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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

Mircosoft Game Dev

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. I find this makes code simpler and easier to maintain and optimize (a testament to this is how tiny Godot's codebase is compared to other game engines, while providing similar levels of functionality). Game logic.

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Emerging Best Free Game Development Software Now, let’s dive into the free tools the best Game App Development Companies use to make their games. Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences.

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Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Game Designing

Oftentimes the artists don’t do a whole lot, and that’s because the game engine themselves has programming that you can call on, functions you can use that will generate that kind of effect. So it’s a lot easier for a game engine to generate them and render them efficiently if it’s done with code.

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Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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I Make Board Games in Tabletop Simulator (A Guest Post)

Brand Game Development

My name is Kenny, and I create games on Tabletop Simulator for publishers and designers. I also create all the social media posts for Pangea Games, including the weird cheese question. Tabletop Simulator is a physics-based board game engine which you can buy on Steam. It didn’t last long, though.

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NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 The new NVIDIA UE 4.25 Branches offer all of the benefits of mainline UE4.25 and UE4.26.1,