How major content drops can boost Early Access games like Slime Rancher 2
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Monomi Park CEO Nick Popovich explains how big content drops can benefit your game's Early Access journey.
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Xbox hardware and content revenue is in decline
Game Developer
JANUARY 25, 2023
Hardware revenue declined by 13 percent year-on-year.
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Epic to unify content marketplaces and offer creators 88 percent revenue cut
Game Developer
MARCH 22, 2023
The Unreal Engine Marketplace, ArtStation Marketplace, Sketchfab, and Quixel Bridge will soon become "Fab."
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Meet CliCli, the next big user-generated games content platform
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 21, 2023
Players have been building their own content since the dawn of computer games, as seen in the many mods and game modes created from other titles. Some of the most impactful games in the world, such as Minecraft and Roblox, are almost entirely focused around this kind of content. Read more
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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling
Nvidia
MARCH 1, 2023
In addition, due to the topology creation process, 3D modeling is time consuming and has a high entry barrier for content creation. According to Ashot Gabrelyanov, CEO of Shapeyard development company Magic Unicorn, “As the web evolves, its content form does, too. This makes them inoperable with multiple platforms in the metaverse.
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Adding custom content from a 3D software into a game/private server?
GameDev.Net
JANUARY 23, 2023
hey everyone, so i'm hoping to get back into 3D graphic development again and i asked a GM of an archrage private server if i could join their team to add new content to the game. unfortunately they said this to me: can anyone explain or send a guide as to how one g
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Report: New YouTube policy leads to increased demonetisation of games content
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 3, 2023
An update in YouTube's moderation policies has reportedly led to increasing demonetisation of gaming content on the platform. Content creator RTGame has also shared his experience on Twitter , highlighting that the policy changes applied retroactively as well, demonetising several of his videos.
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UN survey gauges player sentiment on environmental game content
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 30, 2023
of players would be "motivated" to pay for environmental content in games if it adds to the experience. When asked whether they would like to see environmental content in the games they play, the respondents replied "Yes, definitely" at 35.4%, and "Maybe, if it fits the game's universe/narrative" at 46%. That left 13.5%
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Designing game content architectures
Lost Garden
JANUARY 3, 2021
As game budgets expand once more, the success of a title often depends on producing large amounts of high quality content. Mistakes setting up your content plans can easily result in panic, shipping delays, scope cuts, rework and crunch. Modern developers live on the content treadmill so we might […].
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Michael Blaker’s Video Game Tuesday: Console Exclusive Content
Game Industry News
OCTOBER 18, 2022
It’s all about Console Exclusive Content! Console Exclusive Content?: I mean stuff that has released on multiple platforms but has console specific content that others can’t get. So, my question is this, do you enjoy console exclusive content? Leave your answers in the comments below!
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Unity Addressables CDN: Unleash Your Content Distribution
The GameDev Guru
DECEMBER 10, 2019
More than ever, I feel like cutting my content update iteration times by 90%. Do this by allowing your players to download your content on demand. It's Christmas time. Here's how you do this with Unity Addressables CDN.
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Spectrum Labs AI does the heavy lifting of content moderation on gaming platforms
AWS Games
DECEMBER 7, 2022
That’s why Spectrum Labs’ content moderation AI is used by developers like Riot Games and Wildlife Studios to guard against toxic and illegal behavior. Spectrum Labs helps scale content moderation teams’ coverage and provides fully automated solutions that utilize the most advanced natural language AI moderation available.
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Tactical card battler Duelyst goes open source three years after shutdown
Game Developer
JANUARY 11, 2023
Developer Counterplay has implored the Duelyst community to "modify, extend, and remix to your heart's content."
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Your answer about cut content reminded me of one of the early Star Wars games (sorry, can’t remember the title). Evidently Obsidian cut a lot of content that was later added back by modders. Are you familiar with this? How was this possible?
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The partially-built endgame content was locked off from the game but left on the disc. They were collectively able to put in the dev time needed to bring that alternate ending content to a playable state. It was actually pretty common in the old days to leave cut (but inert) content on disc for stability reasons.
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Splash Damage collaborates with content creators to develop Project Astrid
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Splash Damage has announced that it's currently developing a new title, Project Astrid, in partnership with gaming streamers Christopher "Sacriel" Ball and Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek.
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US senator presses Valve on Nazi content
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Last week, a group of seven Democratic legislators in the US co-signed a letter sent to more than a dozen prominent publishers and developers asking them what they were doing about extremism in their games.
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Is it anyway possible for content being made from the base game to be cut by some outside reason then held back without any additional development work then be sold god-knows how long later down the line? Doesn’t sound fundamentally feasible to me, but I see that rhetoric topic all the time on a game I know of.
