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Obituary: Bob Rice, Journey Escape executive producer, passed away at age 79

Game Developer

Bob Rice, a music agent who represented video game composers and created the 1982 game Journey Escape, died earlier in the week at the age of 79.

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The memory-altering mechanics of adventure game RE:CALL

Game Developer

"The player is an agent of chaos. Lock them up."

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Discord bans accounts that sold messages from users of up to 620m users

GamesIndustry.biz

An investigation by 404 Media (paywall), spotted by Eurogamer , found that these bots had archived over four billion public messages, including voice messages, from some of Discord's most popular servers — including ones for video games such as Among Us and Minecraft. Read more

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Join this free webinar on the potential and risks of AI chatbots in video games

GamesIndustry.biz

A free one-hour webinar from GamesIndustry.biz and Endava will discuss the potential of AI agents (chatbots like ChatGPT) within video games. Games companies can sign-up for the webinar here. Read more

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Implementing a Build Pipeline for Unity Mobile Apps

AWS Games

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity , which is one of the popular game engines, is widely used for mobile applications that run on smartphones. It is also used for console and PC games, as well as in the metaverse, such as reality shows and simulating megacities.

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Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. Next, specify the region/VPC where the Helper Agent is to be deployed.

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Our free webinar on AI chatbots in games is this week

GamesIndustry.biz

It's two days until GamesIndustry.biz and Endava will discuss the potential and risks of using AI agents (chatbots like ChatGPT) in video games. Endava experts in machine learning, intelligent automation, extended reality and IP law will have an open discussion alongside the games developer Free Range Games. Read more

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