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Web3 gaming leaders face challenges of a ‘difficult year’

Game Daily

The speakers at ‘Game On, Web3: New Use Cases and The Revolution in Gaming Success Metrics’ were Nicolas Pouard (Head of Blockchain Initiatives, Ubisoft Strategic Innovation Lab) , Brian O’hagan (Growth Lead, Sorare), Sebastien Borget (Co-Founder & COO, The Sandbox), Sami Chlagou (Founder & CEO, Cross the Ages).

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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How to Keep Kids Motivated for Coding as School Resumes

Real Programming

Whereas previous generations played pinball at the arcade, or side-scrolling Nintendo games , the video games our teachers played as kids resemble the open-world sandbox games popular today, like Minecraft.

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Minecraft Out of Memory Error: How to Fix & Free Up

Game Errors

Minecraft is a popular sandbox video game where players can build structures, mine resources, and explore an open world in the game’s block-based virtual environment. Let’s discover together, how to free up memory on Minecraft.

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Far Cry 6 – How Ubisoft Put Effort into Putting No Effort In At All

Game Errors

Here is another open world, but if you take a walk around, you see that everywhere is new, different, and above all interesting. The city areas in Far Cry 6 are not exact copies of buildings dropped here and there, but there is so little variety that they may have well been.

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Is there an alternative to gaming’s dystopian gloom?

Game Daily

It also helps that depopulated worlds – or at least those populated by easily replicated baddies – are much cheaper and easier to produce than well-ordered, sophisticated societies. Gershenfeld recalled his days working on open world games at Activision. “Open worlds are complex, expensive.

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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). Streaming is the most important feature missing for managing large scenes or open worlds. Sandbox style simulations.

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