Game Developer

APRIL 17, 2024

The publisher will spend up to $200 million on a cost reduction program that will also include project cancellations.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2024

Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions is a game by Swiss indie game studio Momo-Pi. The tactical action adventure has much going for it. It looks great, bright and colorful and has gameplay that is both taxing and entertaining. Plus it features a cast of well known manga characters, straight out of the Shueisha universe. What more could you ask for?

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Game Developer

APRIL 16, 2024

With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 15, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was the biggest-selling game at Japanese retail in March, shifting 310,596 units and leading a slew of new releases that took over the Top Five in the boxed games charts. Famitsu's latest data, shared with GamesIndustry.biz , shows that the second part of Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 remake saw the second biggest launch month ever in terms of physical sales for a PS5 game in Japan.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 16, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Descent 3 Source Code Released The source code for the 1999 Interplay/Outrage Entertainment game Descent 3 was just open sourced on GitHub under the MIT license. The person responsible for opening the project made the following statement on Reddit /r/gamedev: I was one of the developers for Descent 3 back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. […] The post Descent 3 Source Code Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Concept Art World

APRIL 13, 2024

Concept Art World Maxime Desmettre Maxime Desmettre is a concept artist and illustrator from France and Canada, currently residing in Yongin, South Korea. Desmettre has created artwork for various video game titles, including LifeAfter , For Honor , Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag , and Prince of Persia. Link: Website | Instagram All images © Maxime Desmettre or their respective copyright holder.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 16, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox With the Fallout TV series grabbing headlines and attention across the industry, data from mobile analysis firm Sensor Tower shows the impact it is having on the video games. Collated by Layer Licensing and shared with GamesIndustry.biz , the data shows that daily revenue for mobile spin-off Fallout Shelter rose from just over $20,000 on April 10, 2024 (the day the show debuted) to $80,000 by April 13.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2024

I've actually worked on and shipped more than one annual sports title over my career and I want say for the record that the idea that annual sports titles are "mostly minor tweaks and roster changes" is absolutely and categorically false. Annual sports titles absolutely do not have the same scope as AAA games with multi-year dev cycles, but they do absolutely have significant breadth and depth of scope each year beyond "minor tweaks and roster changes".

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Game Development News

APRIL 16, 2024

After carefully considering the many hundreds of nominations, we have a shortlist!

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Game Developer

APRIL 16, 2024

'We are reshaping our business and our team to best capture the significant growth opportunities that currently exist in the sector.

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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. Solo developer Walter Woods , working under the name of Here Below , used the distinctive black and white illustrations of 19th century artist, Gustave Doré as the textures for much of the game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 15, 2024

At the Game Developer Conference last month, Glow Up Games co-founder and CXO Latoya Peterson contributed to a series of micro-talks around sustainability, calling out the fundamental flaws of games funding. Peterson was talking alongside Cornerstone Interactive Studios' Lisette Titre-Montgomery, ProbablyMonsters' JC Lau, Oculus Publishing's Shana T Bryant, and Outerloop Games' Chandana Ekanayake, in a collective presentation called "The Way We Work: Embracing Human Sustainability in Game Develo

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2024

This post was from Nine Bows, a developer of Cocos Creator in the Chinese forums. Cocos Creator 3.8…is hot! The global glow is beautiful! From now on, web games can also be made with graphics as good as AAA-level games! First, look at my test to do the effect of the picture: 1. Bloom parameters use experience Three parameters: Threshold, Iterations, and Intensity.

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Indie DB

APRIL 16, 2024

The Stairway 7 is an endless loop anomaly hunter game where you are stuck in a endless loop of stairways with a cat and you have to observe your surroundings carefully to reach the exit. Anomalies are watching, and ready to hunt you down. Don't take.

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Games 88

Game Developer

APRIL 16, 2024

Programmer Kevin Bentley put out (most) of the 1999 game's source code for players to help maintain and use for their own ends.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 17, 2024

GameFromScratch.com GeoGen – Procedural Terrain and Planet Generator Today we are checking out GeoGen, an application for generating terrain/landscapes as well as planets procedurally, from JangaFX, the creators of EmberGen and the free Game Texture Viewer. GeoGen is currently still in alpha (although it is available for sale) and graph based workflow for creating landscapes and planets.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 15, 2024

UKIE published its latest Consumer Market Valuation Report, showing that the UK games market was worth £7.82 billion in 2023, a 4.4% increase compared to 2022's revised total of £7.49 billion. While overall game sales were up in the UK in 2023, boxed sales have continued their decline and were down 5% to £495 million compared to 2022.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2024

This post was from Nine Bows, a developer of Cocos Creator in the Chinese forums. Cocos Creator 3.8…is hot! The global glow is beautiful! From now on, web games can also be made with graphics as good as AAA-level games! First, look at my test to do the effect of the picture: 1. Bloom parameters use experience Three parameters: Threshold, Iterations, and Intensity.

