Fine-tuned tales: How gaming music tells stories
Game Developer
AUGUST 5, 2024
Music has the remarkable capacity to share with graphics and writing the task of telling a story in video games. So how can developers go about it?
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Game Developer
AUGUST 5, 2024
Music has the remarkable capacity to share with graphics and writing the task of telling a story in video games. So how can developers go about it?
Jesper Juul
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
On the occasion of my upcoming book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer , I am writing The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects , posted weekly from November 1 st , 2024: Object #5: Zzap!64 All made their way into the magazine over the years.) 64’er was far more technical than Zzap!64
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Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 2, 2025
This primarily means writing code to make the systems and rules that the designers come up with work. Yes, Gameplay Programmer is a specialization. Gameplay Programmers are the engineers who work directly with designers to make the designs actually work in game.
Jesper Juul
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
On the occasion of my upcoming book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodor 64 Computer , I am writing The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects , posted weekly from November 1 st , 2024: Object #1: The Commodore 64 itself , known affectionately as the breadbox for its shape. The most popular computer, yet often forgotten.
Cocos
JULY 28, 2023
There’s FSR, ColorGrading, and Bloom for enhanced graphics. In Cocos Creator version 3.8, several useful features have been added, and one of my favorites is that it comes with its own post-effects pipeline and a number of advanced effects built in. There’s also HBAO for enhanced 3D spatiality. and TAA and FXAA for anti-aliasing.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 19, 2024
Graphics programmer Andrew Woloszyn also posted to LinkedIn writing that he had been "caught up in the layoffs at Something Wicked," while lead narrative designer Jessica Sliwinski shared that she is currently looking for work.
Jesper Juul
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Writing Too Much Fun has been an incredible journey with twists and turns. First it was a serious computer, next a game computer, then a computer for technical brilliance (graphical demos using the machine in seemingly impossible ways), then a struggling competitor, and finally a retro device whose limitations are now charming.
Nvidia
JULY 19, 2021
Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, gaming and other use cases.
The Bottom Feeder
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The Aging, Remastering Indie Dev We will be releasing Geneforge 2 - Infestation to celebrate our 30th year writing indie games for a living. So big that even multi-billion dollar corporations are writing indie games now. Games that were written before we knew how to use the graphics card. Writing two is even harder.
Nvidia
APRIL 20, 2023
Starting in Nsight Graphics 2023.1, the GPU Trace Profiler is the best way to profile your graphics application at the frame level. The Frame Profiler activity, Starting in Nsight Graphics 2023.1, the GPU Trace Profiler is the best way to profile your graphics application at the frame level. In Nsight Graphics 2023.1,
PreMortem.Games
JULY 1, 2024
Our visual style comes from our background in motion graphics,” says Evan Anthony , Co-founder and Creative Lead at Feral Cat Den. This field of visual art emphasizes abstraction and graphic design to compress storytelling into quick digestible and fun chunks.” This gave the studio a bit of an outsider perspective.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 31, 2012
It’s always hard to write your own about pages. I wrote a program for the Commodore 64 (greatest computer ever made) called GraphicsBASIC that extended the rather boring built-in Basic that includes commands to gain access to the graphics and sound. I should have my mom do it, she always has nice things to say about me.
Brand Game Development
JULY 2, 2018
During my playthroughs, I don’t take photos or write notes – I want the gameplay as organically as possible. Once I have played the game; the review is quite easy to write. Dez: The actual write-up of the review normally takes me about an hour or so; depending on the complexity of the game and rules.
Retro Game Coders
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Dungeon game written in C/C++ for the Neo6502 Bit of Background Before We Code the Neo6502 In my Neo6502 review I promised I would come back and write about how to code for the machine. Being a bear of simple brain, I created a couple of helper functions so I could write my version of conio.h Write a whole different game?
PreMortem.Games
MAY 15, 2024
That immediately dictated the game’s graphical look. “In After that, everyone is the boss of their own part of work, whether it’s design, art, writing, coding etc. With Baladins we want to show that the RPG scene can be welcoming for everyone and that we can imagine new ways to write fantasy.
