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Book Excerpt: Game Economy Design: Metagame, Monetization and Live Operations

Game Developer

'This book provides a comprehensive overview of game economy design. The reader will gain insights into the components that form a game economy, how these components are utilized to shape a metagame experience and how monetization is integrated into this.

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Konami replaces EA as FIFA's esports partner

GamesIndustry.biz

FIFA has announced a partnership with Konami to continue its FIFAe World Cup esports tournament, using the publisher's free-to-play title eFootball.

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Rebots by FlatPonies launches after 6 years “We’re ready for more ambitious projects”

PreMortem.Games

FlatPonies , a Copenhagen-based game development studio, is finally launching Rebots , a first-person automation game that invites players to explore a universe full of quirky robots and expansive worlds. With over six years of development behind them, Lead Producer Regő Porkoláb has learned some valuable lessons. “Don’t make a game for six years!” “Rebots came from a simple concept.

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Budget-Friendly Serialization & Deserialization

The GameDev Guru

Choosing the wrong serialization & deserialization technology inexperienced devs tell you about will only bring you pain

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Savvy Moves: Saudi Arabias Gaming Vision

Deconstructor of Fun

Many in the gaming community may still be unaware of the massive shifts happening in Saudi Arabia, a country that’s quietly revealing its hand as a major player in the global gaming scene. If you visited the region just 2-3 years ago, well, that's old news. While the Kingdom may not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of gaming, it’s positioning itself at the forefront of a rapidly booming market, fueled by the Vision 2030 government program and an ambitious youth eager for oppor

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NaturalMotion reviewing UK and US teams ahead of possible layoffs

Game Developer

'To operate efficiently, we have made the difficult decision to review our UK and US operations, which may impact a number of roles in the US and UK.

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Solo dev Patrik Nagy on his game Backrooms Media “No amount of playtesting is ever enough”

PreMortem.Games

Patrik Nagy , a 20-year-old software development student from Hungary, began working on simple games at age 12, driven by a passion for programming and game development. His latest and most ambitious project, Backrooms Media , dives into the eerie lore of the Backrooms. It’s a viral internet phenomenon that started with a disquieting image posted on 4chan in 2019.

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Using generative AI to build the ultimate VALORANT esports team

AWS Games

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Riot Games are calling on esports fans and builders alike to participate in the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Hackathon: Esports Manager Challenge. This new hackathon will put the latest generative AI tools in the hands of fans to unlock new ways to build and develop stronger esports teams. VALORANT is a tactical first-person-shooter game by Riot Games, combining precise gunplay with unique agent abilities in a strategic 5v5 format.

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O3DE 24.09 Released

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com O3DE 24.09 Released The O3DE game engine, previously Lumberyard which itself was a fork of CryEngine, just released O3DE 24.09. This release is a massive step forward in making O3DE usable to the masses. O3DE is a completely free and open source game engine sponsored by Amazon and several other large companies and […] The post O3DE 24.09 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Report: Roblox inflated user numbers and downplayed child predator presence to investors

Game Developer

An investigation accuses Roblox Corp. of misrepresenting its key metrics and child safety programs to investors.

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Hypercasual games market continues to decline, but still nearly 3 billion installs this quarter

PreMortem.Games

According to the AppMagic numbers, this quarter, the hypercasual games market shrunk by 12%—down to 2.98B total installs compared to the previous quarter. The case is about the same for YoY dynamics—the market went down by a similar percentage from its 3.4B downloads in Q3 2023. The YoY dynamics are also comparable to the previous quarter: Tier-1 West faced the largest decrease at 18% YoY, followed by Tier-1 East with a 16% drop—and all other countries with their 7% slowdown.

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Experts say Google Play opening up in the US will have minimal impact

GamesIndustry.biz

Earlier this week, US courts mandated that Google must – for a three-year period – open up its Play app store to allow more competition.

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Alone - Tribe - Smaller Features & Victory

Indie DB

This week I worked on backporting some smaller features into previous missions, updated the loadscreens, and started work on the victory cutscenes.

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The Best Game Development Frameworks in 2024

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com The Best Game Development Frameworks in 2024 Let me start this by saying, there are no “best” game development frameworks. The value and use of a framework varies massively from project to project and developer to developer. That said, according to YouTube “Best Game Development Framework” is one of the most common questions and it’s not being […] The post The Best Game Development Frameworks in 2024 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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What Washington State is doing to juice local game development

Game Developer

The Washington State government's Chamber of Commerce wants to the state's 'creative economy' humming along.

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Matt Handrahan of Kepler Interactive: “Playing it safe doesn’t have any value”

PreMortem.Games

With over 2000 pitches flooding their inbox every year, Kepler Interactive is no stranger to reviewing a deluge of game ideas. The small team of six to seven professionals is tasked with wading through roughly 150 new concepts per month, determining which few might have the potential to become the next big title. “It’s truly crazy,” says Matt Handrahan , Senior Portfolio Manager at Kepler Interactive, “but we break it down to three or four a day, and you get through your quota.

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How your original indie IP can engage audiences beyond the game

GamesIndustry.biz

If you're reading this article, you've likely created an original IP or are planning an original title. Your game may be performing well and you've got a regular fanbase in place, but what next?

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Broke Protocol - Now FREE

Indie DB

Broke Protocol is now free on Steam and Play store for everyone! Join PvP servers, RP, war servers in the best modding sandbox available. Or start your own server. All free.

