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Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers is a tribute to sci-fi movies of the ’50s

PreMortem.Games

To blend the ideas of a game and movie into one coherent product, Rosa approached some acquaintances working in the film industry in Brazil. From the moment I got the idea of making it like an old movie I called the people from Fehorama Filmes to work on the live action cutscenes”, says Rosa.

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UEFN & HaZ Dulull- A New Dawn for Creators

Game Dev Unchained

The realms of gaming and the film industry are coming together in a harmonious convergence, as the technology and expertise of both fields are being shared and utilized to create impressive results. Dulull explained how he used the technology during the pandemic when traditional filming was put on hold.

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Want to make a great game trailer? Stop pretending it’s a movie trailer

PreMortem.Games

Another reason is that a lot of game trailers tend to be more like short films than trailers, so it’s beneficial to the storytelling for the editing to be less frenetic. These are all good trailers, and the editors made the right decisions for what they had to do for each film and/or game. seconds Papers, Please : 2.6

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Hideo Kojima: Influential and Innovative Video Game Director and Writer

Game Designing

As a child, he gained a deep appreciation for film and developed a refined taste in the medium that would inspire his work for years to come. Kojima always had a knack for creating and worked on film and writing projects before deciding to enter the video game industry in the mid-1980s after securing a job at game developer Konami.

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Indie game capsule reviews: Immortality, Wayward Strand, Cult of the Lamb, Betrayal at Club Low, Atuel

Radiator Blog

It's like Spec Ops: The Line tempering its military shooter glorification with an anti-war moral, or the pseudo-documentary film I, Tonya sensationalizing Tonya Harding's career while also blaming the viewer for it. The voyeurism complicity hand wringing doesn't quite work when the other 90% of the product depends on it.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

Here’s another example of full CGI film development using Unity and the Unity Camera and Cinemachine: Check out the video here on YouTube as well. Game developers can switch from 2D to 3D, from real-time play to cutscene, and from the traditional first-person shooter view to a camera that follows the action up close and personal.

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Would “Sword Art Online” Be a Bad VR Game?

Rampant Games

This leads to the downfall of Kirito at the end of the Aincrad story arc, and nearly results in Asuna’s death in the recent film Sword Art Online: Aria of a Starless Night. Cutscenes in an MMO? In the Sword Art Online: Progressive novels, certain plotlines are punctuated by forced events which are effectively cutscene events.

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