Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Ladders are another common game feature that tend to cause all sorts of animation and game state problems. While in this state, player input is typically taken away from the player and a mounting transition animation occurs. On The Ladder, when a character can loop through climbing up or down animation cycle to move.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Ladders are another common game feature that tend to cause all sorts of animation and game state problems. While in this state, player input is typically taken away from the player and a mounting transition animation occurs. On The Ladder, when a character can loop through climbing up or down animation cycle to move.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 11, 2023

It gets worse with animations, too. The animation skeleton doesn’t change when you make adjustments to the body, so significant changes to the mesh (bulky armor, oversized body parts, etc.) can cause self-clipping and other graphical weirdness.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 28, 2023

A video autoplaying with recognizable gameplay is MUCH more compelling than a ‘cinematic’ shot or establishing shot, or something else which does not look like player controlled gameplay. It could even be one clip if there’s enough interesting stuff happening consistently. ” This was posted with a one minute trailer.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation. How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

link] Not only does this new trailer feature a ton of sweet cinematics created right in Unreal Engine using our own models and animations, but it also showcases two new characters you’ll meet in gameplay during Kristala too. The below clips clearly show this issue in action with our Kota Soldier and poisonous Gromphas enemies.

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