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Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. If there isn’t appropriate IAM role, create it here. Cleaning Up.

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Among Us VR dev talks about how to create immersive worlds

Game Analytics

This isn’t as true or a high priority in PC and console games. Much more so than other consoles. It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. So many games have that question baked into their core. They want to go to another world or be someone new.

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5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4 

iXie gaming

This, together with dynamic or baked-in lighting and shadows, enables the creation of amazing photorealistic material that nevertheless operates in real time. It was designed to work with the latest generation of consoles and PCs. Its blend of development- and artistic-focused tools allows for unrestricted creative expression.

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Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online!

Deconstructor of Fun

Making Call of Duty free Back when CoDO was conceived, consoles didn’t officially exist in China, AAA Mobile gaming was not yet a ‘thing’ and PC gaming mostly happened at Internet Cafes, where gamers paid to sit in front of computers to play, watch videos, eat, smoke and chat.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile. If you’re looking to switch your game from console to mobile, then Dicey Dungeons is a prime example of doing this right. And we don’t see this often enough in games. out of 10 in no time.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. Console support. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Console support. Godot's open license allows any company to port the engine to consoles and offer it as a product.

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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet. But one area where it's lagging behind is in the way it handles file and network IO on various platforms, especially on systems like consoles. Next steps.