SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. . Read the Full Tutorial ?

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 10, 2023

If we were to make a change like an engine or software upgrade (e.g. If the project is early in development or only has a small number of affected developers, the cost is much lower than if there are hundreds of devs affected or thousands of finished assets that could be affected. Unreal 4 to Unreal 5), a major tool switch (e.g.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

Following the shuttering of “Paragon,” Epic Games released all “Paragon’s” assets for free use in Unreal Engine. We’re also looking at how we can further work with partners, like AWS, to build a world-class AAA game as independent developers.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Here are a few of them: ALT Modular Builds Instead of having everybody build everything, we separate assets into buckets that don’t always need to be built - common assets in one bucket, specific level assets in another, character assets in a third, weapons in a fourth, and so on.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

iXie is an Indian company that was founded in 2011 and is a division of Indium, a global digital engineering company. Art Services, Engineering, Audio Services, Functionality QA, Localization, Localization QA, and Player Support. AAA Game Art Studio. iXie has a presence in India and the US with over a hundred employees.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

In its second session , the company presented a solution that unifies cost, usage, recommendations, performance, governance, and security into a data lake and prescriptive reporting engine known as The Riot Act.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Once the POC is given a go ahead, the writers, game artists , designers, developers, engineers, QAs, and others collaborate and understand the technological constraints, ensure consistent visuals, color palettes, and art styles, and elaborate on the in-game mechanics, physics, and how objects will render on a player’s screen.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

It's an interesting test: can a 25+ year old mod community re-imagine and re-engineer itself? For a chance to "go official", modmakers must ensure clean provenance for their assets. As far as I know, there's no ETA on this project, it'll launch when it's ready. But keep a lookout for it. THE FUTURE OF MY QUAKE MAPS.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Making Call of Duty free Back when CoDO was conceived, consoles didn’t officially exist in China, AAA Mobile gaming was not yet a ‘thing’ and PC gaming mostly happened at Internet Cafes, where gamers paid to sit in front of computers to play, watch videos, eat, smoke and chat.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). Hence game engine companies like Epic with Unreal Engine or Unity play here. Hence, clearly brand by itself is not enough to sustain long-term success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

MZ’s 4X engine was already behind the curve at the time of the acquisition and sadly they weren’t able to use their know-how to support West Game’s growth. A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games. While the decline is stark, it shouldn’t come as a surprise for those versed in the genre.

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