Independent VR studio Archiact is making layoffs
Game Developer
JANUARY 8, 2024
The studio has worked on titles including Doom 3: VR Edition and Marvel Dimension of Heroes.
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Game Developer
JANUARY 8, 2024
The studio has worked on titles including Doom 3: VR Edition and Marvel Dimension of Heroes.
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 27, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Bethesda has said that its upcoming interstellar RPG Starfield will launch with a disc-based edition. The game studio explained that the boxed Xbox standard editions will include a game disc of the title. Read more
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Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Embracer purchased the studio for an undisclosed fee in April 2022.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 22, 2024
The pair set up their first mobile games studio, BattleMail, in 2001 and sold it to (M)Forma a year later. Shortly after, they formed Rockpool Games, made the J2ME edition of Worms, and sold the developer to Eidos/Square Enix in 2007. billion – one of the biggest UK games acquisitions to date.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 5, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox VR game developer Archiact has announced redundancies have taken place at the studio. The Doom 3: VR Edition maker did not disclose how many employees were affected by the decision. Read more
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 29, 2023
Top image: Nobody Saves the World – DrinkBox Studios. Most games do not call for the flashy or stylistic trailer editing you see in a typical Hollywood movie trailer. MORE editing does not mean BETTER editing and LESS editing does not mean WORSE editing. Great game and great trailer !
GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 18, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The 2023 edition of Paris Games Week was announced last week, with the event returning to the French capital this November. The event has been running since 2010, although the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
AWS Games
MARCH 1, 2024
Game studios need scalable and efficient management processes to evolve their operations. In part 3, we discuss managing Infrastructure as Code and how your studio can use it to create your game’s infrastructure. This is a powerful tool in the hands of game studios. Application code has a defined format and syntax.
Game Errors
MARCH 10, 2023
The error failed to load settings with 502 Roblox Studio can prevent you completely from creating anything on this platform. The Roblox Studio is a building tool that you can use to create things according to your own preferences. What is error 502 on Roblox Studio? How can I fix failed to load settings with 502 Roblox Studio?
Filmustage
JUNE 7, 2022
The restless couple goes to the studio Miramax to restore justice. The plot, as is typical of Smith , is a little crazy: pals Jay and Silent Bob stand outside a store in New Jersey all day, until one day they learn that a comic book about them has been made "Bluntman and Chronic".
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 13, 2023
This base character comes fully rigged and can be completely edited by the developer. It’s possible to batch edit across 50 or a hundred characters at the same time. The first two studios that have used the platform in their production are almost ready to announce their games. Custom styles can be uploaded into the editor tool.
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
This included supporting new use-cases requested by users like editing generic methods, improving the editor extension UI, decoupling it from our game codebase, implementing licensing, and a bit more.” The value it brings to smaller studios is often smaller, while the impact on larger studios can be quite massive.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 13, 2023
The Netherlands may be a small country, but there are many talented studios making amazing games. Like Sony Worldwide Studio Guerrilla Games that recently delivered the critically acclaimed PSVR2 title Horizon: Call of the Mountain. Dutch Indies Like Paladin Studios. It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop.
GamesIndustry.biz
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
When Singh hosted a similarly themed panel at last year's edition of the show , the boom was already in the rear-view mirror, with economic headwinds and rising inflation already areas of concerns that had cooled off the gaming sector as an M&A hotbed. Those were crazy times," he said. Unprecedented. We'd never seen anything like that.
AWS Games
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Edited by Nathan Graves. In part one of our series , we discussed the importance of management and governance of your AWS resources for Game Development Studios. Tagging is important to game development studios of any size because everyone needs to controls costs at some point. Tagging AWS Resources.
AWS Games
JULY 21, 2022
Written by Adam Hatfield, Pawan Matta and Daniel Whitehead Edited by Nathan Graves. One of the most beneficial things your game studio can do early on is establish good management and governance of your AWS environments. Managing your game studios multi-account structure with AWS Organizations.
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 5, 2024
Top image: The Wandering Village by Stray Fawn Studios was one of the selected games last year. The 2022 edition of the European Game Showcase. The off-site GDC event European Game Showcase 2024 is coming to San Francisco once again this year. There are some rules to follow though.
Ask a Game Dev
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The edited animation reads a lot better - the motions are more exaggerated, the struggles of the victim are a lot more readable, the attacker's stab is more pronounced, and so on - the entire action is clearer, more readable, and even a bit faster than the raw mocap.
CrazyLabs
OCTOBER 3, 2023
In this edition, we meet Mario Royston of Weloadin, the studio behind some of CrazyLabs’ games including Dessert DIY and Rubber Band Cutting ASMR, which cumulatively generated over 100 million downloads. […] The post Meet The Developer, Mario Royston appeared first on CrazyLabs.
Game Development News
MAY 3, 2023
Richie Shoemaker flicks through the first issue of Debug, a new games magazine edited by veteran mag-ician Dean Mortlock that aims to be a champion for indie titles, studios and publishers
Cocos
MARCH 25, 2024
At some point our animator was no longer able to enter animation editing mode from within prefab edit mode… he would click enter animation editing mode over and over and nothing would happen. What we did notice, however… was that he was still able to enter animation editing mode from scene edit mode.
Nvidia
MARCH 17, 2023
USD is different from our previous format in that it can be edited in different tools, such as Houdini. Unlike previous formats, USD compositions can be used to edit data in a non-destructive manner. USD solves these problems as compositions can be used for nondestructive editing, so that you can smoothly move between multiple tools.
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Similarly, Amazon Game Studio announced the termination of 180 jobs. Privately-held vs publicly traded Similarly, organizing the twenty largest layoffs by company structure (in absolute terms for 2023 year-to-date) shows that small, privately-held studios have let go of a greater share of staff compared to publicly traded firms.
Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 5, 2024
One possibility would be making these videos a Collector's Edition pack-in bonus for a retail game. Look at the studios and games that are doing such videos and consider what circumstances they're doing them. Making players feel good or "exposure" isn't really worth very much. Ultimately, it's a cost-benefit analysis.
Game Errors
APRIL 5, 2023
Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition Let’s start with the franchise that has done more for Martial Arts games than any other, and Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition is the game that has elevated the Capcom series back among the top titles in the genre. Get Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition (PS4) 2.
AWS Games
JUNE 15, 2023
Pre-Requisites A Windows workstation with a dedicated GPU Visual Studio 2022 Visual Studio 2022 Game Development with C++ Module Installed All Visual Studio 2022.NET Open it in Visual Studio 2022. If your Visual Studio 2022 install recommends installing any additional components, go ahead and install them now.
Game Designing
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Easing Into Code Summary In this tutorial, we dive into GameMaker Studio 2 and learn the basics of creating a sprite, an object, and writing our first line of code. This video serves as a practical introduction to GameMaker Studio, demonstrating key features while guiding new programmers through their first steps in game development.
Game Errors
AUGUST 4, 2023
The Larian Studios’ most thriving title has left behind many successful games, and right now, it’s trailing only behind the epic Hogwarts Legacy, which got a peak of 870,000+ players. Community: Larian Studios, the company behind this epic game, has a strong presence on social media and many community platforms.
Filmustage
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing was introduced in 1963, highlighting the growing recognition of sound design's artistic merit. Source: backstage.com Foley studios serve as laboratories where artists carefully create and record audio effects. Foley artist at work.
Jaunty Bear Games
APRIL 5, 2023
Godot, on the other hand, is completely free and open-source, making it an attractive option for independent developers and small studios. One of the main advantages of Godot over Unity is its integrated development environment (IDE), which allows developers to edit their code, scenes, and assets all in one place.
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 1, 2023
Well known indie dev ( Vlambeer ) Rami Ismail developed a ready-made pitch template , with the help of several indie studios of all sizes, and professionals working at two dozen publishers. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, you can subscribe here.
Nvidia
JULY 22, 2021
And often, studios are spending development hours creating their own proprietary tools to enable these workflows. Luminous and Embark Studios, two of the early evaluators of NVIDIA Omniverse for game development, have adopted USD to leverage the Omniverse-connected ecosystem and accelerate their workflows. Image: Omni.UI
Game Errors
MARCH 3, 2023
Try Reinstalling Microsoft Visual Studio C++ If none of the previous solutions worked for you and you’re still experiencing the DirectX 12 error in Halo Infinite, try reinstalling the Visual C++ packages. Visit the Microsoft website and download the latest Visual C++ Redistributable files for Visual Studio 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022.
Game Errors
AUGUST 15, 2023
The Larian Studios’ latest RPG, one of the most anticipated games and the second biggest Steam launch in 2023 , BG3, is undoubtedly stunning looking and a rich game. If you are looking for a Baldur’s Gate 3 cheat engine guide and some necessary information, this article is the perfect source for you. It will work.
Filmustage
JUNE 17, 2021
Filmustage is an AI-based pre-production tool that helps screenwriters, filmmakers and studios save time and resources by optimizing internal processes. 2021 Edition Mentors included Paul Haggis, the two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter and Jessica Sharzer, the three-time Emmy-nominated screenwriter.
Cocos
AUGUST 10, 2023
Almost everybody at my studio can see them the way that I see them… But, there are a few people who cannot see the shaders move unless they click and hold the right mouse button or the middle mouse button to turn on the panning feature. Unless I click and hold the right mouse button the shader doesn’t move or update in the scene. (I
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 5, 2024
Drawing and writing comics, editing podcasts, animated shorts. I don’t have any grand ambitions of running a studio and working on larger scale games. “Working for myself has always been more creatively fulfilling than working for others. All built skills useful in game development! I’m happy keeping it small.”
Game Designing
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Most studios need compositing in some form, whether it involves the seamless integration of special effects (FX) with environments or VFX shots with computer-generated (CG) characters. They either work as freelancers or get compositor jobs at VFX studios. A few studios also hire junior compositors. What Does a VFX Compositor Do?
Game Errors
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
The catch is that it is available only for gamers who purchased the Premium or Constellation edition of the game. Here is how the Starfield vs BG3 comparison looks regarding the price tags: Starfield Baldur’s Gate 3 Standard Edition $69.99 $59.99 Premium / Deluxe Edition $99.99 $79.99 Premium / Deluxe Edition $99.99 $79.99
Filmustage
JULY 25, 2023
Amazing Studio Plan : Users get the best of both worlds, with scene-by-scene analysis and 3 credits per project for bulk analysis. Amazing Studio Plan : Users can generate a synopsis for a specific scene and also have 3 credits per project for bulk synopsis generation.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 15, 2023
While for very large studios this is not an area of interest, medium-sized studios still rely on significant amounts of assets and pre-made functionality. When doing tasks such as shader editing, VFX (particles) or animation, there is a large difference between Godot and engines such as Unreal. Commercial asset store.
Game Errors
AUGUST 17, 2023
In a gesture of appreciation, Larian Studios is offering a free upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition for early-access buyers. If there’s an issue, Larian Studio, the developer, will issue an official statement. Baldur’s Gate 3 has arrived on PC via Steam after an eagerly awaited early access phase. Just be patient.
Game Errors
AUGUST 4, 2023
Now, do the following things to fix the joining failed error on Baldur’s Gate 3 while trying to join a lobby: Use separate game instances in windowed mode Change DNS Reset the network settings Disable cloud sync Clear the Larian Studios folder 1. Click on Edit next to the DNS server assignment. Switch to windowed display mode.
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