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

MAY 23, 2023

Read the first chapter of this debut book on the ins and outs of getting onto the games narrative career path.

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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 Industry News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Hey everyone, I’m here with a post to celebrate the fact that I’ve been writing about games and various stories in all sorts of mediums and forms from the traditional physical novel to fan fictions for a whole decade. It’s been 10 years of writing! 10 years? : Then I started to do full-fledged game reviews whenever I got the chance.

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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 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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Perforce

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this blog, our experts give tips for writing better SRS documents, including detailed software requirements specification examples.

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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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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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Game Design Aspect

APRIL 15, 2022

In this video, game writer Sande Chen lists the top 5 game writing job hunt misconceptions she found during her research on job seekers wanting to break into the video game industry. Some were in related careers like social media management or comedy writing. They came from all walks of life. Some were students. Don't be passed over.

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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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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The other day I was told that my writing is appreciated and that I need to write more… so I’m taking a moment to write about a rabbit hole that I’ve fallen down since working on BlueSuburbia!

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

something like ccclass) you could see how straightforward and simple it is to write editor script with unity Unity Learn Editor Scripting - Unity Learn Editor Scripting can help you customize and extend the Unity editor to make it easier to use on your projects.

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Harold Serrano

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Hey guys, I want to share how you can write your first GPU Kernel using Metal. All our code will do is write data from one buffer onto another. Write the compute Kernel. Once we start writing the Kernel, you will see what I mean. Now, we need to write our Kernel. Write your first Compute Function.

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Cocos

MAY 27, 2024

but you can write in TS for all platforms. TS makes it convenient to publish your game to all platforms, including web and native platforms. Cocos Creator has dual cores in the fundamentals (C++ for native platforms and JS/TS for web). C++ is only needed when you want to modify the native engine or integrate native libs.

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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 Design Aspect

JULY 21, 2021

Last year, I was planning to have another run of Game Writing Primer but the pandemic and subsequent lockdown made that impossible. PlayCrafting asked me to do a Webinar, which I knew could not be the same as the popular workshop series, Game Writing Portfolio Workout. I'll notify you when it's time for class.

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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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Cocos

MAY 28, 2024

Knowing C++ only the basics, write games in cocos. Is it possible? Maybe explore opentk or other libraries for creating games in Cocos?

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Cocos

MAY 27, 2024

Knowing C++ only the basics, write games in cocos. Is it possible? Maybe explore opentk or other libraries for creating games in Cocos?

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Cocos

MAY 27, 2024

Knowing C++ only the basics, write games in cocos. Is it possible? Maybe explore opentk or other libraries for creating games in Cocos?

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2023

After being left out, the entire writing team for Horizon Forbidden West has been credited on the title's Nebula Award nomination. When the adventure title was named as a finalist for game writing , developer Giles Armstrong took to Twitter to voice his concerns at the lack of accreditation. Read more

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Cocos

MAY 24, 2024

I wondered if it was possible to write in Cocos creator in C++

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Cocos

MAY 23, 2024

I wondered if it was possible to write in Cocos creator in C++

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Tiny Hydra

MAY 27, 2021

The post Writing Better Practical Tests For The Games Industry appeared first on Tiny Hydra. I have been doing design and development tests for over a decade now (I even did some art tests early in my career) and I have come to the conclusion that most tests are bad.

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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 4, 2020

The objective is to have a more "textbook-like" compiler, which will help maintenance both by those already acquainted with the Godot source and by new faces who saw something about writing compilers in the past. GDScript series: (you are here) GDScript progress report: Writing a tokenizer. See other articles in this Godot 4.0

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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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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 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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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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Jesper Juul

JUNE 8, 2021

How long does it take to write a book? I must confess I had no idea, but writing Handmade Pixels took me 1000 hours over the course of 4½ years. I had already written a paper on independent games in 2014, but it wasn’t until August 2015 that I decided to write the book that became Handmade Pixels. Finding the time.

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Tiny Hydra

APRIL 22, 2021

The post 20 Game Design and Development Blogs: Great Writing On How To Make Games appeared first on Tiny Hydra. But, as you might guess while reading this very blog post, we’re still strong believers that a regularly updated blog full of well-crafted posts can be an invaluable source of both learning and entertainment.

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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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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

By writing that, we have defined our vertex and pixel shaders and it’s time to begin our routine. If we want a white color, we can write all ones (since white contains all the color). Start writing our variable inside the Properties block. Now we have to write it again in our Pass (line 27). Placing Vertices. ENDCG } } }.

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