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God of War Ragnarok named GOTY at 2023 BAFTA Games Awards

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Santa Monica Studio's acclaimed sequel won six awards on the night.

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The Ground Screams To Whisper: Nyambura Waruingi’s constellation of projects

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Meet the creative mind behind AKOIA & Company , Nyambura M. Waruingi and her spectacular innovation. She is not just developing a new game, she’s creating an entirely new experience that challenges everything we thought we knew about gaming. The Ground Screams To Whisper is not your typical game and neither is it just one thing, it’s a graphic novel, a puzzle game, a VR game and an album.

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Release candidate: Godot 4.0.2 RC 1

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With the GDC 2023 past us, we are getting ready for the 4.1 dev cycle. But that doesn't mean current Godot 4.0 users have to wait, because here's a release candidate for 4.0.2, with a handful of fixes and extra enhancements!

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For promotional videos like the 10-minute gameplay video of Tears of the Kingdom, how much of that is always constant in that specific build of the game? The video is prerecorded, but I still feel like there would be a lot of staged things to show off what they want to, while reducing the risk of any pitfalls.

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We stage things like this all the time, both for public-facing gameplay videos and for internal demo videos. This is because the purpose is to showcase the gameplay systems in a timely fashion. We usually don’t have a lot of time with our audiences. No one wants to sit and wait for minutes while the next demo is carefully set up. It’s even worse if it’s a live demo and the setup breaks or something unforeseen happens and you have to reset everything to load up the demo scenario again.

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E3 2023 is cancelled due to a lack of interest

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E3 2023 has been cancelled, and the event's future has never looked more uncertain

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It marks the third time the event has been scrapped in four years.

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Getting Started with Application Development: A Beginner’s Guide

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For those just starting on their journey to becoming an application developer, the task of getting started can be quite daunting. With so many different coding languages and platforms to choose from, it can be hard to know where to start. To help you get up and running quickly, here […] The post Getting Started with Application Development: A Beginner’s Guide appeared first on CodeWithMike.

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Unique blend of genres in haunting fishing adventure Dredge by Black Salt Games

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The world of Dredge is a foreboding place, a collection of remote islands adrift in a deep blue sea that appears calm and inviting by day yet dark and brooding as night falls. As a down-on-their-luck fisherman, you have little option but to explore these waters for fish and other things you may dredge up from the pitch black depths. The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure.

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The 2023 BAFTA Games Awards winners have been announced

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The winners of the 2023 BAFTA Games Awards were announced last night, at a games industry star-studded ceremony that took place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

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How Watch Dogs: Legion changed Ubisoft's narrative design

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Ubisoft Toronto's Brandon Hennessy spoke at GDC 2023 about the narrative work that went into Watch Dogs: Legion , and how the game's Play as Anyone mechanic required changes to the narrative team's pipeline.

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Transgender Visibility Within The Games Industry

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We all remember the times where the focus of most AAA game studios seemed to be to fulfil the fantasies of cis men. Slowly companies started to realise they were ignoring a huge potential audience. And that audience began realising that they deserve that representation. Today, games are still not as diverse as they should be in the modern world. Most of industry knows this and are ready to change.

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Anita Sarkeesian critiques gaming’s flawed approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Game Daily

For personal reasons, I was unable to get to the Game Developer Conference this year. If I’d been traipsing the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, it’s sure I’d have gone to Anita Sarkeesian’s presentation, Your DEI Initiatives Are Making Your Culture Worse , and reported on her views, which I always find to be invigorating and enlightening.

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D20 RPG – Project Intro

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I stumbled across a very cool website a while back: D20 SRD (System Reference Document). What is that you might ask? You’ve probably heard of Dungeons and Dragons and/or Pathfinder – they are dice based role playing games. In the SRD you will find a bunch of the game mechanics released to the public in an open game license. That includes races, classes, equipment, monsters, magic, abilities and more.

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Bubsy creator Mike Berlyn has passed away

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"No one" cares about your game. Here's why that can be a good thing

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CEO of Future Friends Games, Thomas Reisenegger explains how to use this to your marketing advantage.

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My trek to PAX East to discover the next hit games made with Unity

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Unity’s Alain Wong shares his experience as a first-time PAX East attendee, meeting creators and discovering upcoming Made with Unity games.

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Objaverse — Massive Free 3D Model Database

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GameFromScratch.com Objaverse — Massive Free 3D Model Database There is a new massive resource for game developers seeking free 3D models, Objaverse. Objaverse is a gigantic dataset of 3D models, mostly sourced from Sketchfab, under a variety of Creative Commons licenses. While this dataset is primarily aimed at training AI, it also serves as a useful resource for … Objaverse — Massive Free 3D Model Database Read More The post Objaverse — Massive Free 3D Model Database ap

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D20 RPG – Dice Roll

The Liquid Fire

What better place to begin than with a roll of the dice? Getting Started Download the starter project here. Unzip the project and open it with Unity 2021.3.8f1. Inside the project you will find a few simple things to get us started. At the root are the Assets and Packages folders. The Assets folder contains: A Scripts folder where we will primarily be working from.

