Game Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

After days running a simulation trying to figure out how they can leave the Neutral Zone without getting blasted away by the Dauntless or unleashing the Living Construct onto Starfleet, Dal feels incredibly demoralized by their lack of success. Heralded by loud music, they open the door into Jankom Pog’s street fighting program.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. Limited regen (e.g.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I wanted a colony sim where other settlements around you aren’t just a static backdrop, but parts of a living, simulated world. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils. Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

As in 4X titles generally, the player is first familiarized with the base (called anthill in The Ants) and its construction mechanics and is soon introduced to the core gameplay map for some resource collecting and enemy fighting. The rough core loop is as follows: Troops collect resources and fight others on the core game map.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

In order to pay off his employees the studio started working as subcontractors on games like simulators. I honestly admit that 8 years of fighting to create an ambitious project is a very long time. When a deal with an investor fell through after only four months, he found his studio in debt. The Refugees. Ticket to Europe.

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Raph Koster

JUNE 28, 2024

The most alive game world ever made Stars Reach uses simulation to a degree never seen in an MMO before. The Servitors fight off the tentacled spores of the hivemind Cornucopia that infects worlds. I believe it does things that other games just can’t do. Our water actually flows downhill and puddles.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

From role-playing and first-person shooter games to simulation ones, there is a video game genre for every gamer’s choice. 9 Most Popular Video Game Genres Dominating the Gaming Market Adventure Games Adventure games feature minimal fighting and rely rather on narrative. are some of the prime examples of simulation games.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Simulation RPG Vikingard collaborates with TV show, Vikings. Developed by Netease, Vikingard is a casual simulation RPG set in the Viking era. As well as embarking on an epic Viking voyage and a wide variety of fights, players tend to a kingdom by growing crops and upgrading buildings with construction and management sim mechanics.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Whether a Walking Simulator is a game (though that genre has mostly vanished, unlamented). They are also a tiny portion of the market, part of the fading walking simulator genre, and pale in comparison to the best artistic achievements of other media. is being able to summon hordes of disposable monsters to fight for you.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time! How did you come up with the idea for Repunk? The original idea was much more ambitious.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

NVIDIA is researching tools and developing ways to accelerate and simplify digital human creation and we believe that AI and simulation are the key to doing this. From the early days of 3D games, Virtua Fighter was one of the first to show how 3D characters can fight together. What is a digital human?

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Sirlin

JANUARY 16, 2015

@SirlinGames www.facebook.com/SirlinGames New and revised characters for the popular fighting card game round out cast to 20 available characters throughout 2015. Yomi simulates the mind games and other strategic choices found in video fighting games without requiring that players have the dexterity required to master those games.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

For example, I think fighting games that aren't Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat have little chance of AAA success nowadays. I think simulation games like flight simulators are on their way into the sunset. I think annual sports titles that aren't FIFA, Madden, or NBA 2K are slipping down there (e.g.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I wanted a colony sim where other settlements around you aren’t just a static backdrop, but parts of a living, simulated world. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.” Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Related articles: Baldur’s Gate 3 Cheat Engine: How To Use It Properly How to Fix Farming Simulator 15 Errors and Issues Farming Simulator 17 Crashes on Startup: How to Fix It In the realm of Cloud Meadow, where dreams take flight and fantasies come to life, cheats are your trusted companions on this unforgettable journey.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Some events may offer codes as rewards, so actively participating can lead to more codes.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Played with Fire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

VR transports you into a simulated universe where everything is artificial, from the landscapes you walk through to the objects you interact with. Whether you’re fighting in a medieval battle or exploring the surface of Mars, VR lets you completely disconnect from the physical world and enter a computer-generated one.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. We’ve seen a few more simulation titles hit the charts this year. Idle Siege: War Simulator by Gameloft. Plan your attack.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

These games offer a diverse range of experiences, from action-packed adventure games to simulation games, and are sure to provide an unforgettable gaming experience. Job Simulator Job simulator is a fun, VR-based game that offers a unique perspective on the role of humans in a world dominated by robots.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

During those hours of walking and fighting (and, in Baldur's Gate 3, searching 20000 identical crates), players will forget a ton of story. Walking simulators are done as a genre, but Stanley Parable was able to be a hit twice (release and remaster) by being funny as hell. So to make your story memorable, keep it simple.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But, as I talked about above, it’s a new KIND of deckbuilder, in a bunch of ways: Eight asymmetric, fighting game style characters with their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. We currently have a very nice Tabletop Simulator module with the rulebook and everything. It’s a deckbuilder!

