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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Phasmophobia Up to four players can join together in a horror investigation of haunted locations. Use Compressed Textures : Textured images can be saved with lower resolutions while compressed formats such as ASTC and DXT1 and DXT5 reduce memory usage without quality reduction. What worked?

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Escape the sinking ship in Globiss Interactive’s VR game Titanic: A Space Between

PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In VR horror title Titanic: A Space Between players find themselves entangled in a bizarre time-travel mishap. 99% of our assets are self-modeled and textured, as we believe in creating a product that’s totally our own. It’s a horror game set on a sinking ship around the early 1900’s. Sounds familiar?

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Solo dev Walter Woods (Here Below) of Dark and Deep “Strategic partners are crucial”

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2024

In the upcoming first person horror game Dark and Deep players take on the role of an underachieving IT guy who gets caught up in a conspiracy podcast. As he delves deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole, the real and surreal merge in a nightmarish world filled with weird creatures and deadly secrets.

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Why is the Shadow Temple scary? Not “why did Nintendo make this scary for kids”. What put the fear in us? Why’d it put us on edge so bad despite Ocarina of Time not having the usual limitations of a horror game? You’re good at parsing psychology and I feel like it’s not just the aesthetics of the temple. Maybe you have a definitive answer for what underrated, subtle design tricks were used to make that successful in that sort of game. I wanna hear it in detail from a senior developer.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

There are rooms where the textures look like you're standing on the same kind of mass piled skulls like out of an enormous mass grave. The Shadow Temple lore says it is where the Sheikah tortured and put away their prisoners and dissidents. There are skulls, scythe blades, robed reapers, and other various death imagery everywhere.

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Amnesia: The Bunker Low FPS: How to Boost Performance

Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Amnesia is a decent horror game series. The visuals and improved graphics quality can give you a better horror experience. Background services: If too many services are active in the background of Windows 11 or 10, it may prevent this horror title from performing normally. Adjust the Texture quality. Turn off V-sync.

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Creating fantastic stories and more: Peter Jackson

Filmustage

JANUARY 18, 2023

From thrash horror to "The Lord of the Rings." First of all, by the time he began his work on the Tolkien adaptation, the director had already released "Heavenly Creatures" (1994) with Kate Winslet and the witty horror film "The Frighteners" (1996). But the multi-million dollar projects with star actors brought him worldwide fame.

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Resident Evil 4 Remake Fatal D3D Error: Best Fixes

Game Errors

MARCH 22, 2023

Like you, many other gamers are having the same problem with this survival horror game. Reduce texture quality Time needed: 1 minute. Lowering texture quality in Resident Evil 4 will reduce the VRAM usage significantly and solve the fatal D3D error. Set the Texture Quality to the lowest one. Restart Windows.

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Fatal Frame Mask of the Lunar Eclipse Low FPS: How to Fix

Game Errors

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s enough to ruin your excitement for this horror survival adventure title. Also, set Texture Filtering – Quality to Performance. After that, play this horror game and see how it performs. You can play it with an older DirectX 11-compatible graphics card. If it’s not on the list, manually add it. Save the settings.

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How VR changes how games are played

Rampant Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It’s a brand new game… except for the the textures, which are now very obviously old-school since you can get a closer look at them than ever. This is most notable in horror games, where the intensity inside a VR headset is several times higher than that of playing on a flat screen, even in a dark room.

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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

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JULY 19, 2024

These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move. Texture Compression. Makes texture files smaller, speeding up loading times and using less memory. Genre-Specific Lighting Horror. Capture lighting at specific points to realistically light moving objects. Light Functions.

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The Last of Us Building Shaders Stuck: Best Solutions

Game Errors

MARCH 29, 2023

But, many users are having various issues with this action-adventure survival horror game. It’s a program that renders different pixels to create shadows, lighting, texture effects, etc. Building shaders problem is one of them. Learn how to fix The Last of Us stuck on the loading screen if necessary.

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Resident Evil 4 Remake Low GPU Usage: Easily Fix This Problem

Game Errors

MARCH 21, 2023

But, if this survival horror action-adventure title fails to utilize the GPU power, you will not get the enhanced experience. Increase the texture quality. This article will tell you about these steps and also will explain why this problem may occur. A high-end AAA title like Resident Evil 4 Remake is very much GPU demanding.

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Resident Evil 4 Remake Low FPS: How to Improve

Game Errors

MARCH 20, 2023

In this Survival Horror game, you will act as an agent who will need to find the President’s daughter. Lower the texture quality. You may go through low FPS problems with Resident Evil 4 Remake. In this case, you can take some effective steps, which are described in this article, along with other helpful information.

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The Journey of a Comic Book Artist

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hence, they must be familiar with various visual elements like texture, color, dimension, scale, perspective, shade, composition, depth of field, proportion, and spatial awareness. Any story should become visually appealing regardless of the genre (action, romance, horror, or comedy). That said, not all comics can have the same style.

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How to make movies in 2022: the set vs the screen

Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2022

Fewer and fewer major films are shot on location, and this has long been a trend: green screen and visual effects have been horror industry standards for a long time. Anderson is a master of cinematic texture, which is also not surprising, because each of his pictures was shot on the film.

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