New dev Barnyard Games formed to make games within Fortnite
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
With Fortnite now focusing on user-generated content, industry devs have formed Barnyard to get in on the trend.
Dean Gichukie’s studio Kunta Content delivers authentic African stories
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Welcome to Dean Gichukie ‘s world, where history comes alive through Kunta Content. The Kunta Content team Dean’s creative journey began at age 8 when he started drawing and painting. Dean recently returned from France, where Kunta Content clinched a prestigious award in the gaming category at the Creation Africa Forum.
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Addendum to cut content: people find remnants of cut content in game files often enough. So/but is there any even rough estimate you could give of cut content that’s dug up versus cut stuff that could never be found?
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APRIL 10, 2024
The kind of games that have the least cut content are annual sports titles - they have the most stringent schedules and know exactly what they are committing to with each annual cycle, so they have significantly less wiggle room than a project with a longer schedule and bigger scope (e.g.
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Solo dev Matthieu Houllier lets you take a paper plane on an adventure in Paper Sky
PreMortem.Games
MAY 6, 2024
French solo dev Matthieu Houllier , operating under the name Brute Force , has been making games by himself for five years. I prioritize creating content based on what I believe will facilitate the game’s marketing efforts”, he explains. In that time he has released the 3D platform game Crumble. “It
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Does cut content exist for video games? Not material devs save for later use in dlcs or expansions, but content that was created and for some reason didn’t make it to the final product. Idk like, a boss battle was way too long so a portion of gameplay was cut off or some footage devs felt like removing from certain cutscenes.
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APRIL 4, 2024
Of course cut content exists. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ On the latest shipped game that I worked on, I was hired for and spent months working on a significant game mode that was eventually cut.
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Valve says "legal uncertainty" surrounding AI models behind Steam pushback
Game Developer
JULY 3, 2023
The company said it doesn't want to "discourage" the use of AI content on Steam, but reiterated that devs must ensure they have the "appropriate rights to ship their game."
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At what stage of the developing process of a game mocap is recorded? How much time does it usually take? And in case of expansions/DLCs are actors called again or they record this content together with the content for the main game?
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OCTOBER 23, 2023
For DLC/expansion content, we usually try to reuse as many assets as we can, and schedule any new recording sessions as soon as we get the green light. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ
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MW3 Dev Error 5433: How To Fix It Easily
Game Errors
APRIL 4, 2024
One such issue that has been a thorn in players’ sides is the MW3 Dev Error 5433, especially within the game’s zombie mode. What is Dev error 5433 in Modern Warfare 3? Dev Error 5433 in Modern Warfare 3 typically indicates an issue within the game’s system that prevents it from operating correctly.
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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Solo dev Graham Reid: “Being part of a like-minded community is really important” Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. Solo dev Lente lives and works on a boat and that shows in her game Spilled! Despite being a solo dev all that time, he never really struggled with his motivation. “I
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Indie dev studio Wikkl Works takes virtual rock climbing to New Heights
PreMortem.Games
MAY 19, 2023
There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. Intricate mechanics The dev team faced two major challenges when translating the physical act of climbing to gameplay mechanics: replicating the intricate mechanics of grip, support, weight, and motion, and ensuring user-friendliness.
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Fixing Dev Error 12502 in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Game Errors
APRIL 9, 2024
However, the gaming experience can sometimes be ruined by various errors, one of which is the notorious Dev Error 12502. In this guide, we’ll explore what Dev Error 12502 is and provide you with reliable methods to get you back into the action as swiftly as possible. What is Dev Error 12502 in MW3? Update the game 2.
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Besides buying a game a second time, how can players show support to a developer or studio? How do those other ways compare to simply buying the game again?
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MAY 31, 2024
Talk to your friends about the game Post about the game and any new content that comes out on social media. Play the game a lot Basically, what every dev is looking for are players who will spend on the game and players who will continue to engage with the game content outside of the game itself. Leave a user review of the game.
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As a dev, what type of feedback grinds your gears? From the player side, I can’t imagine how annoying it is when there are feedback threads and people are suggesting features or themes that would essentially create a completely different game.
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MAY 29, 2024
Giving us unsolicited content ideas (e.g. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ Trying to assign blame among the developers or our business partners for some shortcoming in the game, for example, is never actionable.
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The standing in-game purchase answers on the blog all agree that the paid content is being paid for by the extra purchase. Does this still hold true? There have been some in-game purchases in non-F2P games that seem like the cost would be unrelated to the content, such as exp or money boosts.
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JUNE 16, 2023
Paid content doesn’t just pay for itself, paid content pays for all of the continued content development - both the paid and the free content updates. The earnings from the exp/money boosts pays for the new story content, the new raid dungeon, the new item drops, new maps, and the new pvp content.
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Solo dev Diego Ras of Raccoo Venture “Everything starts with paper and pencil”
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Between one job and another I always tried to include some type of content related to games. The post Solo dev Diego Ras of Raccoo Venture “Everything starts with paper and pencil” appeared first on PreMortem Games. Many years passed and, after graduating, I started working in the advertising field.
