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Analysis • Sony moves away from customer electronics to become a media empire

PreMortem.Games

For years I’ve characterized the Japanese powerhouse predominantly as a consumer electronics manufacturer. Dominant position In Sony’s case, to help sell its headphones and television sets it ensures there is ample content available that showcases the full capability (e.g., Sony will always keep a foot in electronics.

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Detective Dotson by Masala Games is a cultural joyride through modern-day India

PreMortem.Games

At first, we went looking for some assets in the marketplace to get a running start, but soon realized that there are no 3D assets representing modern India out there! At Electronic Arts he did the graphics in Will Wright’s team that created Spore. So we had to build all of that on our own.

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Solo dev Jonathan C Haman created “the glorious Drift Type C – which no one is buying”

PreMortem.Games

Haman in his home office, surrounded by unfinished electronics projects, lit by an implausible number of computer monitors and sipping off-brand energy drinks. To get the cars in Drift Type C well… drifting, Haman fixed a fundamental flaw in the Unity assets he used: “Two lines of nasty-hack later and the cars felt great and realistic.”

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Top Game Development Sessions at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

We have several GTC sessions for game developers , content creators, and engineers looking to explore new tools and techniques accelerated by NVIDIA technologies, from real-time rendering to cloud gaming. Gameplay screenshot from the upcoming title Battlefield 2024.

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Will Dislyte become Lilith’s third billion Dollar hit?

Deconstructor of Fun

The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. Dislyte is in the last group (i.e., original titles).

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FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later

Mircosoft Game Dev

I've worked in games for a while now, building upon general software development experience from electronics and RF equipment. This work involved adding support for the FBX 3D asset exchange format to Godot. The first version of our FBX importer was added in Godot 3.2 , and relied on the Open Asset Importer library ( Assimp ).

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Web 3.0: Crypto-currencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn

Gamesbrief

As Yuval Harari writes in Homo Sapiens , our unique ability, the one that separates humans from all other animals, is our ability to weave stories that have real, tangible power , such as the stories of “the corporation” which can own assets and take actions, or “government”, or “money” So a cryptocurrency is just a currency.

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