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An Era of Digital Humans: Pushing the Envelope of Photorealistic Digital Character Creation

Nvidia

From the early days of 3D games, Virtua Fighter was one of the first to show how 3D characters can fight together. To generate digital humans, teams must first make 3D models, textures, shaders, skeleton rig, and deformation of the skin so it follows the skeleton.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #30

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Wanna get a peek at a previously unrevealed level area Ian's been working on that will serve as the arena for the Kristala demo boss fight? In the meantime, here's a look at our updated weapon trails Rodrigo was able to work on this sprint outside of his work on the boss fight. link] Rigging / Animation. Programming.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Astral Clock Tower Studios

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight! link] Rigging / Animation.

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How Coin Master Disrupted Social Casino and Pocketed $100M

Deconstructor of Fun

It could be argued whether CM breaks one of the cardinal rules of slots games - giving the player the feeling of the system being rigged. A New Face for Social Casino While CM and PK are fighting top spot, both are definitely paving a new path for Social Casino in 2019.

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2020 Predictions #3: How to Get That RPG Loot

Deconstructor of Fun

For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. All those beautiful Sith Lords and Spidermans are expensive to model, rig, animate and integrate. 4 A billion dollar fighting franchise will launch in 2020. Straightforward content production.

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2021 Predictions #3 Top Mobile RPGs Will Go Cross Platform

Deconstructor of Fun

Fighting Games. All are the same within the Fighting games. While the genre is mature, there’s definitely space for massive fighting games - assuming that it would have sufficient RPG depth and a first-class IP. The fact that Disney and Kabam haven’t done a fighting game with Star Wars IP is mind-boggling.

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Codex: Law spec

Sirlin

One perk of Law is that even if a spell is outside your Jurisdiction, you can rig the laws to allow it anyway: There's a lot of great properties there. In fighting game parlance, that's known as an "option select," which is also the name of a Puzzle Strike chip!) They both cost 2 gold, and they give you some decent defenders.

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