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Dev Error 292 MW2: 4 Working Solutions
Game Errors
AUGUST 17, 2023
However, some players are encountering a problem: the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Dev Error 292, preventing them from enjoying private matches. In this article, we’ll unravel the mystery behind the Dev Error 292 and provide effective solutions to fix it ASAP. What Is Dev Error 292 MW2? How To Fix Dev Error 292 MW2?
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hello! not sure if this question is answerable but I wanted to ask how are devs treated/paid when they work on DLC that is released for free vs DLC that has a pricetag. I noticed that the new God of War will has a free DLC which made me happy as a fan but it also made me wonder if that was made possible at the expense of the devs who are working on this game. Thank you if you answer this!
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JANUARY 2, 2024
My salary and compensation doesn't change depending on the kind of content I work on. Paid content funds the ongoing development and free content is created primarily for player retention. The two work symbiotically to keep devs like me employed and to provide players like you more game content to play.
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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?
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DECEMBER 6, 2022
The publisher, LucasArts, had a pretty aggressive release schedule planned for the KOTOR games which basically made it untenable for the original KOTOR dev Bioware to handle making the sequel within the time frame LucasArts wanted. The partially-built endgame content was locked off from the game but left on the disc.
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 27, 2023
Match RichTextLabel minimum size calculation with Label (proper content fitting) ( GH-71330 ). GUI: Match RichTextLabel minimum size calculation with Label (proper content fitting) ( GH-71330 ). Now content margin properties are respected, just like in any other control, and you need to use those to give your stylebox a min size.
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An official release of the Kotor 2 missing content DLC/patch had been promised, then pulled back. It had been enough of the promise that a free game was offered to people who had bought the Kotor 2 rerelease. Why does that kind of rollback on an official plan happen? How is the decision to stop weighed against free stuff and bad PR?
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NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Years later, modders would discover a whole bunch of unfinished endgame content in [ KOTOR 2's original files ]. Some of them collaborated to unlock, fill out, debug, and finish that content and restore it. Eight years later, Aspyr announced that things had fallen through and the Restored Content DLC was cancelled.
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Do sales really necessarily effect the decisions of post-release content adding support? Like for those types of games, do high sales guarantee more support, and do lower sales risk less-to-no more support? For a couple games I know that do this for several years after initial release, forum discussions use sale numbers to imply or get ideas for the future of post-launch content adding for those games. But I haven’t seen any proof of that being the case for past games. So is the rumor true?
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Generally, this means we need a certain number of sales + a certain percentage of those players to pay for additional content in order to pay for any continued game development. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ
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Especially with so many projects that were never announced probably getting canceled right now due to layoffs and studios dissolving, how risky would it be for devs to keep personal copies of their work/builds? I always thought NDAs were generally time limited, and at least that way the work wouldn’t be entirely lost for ever. Is that even something devs generally want?
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APRIL 18, 2024
In my opinion, the real value in old project assets is in the educational content it can provide. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?
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Hi, I’d like to ask something about dlcs. I apologize in advance if this turns out to be a stupid question but I really have no idea about how game industry works. So… do software houses usually decide the plot of the dlcs together with the main game (or at least before the main game is released on the market) or they tend to wait for the audience’s feedback and then start planning accordingly? Like, when the game is out, a certain character ends up being very popular in the fandom. So… will they decide to focus the dlc on this popular character in order to give ppl what they want or they’re still gonna stick to their original plans? In a few words, could fandom popularity influence the plot of future content of a game?
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OCTOBER 16, 2023
Generally speaking, the ease of making changes to the game, its narrative/characters/content is inversely proportional to how close that content is to release. A good rule of thumb is to assume we on the dev team are working two or three patches ahead of whatever you're currently seeing in game.
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Dev Diary: 03/17/17
Brand Game Development
MARCH 17, 2017
That’s the purpose of the Dev Diary. I want you to see the specific challenges game devs encounter and conquer. I have only a few days of content up, but you’ll like what I’ve got so far. The post Dev Diary: 03/17/17 appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Are you into travel?
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Are the reasons why dlcs don’t require or advertise other dlcs for their content to work or show up because of potential compromised sales, as well as being fare to all customers who buy them?
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MARCH 22, 2024
Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ It isn't worth it to shoot our own sales in the foot like that. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?
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Dev Error 11642 in MW2: How to Rapidly Fix It
Game Errors
MARCH 28, 2023
Then, you’ve definitely been experiencing frustrating errors, such as Dev Error 11642 MW2. What does Dev Error 11642 MW2 mean? What does Dev Error 11642 MW2 mean? According to users, the Dev Error 11642 typically occurs in MW2 when attempting to start a Private Match Lobby. How do I fix Dev error 11642 MW2?
