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Michael Blaker’s Movie Monday Featuring Big Fish

Game Industry News

Hey all, I’m back with a rather fun one for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s Big Fish! Plot: The plot of this story takes place in modern day where Edward, an older man, tells the story at his son Will’s wedding party of how he caught a massive fish the day Will was born. Being a very tall tale – and boy was that just a riot to write down here – and having gotten used to such tales all his life, Will has a falling out with his father.

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Animation Retargeting in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

This post will talk about animation retargeting, a new feature coming in Godot 4.0. It has already been merged, so anything you read in this post can be done in the current beta version (beta 3). Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the 3D features of Godot 4 that have been improved such as rendering, physics, etc. To make those improvements widely known, we should make it easier to create 3D games with Godot so that more people will be able to use them.

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

Nvidia

Load times. They are the bane of any developer trying to construct a seamless experience. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy. Load times. They are the bane of any developer trying to construct a seamless experience. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy through narrow passages or take extremely slow elevators breaks immersion.

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Calling on Xbox Game Pass Profitability

Deconstructor of Fun

In Today’s Email ? This week, we take a look at Phil Spencer’s announcements about Xbox Game Pass, and Eric breaks down some of the company’s claims. On the go? Listen to one of our podcasts from this week, we’ve got ? TWIG #207 Is the Microsoft Xbox really Pass profitable? ? NEW SEGMENT: Eric Kress’ One on One with Wehype’ Robin Astrom ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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

Rampant Games

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. In a launch day disaster that makes the Ford Edsel, New Coke, and the Microsoft Zune look like speed bumps in comparison, the players become trapped in VR and the headset will fry their brain if they die or if the headset is tampered with.

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How to Introduce Coding to Your Children

Real Programming

Parents should think long and hard about how to introduce their children to the digital world. On the one hand, they live in it, and technology isn’t going away any time soon. They’re going to grow up in a world of screens displaying entertainment, video games, news, and more. However, parents may be understandably reluctant to throw their children into a digital world, one they didn’t grow up in themselves.

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Animation Retargeting in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

This post will talk about animation retargeting, a new feature coming in Godot 4.0. It has already been merged, so anything you read in this post can be done in the current beta version (beta 3). Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the 3D features of Godot 4 that have been improved such as rendering, physics, etc. To make those improvements widely known, we should make it easier to create 3D games with Godot so that more people will be able to use them.