Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

Prototype is ready! But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). As you might know, and I repeatedly keep saying, this game forms the practical part of my Master thesis. Master in Integrative Design.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rapidly Generate 3D Assets for Virtual Worlds with Generative AI New generative AI technologies on NVIDIA Omniverse enhance 3D asset creation in virtual environments. Offering a huge boost in AI performance over the prior generation, it is compatible with all NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and NX modules for prototyping edge AI products.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mobile games are currently at the peak of their popularity. They continue to attract diverse audiences all over the globe, and game developers, for their part, continue offering unique and thrilling titles to suit any taste. . Game development companies catch the wave and try to please picky gamers with compelling mobile games.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine team to showcase the engine’s capabilities of making heavy 3D games and boost community learning motivation. I hope to help everyone advance further in 3D game development. Today, let’s take a look at the basic content of the three pipelines.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 22, 2023

My employer assigned me to a small team that was building a new game out of an existing, though decommissioned, game base. The game had many constraints - minimal budget for new art assets and almost no tribal knowledge from the original team remained. That’s what preproduction is for.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. What is Unity?

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Instead, I want to explore the role of a gaming CMO in setting teams up for success and the risk that some leaders may actually be incentivising a race to the bottom. Gaming UA teams are primarily, if not entirely, focused on optimization. Let’s look at these common pain points in more depth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2019

Since then, we kept working hard on: Game creation tutorials. We're looking to fund three stretch goals to bring more content to everyone. On top of everything else, we're looking to create: Two detailed Godot learning paths , for beginners and experienced game developers. Thank you kindly for your support. :). Godot demos.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Despite being the lead developer of Godot, I have almost 20 years of experience developing and shipping games, and a decade of experience as technical consultant. I didn't become rich (yet :D) making games, but I learned a lot in the process. Many games were released, but a large amount were abandoned.

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

At every stage of a game’s lifecycle, ad creative is a key factor for success. A sentiment shared by 90% of games marketers surveyed 1 , from launch, to growth, to retention, every stage requires high quality ads that focus on the user and not just the game. Ad creative should show relevancy and distinction.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. But you might not know that he is also a published author , a venture partner at Play Ventures , a very active angel investor, and co-founder of the powerful Next Games. I get to talk to Joakim regularly.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. And for that debut the duo came up with an enticing mix of elements that really sets the game apart. “I But that’s not all.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

related: Yarn "language" spec , a programming specification / standard for how Yarn should operate in any game engine Yarn Spinner Unity plugs the core into Unity and adds a convenient wrapper. You will need to mod this and personalize it for your unique game project. None of it is Unity specific. Alice: No comment.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. We hope that this makes our lives better with asset pipelines for 3D. How does glTF export help with making games?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Enthusiasts, hobbyists, and even some Unity users looking for an alterative to their game engine! More importantly, we met people who are deeply involved into the game developpment community. Especially those from the Toulouse Game Dev association, which regroups both hobbyists and professional game developers in Toulouse.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I've worked in games for a while now, building upon general software development experience from electronics and RF equipment. I found Godot while working on personal game projects, and started being involved as a contributor a bit over a year ago. This work involved adding support for the FBX 3D asset exchange format to Godot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 6, 2018

He is collaborating with Yann Burrett and Ben Tristem on their upcoming Godot course on Udemy , and offered to share a tutorial on how to import 3D assets from Blender using Godot's "Better" Collada exporter. Importing 3D assets. So you want to import 3D assets into Godot? Let's do it! On a Mac it's slightly different.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

Today, I am thrilled to share with you an amazing 3D shooter game project that I think you’ll love. For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. Hey everyone, Kylin here! Don’t believe it?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2022 GAMES AWARDS: And the winner is… The Biggest News Item of 2022 Looking back, 2021 was truly booming in terms of game news. War, inflation, rising interest rates, recession struggle of performance marketing all influenced the games business that these days isn’t quite as recession-proof as it was back in 2008.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The introduction of AR and VR in the gaming industry is taking user engagement and revenue generation forward in leaps and bounds, all thanks to the minimized gap between the physical and digital environments that are refining the gaming experience of the users. The gaming industry is brewing with innovation and new technology trends.

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

In this lesson we will fix that by creating some project assets which can be used to load that panel. It is a simple matter to save a project asset. This means you can use the file menu to create instances: Assets -> Create -> Sample Data. Therefore, I have decided to implement this prototype using the Prefab approach.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Download Godot 3.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Written by Enrico D'Angelo Enrico was VP of Product at Activision Publishing running the Free to Play game portfolio and is currently a VP of Product at Roblox. The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. In April of this year, I did an autopsy on my first game, War Co. Need help on your board game?

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Zugzwang by Robert Yang This post details my process and intent for making my new release Zugzwang (pronounced in German like /ts'OOK-ts'VAHng/ ) a tactical sex dungeon roguelike cum ritual game. I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils what happens in the game.

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