Ask a Game Dev
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
The act of cutting content requires us not just to remove the cut content itself, but we also need to clean up all existing connections to that cut content so that the game doesn’t break due to missing assets. All of the new content from level 4 has already been re-distributed. How would we go about doing that?
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A Flood of Content
Sirlin
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Starting in October, I’ll begin showing this content to our patrons at patreon.com/sirlin. Most of this content is for new tabletop games. I plan to show something new about every two weeks for at least the next year. There’s that much in store. If you’re a fan of Puzzle Strike or Yomi, I hope you’ll like these new things too.
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You’ve worked on PC game mods before you became a developer in the major industry as an actual job. But that does make me wonder. Is there a chance those mods, and others that are publicly available online, may see legal attention, even if no money is involved? Like maybe they have copyrighted music or artwork, or other IP themed content like some Half-Life mods have for instance?
Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 30, 2023
No one has the right to make content of me without my permission. Now imagine that somebody decided to take my likeness and deepfake me into pornographic content or white supremacist propaganda or something equally heinous, and then distribute it on the internet without my permission. Let’s use a somewhat extreme example.
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Splash Damage are teaming up with content creators Sacriel and shroud on a survival video game
Game Development News
MARCH 22, 2023
Splash Damage are working with Chris ‘Sacriel’ Ball and Mike ‘shroud’ Grzesiek on a new open-world survival game called Project Astrid
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New Godot T-shirt design: Call for content
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 12, 2019
We are starting a call for content to all artists, designers, and users in general that would like to contribute with a design or idea for this year's shirt. As February is approaching, it is time to choose this year's T-shirt design, and we decided to change things a bit this year.
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Will Roblox’ new advertising rules make a difference?
Game Daily
MARCH 30, 2023
Under the rules outlined earlier this month, all advertisers are now required to hide “all advertising content from users under the age of 13” Although this is only one of many specific changes in Roblox’s advertising guidelines, it’s clearly the most important.
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Tiny Gears - Small Mechanism Sound Effects - Bluezone Corporation
GameDev.Net
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Download ' Tiny Gears - Small Mechanism Sound Effects ' and get highly detailed, high-definition clicks, clanks, and mechanical sequences for video editing, game development, and content creation. Designed with surgical precision, this sound pack delivers sequences of rotating gears and miniature mechanisms.
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Scaling Your Game Content With Unity Addressable Prefabs
The GameDev Guru
DECEMBER 24, 2019
Do you have a Christmas present for your players? Well, just make sure it's not a memory crash. Those happen when greedily using countless assets from the store. Don't dump the assets, just adopt a clever strategy with Unity Addressables Prefabs.
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One question I see once in a rare occasion is “Why not just give game developers assets someone else has made for free in their own time?”whether it’s sent to them from a fan or a dev off work, without using the production’s budget to make them. I know this isn’t fundamentally possible, but I don’t know how to describe it. Maybe you can?
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 9, 2023
ALT The primary issues with accepting external content submissions are legal. There would need to be some kind of legal agreement set in place to establish the rules (as well as potential damages if those rules are breached) for the use of that content that all parties agree to.
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A common criticism for live service games at the start is that they give too few rewards. When you hear this criticism, how do you go about fixing the issue?
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 10, 2023
Usually, those kind of complaints come from not having enough to do in the elder game - the max level, end game content - and the designers deciding to time-gate rewards in order to maintain engagement and keep players from burning out while grinding all rewards and then quitting.
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v1.6 Released: New Pirate Mode, New Game Content and Better UI
Greenheart Games
MARCH 8, 2018
– Mods can now add their own settings UI to the game’s settings-panel via a call to `GDT.addSettingsTab(title, content);` ( documentation ). Added: Translations of new content. Released: New Pirate Mode, New Game Content and Better UI appeared first on Greenheart Games. documentation ). The post v1.6
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What do you think is best bang for your buck for dev time to player time (besides multiplayer)? Alternately, what’s the worst (but still worth it)?
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The ultimate result of this kind of system-driven combinatoric gameplay is generally in one of two core gameplay paradigms: Procedural content generation , i.e. the game systems themselves create new content through a bunch of randomized decisions resulting in novel game content for each playthrough.