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Dev Error 11152 in MW2: How to Fix it Quickly
Game Errors
APRIL 24, 2023
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is riddled with bugs and glitches, such as the infamous Dev Error 11152, as you probably know. What is Dev Error 11152? Dev error 11152 is a common error that players encounter when the game tries to launch with corrupted files. How to fix Dev Error 11152? Get DriverFix 3.
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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.
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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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I feel like I’ve begun to see games of the past few years drop big balance changes and/or system changes four to eight weeks after a game launches. Are these something like tentatively planned changes? Expecting certain things to be tweaked down or up and waiting for real player data to confirm it?
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AUGUST 10, 2023
We've found that the sweet spot for the quality, quantity, and pace of content we can deliver (and also for our financials) is usually a content patch every three months. This way we provide enough content at once that players won't burn through it within moments, while still avoiding crunch and burnout behind the scenes.
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“Game critics” often talk about putting critical plot points in DLC, and then when they describe the story in said DLC it’s clear that the original game’s story works perfectly fine without them. But that makes me wonder where the story in the DLCs came from. Is it usually a cut-for-time-or-budget thing, like other early DLC? Ideas that came later (and if so, how much does player feedback affect things)? Ideas that the devs wanted to work in, but that would just clutter the original narrative?
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DECEMBER 27, 2023
Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. We also can’t always repurpose old content for the story DLC. What is the FANTa project?
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Dev Error 5523 on CoD MW & Warzone: How to Fix
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Some gamers have complained that after downloading Modern Warfare 2, they encounter the dev error 5523 which sends them back to the dashboard. What is Dev error 5523? While there could be different reasons why you may encounter the MW2 & Warzone Dev error 5523, it’s a known and serious bug.
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Solo dev Jonathan C Haman created “the glorious Drift Type C – which no one is buying”
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 7, 2023
I want to have a team with a pipeline where we release a game every few months, always making new IP and numbered sequels, never gross content packs and new ways of extracting more money from people who have already bought a game.” What inspired you to make Drift Type C? WHAT THAT MEAN? JON BRAIN GOOD.
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MW2 & Warzone 2 Dev Error 11588: Why & How To Fix
Game Errors
MARCH 23, 2023
One of the errors that players are more likely to encounter while playing Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 is Dev error 11588. If you are also the one suffering due to the Dev error 11588 in Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2, there are several methods you can use to resolve the issue. What is Dev Error 11588 in MW2 & Warzone 2?
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Editor Error: [Scene] component already added
Cocos
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:160743:12) cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:160743:12) CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:46349:15) cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:46349:15)
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Cocos
MARCH 28, 2024
CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/builtin/builder/dist/worker/console.ccc:1:1306) at _Deserializer.classFinder [as _classFinder] (/Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.6.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/builtin/engine/dist/editor-extends/missing-reporter/missing-class-reporter.ccc:1:2131) cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:118294:30)
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In case of hypothetical rethink, is it possible to change parts of the plot by adding/removing game portions while the development phase already started or every plot related choice must be set in stone from the early stages of production and never altered?
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JANUARY 31, 2024
Generally speaking, the further along in development the content is, the more costly it becomes to change that content. This is because we can't turn back the clock to refund any development time spent building that content, so changing it requires us to throw some amount of work away in order to build the new thing.
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What do you think of the “quality/love vs. money/hate” mindset to describe liking or disliking a game, its content, and its approach?
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
We pay for it by hiring and paying more devs to do the work and/or by increasing the workload of the dev team through crunch and physical + mental burnout. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ Quality is not free.
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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?
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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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Does sunk cost ever affect game dev? IE we put so many zots into a feature that isn’t working, we may as well put in more to finish it?
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MAY 30, 2023
The dev team spent a tremendous amount of resources building out such a system and ended up scrapping it because it was just not good enough to generate the kind of quality content they knew their players would expect. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ
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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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How far ahead of time do devs usually know a live service is winding down / ending? Does a scheduled server shutdown get announced to a team the same time as it is to journalists or are devs given a meaningful amount of advanced notice.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2023
ALT If the company is in severe financial trouble, it is generally a surprise to the dev team. In these circumstances the dev team doesn’t generally get too much time to think about the game’s shutting down because they’ve most likely also just lost their jobs. The company is fine, but the game is not.
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How is the process of learning In-house game engines once you get into an AAA studio? Do they immediately put you in production to learn as you go, or does it take some weeks before allocating you to a project?
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APRIL 2, 2024
Once the new hire has the game up and running and has familiarized herself with the game's controls and such, it's time to start reading documentation for the internal tools and workflow - how the content is made, how the work is done, what the working process is, how to check your work, who to contact in case of questions.
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Dev Error 11063 in MW2: What is & How to Fix It Easily
Game Errors
MARCH 15, 2023
When playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, have you tried selecting “Find a Match” but instead get a Dev Error 11063 pop-up? What does Dev Error 11063 mean? A “Dev Error” is a general term used in software development to indicate an error that occurred during development. How to fix Dev Error 11063?
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