Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

I was excited to discuss the sharing of tools and knowledge between the gaming and film industries, a phenomenon that has been more noticeable lately with the development of technologies like Unreal Engine 5. The adoption of Unreal Engine for pre-visualization is a case in point.

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Film AI Technology Engine 98

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Tweak the AI for one so the moment the goblins see you they all leap out of it and rush you. Each has a puzzle you have to solve, and the puzzles all use different abilities and parts of the engine. Each time you find a “Geoglyph," you watch a cutscene which shows a sliver of what happened to Zelda.

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Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 81

Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. But not really. The player never quite experiences these ideas in the game itself.

Studios 98

Studios Co-op Open World Cutscenes 98

Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Future WHAT IS YARN SPINNER IN 2022 The Yarn Spinner project is made of two main parts, which can be confusing: Yarn Spinner "Core" , generic dialogue engine processor thing ("virtual machine") + script compiler written in C#. None of it is Unity specific.

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Scripting Code Localization Engine 52

Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful.

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Open World NPC Cutscenes Terrain 52

Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes. Cutscenes in an MMO? In the Sword Art Online: Progressive novels, certain plotlines are punctuated by forced events which are effectively cutscene events.

Art 52

Art Games Fighting Technology 52

Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But either one was radically different in that way than the most popular game engine, which was the Diku style (we called them “codebases” back then). The scripting on WoC made for better combat too, because you weren’t stuck with just the built-in combat AI for your enemies. Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths.

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Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 64