Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Core engine. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas. GDExtension.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2024

He had been building giant open-world games like Fallout and Skyrim in large teams for years. So, as a first time solo developer in order to keep things simple he decided to make his first project a… giant open world game. The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game. “If

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Genshin Impact: miHoYo uses a combination of handcrafted assets and procedural generation to sustain its ever-expanding open-world environment. New skins, weapons, and world expansions must be delivered at a high standard, on time, and in alignment with seasonal deadlines. Key solutions: (i).

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Half Geek

MAY 5, 2019

I had two game in mind that I wanted to work on moving forward, a fantasy open world with empire building inspired by Heroes of Might & Magic (3), or a new sci-fi space epic focused on large fleets & empire building.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 19, 2023

He had been building giant open-world games like Fallout and Skyrim in large teams for years. So, as a first time solo developer in order to keep things simple he decided to make his first project a… giant open world game. The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game. “If

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

Unreal Engine training Currently, Bukola focuses on inspiring children, especially girls, to embrace technical subjects early. ” With her architectural background, she heavily favours Unreal Engine. A skills gap in her team prompted Bukola to initiate an Unreal Engine training.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Open-world multiplayer games experience smooth performances when they implement LOD together with occlusion culling systems. Efficient Physics Management: Balance Accuracy & Performance Through the PhysX engine from Unity users achieve detailed physics calculations at the expense of heavy system usage.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Hopefully this supposedly open world will deliver. Forspoken: This looks like it’s going to be very interesting as it’s an odd take on the Isekai genre in a highly realist graphics engine and deals with a young woman who gets sent into a fantasy world with all kinds of magic and it looks like it’ll be open world.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Another demonstration will allow lounge visitors to play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We really didn’t get this engine working at peak efficiency until Avernum 5. Making Avernum 4 required a massive rewrite of the Avernum engine, and it took a ton of time and energy. A: Avernum 1-3 had a world where you wandered through an outdoors and then entered towns, which were sort of "zoomed-in" zones.

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Cocos

MARCH 6, 2024

We can call SpaceKraft to be a physics engine challenge for Cocos Creator since it has more than 100 polygon collider objects almost each scene, an open world game with super detailled save system which records almos. It wasn’t easy, but we managed to reach this day, and SpaceKraft in released on Steam! ??

Simulation 40

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Titan Image Demo showcased advanced techniques that can be used to solve real-world image asset creation tasks using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I decided to study systems engineering and earn a degree in Computer Science – with the objective of becoming a videogame developer.” “And… An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. Once Repunk is done, I will develop a custom engine that will better suit my own workflow.”

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Simplify integration with the new NVIDIA Streamline Since NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) launched in 2019, a variety of super-resolution technologies have shipped from both hardware vendors and engine providers. Traditionally, game engines must bind all active materials in a scene. Unreal Engine 4.27

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Cocos

MARCH 3, 2024

It wasn’t easy, but we managed to reach this day, and SpaceKraft in released on Steam!

Simulation 40

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 1, 2023

Good level design is crucial for creating engaging and challenging gameplay, as well as for keeping players immersed in the game world. So, if you're designing a platformer, an open-world game, or a first-person shooter, effective level design is key to keeping your players engaged and invested in the game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. Introduction Video: Very large, open world scene with real-time GI: Future. What can it do? If an areas has less probe density, it may get wrong occlusion.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

Popularly used for RPGs, action-adventure, and open-world games, which demand realism and extensive features. Developers are now optimizing games for seamless performance across devices, from mobile phones to consoles, with advancements in game engines ensuring minimal quality compromise. Advancements in 2.5D

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Truly open worlds populated by procedurally developed content, adaptable game mechanics, and narratives. Programmer Jobs: AI is revolutionizing game engines by automating various components, such as physics and graphics rendering engines to optimize performance. AI frees up developers to focus on more creative aspects.

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Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

Japanese games are often associated with storytelling, character design, and anime-style aesthetics, while Western games are known for their focus on gameplay mechanics and immersive open-world environments. Why does Japan dominate the video game industry?

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Real Programming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Young, Expert Teachers After 20 years of running an online coding course, we’ve found that hiring teachers studying computer science and computer engineering makes the perfect instructors. This is true for a few reasons.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you want to have an enormous open world, some copy-pasting will be necessary, even for games with huge budgets. You have to use a dozen of these towers to map the world. Each has a puzzle you have to solve, and the puzzles all use different abilities and parts of the engine. What I Would Do To Fix It You can't fix it.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices. It isn’t a panacea for all precision woes, especially if you’re building an open-world environment that contains extreme depth ranges.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But either one was radically different in that way than the most popular game engine, which was the Diku style (we called them “codebases” back then). If you follow that link, you’ll see open world events occurring as the quest proceeds, done without zone or quest locking, etc. Dikus were entirely hardcoded.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. Level design is by far Enderal's biggest weakness, probably because it has to do with all the invisible aspects of level design. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game. Money sink.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! But not really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Veteran Technical Director James Marr Answers: What Makes A Great Game Engineer? Veteran Technical Director James Marr Answers: What Makes A Great Game Engineer? In this wide ranging discussion, he goes deep on the qualities which separate Good vs Great when it comes to Game Engineering. TWIG #213 THE SEASON FINALE! ?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. It’s because the original version was created on Unity’s old engine. Aside from a little text explaining what you’re doing, you learn everything by exploring the game. Of course, there are ads (although not too many).

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Moonmana

APRIL 24, 2023

Metaverse worlds These are immersive virtual spaces constructed from user-generated content and containing gamification elements to encourage users’ collaboration and socialization. The Sandbox is a buzzing open-world platform where players can buy land and build games. Web3 projects allow people to earn real money for playing.

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Game Daily

JULY 19, 2023

It also helps that depopulated worlds – or at least those populated by easily replicated baddies – are much cheaper and easier to produce than well-ordered, sophisticated societies. Gershenfeld recalled his days working on open world games at Activision. “Open worlds are complex, expensive.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Tools and Techniques Game artists use different lighting tools to create realistic worlds. Example: Bright sunlight in an open-world game) Point Light. Learn the lighting features in your game engine and explore software like Unreal Engine, Unity, or Blender. Here are the main types: Directional Light.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today, Sovereign Moon Studios, the makers of your favorite NoCode game development course , will be walking you through our environment design process using Unity’s game engine. As you’ll see, world building can be done quickly if you leave a bit of time for play and experimentation. Let’s jump in!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The most significant growth in revenue was seen in the following sub-genres: Open World Adventure is a newborn sub-genre that grew by 622% this year. MZ’s 4X engine was already behind the curve at the time of the acquisition and sadly they weren’t able to use their know-how to support West Game’s growth.

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