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

MARCH 28, 2025

The duo behind Thank Goodness You're Here chat about the challenges that come with creating an entire city filled with silly people and funny things to do.

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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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Writing 207

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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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 25, 2025

Constructing software systems is about seeing the general rules at work and using those to write code that adheres to those rules. Good code architecture tends to follow pretty universal principles, regardless of whether the system is governing loot tables or lighting systems.

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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

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

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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 3, 2023

The goal is to free the writer from "programming" and focus just on the writing and logic of the scene. The writer will write (for example): guybrush: "Aye, Cobb." During the Secret of Monkey Island and LeChucks Revenge, these were all hand-coded in SCUMM and a pain in the [REDACTED]. In lines like GUYBRUSH(38260,"{fist_pump}Yes!")

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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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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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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Through her writing and animated videos, Wendi seeks to bridge the information gap, providing valuable insights and empowering creative tech entrepreneurs to thrive. With a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Technology, she has dedicated herself to combining her twin passions: art and technology. Check out her story below.

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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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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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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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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.)

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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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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

25 years old, fresh out of script writing studies and feeling detached from society. “In moments of crisis – when the amount of work, mainly due to script writing, was beyond me – my friend and business partner Maciej Staczyk used to tell me: Any task, even the largest one, requires a finite number of hours to complete.

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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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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 3, 2023

Getting AI to write your game dialog is about the same as getting some C- high school student to do it. I posted this chain on Mastodon, but am reposting it here. At least with the later you be giving a high school student a job. I really hope the TV writers can get something meaningful from the strike.

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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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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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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.

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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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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

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

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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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 2, 2023

It is also possible that I didn't write it. One of the topics was how speed runners dislike random events and the end of Monkey Island 2 has a lot of randomness around when LeChuck appears. I was asked how this worked and to be honest that was a long time ago and I don't remember every little scape of code.

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