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Open-World Game Testing: Things to Consider

iXie gaming

Testing an open-world game can be complex and demanding due to the vast and interconnected nature of the game world. If your internal team can’t handle open-world game testing, seeking professional game QA services is highly recommended. But what is an open-world game?

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The Role Of Animation & VFX In Video Games

Starloop Studios

From simple pixel graphics to complex, life-like open worlds, the visuals of modern video games are unparalleled. Of course, this advancement wouldn’t be possible without animation and VFX (visual effects). Animation and VFX are two integral components of game design and development that contribute to [.].

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Why don’t open-world sequels reuse (and/or add on to) old maps often at all? Seems like it would be a decent way to have more stuff in the game for the same amount of effort.

Ask a Game Dev

There were complaints about Sony’s devs reusing certain animations in God of War Ragnarok, about Guerilla Games reusing animations in Horizon Forbidden West, about Pokemon reusing assets between games, about Volition reusing assets between Saints Row games, and so on.

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How do open world games manage to feel so big? When you sit and look at them they’re usually just a couple km per side, but they feel like a whole country at times. What’re the tricks?

Ask a Game Dev

Look at how long it takes the player to approach the Colossus in this animation. This means that making travel time take longer actually makes something feel bigger, because our brains tell us "the longer it takes to get there means the further away it is", even if it isn't actually that far away.

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SpaceKraft! Physics Based Space Simulation Game Released on Steam!

Cocos

If it catches your interest, I kindly request you to support us by purchasing the game and leave a positive review.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

Game Refinery

Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. The open-world of Tower of Fantasy. The differences between the open-world in Genshin Impact and Tower of Fantasy. However, the revenue spikes have been continuously smaller.

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