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Some causes are: Outdated or faulty graphics drivers : Make sure you have the latest version of your graphics driver installed, and try updating or rolling back the driver to see if that helps. Update your Graphics Driver There are a number of possible causes for a display driver crash in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Brand Game Development
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
Write down what people say, update your game, and save a new copy. Did you catch any typos, graphic issues, or small errors? Game development is iterative. Making a great game requires soliciting and intelligently processing feedback. It seems easy enough from the outside. Need help on your board game? If so, describe them.
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 14, 2024
In addition, RenderDoc, which is integrated into Unity’s editor, allows for frame capture and detailed analysis of how frames are composed, down to native graphics commands and GPU resources. Overdraw can lead to excessive GPU workload, particularly in scenes with transparent materials, which don’t typically write to the depth buffer.
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Some Prey errors that players complained about: Prey attempt to write data to address error No sound issues Prey attempt to read from address error The desktop crashes and freezes Before starting to apply our solutions to your game, make sure that you meet the minimum system requirements of the game. How do you fix Prey crashes?
Retro Game Coders
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Not Just Retro If you are also a reader of my Maker Hacks site, you might have seen that I am torn if this is something I should write about here or on Maker Hacks. TTGO ESP32 This client and server arrangement means the CPU requests the text and graphics be updated using string commands rather than writing to graphics memory.
The Bottom Feeder
MARCH 27, 2024
In the old days, to make the economics of the business work, we had to write games fast. ” This is really neat, though our graphics budget is far lower than ChatGPT thinks. It gets me off my figurative butt and keeps me writing. We predated the indie game boom by a long time. Each all-new, full-length title got 18 months.
Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 19, 2014
One of our oldest projects is The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizza Boy , a 2D point & click graphic adventure that we’ve been developing in-house as a side-project, and we’ve launched a Kickstarter to raise the funds to finish it. As you know, Okam Studio, the company that develops Godot Engine, also makes games.
Nvidia
OCTOBER 22, 2023
Slang is an open-source language for real-time graphics programming that brings new capabilities for writing and maintaining large-scale, high-performance, cross-platform graphics codebases. Build differentiable renderers from existing graphics code. Bring graphics to ML training frameworks.
Cocos
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
If you don’t know what Rive is, Rive is basically adobe after effects that’s lightweight and allows you to create complex animations and game UI that can be interactive without writing a lot of code. This will enhance your game experience and decrease development times! You can submit a ticket here: Jira Service Management
Real Programming
JUNE 12, 2023
The graphics, sound, physics, and even the AI bot behaviour can all be controlled using C++. For web browsers and mobile devices, knowing how to write code in Java is essential. Students also learn how to write code in a language high in demand across many segments of computer programming.
Cocos
OCTOBER 16, 2024
No matter which graphics API you use, you can use TS to write your own CRP render pipeline. TS won’t be translated to C++ for native build. But don’t worry, the performance is still good enough for your project. Here is the doc link: Render Pipeline Overview | Cocos Creator It was just updated last night. Just give it a try!
Real Programming
MAY 11, 2023
His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs. As for programming, Gabe loves 3D computer graphic modelling and rendering and visual arts. He also enjoys writing science fiction in what little spare time he has.
Game Errors
MARCH 28, 2023
The game doesn’t have writing rights and needs elevated access. The graphic driver is out of date. How to Fix Far Cry 4 FPS Drops Update graphics driver Enable game mode Change high DPI settings Run Far Cry 4 as an administrator Increase the virtual RAM 1. Here’s why this happens. Not enough RAM to run the resource-hungry game.
Jesper Juul
MAY 19, 2021
This new version came about when I saw that a modern computer – or phone – can easily render a fractal like this in real time using the graphics card. was released the following year, now supporting new Amiga 1200 and 4000 computers with their fancy new graphics chipsets, and switched to a more convenient donation model. Me in 1992.
