Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 2, 2023

On December 12th, just a few weeks ago, Supercell’s Brawl Stars shocked both their audience and the F2P devsphere by removing lootboxes. This wasn’t a small undertaking. Brawl Boxes had been there since the release of the game, and were an integral part of its progression and monetization systems. On top of that, lootboxes are considered one of the pillars of the F2P model both by its supporters and detractors.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2023

The final UK boxed chart of 2022 has landed, and Sony's God of War Ragnarok ends the year on top. The new God of War has been a big hit over Christmas, boosted by a PS5 hardware bundle. It is actually the fourth biggest new game launch of the year (in terms of sales from physical retailers). God of War leapt two places despite sales falling 29% week-on-week.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a really disappointing film for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s The Poison Rose. Plot: The plot is really boring, and the base premise never really is fulfilled: L.A. private investigator Carson Phillips is on a job to check on a mental health ward patient, and it really never goes anywhere from there. It literally is never solved.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2023

github.com/cocos/cocos-engine. optimize spine/dragonbones material update. cocos:v3.6.3 ← zhakesi:v3.6.3-middleware-material. opened 03:40PM - 16 Nov 22 UTC. zhakesi. +78. -14. * [link]. You can try merging this pr to see if it can be fixed. After modifying the engine code, click this button to recompile the engine. After a successful recompile, execute npm run bundle-adapter in the engine directory.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Ahead of this month’s DEVELOP/JOBS, Richie Shoemaker questions a number of recruitment experts, to see what how working and finding work in today’s games industry is changing and the issues studios and potential hires might have to face.

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Juego Studio

JANUARY 2, 2023

The post What are dApps?: A Complete Guide to Understanding Decentralized Applications appeared first on Juego Studio.

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Juego Studio

JANUARY 2, 2023

The post The Importance of Game Localization for Game Developers appeared first on Juego Studio.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2023

mcnedj468: void SceneName::update(float delta) { // Change SceneName to your scene name. }. This is the way I create “main” game loop so you have control. Set some Global Var’s or stick them in your HelloWorld class and set the class setName(“HelloWorld”); then you call auto hello = static_cast<HelloWorld*>(getChildByName(“HelloWorld”)); to get access from anywhere in cocos engine.

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Artoon

JANUARY 2, 2023

As nice as it sounds, you cannot wake up one morning and […]. The post Explore some Prerequisites Before Choosing an iOS App Development Company appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2023

Hello guys, I’ve got this email today. Could you please help what to do? The app is old (more than 3 years). Hi Developers,After a recent review, we found that your app is not compliant with one or more of our Developer Program Policies. Please resolve this issue within 7 days of the issuance of this notification or your app will be removed from Google Play.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lights are one of the most important part of any game. With lights you can create a different athmosphere and make your games look stunning. Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. Here are just a few examples of what you can do with Unreal Engine’s light system: In this post we’re going to go over the light system, explain how to use it along with different types of light we can use and we will implement all that a game scene which will allow you

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2023

Materials that work well in the web version do not work in Android. There’s a problem with this. Looking at logcat, custom shader is not even compiled.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2023

Hello @adib , You can try using the Component.enabled property instead of director.pause().

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2023

there is no error

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