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Popul8 uses AI to assist developers with the creation of digital game characters

PreMortem.Games

In the following years the tool evolved through optimization and machine learning into a full AI-enabled character creator platform for game designers. A designer can turn a human into an orc, elf, zombie, lizard-headed alien, or whatever they want by merely moving sliders. It happens instantly.

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The Spine Animation Story at Logic Simplified

Logic Simplified

Abhishek had to reinvent the pose to what can be called ‘resting but still ready for action’ (if you hire game designers from us, this is how you will find them during lunch hour.) Each image part was converted to mesh. The USP of Spine animation software is how smoothly it converts an image part to mesh.

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How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

Logic Simplified

This is also a stage where you should not rush in order to get a perfect mesh flow. I used a Blinn Shader on the asset to spot any issues with the mesh. A high poly mesh model of the gun came into being. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures.

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Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

It’s the perfect replacement for Unity’s UI Text and the legacy Text Mesh. . Use Unity Timeline to create cinematic content, game-play sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. . The post Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store appeared first on Jaunty Bear Games.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Many games still use this approach nowadays (after all, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it) but, increasingly, game design has been moving from “individual stages” to “open” or “continuous” worlds where the boundaries between levels disappear. Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging.

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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Run a Sweatshop

Designer Notes

Ideally, of course, a game’s setting should mesh well with its theme, but we need to stop conflating the two by being careless with our language. This time around, I am tackling whether our games actually succeed at addressing their true themes and, furthermore, if we have any idea what we are doing as game designers.

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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

Logic Simplified

Game Design and Development Process Let’s quickly walk through what it takes to develop a game from scratch. Each game project has 3 distinct stages- pre-production, production, and post-production. Research: Research is important to the game design process. The following steps are involved: 1.