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Pixel Federation goes all-in on AWS with help from Labyrinth Labs

AWS Games

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’ We evaluated a few cloud providers, and ultimately AWS provided the best experience and capacity; it was an easy decision.”

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Gerel: Against The Corvus Empire - a pixel art video game by CGS grads

CG Spectrum

Currently in production, Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire is a 2D pixel art side-scrolling platformer with Metroidvania elements. for the pixel artist to use as a base. The team also includes Pixel Artist and Animator PieGlitched , Composer Joona Latti (based in Finland), and Sound Designer Mikko Saarinen (also based in Finland).

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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

PreMortem.Games

What caught my attention wasn’t just her confidence on the panel but the fact that she was not only a student pursuing three majors at Wits University she was also the Lead Concept artist at Chroma Pixel Games , a game studio based in Zambia. Xbox Game Camp At Chroma Pixel Games, Simpson was working on a game called Impanga.

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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL).

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Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Nvidia

The attributes are associated with each geometry part for resource bindings and shading accessed through a local root signature. TLAS instances can be more efficient for tracing if their local bounding boxes are axis-aligned. The shader identifier alone requires 32 bytes of storage. Optimized TLAS rotation.

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Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

The vert function on line 37 uses UnityObjectToClipPos which will transform the mesh vertex position from local object space to clip space. Here’s another example how to make game objects visible behind wall but with an addition – we’re going to make the visible objects pixelated. 0.59, and 0.11 0.25 && col.r

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

GUI: Fix BaseButton's localization for tooltip text with shortcut ( GH-56109 ). It is developed by Pixel-Archipel and scheduled to release in early 2022. Wishlist it on Steam , and see Pixel-Archipel's itch page for relevant links. Here are the main changes since 3.4.1-stable: This reverts a change introduced in 3.4.1

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