Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Before The Green Moon (on Itch and Steam ) is a post-apocalyptic indie Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley / Animal Crossing inspired farm life sim about scraping by, in a decaying rural truckstop town with bored depressed locals you gradually befriend (or ignore). Imagine if Animal Crossing had the bravery to charge interest on the home loan!

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? 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? What is Narrative Design? If so, you probably want to be a game writer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Animation: Two perspectives, the separation of cloud and mud Lost Ark has a sincere visual performance, among which are various cutscenes from a top-down perspective. Despite the game’s powerful use of top-down view, the live cutscenes of Lost Ark are full of bugs. The rough cutscene). The grand scene).

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

” He later took his experiences and created HaZimation , a production company involved in a wide range of storytelling formats, including animated films, episodic series, and video games. They began in London, built their team, and shifted focus to animated films when the pandemic struck.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. All the dynamic cutscenes and dialogue sequences relied on 4 player characters all bantering amongst each other like in Buffy or something. But not really.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. This was created by Unity in collaboration with Disney Television Animation.

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Animated ghosts show the right movement Hand snapping and reactive animations But in general every physical object in our game is fully interactable! Poses & Suggestive shapes / animations (hand & object). . ✓ The right shape and look of objects on scene. and how to differentiate the interactive ones from the decoration.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

You can totally miss important conversations and scenes because you're stuck in the stairwell climbing animation at exactly the wrong time. This isn't a big apocalyptic video game betrayal cutscene where a villain reveals himself and destroys a castle, instead it's a smaller deeper betrayal that instantly brought me back to being a teenager.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Cutscenes in an MMO? In the Sword Art Online: Progressive novels, certain plotlines are punctuated by forced events which are effectively cutscene events. Yes and no.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Some games do all their cutscene scripting and even enemy AI in Yarn Spinner, because really, it's just a simple scripting language that does whatever you tell it to do. And so this is the ideal use case for Yarn Spinner: action adventure games starring existential millennial animal protagonists.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This leads to the most infamous scene in the game, where you try to destroy the daughter's beloved stuff animal to make her cry. It's really sharp and well-observed, and it isn't a cutscene. They have a great idea for how to reverse the spell: Make their daughter cry and bathe in her tears. All while the stuffy is begging for its life.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But it’s also visible in the Holodeck, or in anime like Sword Art Online (which was directly inspired by Ultima Online !). Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. Today, that simulationist impulse is visible in Minecraft. In Roblox , which is built on a physics sim, at heart. In No Man’s Sky and in Fallout 76.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

where the main drawback is you're still vulnerable during the 2 second execution animation. This ties into a common complaint: the melee weapon machete is very powerful, like a 1-3 hit kill (maybe 10-15 hits against a boss?) But for a medium mob (4-6 enemies) in a cover-y arena you can just run in and safely slice up everyone.

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