Retro Game Coders
JANUARY 10, 2024
As well as games of Jetpac and Jet Set Willy, this computer had a role in teaching us a version of Turtle Graphics called LOGO. STOS / 68000 Assembler My buddy John got massively into 68000 assembly programming but I couldn’t deal with the way graphics worked, so I languished.
Harold Serrano
MAY 22, 2023
I decided to come up with my format and write my exporter. I learned a lot about Computer Graphics doing so but it came at a cost. Leverage Industry-Standard Exporting Formats A huge mistake that I don't regret doing was coming up with my file-exporting format. Instead of using OBJ, FBX, USD, etc.
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 24, 2023
While his creative process involves writing down ideas constantly, Breton admits to implementing many things ‘on the fly’, particularly dialogue and interactions. I write down ideas constantly, most often the best ideas come when I’m about to sleep at night. By using their brain or by hitting enemies and stuff?”
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 31, 2024
But in a write-up from Pocketpair’s CEO, Takuro Mizobe, dryly states: “While many people currently probably see Palworld as just a rip-off game, in reality I believe it has as much originality as BOTW and Genshin Impact. Beyond Pokémon, some of the creature designs are similar to those found in Dragon Quest.
Game Errors
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
An abnormally low graphics card usage problem is the most common one hindering the efficient performance of this title. Disable Vsync Open the NVIDIA Control Panel or any other graphics controller tool. So, you should update your GPU using Outbyte Driver Updater to update the graphics driver. Go to Graphics.
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Usually, the low frame rate problem can be a result of any of the following reasons: Graphics driver problem: When you notice FPS is dropping or it is not up to the mark even though you have a good graphics card, it may be because of the outdated or faulty driver you are using. Re-install the graphics driver 6.1 Get DriverFix 2.
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
I don’t write any code; instead, I handle data from our games or the market to guide the company’s direction. Lazy afternoon “When I joined the industry, I noticed that many game developers try to do everything—coding, animating, designing, and writing. I focus on data at Dash Studios,” says Ikpeme. “I
The Bottom Feeder
OCTOBER 13, 2021
We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. The answer is: Writing. If I was, I'd be writing books nobody buys because nobody buys books anymore. I cherish the games that do it well, sigh at the games that don't, and quietly pull my hair out when a game with really shaky writing gets hailed as high art.
Game Errors
JULY 13, 2023
You may not get the expected FPS from this zombie RPG because of these reasons: GPU driver problem: If the driver related to the graphics card has problems, you may notice frame-dropping issues on Yet Another Zombie Survivors. Tweak Windows graphics preference Open the Windows Settings by pressing Win + I on the keyboard.
Harold Serrano
MAY 28, 2023
Here are the three reasons why I'm rewriting my engine: Acquired Expertise Desired to learn a new language Becoming an expert Acquired Expertise Over the past years, I have learned so much about computer graphics. I am not the same engineer who started writing an engine in 2013.
Brand Game Development
JULY 14, 2017
I don’t necessarily mean art as in pretty pictures, beautiful graphics, and appealing boxes. That’s because something in me came out through the writing of card stories. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. But what about art? No, no, no.
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 7, 2017
If you find your players getting hung up on certain issues, you’ll want to write them down here so you can clarify your game’s rules or tweak mechanics as needed. Did you catch any typos, graphic issues, or small errors? Poor communication sucks the fun out of games. If so, describe them.
Game Errors
MARCH 16, 2023
If Fortnite FPS drops randomly, or it gives a very laggy performance, or it is stuttering, it indicates that any of the following issues are going on your PC: GPU driver problem: The problematic graphics driver is the first reason for any low frame rate or FPS dropping issues. Update the graphics driver Time needed: 3 minutes.
Game Errors
JULY 20, 2023
GPU driver issue: Buggy, problematic, or outdated graphics driver is another reason why you are experiencing this problem. After doing the above things, you can apply the following solutions to solve the actual problem: Update the GPU driver Update Unholy Disable overlay Tweak the graphics preference Play with lower settings 1.
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