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Hardware, Hogwarts push February spending up 6% | US monthly charts
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 29, 2023
billion (up 6% year-on-year) Software/content spending: $3.9 billion (flat year-over-year) Software/content spending: $7.7 The US games industry spending followed up a modestly down January with a modestly up February, according to the latest monthly numbers from Circana (formerly the NPD Group). Total games spending: $4.6
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Game Dev Digest Issue #172 - Super Bundles
GameDev.Net
JANUARY 20, 2023
This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com A variety of great content this week, plus a to
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Sound design essentials for updating live service mobile games
GameDev.Net
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
These beloved escapes are often sustained through the introduction of new content (e.g., With the growth of "live service" games, game development has taken on an increasingly iterative creative process. season passes, DLC expansions, and new
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Developer Log #77
GameDev.Net
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
There are just two more major content updates until the final release. As a solo developer it’s always a challenge to balance everything that needs to be done to create and finish a game. Mercury Fallen has been an amazing adventure and I’m super excited to be looking towards the final version of the game. My goal, after 1.0,
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Q&A with Remedy Entertainment: Adopting USD into the Game Development Pipeline
Nvidia
MARCH 1, 2023
We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. Finally, we wanted to have a bi-directional interoperation between our tools and third-party digital content creation tools (DCCs). Do you plan to continue using USD in future game development?
How to use Leonardo.Ai: step-by-step guide
GameDev.Net
JANUARY 31, 2023
In this guide, you’ll learn how to take advantage of this powerful content production suite. It produces results in seconds from a variety of models, including Leonardo’s own. Where the platform differentiates itself, however, is its focus on video game asset production. So why is this so important for game devs?
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How to create stunning game assets with Leonardo.Ai: step-by-step guide
GameDev.Net
JANUARY 31, 2023
In this guide, you’ll learn how to take advantage of this powerful content production suite. It produces results in seconds from a variety of models, including Leonardo’s own. Where the platform differentiates itself, however, is its focus on video game asset production. So why is this so important for game devs?
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I want to be a giant and throw orcs around and do stuff
GameDev.Net
JANUARY 23, 2023
Table of contents 1. Revealing a new champion, new game plan, new (kind of) game design document and new title for this complete revamp. It seems that the arrival of the New Year's has brought some fundamental and groundbreaking changes to my last project. Anyone fancy to play as a giant? Building it up again – how the idea came to be 3.
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Drive-Up Your Revenues with Seasonal Events
Game Refinery
MARCH 16, 2023
With over 90% of the top-grossing 100 iOS mobile games using seasonal events to boost their revenues, national holidays have become an essential part of LiveOps with players expecting an influx of new content as we approach the holiday seasons. Zombie Frontier 3’s Christmas content Event-related offers (e.g.,
Starting down a strange and challenging path.
GameDev.Net
DECEMBER 21, 2022
@fleabay I tried explaining to them that a metaverse is bigger than some code, but they seemed content to try, nonetheless. Not turning down a paycheck just for common sense issues. There are no artists connec5ted yet, so "pretty" is not a goal, just functional, and in the short tie spent on it, the basics seem covered nicely.
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Nuverse lets AI do all the talking and moving of NPCs in Earth: Revival
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 22, 2023
He says it helps artists to free up their time and produce content more efficiently. Currently, our system is designed to address highly repetitive and mechanical content production problems, such as matching lip movements. By utilizing these systems effectively, we can definitely present high-quality game content to players.
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If PC modders do mods that would unlock stuff instantly instead of playing the games normally, and since you guys keep track of stuff like how many players do what in those games they play like new customizations, achievements, and whatever, is there any concern in the dev side about seeing data points being possibly done in a “cheating” way? Like, would that have any impact at all in some way?
Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 20, 2023
That typically means that cheating is mostly ignored for single player content and forbidden in multiplayer or competitive content. We generally don’t care if players choose to cheat as long as they aren’t [ griefing ] other players.
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75% of public comments on Microsoft-Activision were in favor of deal, says UK CMA
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 21, 2022
It received roughly 2,600 emails, but excluded around 500 because "they contained abusive content (with no other substantive content), or were blank, unintelligible, stated to be from non-UK consumers, or not in English.". The comments were collected over two weeks in October as part of the regulator's inquiry into the deal.
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QASource's Expertize in Testing Stream Monetization
Rocket Brush Studio
MARCH 1, 2023
Millions of broadcasters, streamers, and influencers have chosen to use stream monetization to distribute content. Some products have monetization built into their product model from the start, while others seek to add it later.
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Analysis • Sony moves away from customer electronics to become a media empire
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 6, 2023
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., In its most recent earnings report, the combined revenue for digital software, add-on content, and network services was $5 billion. Blu-Ray) of its devices.
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Brawl Stars Ditched the Loot Boxes - Was it a Good Move and Should Other Games Follow?
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 2, 2023
I think the main reason behind this change is that the randomness-based system to acquire Brawlers had become ineffective at managing the large amounts of content that the game features now. But over time it accumulates many users in the intermediate steps that can’t access the new playable content and the additional purchases they enable.
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