GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard has released its 2022 representation data. This year's report includes data on full-time employees who identify as non-binary. The company says that women and non-binary individuals make up 26% of its staff. In 2021, women represented 24% of Activision Blizzard. Read more.

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Game Errors

MARCH 15, 2023

However, there are times when users encounter errors while using it, and one of the most common errors is the “Xbox not syncing data error.” So if you are also facing the “not syncing data” issue in Xbox, here is how you can fix it. Why is my Xbox stuck on syncing data?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 9, 2022

You have to rely on the data,” Janzen added. Expanding the reach of their data. Now that Splitting Point had the data they needed, they were able to fix bugs and game design issues with every new update. Then, they could start to explore how else their data could help. “In Building out difficulty using data.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

It provides a set of instructions that enable different systems to communicate with one another, specifying the methods for sending and receiving data, as well as the actions that can be performed. 1) To make the JSON data more readable, you may want to install a browser extension, such as "JSON Prettifier" or "JSON Formatter."

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

has now been completed, resulting in much improved usability when dealing animation data. Animation data. While there are upcoming improvements on the general animation system, one key aspect that required a strong redesign and subsequent rework in Godot is the way that animation data is stored.

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Game Errors

MARCH 9, 2023

When you get the Apex Legends error retrieving live data, you’ll need to check all of those problems and fix them. What is Apex Legends Error Retrieving Live Data? The Apex Legends error retrieving live data is a connectivity issue. How to Fix Apex Legends Error Retrieving Live Data? Your machine needs a cold reboot.

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Perforce

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this blog, we look at today’s most popular version control and data management software and compare their current security offerings, from Git to Mercurial, SVN, and Helix Core.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

The debug data is included here. cc.profiler._stats.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

EA has confirmed that a data storage issue last week was behind the corruption of users' Madden NFL 23 franchise save files. Unfortunately, if you logged into franchise leagues during this time, your data was affected due to a data storage issue that resulted in franchise files being corrupted," it said. Read more.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

How do we obtain the debug data Cocos prints on screen programmatically?

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Cloudy Heaven Games

JULY 9, 2022

In RPGs (and any game), data structures are vital components of the game code. A data structure is a scheme or construct for storing, organizing, and accessing data in a game. There are many different … Continue reading → The post Data Structures in RPGs: Arrays appeared first on Cloudy Heaven Games.

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Cloudy Heaven Games

AUGUST 6, 2022

In this post, we will be looking at another data type, the “stack.” What … Continue reading → The post Data Structures in RPGs: Stacks appeared first on Cloudy Heaven Games. ” A stack is an ordered collection of elements that operates on the elements in a “last in, first out” (LIFO) order.

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Cloudy Heaven Games

JULY 16, 2022

In the last article, we looked at the array data structure. As we mentioned in the arrays article, in some languages, such as JavaScript, arrays and lists are the … Continue reading → The post Data Structures in RPGs: Lists appeared first on Cloudy Heaven Games. This time, we will discuss lists.

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Cloudy Heaven Games

JULY 30, 2022

Over the last few posts, we’ve discussed lists and list-like data structures, such as sets and arrays. In this post, we’ll be talking about a new type of … Continue reading → The post Data Structures in RPGs: Associative Arrays appeared first on Cloudy Heaven Games. All of these are collections of items.

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Cloudy Heaven Games

JULY 23, 2022

A set is an unordered collection of objects, that cannot contain … Continue reading → The post Data Structures in RPGs: Sets appeared first on Cloudy Heaven Games. In the last couple of posts, we discussed arrays and lists, both sequential collections of related items. In this post, we will discuss sets.

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Game Developer

MARCH 14, 2023

Unity's data shows that indie developers are looking to crunch less, and strategizing to get games to market faster.

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Game Developer

MARCH 7, 2023

With NPD and IRI's merger now complete, the two companies have rebranded to Circana to become a leading provider on data, analytics, and technology.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Built on real-world data, here's how these mechanics informed the gameplay of this unique city builder.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Learn how you can drastically increase user adoption and other key metrics by automating, modeling, and visualizing PlayFab data

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The Astronauts

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Several posts ago we learned that filtering the data can make it more compressible. Out of several simple filters that I tried, “reorder data items byte-wise and delta encode that” was the most effective at improving compression ratio. That’s all nice and good, but the filtering has a cost to it.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2023

In my experience, the extent we will go with single player is to disable obtaining achievements when cheating and we’ll put the players who cheat into a separate bucket for our telemetry data purposes. For multiplayer cheating, it’s typically zero tolerance so cheaters gets the banhammer.

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The Astronauts

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Previous post was about mis-using meshoptimizer compression for compressing totally non-mesh data, for pretty good results. This time, let’s look at several libraries specifically targeted at compressing floating point data sets.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

and the data scientists who aggregate and analyze the terabytes of telemetry data we gather from anonymous players. ALT The more technically-minded people who are comfortable with raw sql script or spreadsheet analysis usually prefer to use those for expediency.

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The Astronauts

MARCH 2, 2023

Several people have asked whether I have tried Blosc library for compressing my test data set. In the graphics/vfx world, OpenVDB uses Blosc as one option for volumetric data compression. Introduction and index of this series is here. I was aware of it, but have not tried it! So this post is fixing that. What is Blosc?

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The Astronauts

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In the previous parts we saw that using generic data compression libraries, we can get our 94.5MB data down to 33.8MB (zstd level 7) or 29.6MB (oodle kraken level 2) size, if we’re not willing to spend more than one second compressing it. Introduction and index of this series is here.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2023

This is data from GfK, courtesy of the Entertainment Retailer’s Association Yearbook, and based on physical retail sales. In terms of full-game downloads, data firm Omdia estimates that the average selling price was £15.19 The average amount of money spent on a video game in the UK last year was £36.47, a rise of 6.7%.

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Unity Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Unity’s Sébastien L'Heureux shares more about the new Data Modes pattern so developers can make the most of Editor workflows specific to projects using ECS for Unity.

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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 17, 2023

This process enables businesses to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources into a single system, allowing for faster and more efficient data analysis. This kind of automation also helps businesses save time and money by eliminating manual processes such as data entry and data cleansing.

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GameDev.Net

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upon checking the CPU Usage data I have determined that my A* path function is creating an issue: std::vector TERRAIN::GetPath(INTPOINT start, INTPOINT goal) { try { / So I am programming a RTS with DirectX and I have managed to get all the troops, buildings, FX, and terrain on the screen and still never drop below 50 FPS.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 12, 2023

This is according to the latest GSD data, which tracks physical and digital game sales across Europe. It tracks all physical sales in major European countries (see list below), and digital sales from most major AAA publishers (the main exception is Nintendo, which doesn't share digital data) in every territory across Europe.

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Unity Engineering Manager for.NET Compilers and Runtimes Josh Peterson walks through some of the recent changes the team has made to marshal string data across the managed/native boundary in a GC-safe way for the new CoreCLR garbage collector.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Instance data generation. It may be a good idea to perform static and dynamic object data processing in parallel on the CPU.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. this series is written by Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice.

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