Game Developer

MARCH 20, 2023

Narrative designers Alexa Ray Corriea and Lis Moberly want to help you give better feedback to your creative collaborators.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The studio behind Silent Hill: Ascension has denied it is using artificial intelligence to write dialogue for the game. IGN reported players have been sharing examples of the game's writing via social media, accusing developer Genvid of using AI to generate it.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A week after coming out, Harebrained Schemes' newest strategy title The Lamplighters League is being considered a "big disappointment" in terms of its commercial performance.

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Game Developer

APRIL 25, 2024

The cancellation could result in the studio writing down up to $20 million in production costs.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Video game preservationist and historian Kelsey Lewin tells the story of how a mundane-sounding game full of bug-catching, letter-writing, and furniture-collecting became one of Nintendo's best-loved franchises.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Humble Games Collection is said to be ending in early November, and at time of writing, has nothing waiting in the stands to take its place.

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Game Developer

JUNE 16, 2023

The best free tools for writing and creating narrative games, from Twine to Ren'Py to Decker and much more.

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Writing Games 328

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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

"There is a special feeling in making a document for your game full of nice art and writing and holding it in your hands when you're finished."

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Banishers and Jusant both underpeformed, which has spurred Don't Nod to write down assets and adjust its internal plans over the next several years.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Paradox Interactive has announced it will write down capitalised development costs for The Lamplighters League, and confirmed layoffs occurred at developer Harebrained Schemes earlier this year. In a post on its website , the Swedish company explained that SEK 320 million ($29.4 million).

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Game Developer

MAY 10, 2024

Making a game trailer is like making music: you have to decide what kind of piece you want to write.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly. Not games writing mind you, but copy writing – for pitches, store pages, press releases, & everything else. If you’re writing to a publisher or the press, they need to know whether this is useful to them immediately.

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Game Developer

JUNE 11, 2024

For my RTS book I am writing, I decided to take it upon myself to replay the entire Command & Conquer series.

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Writing 246

Game Developer

MARCH 25, 2024

I recently read the Project Polaris piece on postcolonial games and felt that I should write out a full postcolonial analysis of Pokémon.

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Perforce

MAY 15, 2024

Even with AI writing code, AI won’t replace programmers overnight. Will AI replace software engineers? But it will impact the future of software development. Learn how.

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader. To create, we create a Cocos Shader file named “gaussian-blur.effect” and write the following. Note: In Cocos Creator 3.8.0,

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This interview is part of GamesIndustry.biz’s Black Voices Progress Report, offering insight into the different experiences Black professionals have in the games sector. You can read more about the project and check the other entries on this page.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

"Every minute a player spends not interacting with your story dilutes the power of the story." - Vogel's Third Law of Video Game Storytelling Suppose you want to write a single-player video game with a good story. Assume you're writing a game to make money. Write fan-fiction about your game? A gacha game. Meme your characters?

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Hon founded Six to Start in 2006, and found time to write various books as the studio developed fitness games such as Zombies, Run! and Marvel Move.

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Writing Dev Studios Development 239

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I freely admit that I do most of my writing online to get attention for our games in an immensely overcrowded industry. It's way easier to write dialogue than make intricate 3-D models. It's actually really hard to write a good story inside of a game while the game still functions as a game. All you need is a text editor.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A synopsis demands exactly this challenge, regardless of whether you're writing for a feature film or a multi-season TV series. Let's find out what makes film and television writing unique and how to create a synopsis that elevates your story. These objectives should guide how you write.

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Cocos

JULY 28, 2023

This article is part of a two-part series by Kylin, the ecological director at Cocos. 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 FSR, ColorGrading, and Bloom for enhanced graphics.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Ten Square Games has written off Undead Clash and Fishing Master for more than $6 million due to market competition and high user acquisition costs. As reported by Mobilegamer.biz , the Polish games publisher has also laid off 120 employees. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 24, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CD Projekt Red has financially written off the development costs spent on Project Sirius, a Witcher spin-off title. As reported by TechPowerUp , the title's development cost the Polish firm more than $7 million in 2022 and over $2.2

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That One Game Dev

MARCH 2, 2023

In this article I showcase how you can use GDExtension to write some very simple game logic. I set this up using the common CMake tool. The post Godot 4: GDExtension for C++ using CMake appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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That One Game Dev

JULY 23, 2024

Intrinsics are like a recipe for the most optimized code that you can write to achieve certain behavior. The post What Are Intrinsic Operations in C++ appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 24, 2024

Larian Studios' game also took home the award for Best Writing in a Game, having been nominated for six awards in total. The 13th annual New York Game Awards took place yesterday, with Baldur's Gate 3 taking the top prize of Game of the Year.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” I never enjoyed programming very much and just assumed game development involved writing code all day. So I spend some time just thinking and writing down ideas.” Then he discovered the Unreal Engine and everything changed.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 10, 2024

According to a write-up on IGN , Spencer said: "The closure of any team is hard obviously on the individuals there, hard on the team. I haven't been talking publicly about this, because right now is the time for us to focus on the team and the individuals.

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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. Read more

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Lost Garden

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

I was noodling on an app design that helped folks create and manage small social groups focused on thoughtful writings and conversation. The joy of letter writing At one point, there were long form letters exchanged between experts in their field. Artists and writers would write to one another and share their latest struggles.

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Writing 110

GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I'm actually writing this lead on Tuesday afternoon, but feeling pretty confident that whatever happens from here on out, this much will be true. Check back every Friday for a new entry. Unity had a pretty bad week. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 8, 2024

Back in January, Piranha Bytes – which developed the Elex and Gothic franchises – acknowledged issues at the company, admitting on X/Twitter that it was "true" that the team was "in a difficult situation", but asked its players not to "write [it] off yet" as it sought a "partner" for its future goals. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 21, 2024

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter , Loki director Kate Herron will helm the project, and will co-write the screenplay with Briony Redman. A movie adaptation of The Sims is under way, with Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap set to produce.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

25 years old, fresh out of script writing studies and feeling detached from society. The process of writing the 300,000-word script took me 20 months. Jędrzej Napiecek was not in a good place. To be honest, he just felt so… useless. He desperately needed change, something to reinvent himself. He calls it his biggest challenge.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Writing my feature as this celebratory thing feels weird in light of that fact. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Before I start this feature, I would be remiss not to acknowledge that the games industry is now nearly 10,000 people shorter.

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