GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Players expect more from their games, now more than ever before. Over the past twenty years, the scope, budget and audience expectations of games have inflated, and smaller studios are left seemingly locked in a cycle of diminishing returns on increasingly ambitious productions.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

Image: pikisuperstar on Freepik Newzoo’s Global Gamer Study 2023 is a true treasure trove of interesting facts about the people out there that hopefully end up with your game in their hands. Did you know that more than half of all people with an internet connection play games? Or that 87% of players spend money on in-game items?

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2023

In today's gaming industry, influencer marketing has become an essential strategy for promoting games to a global audience. However, managing influencer campaigns manually can be a daunting task, especially for AAA publishers who aim to reach millions of potential players at the same time. Read more

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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”. We are typically working 2-3 patches in the future of whatever’s currently live in game. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

The first thing that any new hire has to do is get the project synced to the latest safe build and get the game running. Without being able to run the game, we can't make or test any of the changes we will inevitably need to make. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

Despite the release of numerous highly anticipated games last year, the game industry as a whole struggled to achieve significant growth. By understanding these complexities, we can gain valuable insights into the dynamics shaping the contemporary gaming landscape and explore potential pathways for future growth and development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

In recent years, the gaming industry has undergone significant transformations, grappling with challenges that have reshaped its trajectory and forced key players to adapt rapidly. For the past two years, the game industry at large is not seeing growth. The current compound annual growth rate of the gaming industry is just above 1%.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

Top image by Freepik The games industry has been one of the most resilient and profitable sectors in the entertainment industry. According to Newzoo’s PC & Console Gaming Report , the PC and console market still outperformed previous forecasts despite a slight decline of revenue (-2,2% year over year) in 2022.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Hey all, I’m back for the first Video Game Tuesday of the year with a look ahead. It’s my Most Anticipated 2023 Video Games. Hogwarts Legacy: I’m a fan of most Potterverse content, and I enjoyed the books while growing up. It’s a game that I’m really, really looking forward to.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

A mage, a hacker, and a barbarian walk into a bar… What sounds like the start of a joke is the ultimate vision for cyberpunk, blockchain collectible card game “Metropolis Origins”, created by game industry veterans at QXR Studios. The game is free to play, though players can purchase faction-specific card packs on the WAX Blockchain.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs. The core gameplay in Gossip Harbor.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

Video games industry is going big and bigger. What are the fresh trends in the gaming industry? The last few years have been motivating the game development field quite actively. Game developers, designers, and artists had to be quite inventive and creative to move it forward. Cross-platform Video Game Development Trends.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Check out our top sessions below for those working in the gaming industry: Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Learn how ray tracing was used to create the visuals in the game, and how the developers at CD Projekt RED used extensive ray tracing techniques to bring the bustling Night City to life.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

AWS GameTime is for gamers and budding game developers who want to go “behind-the-scenes” and learn how their favorite gaming experiences are made on AWS. The livestream is dedicated to showcasing game developers, playing their games and sharing their stories and expertise from the video game industry.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. What is Unity?

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is here, and NVIDIA will be showcasing how our latest technologies are driving the future of game development and. The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is here, and NVIDIA will be showcasing how our latest technologies are driving the future of game development and graphics.

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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. And we support very well web distribution, so that’s a current state for Steam pstrejczek: Cocos Creator is also capable of making games for the Nintendo Switch. At last, thank you so much for the interest and for liking it.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

After releasing Drift Type C , a ‘real physics driving game crafted with an unyielding dedication to authenticity’, Haman finds time to talk about his work. Writing games was always the impossible dream for me – like being an actor or an astronaut or a dinosaur. That game was not Drift Type C. And the biggest pitfalls? “No

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists [link] Finding ways to improve. Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists Finding ways to improve performance and visual fidelity in your games and applications is challenging.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

A solid game outsourcing partnership is reason enough to see your project as 50% complete. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Working with an established game art outsourcing firm with a solid track record alleviates any worry about deadlines or allocating internal resources.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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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.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Game Errors

APRIL 18, 2023

If the screen goes black while playing video games on your PC, you can take some effective steps to solve this problem. Any low-end or high-end AAA game may go through this problem on your Windows 11 or 10 computer. Sometimes, you may notice that screen flashes black while playing such games. But the reasons are the same.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

However, when we look at gaming companies, we don’t see the same level of defensibility that we see for companies in other industries. There is no FAANG-like (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) company in gaming with the associated massive defensive moat and confidence in long-term durability and resilience. fall from grace.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2023

Job titles in the game industry certainly can be confusing. The game industry really lacks a strongly defined central lexicon for terminology. 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

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. She has been a speaker at numerous game-related conferences, including the Game Developers Conference, NY Comic Con, PAX East, and SXSW.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

If you have been following the DoF newsletter and blog for the last year, you might have seen some of my articles on blockchain games, including a prediction piece. Blockchain games are still early. Should you have tokens or only NFTs in your game? Do you want to learn about how blockchain games are doing at a glance?

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Game Errors

MAY 15, 2023

Smith Camp is a network-related error in Modern Warfare 2 due to an outage of Activision online services, issues with network devices, temporary problems on your PC, corrupted game files, outdated network drivers, or faulty cache files. Verify game files Update the network driver Delete cache files 1. How to fix Smith Camp error MW2?

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Game Errors

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A game that combines the thrill of spellcasting with the action of gunplay sounded great to me. Interesting fact : Did You Know Crashing is Most Common in Indie Games? 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?

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

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. in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

, this Saturday June 12, 2021, we are headlining the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest and I also will be moderating IGDA GDSIG's skipped (due to the cancellation of GDC last year) roundtable, Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities. Watch it for free on www.youtube.com/GeorgiaGameDevs Here's the deets!

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Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Founded in 2008 , Moonmana is a European game development company and Art production studio that works hand-in-hand with Forbes TOP 13 List of the most valuable video game companies. . They readily accept challenges, devoting all of their creative ideas, talent, and enthusiasm to the realization of game projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ECS is a design pattern commonly used in video games (although not very often used in the rest of the software industry) which consists of having a base Entity (a container object) and Components that can be added upon it. This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Game logic. What is ECS?

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. The introduction of Unreal Engine 5 is an exciting development for the game development industry.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We have just started a Kickstarter for our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Dwarf Fortress is the banner Olde Game these days, but the first Geneforge game was out and selling before it was even started.) I keep saying this blog is free.

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