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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. They’re related, but the difference is this: A game writer’s primary responsibility is to promote the story that the game tells through the scripts they write. This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation.

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GSoC 2019 progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

The GSoC coding period is close to the finish line, and our 8 students are hard at work to finalize their projects as best as they can, while writing their final evaluation report. It's possible to write to files as well now. The way it works now is the following: The user selects the active clip. Lots of bug fixes. What's left.

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Unity Bolt Tutorial: How to Add Triggers & Switches

SOVEREIGN MOON

In today’s tutorial, we take things a step further by teaching you how to use triggers and switches in order to help you create more interesting game mechanics. Be sure to write the tag properly as this tag is case sensitive. All you have to do now is search for the audio clip you want to play and add it here.

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2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club

Deconstructor of Fun

The key growth drivers were thus on the meta side through genre-blending features like quest systems, battle pass, enhanced social and various collections as well as power progression mechanics. Mini Clips, 8 Ball Pool is still numero uno with the biggest share of the sports revenue pie. Fishing for the Top. Most likely, both.

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A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

Software used by professional concept artists: Adobe Photoshop Blender Zbrush Clip Studio Procreate Concept art jobs in the industry Concept artists can work in both pre-production (before filming) and post-production film (the visual effects stage), video games, and publishing. What does a 2D animator do?

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GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

I can’t believe three months have passed so quick that I’m writing this final report, summarizing all the exciting work I did this Summer (27 May - 26 Aug 2019). Hence, instead of writing complete extensions for each editor (client), using LSP the server is the same for all and only the clients have to be implemented as an editor extension.

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Teleportation Mechanics

Grid Sage Games

Cogmind generally has fewer such direct escape options, but teleport mechanics are out there, if an advanced tech not usually available until the late game. As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. Controlled Teleporting?