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Q&A After The Last Mile – Shawn Kittelsen on The Walking Dead’s Massively Interactive Live Event

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Diablo IV had the biggest beta in series history, says Blizzard

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Diablo IV 's player count made it the "largest beta in Diablo franchise history.

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You’ve worked on PC game mods before you became a developer in the major industry as an actual job. But that does make me wonder. Is there a chance those mods, and others that are publicly available online, may see legal attention, even if no money is involved? Like maybe they have copyrighted music or artwork, or other IP themed content like some Half-Life mods have for instance?

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Yes. Legally speaking, it actually doesn’t matter whether you make money or not, copyright infringement is still copyright infringement even if the infringer doesn’t make a dime off of it. The owner of the IP is within their rights to choose what is and isn’t allowed with their property. Let’s use a somewhat extreme example. Each of us owns the copyright to our own likeness.

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Will Roblox’ new advertising rules make a difference?

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It’s been a full year since the consumer advocacy group Truth in Advertising (TINA) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commision about Roblox’s lax policy towards in-game advertising to children. Roblox has finally responded with a coherent set of policies that go some way to discouraging stealth branding, while at the same time leaving brands with plenty of room to interpret guidelines in their own way.

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The Latin American Games 2023 Showcase

Game Wisdom

The Latin American Games 2023 Showcase Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" This is an indie showcase covering the demos I check out during the Latin American Games Showcase for 2023. 0:00 Intro 00:29 Super Crane Bug 1:56 Uniduni 3:07 Tiny Witch 4:21 The Bunny Graveyard 5:45 Super Hiking … The post The Latin American Games 2023 Showcase appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Nominations for the MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2023 close on Monday morning

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Time is running out for anyone planning to submit nominations for the 2023 MCV/DEVELOP Awards. There are just three days until the deadline.

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The best business and marketing talks at GDC

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Some of the best marketing, community, and business advice from GDC 2023.

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Blender 3.5 Released

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GameFromScratch.com Blender 3.5 Released Blender 3.5 has just been released, the first release of 2023 (Blender 3.4 was released in Dec 2022). In a few short months Blender managed to add or improve upon a ton of features. Highlight features of Blender 3.5 include: Key Links Blender 3.5 Release Notes Download Link We went … Blender 3.5 Released Read More The post Blender 3.5 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mark Darrah is back on Dragon Age as a consultant. What use does a consultant have on the team that doesn’t involve sensitivity feedback (i.e., that seems low-key sexist, racist, etc)?

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I think you may misunderstand the point of a consultant. Generally, a consultant is an expert in some field that a company hires so they can get questions answered. Sometimes that expertise is in things like sensitivity feedback or diversity/equity/inclusivity, but it can also be in any number of fields - corporate efficiency, a specific type of technology, economics, ancient Chinese history, military tactics and equipment, constructed languages, skateboarding physics, or (in Darrah’s case) exte

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More insights from the 2023 Unity Gaming Report

Unity Blog

We spoke to creators from our community for the 2023 Unity Gaming Report. In this blog, discover bonus creator insights that were not included in the report.

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GDC 2023 is officially complete

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The best programming talks from GDC

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A selection of coverage from GDC 2023's best and most illuminating programming talks and interviews.

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GDevelop Release Mobile Version

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GameFromScratch.com GDevelop Release Mobile Version The cross platform open source no-code game engine GDevelop just released a mobile version for Android, which frankly is the best mobile game engine I’ve used yet. This release comes at a good time, as there is a Fanatical GDevelop bundle available, which contains 13 months of Gold subscription, that … GDevelop Release Mobile Version Read More The post GDevelop Release Mobile Version appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Johana Riquier: “Gaming as a driver for economic growth in the global south”

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“Can gaming truly change a country for the better?” Johana Riquier is convinced it can. She’s Managing Diorector of Gamerging. She’s a gaming business strategist and a diversity advocate specialized in the Middle Eastern and African market based in Senegal. “The power of gaming and emerging technologies unlocks new opportunities for growth and innovation in the Global South.

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What is VFX and how Filmustage can help visual artists

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What is VFX? VFX, or visual effects, refers to the process of blending computer-generated imagery (CGI) with live-action footage, resulting in realistic and engaging scenes in films. These digital effects are instrumental in realizing a filmmaker's creative vision, enabling the creation of awe-inspiring visuals that enthrall audiences. Different types of visual effects Movies employ a wide range of visual effects, from basic compositing to intricate simulations.

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GamesAid members can now nominate charities for 2023/2024 support

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