200 people and was originally established in 2007. Activision has not responded to the reports.

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Perforce

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Learn about trends in automotive software, plus understand challenges of car software development. Start developing software in cars faster with the right tools.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The hit shooter leverages a game engine that was officially laid to rest back in 2018.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The start of this puzzle madness back in '05, with hints to where it led and is now leading.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

PR and marketing agency Neonhive is branching out into publishing, with Harvest Hunt (from Villainous Games Studio) and Slopecrashers (Byteparrot) as its debut titles. The Scotland-based agency has been going from strength to strength since its creation, and publishing felt like a logical progression for the company, director and founder Korina Abbott tells GamesIndustry.biz.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Developers and enterprises can now deploy lifelike virtual and mixed reality experiences with Varjo's latest XR-4 series headsets, which are integrated with. Developers and enterprises can now deploy lifelike virtual and mixed reality experiences with Varjo’s latest XR-4 series headsets, which are integrated with NVIDIA technologies. These XR headsets match the resolution that the human eye can see, providing users with realistic visual fidelity and performance.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The tiny team making the spooky survival sedan driving game Pacific Drive explains how their procedural terrain tech supercharged the game's artist and level designers.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The big update of 'A Twisted Path To Renown' is out now! The Auction, new bird for hunting, new server in OCE region and many many more!

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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. Earlier this week, Bandai Namco unveiled the post-release product roadmap for the recently launched Tekken 8 in a livestreamed presentation, in the process unveiling its plans to add an in-game shop where players can buy customization items and throwba

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Find out how hybrid-casual games offer plenty of opportunities for mobile marketers to improve the effectiveness of their ad campaigns.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Good level design must support the actual game mechanics – this affects both level design, and ultimately, player enjoyment. This article shows how we do things with our popular multiplayer mobile shooter game War Robots.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Check out this short gameplay trailer showing the current state of the combat system in The Afflicted Forests.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Most developers focus on just one genre for their first title, but Ironwood Studios decided to create a fresh take on two for its debut game, Pacific Drive. At first glance, Pacific Drive – which launches today on PC and PS5 – seems like a typical driving game, primarily focused on exploring the Pacific Northwest in a station wagon. But players will soon come to realise that all is not what it seems.

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Game Wisdom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Joy and Pain of Game Mastery Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com As I was writing my shooter book, it meant revisiting some of the better shooters of the past 10 years, and another playthrough of Doom Eternal. Eternal is a game that you either love or hate for its unique … The post The Joy and Pain of Game Mastery appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Before its Shadow of the Erdtree expansion releases in June, Elden Ring's base game continues to sell well.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Climate differences offer unique products and production methods, with wine in warm climates and stockfish in cold climates being the first examples to go live in Mercatorio.

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