Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2023

AAA dev really tries not to spend that much time in preproduction because the plan should already mostly be in place by the time we begin - we know what kind of game we’re making and we have a solid idea for what kind of gameplay we’re trying to build out. As for your second question, it also depends.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 19, 2023

It really depends on what you mean by whether major AAA companies “listen to the audience complaints”. Most major content updates ship every three months, so three patches in the future usually means players won’t see the things we’re working for another 6 to 9 months.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 20, 2023

This norm, however, may soon be a relic of the past as software from technology company Move hopes to revolutionise motion capture for AAA and indies alike, as well as beyond games. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

These emerging players are at the forefront of consuming game-related content alongside their active involvement, emphasizing the growing trend of watching gaming-related media alongside playing. They are likely to have higher levels of engagement, increased spending on gaming, and a greater inclination towards consuming gaming content.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

Once the new hire has the game up and running and has familiarized herself with the game's controls and such, it's time to start reading documentation for the internal tools and workflow - how the content is made, how the work is done, what the working process is, how to check your work, who to contact in case of questions.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

More AAA and AA publishers are pivoting their main franchises towards these models to extend the lifespan of existing franchises. Games like Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox have achieved great success by adopting this approach, which focuses on providing players with regular updates and new content.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game. A comprehensive breakout and applicable use cases can be found below.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

On the bright side, the lack of investments in new content will lead to an unanswered demand in a couple of years when the market turns around once again. Think of it this way: The more subscribers a service has, the cheaper the content becomes to produce because you’re dividing the cost of content by the subscribers.

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Cocos

MAY 7, 2023

It’s not preferred, at least for game content itself a win/mac native package is always more powerful. Currently not yet, we are still a mobile first game engine, we are not trying to attract AAA studios from using in-house, Unreal, Unity engines. pstrejczek: Is there a reason Electron is the preferred way for Steam publishing ?

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Hogwarts Legacy: I’m a fan of most Potterverse content, and I enjoyed the books while growing up. It has an amazing open world that you can zip around using magic and is one of the biggest AAA titles to feature the Isekai or transported to another world plot device that has infected Anime and Light Novels the past eight years or so.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Having collaborated on previous projects across a wide range of industries – from comics, AAA games, television, music videos, visual effects, literature, theater, virtual and augmented reality, hardware, software, and R&D – the group contemplated how to create a meaningful, community-driven game on their own terms.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

From time to time, our AWS GameTime guests may also share exclusive news, easter egg content and merchandise! AWS are also proud to continue supporting the game developer community and we want to highlight the best games from indie studios to AAA game studios built on AWS. Of course we have a gameplay segment!

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

I want to have a team with a pipeline where we release a game every few months, always making new IP and numbered sequels, never gross content packs and new ways of extracting more money from people who have already bought a game.” What inspired you to make Drift Type C?

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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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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

AAA video game development trends. AAA games 2022 are considered to be the most eye-catching, comprehensive and top-notch video games played on PC and consoles, as Games radar says. Forbes also argues that some of AAAs are integrating NFTs therein. They provide deeper gameplay content and uncomplicated storyline for gamers.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

It specializes in producing both 2D & 3D content and has up to 200 employees. Specialties: – 3D Modeling, Physically Based Rendering, 3D Animation, 3D Design, Architectural Visualization, 3D Presentations, 3D Art, 2D Art, 3D Printing, 3D Multiplication, Interactive Walkthroughs, 3D Content, 2D Animation, NFT, and Metaverse.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine? Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

See demonstrations on how complex settings like a jungle or museum can be built with NvRTX, and get a better understanding of how AAA real-time ray tracing visuals are created. The book covers everything in ray tracing and rendering, from basic concepts geared toward beginners to full ray tracing deployment in shipping AAA games.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Now she sources leading-edge content for Oculus, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC in Games and Playable Media, wrangles a monthly column on science-fiction in videogames over at Amazing Stories and writes science fiction about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

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Game Errors

MAY 15, 2023

Even in the era of modern and realistic AAA titles, the problem still occurs. Disable the VPN : VPN software is a great way to stay anonymous online and access geo-restricted content. Verify game files Update the network driver Delete cache files 1. Luckily, there is a quick way to fix it!

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry.

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines. Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. He holds a Ph.D.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

To help during the game development process, NVIDIA has packaged and released a suite of SDKs through our branch of Unreal Engine for all developers, from independent to AAA, to harness the power of RTX. Today, NVIDIA released RTX Technology Showcase – an interactive demo built from NVIDIA’s RTX Unreal Engine 4.26 Branch (NvRTX).

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Game Errors

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indie games like Wizard with a Gun often face more crash issues compared to AAA titles. Table of contents: Why is Wizard with a Gun Crashing? However, I didn’t let some crashes ruin my experience and I started troubleshooting the problem right away. Interesting fact : Did You Know Crashing is Most Common in Indie Games?

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2023

All that said, I’ve been doing the same general thing no matter what kind of title I held - creating game systems and content.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Now she sources leading-edge content for Oculus, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC in Games and Playable Media, wrangles a monthly column on science-fiction in videogames over at Amazing Stories and writes science fiction about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Diablo Immortal also builds on its narrative by periodically adding expansions, which add additional playable areas introduced through new story content. Farlight Games has put a lot of effort into bringing these heroes to life with AAA-quality 3D animation and voiceover work.

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Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We are excited to be a part of creating AAA games that are the best in their class. Working as a Content Writer at GoodFirms, Anna Stark bridges the gap between service seekers and service providers. The next step is to create an estimate that includes a description of all stages.”. About the Author.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

More spells, more stats, more strategies, more content. Big Developers Having Varying Success The most successful AAA remasters are the ones that keep the original game as much as possible and add to it. When I changed them into something more in line with current design standards, players were vocally unhappy.

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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). When we look at the landscape of the biggest and most successful game content companies today, we see that brand is the most common defensibility. Firebase), etc.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It has come a long way since its release, and its applications have gone beyond game development to reach other areas like architectural visualizations, film, television content creation, broadcasting, and more. There is no up-front cost to utilize Unreal, regardless of whether you are a AAA firm or a hobbyist developer.

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Game Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

Harding-Rolls said: “As a publisher, you’re not only competing with new releases but there’s also a floating audience of players that are pulled back into games because there’s an event or content update that resonates with them.”

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Game Errors

APRIL 18, 2023

Any low-end or high-end AAA game may go through this problem on your Windows 11 or 10 computer. Set either Desktop programs or Full-screens videos in the Content-type reported to the display section. If the screen goes black while playing video games on your PC, you can take some effective steps to solve this problem. Click on Apply.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here. the surprise announcement of Counterstrike 2, CCP's massive raise for a AAA Web3 game and more. For the entire mobile games industry, revenue was down for the first time ever in 2022. And most surprisingly, vests! Kress hates vests y'all!

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Supercell attempted to fight this trend by building better tools and a greater focus on user-generated content. This is great news, as their key franchises desperately need more content more often. Just looks at Frogmind which pivoted from Supercell-like games to the UGC (user-generated content) gaming platform Hype Hype.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game is an almighty genre mishmash almost reminiscent of a AAA console game, carefully combining heavy story and character-driven RPG elements with hectic shooter gameplay. The narrative is a vital part of the drive toward in-game progression.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. Improved UGC integration : There is no denying that User Generated Content is becoming more and more important each day.

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