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For illustrative purposes, I’m simulating a 4-bit normalized integer depth buffer, so there are 16 evenly-spaced tick marks. I decided to check the results using direct simulation. In other words, it measures the rate at which depth comparison errors occur—which corresponds to issues like Z-fighting—under different scenarios.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

The twin-stick shooter requires you to keep track of and fight the ever-closing game windows while evading enemies. Of Life and Land Build your own settlements in Of Life and Land and experience different maps, scenarios, and rich simulations. You can find the takeover recordings on our YouTube.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

The decline of the whole genre in the Western markets was caused by a decline in two of the most significant sub-genres: Brawlers and Fighting Games. 5 Simulation Games (revenue -18%, downloads +16%) Roblox , which brought well over a billion Dollars in 2021, declined by 27% in 2022 while not losing downloads.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

To synthesize the events dataset, we simulated a game feature launch campaign lasting 90 days, acquiring 150 players daily. In the simulation, players emit two types of events: “begin_session” and “end_session”. Enter: SageMaker Canvas! Luckily, there’s a way you can simplify and do it all.

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 11, 2024

Moreover, AI-powered algorithms contribute to more sophisticated game mechanics, such as advanced enemy AI, realistic physics simulations, and personalized gaming experiences through adaptive difficulty levels. Machine learning techniques are also being harnessed for character animations, thus enabling lifelike movements and expressions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Many people say that Cookie Run: Kingdom chose a very smart setup - on one hand, it has a vast universe with long histories, legends, power struggles, supernatural forces, and the eternal fight between good and evil; on the other, cookies are the sweet dessert that we see every day and associate with holiday, celebration, and happiness.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In the future this will hold all of the custom data each battle should know about, whether it be what background to fight on, what locations heroes and enemies spawn, what kind of enemies can appear, or any other related battle information we will need. string.IsNullOrEmpty(encounterName)) await IEncounterFlow.Resolve().Play();

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I would never have bet on a ultra-detailed dwarf simulator using ASCII art. Consider the case of Fortnite, which started as a game about building forts while fighting off waves of zombies. Here’s the rest of the quote from screenwriter William Goldman – Not one person knows for a certainty what’s going to work.

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Rampant Games

JULY 13, 2022

The latter began as an RPG, I understand, but evolved into being more of a sandbox fighting simulator. Somewhere between the clunky menuing of popular flat-screen games (If you have played Skyrim VR or Fallout 4 VR, you know of what I speak), and the clumsy but cool visceral physicality of Blade & Sorcery. The three Fs.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

An upgrade to WarCraft, Tides of Darkness provided a number of advanced features, including fighting over sea and air (not just on land). As the last surviving marine sent to stop the demons, players must fight to keep them from destroying everything. Robot armies are fighting against each other. WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Go practice is an online simulator course that will give you hands-on-like experience working on an ambitious product and making decisions based on real data in actual analytics systems. For the first version of the game, we decided to have only a single-player version, where the players would fight against the AI.

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

I used a silly opening paragraph with some lorem ipsum to help simulate a more realistic example and to be able to see the scrolling working. Or I supposed you could run away… * Click “Fight” to start a combat encounter. Click “Run Away” to skip the fight and demo branching options.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, acceptance criteria may state that tank fighting mechanics function as intended in 98% of test encounters. These engines typically provide tools for 2D and 3D game rendering, physics simulation, animation, visual effects, sound design, and more.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 12, 2021

However, a summons from Captain Freeman interrupts the simulation and leg day. As it happens, Boimler is on the bridge of the Titan fighting Pakled battle harpies. Boimler’s absence haunts “Strange Energies,” from his presence in Mariner’s holodeck simulation to the use of his bed as additional storage.

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Filmustage

MAY 17, 2022

A large part of the budget was spent on underwater filming (the special effects were not yet perfect enough to simulate the underwater world in a film studio). The final battle scene in "Avatar" isn't just an expensive scene, after all, but a fight scene for freedom and spiritual liberation.

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