Starloop Studios

JANUARY 5, 2023

From simple pixel graphics to complex, life-like open worlds, the visuals of modern video games are unparalleled. Video games have come a long way since their inception. Of course, this advancement wouldn’t be possible without animation and VFX (visual effects).

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ideas for the game’s content were inspired mainly from movies and TV shows, while the game designs came from the games the team loves to play, like Everquest for the open world concept and The Vanishing Hitchhiker for the atmosphere. The key feature of Scene Investigators is the 70/30 formula, or hypothesis testing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x,

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Transdimensional portals Nightingale is a first-person, PVE, open-world survival crafting game played solo or cooperatively online. One standout feature of Nightingale according to Flynn is the Realm Card system, developed to give players more agency in their survival-crafting experience. “We

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Breath of the Wild features picturesque natural environments, whimsical characters, vibrant colors, and perky sound effects. The game features edgier imagery, corrupted natural environments, hostile characters, and realistic sound effects.

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iHobo

JUNE 28, 2023

Later Elder Scrolls games cleaved to the now over-familiar formula of the Grand Theft Auto open world, shaping the world through chains of waypoints. For the open world game to truly satisfy the curiosity motive, the landscape has to be crafted in order to raise questions.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 11, 2024

All of a sudden people were asking for more features, more characters, an extra island, basically a bigger game. Combining the looks of a Ghibli movie with the condensed open world of that game, gave birth to the idea of an apprentice witch delivering packages.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Featured partners include Perforce, JetBrains, Incredibuild, AccelByte, Pragma, Heroic Labs, Scenario, NVIDIA, Modulate, and Endava. AWS Partner Showcase On Wednesday, March 20, AWS for Games will host a Partner Showcase from 5:00-8:00pm for game developers looking to leverage the latest tools in the cloud and network with industry peers.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

Any time off means you delay your game by that much time, or cut features, or reduce quality. I use several different approaches which usually depend on the scope or impact of the feature. It may start as a feature to ‘walk through’ the design, where that documentation is immediately obsolete as I write it.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

Suzuki-san and his colleagues often try to paint this series of games as a precursor to the open world genre. Indeed, in the Kickstarter for Shenmue III , the text expressly tries to make this claim: Shenmue defied all convention and created the genre that later came to be known as "open world." But so what?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

These 3 features are clearly more important than the cave theming, so here I think the better move would've been to cut the cave stuff and set it in a generic lost valley or something. I mean, they certainly deserve credit for trying to make the sunlit cave paradox work, and maybe for most players it works. it's going to therapy!

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Code with Mike

MARCH 1, 2023

If you’ve been diving into Hogwarts Legacy, you might be wondering how to use a broom to fly around the spectacular open world of Hogwarts and beyond. After all, it’s the feature many fans were most excited about.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

It has an amazing open world that you can zip around using magic and is one of the biggest AAA titles to feature the Isekai or transported to another world plot device that has infected Anime and Light Novels the past eight years or so. It’s a game that I’m really, really looking forward to.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Gilded Mansion Demo featured a mystery solving game that was built with AWS Bedrock and Anthropic Claude to drive player conversations with in-game characters in search of clues to solve a crime. AWS Events On Monday evening, AWS, Amazon Games and Women in Games International (WIGI) co-hosted a Women in Games event at the Minna Gallery.

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Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the key differences between Japanese games and Western games and examine the unique features that make each style of gaming so appealing to fans around the world. How are Japanese Games vs Western Games different?

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Game Errors

APRIL 4, 2023

Multiplayer experience in survival open-world games like Rust is fantastic. But, if a specific feature like voice chat or microphone doesn’t work, you will not get the proper experience. We have found the best solutions to make the voice chat feature work on Rust. Is voice chat not working on Rust? It may help.

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Big Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Turn Off Force 4x Some smartphones come with a “Force 4x” feature or similar settings that boost graphics performance. Genshin Impact Genshin Impact has set new standards for open-world RPGs on mobile.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This new open-world space RPG action game has many things to offer. Behind any crashing problem on this Sci-Fi open-world title, these are the most common reasons: Problematic GPU driver: Due to the problems with the GPU driver, your PC may not utilize the video processing unit properly, and it may cause crashing problems on Starfield.

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Game Errors

JULY 30, 2023

Since its release by Avalanche Software and Warner Bros, it has received praise concerning its open-world map across different gaming forums. Enable the V-Sync Feature As said earlier, screen tearing results from the frame rate being out of sync with the refresh rate.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Enhanced RTX SDKs for open-world games It has never been easier to integrate real-time ray tracing in your games with Kickstart RT. Developers can get a headstart in UE5 with dynamic lighting in their open worlds. These new features include per-frame PC Latency measurement and automatic configuration for Reflex Analyzer.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Planet Calypso is a science fiction game that we put on our list of the best sci-fi games you can play for free , but we included in on this space list as well, because space exploration and travel make up a big part of their open game world. This means, that if you earn money in the game world, you can cash out in the real world.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. And your players will notice.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The features. Documentation writers are hard at work to catch up with the new features, and the latest branch should already include details on many of the new 3.2 The download links are not featured on the Download page for now to avoid confusion for new users. would be on its release. and is not included in this release.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The world of video games has undergone a remarkable transformation over the years, evolving from simple pixelated screens to immersive, open-world environments with complex narratives and stunning graphics. Let’s explore how game testing has evolved and how modern QA teams navigate today’s complex gaming landscapes.

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Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

It takes place in a fantasy-themed world and presents the gameplay through a third-person viewpoint. Players can freely move anywhere across the open world environment, while the gameplay includes the following features: Weapons, Magic Spells, Horseback Riding, Crafting, and Summons.

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Game Errors

MAY 10, 2023

The book is based on the legends of Hyrule, a mythical kingdom that has been featured in several popular video games. Perhaps it’s the new storyline featuring Princess Zelda as a playable character or maybe it’s the promise of even more expansive worlds to explore.

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Game Errors

MARCH 14, 2023

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is among the most immersive open-world games of the current generation. Even though the game has an autosave feature, we recommend creating manual saves on your local drive in case one gets corrupted.

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Game Errors

APRIL 26, 2023

The length of the main story in Far Cry 6 can vary depending on how much time you spend exploring the open world and completing side missions. Action-packed gameplay : The Far Cry 6 game features a variety of weapons and tools for players to use in combat, which can create a thrilling and satisfying experience.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The game features hand-drawn animations inspired by 1930s cartoons, offering a nostalgic and visually stunning experience. Higher costs associated with production. Example Games 2D Example: Cuphead Cuphead is a perfect example of how 2D animation can be used to create a unique and engaging gaming experience.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It features stunning visuals, inventive weaponry, and gameplay advancements, making it one of the standout titles for the platform. The game features captivating theme-based portals, each offering unique levels and challenges. The goal is to collect as many berries as possible while skillfully navigating through obstacles.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This new space adventure features the open-world environment on planets beyond the solar system. Turn off any power or battery-saving features, and switch to the High Performance Plan. Is the Starfield low FPS issue hurting your gameplay experience on your PC? Don’t let it make your excitement fade away.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance). the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! beta 1 now!

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The event that went down on September 13 th at 6pm ET traced some new updates from their Japanese partners and developers from across the world alike. It was a 20-minute-long video release that featured a few new trailers and some advertisements for some exclusive Sony content.

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Game Errors

APRIL 4, 2023

Rust is set in the open world with the sole goal of survival. Disable overlay apps Steam overlay is more of a feature, not a bug. Updating your graphics driver improves the performance of your PC, fixes 100% disc usage, and unlocks new exciting features. From the list of options, click on Device Manager.

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