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Visual Studio Code September 2024 Upgrade

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio Code September 2024 Upgrade Microsoft’s popular open source editor Visual Studio Code just got upgraded with the release of the September 2024 upgrade. With this release comes several plumbing fixes including a move to ESM (ECMAScript Modules) as well as a switch from the Yarn package manager to NPM. Highlights of this release are: […] The post Visual Studio Code September 2024 Upgrade appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Why are so few games set in the Prohibition era?

Game Developer

The United States' Prohibition era has inspired creatives across the entertainment industry, but hasn't been featured in video games as much as you'd expect.

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Exploring the Diverse Career Paths in Mathematics

Real Programming

Math is one of the bedrocks of STEM skills, the thing underlying science, technology, and engineering. It’s well known that parents want their kids to learn STEM skills like coding and math so that down the road they’re ready for the job market. Sometimes, it seems a little abstract: people learn one skill to get a job. But what skills? And what jobs?

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Paradox on Bloodlines 2: "We had a game we could do, but maybe not with the team we had"

GamesIndustry.biz

In September last year, Paradox Interactive announced that it handed the development of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 to The Chinese Room , marking an umpteenth twist in the title's storied journey.

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HANGAR 8 is Released On STEAM!

Indie DB

Science Fiction Anomaly Horror Game inspired by Exit 8 is now available on Steam, and it's ON 10% SALE!

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DragonRuby 6 Released – Currently Free

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com DragonRuby 6 Released – Currently Free DragonRuby, a Ruby language powered game development toolkit, recently released DragonRuby 6. Additionally until Thursday, October the 10th, you can get the Standard edition free ( regularly $48 ). Highlight features of Dragon Ruby are: Key Links DragonRuby Homepage DragonRuby Itch Page (Better Info than Homepage) DragonRuby 6 Release Notes […] The post DragonRuby 6 Released – Currently Free appeared first on GameFromSc

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Saudi wealth fund considering increased stakes in Japanese game devs

Game Developer

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund wants to grow its games presence with an eye toward Japanese studios like Nintendo and Capcom.

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Say you’ve got a dungeon that can be played with 1-8 players; how do you scale that for each number of players? What variables tend to wind up being the most fun to have tweaked (enemy hp, numbers, etc)?

Ask a Game Dev

Scaling an encounter to support different numbers of players is generally a question of resource allocation. If we have a small number of these encounters in the project, we can do most of this by hand and spend more effort on each one. World of Warcraft's old raid system where raids supported only 10 or 25 players are examples of such where tuning and mechanics were modified to specific player numbers.

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Video game sales jump 20% in Europe during September | European Monthly Report

GamesIndustry.biz

17.6 million PC and console games were sold across Europe last month, according to the latest GSD figures.

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Hidden Pass Skirmishes v0.4.13!

Indie DB

We have launched Hidden Pass Skirmishes featuring a trio of tactical challenges and four playable squads.

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FlippedNormals 3D Sculpting & Character Mastery Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com FlippedNormals 3D Sculpting & Character Mastery Humble Bundle There is a new Humble of interest to game developers (artists specifically), the Flipped Normals 3D Sculpting & Character Mastery Humble Bundle. This bundle is composed of courses and sculpting related asset backs from 3D marketplace FlippedNormals. As with most Humble Bundles this one is organized into tiers: 1$ Tier […] The post FlippedNormals 3D Sculpting & Character Mastery Humble Bundle appea

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Tequila Works lays off 'small number' of staff after cancelling project

Game Developer

Despite reducing staff after cancelling a project, Tequila Works says it will now put its entire development focus on another game it has been making.

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Question about tiledmap isometric

Cocos

I create a map from map editor, then import it into cocos creator, and create a tiledtile node, but my node is offset from the tile image like the picture. How can I fix this?

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343 rebrands as Halo Studios, working on multiple Unreal Engine 5 games

GamesIndustry.biz

Microsoft has announced several major changes to 343 Industries, the studio behind the Halo games, including a new name, a new engine, and the beginning of work on multiple new titles in its flagship shooter series.

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Early Bird rates for Develop:North end tonight at midnight

Game Development News

If you’re planning to attend the inaugural Develop:North conference taking place at The Spine in Liverpool next month, you only have until midnight tonight to take advantage of the Early Bird rates.

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Indie Showcase Time

Game Wisdom

Indie Showcase Time Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" The weekly indie showcases highlight the games we check out on stream, please reach out if you would like me to cover your game. All games shown are press key submissions. 0:00 Intro 00:14 Moons of Ardan … The post Indie Showcase Time appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Ex-Humble Games staff form new publisher, Good Games Group

Game Developer

Humble will use Good Games to continue supporting games it had already published prior to restructuring its staff in July.

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Is the way to spawn 3d object in UI node related position?

Cocos

Question is, how to spawn 3d object from UI node , example we have - Canvas UI with Camera and we have Root Node in 3d space with Main Camera to render, so i would like to spawn 3d model from ui node position, and keep 3d model parent in Root or child node of 3d space , is it possible? how to convert ui node position into 3d space node, confusing. suppose we have scene , with 2 cameras 3d and 2d.

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Tencent and Guillemot family reportedly planning Ubisoft buyout

GamesIndustry.biz

Tencent and Guillemot Brothers Ltd have been exploring ways to stabilise Ubisoft in the wake of its recent troubles, which could result in the pair buying out the publisher and taking it private.

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