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Unity Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Learn how Fika Productions overcame development hurdles to transition Ship of Fools from a local couch co-op into an engaging multiplayer roguelite.

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Game Developer

APRIL 16, 2024

'It's always easy to get seduced by the trappings of it all–and not get to the core of 'why do players enjoy this?

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 16, 2024

CG Spectrum's very own Nicklas Byriel, Department Head of 3D Visualization , recently participated in an expert panel on Chaos Unboxed, presented by Chaos Group. Nicklas and other industry pros discussed how art and technology intersect and explored interesting ways to accelerate creativity in your work and in your art. From architects to graphic designers and 3D visualization artists , this panel is packed with insights that will help fuel your creative process.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 16, 2024

Take-Two Interactive is embarking on another cost cutting program, and this one will see the company layoff about 5% of its employees by the end of the year. "As part of these efforts, the company is rationalizing its pipeline and eliminating several projects in development and streamlining its organizational structure, which will eliminate headcount and reduce future hiring needs," Take-Two explained in an SEC filing stating that the board of directors approved the new program today.

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Indie DB

APRIL 12, 2024

GolfGambit is an electrifying mini-golf experience with a twist! Strategize and set traps before each round to gain the upper hand or throw off your opponents. Get ready to unleash chaos on the green with GolfGambit!

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 11, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Smash Indie Hit Sequel Slay the Spire 2 Made with Godot The sequel to the smash hit indie deck building game Slay the Spire was just announced at the Triple-I showcase. The reason why this is relevant to game developers is MegaCrit are one of the many developers that spoke out after the Unity runtime pricing change releasing the following statement: […] The post Smash Indie Hit Sequel Slay the Spire 2 Made with Godot appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

APRIL 16, 2024

The Deus Ex director is still taking inspiration from tabletop with Otherside Entertainment's Thick as Thieves.

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Entertainment 350

The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 15, 2024

This book caused more kids to worship satan than KISS and Lord of the Rings put together. (I am hoping to do these for a while, because I have a ton of olde gaminge crappe, and going through it is a lot of fun. I’ll put them on Twitter and then put expanded versions here. I hope you enjoy these deep dives into the beginning of the medium.) This was the first D&D book I ever owned.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 17, 2024

Looking at Schell Games' recent output, it's pretty easy to spot a common thread. There's the VR puzzle franchise I Expect You To Die, the VR adaptation of social deduction game Among Us, the VR jumpscare horror game Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire… When we speak with Schell Games CEO Jesse Schell at the Game Developers Conference, we ask if the studio has indeed pivoted fully to VR and committed itself to that market going forward.

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Indie DB

APRIL 16, 2024

[London, United Kingdom- April 5th, 2024] Terahard Studios is excited to announce the launch of Monster Mop Up’s Demo 2.0 on Steam. Monster Mop Up is a cozy cleaning simulation game with fluffy creatures in need of rescue. The updated demo contains.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 14, 2024

While it is occasionally possible to have a design come together right away, there are times when you need to toil over a design for some time before something changes, and only then will the system start to shine. Many times, this change comes in the form of a breakthrough rule that unlocks the potential of a system. With the Kickstarter right around the corner , I’d like to talk about Spellstorm’s breakthrough rule, one that made the game significantly more fun to play, and why tha

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Game Developer

APRIL 16, 2024

'There's one thing that combines those two games: they require patience and experimentation. They are expressive. Even though on the surface they’re very different, they both just feel amazing to play!

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Designer Notes

APRIL 11, 2024

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Jake Solomon, best known for the XCOM reboot and Midnight Suns. They discuss his first, failed attempt at XCOM, why 75% does not mean 75%, and how many copies of XCOM he sold at Power Gamer in Glen Burnie, MD. This episode was recorded on April 26, 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 16, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox 2024 so far has been challenging in the industry. This is a good time to take stock of last year's performance to gauge demand-side conditions and what direction consumer spending is going in the UK when it comes to full games (games that are paid for upfront).

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Indie DB

APRIL 13, 2024

Retro Twin-Stick arena shooter, BloodDome99, to release an update including 4 new weapons, 6 new perks, 8 new difficulty modifiers and more!

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Unity Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

Learn about lesser-known aspects of Asset Bundles, with a focus on game performance, memory runtime usage, and general compatibility.

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