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ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online

Game Developer

Libraries' attempts and proposed plans for archiving older games don't strike a chord with the ESA, which still thinks it remains publishers' burden.

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Embracer Group splits into three: Everything you need to know

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Embracer Group has announced its split into three separate companies. The three entities created will independently publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. These companies are currently being referred to as Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-Earth Enterprises & Friends – although the latter two will be given a new name at a later date.

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Book Excerpt: Game Design Workshop, 5th Edition

Game Developer

'This updated 5th edition brings deeper coverage of playcentric design techniques, including setting emotion-focused experience goals and managing the design process to meet them. It includes a host of new diverse perspectives from top industry game designers.

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Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions by Momo-Pi deserves more players 

PreMortem.Games

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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Godot x The Forge Collaboration Over

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Godot x The Forge Collaboration Over We reported back in December 2023 of a collaboration between Google, The Forge and Godot focused on improving Android support in the Godot game engine. Essentially Google paid for several months of The Forge development time focused on Android improvements, although the major improvement of Vulkan optimization will help all […] The post Godot x The Forge Collaboration Over appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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See the Unity 2022 LTS updates to two of our biggest e-books: URP and HDRP for advanced users

Unity Blog

We created two technical e-books to provide advanced Unity users with a better onboarding experience. Now updated for Unity 2022 LTS features.

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Inside Rare’s new solar-powered Barn X

GamesIndustry.biz

About a year ago, one of Rare's fans noticed something on Google Maps. The Xbox developer's offices are at the heart of Manor Park, a huge area of land surrounded by trees, ponds and greenery, which the studio fully owns. It moved there in 2001 and the complex is made up of a central building and four barns – A, B, C and D. Then last year, Google revealed the existence of a fifth barn, and one substantially bigger than all the others.

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Descent 3 Source Code Released

Game From Scratch

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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Monster Mop Up Demo 2.0

Indie DB

[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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Gamedev.world launching Global Games Fund to support devs in emergent territories

Game Developer

'Any developer, anywhere, and in any language, deserves access to funding structures and opportunities to make great games.

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Zoochosis by Clapperheads will make you fear those lovely animals in the zoo

PreMortem.Games

Like most times in horror stories, it starts out as a normal night. A rookie zookeeper straps on their bodycam and begins making the rounds on their first-ever night shift. But soon, you discover that things are far from normal in this zoo. A terrifying parasite is spreading, mutating some of the animals into grotesque, blood-thirsty monsters ready to kill their way out of their cages.

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Fallout 4 jumps to No.1 across Europe following TV show launch

GamesIndustry.biz

Sales of Fallout games have shot up across Europe, with Fallout 4 reclaiming the No.1 spot. The 2015 game’s sales rose over 7,500% week-on-week across Europe. This is GSD data that tracks digital game sales across all European markets, and physical sales across all major European countries (including UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). This is due to some heavy discounting on games in the Fallout franchise across all platforms.

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Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials Brackeys is perhaps one of the largest, if not the largest, tutorial YouTubers for the Unity game engine. In 2020 Brackeys suddenly called it quits posting a goodbye video on YouTube. That seemed to be the end of this influential channel, until the entire Unity runtime fee fiasco occurred and […] The post Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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The shortlist for the 2024 MCV/DEVELOP Awards!

Game Development News

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

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Embracer splitting into three standalone companies to search for 'winning formulas'

Game Developer

'Rather than imposing conformity on thriving businesses, we should foster an environment that amplifies existing success.

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Major Marble now on IndieDB and Steam

Indie DB

Complete challenging puzzles in Puzzle Mode or create awe-inspiring tracks in Sandbox Mode. Customize your courses and enjoy fully simulated physics!

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. on making money and happy players "without exploding in the process"

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Xalavier Nelson Jr., CEO of Strange Scaffold, is working through what sustainability means in the games industry during a time of economic uncertainty. "I don't think sustainability is a utopian idea," he tells GamesIndustry.biz in a discussion at the DICE Summit. "It's just a necessity.

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Learn to Make Games in Godot 4 GameDev.tv Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Learn to Make Games in Godot 4 GameDev.tv Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Learn to Make Games in Godot 4 bundle is a collection of Godot courses by GameDev.tv. As with most bundles it is organized into tiers: 1$ Tier Godot 4 Shader Course: Craft Stunning Visuals Mid Tier Master Mobile […] The post Learn to Make Games in Godot 4 GameDev.tv Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mistral Large and Mixtral 8x22B LLMs Now Powered by NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA API

Nvidia

This week’s model release features two new NVIDIA AI Foundation models, Mistral Large and Mixtral 8x22B, both developed by Mistral AI. These cutting-edge. This week’s model release features two new NVIDIA AI Foundation models, Mistral Large and Mixtral 8x22B, both developed by Mistral AI. These cutting-edge text-generation AI models are supported by NVIDIA NIM microservices, which provide prebuilt containers powered by NVIDIA inference software that enable developers to reduce deployment times f

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UK studio Kwalee is making layoffs to create room for new hires

Game Developer

'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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Blood Rush update

Indie DB

Blood Rush is an upcoming roguelite that blends ULTRAKILL and Hades for a fast paced experience mixed with a rogue lite progression system. You are trapped in a Dante inspired Hell that combines different mythologies and you’ll need to fight your way.

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A double-take on Take-Two's layoffs | This Week in Business

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. Take-Two joined the parade of publishers with a round of triple-digit layoffs this week, announcing plans to cut headcount by approximately 5%.

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Valeo unveils in-car XR racing game at SXSW

Unity Blog

Valeo Racer is an in-vehicle, XR game, combining the real-world driving environment and virtual 3D elements to create a unique and immersive experience.

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GeoGen – Procedural Terrain and Planet Generator

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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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Descent 3's source code has been released for free use

Game Developer

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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The Stairway 7 Announced

Indie DB

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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Fallout Shelter's daily revenue rockets to $80,000 after TV show debut

GamesIndustry.biz

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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CGS 3D Visualization Dept. Head Presents on Chaos Unboxed Panel

CG Spectrum

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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5 things that make Spellstorm really cool

Keith Burgun

The Kickstarter has LAUNCHED ! Make sure to go check it out, and spread the word! You might be wondering, “hey wait a second… why should I care about Spellstorm?” Here’s five reasons. Reason #1: Beautiful, charming artwork The art in this game is by Christina Zhong , and it is full of personality and color. Here’s a handful of paintings that are on some of the cards.

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70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability

Game Developer

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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Dungeon Inn - Demo Update 2

Indie DB

Dungeon Inn - Demo Update: Changed UI/UX at 'Manage Inn' New Events, Fame, Inn Ability, New language Added(French)

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Report calls for new industry-led body to solve UK skills crisis

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A new report has called for the creation of an industry-led organisation dedicated to solving the ongoing skills crisis in the UK video games sector. Published today by games development and publishing training provider Skillfull and penned by the company's founder Gina Jackson, the study explored the high number of job vacancies advertised in 2022 and sought to understand the most pressing skills needs in the UK.

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Unity Asset Bundles tips and pitfalls

Unity Blog

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

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It’s time to vote for the winners of this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards!

Game Development News

Games can only get better? Let's take back controller? Ok, so not the best election slogans, but don't let that put you off voting for this year's award winners. Every vote counts!