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The birth and death of Budcat Creations, Iowa's first (and only) Triple-A game studio

Game Developer

Sadly, extinction is often cheaper than evolution in the video game industry. Iowa's Budcat Creations, famous for its work on Guitar Hero spinoffs, proves this.

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Making MARVEL SNAP’s Battle Mode

Unity Blog

Kent-Erik Hagman, associate design director at Second Dinner, goes behind the scenes on making MARVEL SNAP ’s new Battle Mode.

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Deep Dive: Modeling the global economy in Victoria 3

Game Developer

"When we set out to make the next installment in the series, we knew we had to nail the economy aspect, making it both believable as a real-world historical model and compelling as a game mechanic.

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Finji CEO: Subscriptions are simultaneously "awesome and terrifying"

GamesIndustry.biz

The industry goes in cycles for indies, Finji CEO Bekah Saltsman tells us in a discussion at last October's Megamigs conference. "There are boom cycles where there's lots of money out and about, then it contracts again, and then it's going to boom out again," she says. "And it's been doing this forever, because it goes on hardware cycles and everything else.".

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Saudi state-backed investment fund now owns 6 percent of Nintendo

Game Developer

PIF, the investment fund chaired by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Al-Saud, has sunk more cash into the Switch maker.

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How VFX Streamlines Player Experience

Starloop Studios

Visual effects in modern gaming can be a transformative process that brings a title’s presentation and immersion to the next level. It has become an integral part of game development, from small-scale indie gems to AAA blockbusters. Though VFX can be viewed as a broad term in gaming and entertainment, it has particular effects on [.].

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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47 Examines Deep Space Nine’s Everyday Diplomacy

Game Industry News

DS9 is still one of the most ground-breaking installments in the entirety of the Star Trek franchise, and January 3rd marked thirty years since “Emissary” graced our screens for the first time. It seems like a good time to discuss just a little bit of what makes DS9 so special in a franchise already known for taking forward-looking stances. HERE THERE BE SPOILERS—ISH.

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Squanch Games' Justin Roiland charged with felony domestic violence

Game Developer

Roiland's domestic violence charges come from his alleged arrest and subsequent release in 2020.

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Japanese players spent $2.9 billion on boxed games and consoles in 2022

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. Just shut of $3 billion was spent on physical games products in Japan last year. That's according to Famitsu's annual report , which revealed that total sales on boxed games and hardware amounted to ¥374.8 billion ($2.9 billion) from December 27, 2021 to December 25, 2022.

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God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West lead 2023 DICE Awards nominations

Game Developer

Sony's marquis games for 2022, plus Elden Ring , have the most nominations at 2023's D.I.C.E. Awards.

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European console and PC game sales fall 7.1% over 2021

GamesIndustry.biz

At a glance: 159 million console and PC games were sold across tracked European markets in 2022, a drop of 7.1% over the year before. 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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Ghost Ship Games nabs minority stake in Danish VR studio Bolverk

Game Developer

The Deep Rock Galactic developer said the deal marks a "significant opportunity.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

While all contributors are on the deck working to finalize the Godot 4.0 release (currently at beta 11 ), some of us are still backporting important bugfixes to the current stable branch, Godot 3.5. It had its first stable release in early August , and a first maintenance release in late September , and so far so good, most users seem to be pretty happy with 3.5.1.

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Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren backs Proletariat's unionization efforts

Game Developer

Getting a backing from your senator is certainly something.

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Saudi Arabia increases Nintendo stake to 6%

GamesIndustry.biz

Saudi Arabia has increased its stake in Nintendo to 6%. That's according to Reuters , based on a report from the country's Public Investment Fund that was filed today with Japanese regulators. Saudi Arabia's PIF already had a 5.01% stake in the platform holder, which was announced in May 2022 "for investment purposes," and now stands at 6.07% precisely.

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Deep Rock Galactic sold over 2.3 million copies in 2022

Game Developer

The milestone means the dwarven-miner FPS has reached 5.5 million lifetime sales.

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John Smedley to leave Amazon's gaming division

GamesIndustry.biz

After a six-year stint, John Smedley will be leaving Amazon Game Studios. As reported by Bloomberg , the studio head's exit has been attributed to the game division's struggles. Amazon Game Studios' difficulties include: Read more.

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The Complete Unity Game Development Bundle

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com. The Complete Unity Game Development Bundle. There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Complete Unity Game Development Bundle is a collection of video courses from Zenva. The courses are mostly aimed at beginners and cover a wide variety of topics and game genres developed with the Unity game engine. As with … The Complete Unity Game Development Bundle Read More.

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Bohemia’s war against Arma 3’s misinformation misuse

GamesIndustry.biz

Back in October, a video clip started doing the rounds on social media, showing what appeared to be the Ukrainian artillery attacking Russian tanks. The footage was shared thousands of times across social media platforms. There was just one small problem; the footage in question was not real. It was, in fact, a video of gameplay from Arma 3, a military simulation title made by Czech studio Bohemia Interactive.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

While all contributors are on the deck working to finalize the Godot 4.0 release (currently at beta 11 ), some of us are still backporting important bugfixes to the current stable branch, Godot 3.5. It had its first stable release in early August , and a first maintenance release in late September , and so far so good, most users seem to be pretty happy with 3.5.1.

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Anyone still using 3.17.2 Javascript?

Cocos

How and where do can I check? we manually don’t have to main.js anywhere, in project.json there we put list of js files which are inside src folder. Can you please tell more in specifically ?

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Dev Error 615 in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 [Quick Fix]

Game Errors

There are numerous players that love the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 gameplay but crash errors don’t seem to stop at any minute. If you’re an avid player, you certainly need to know how to resolve the Dev error 615 on MW2. Different users recently reported game crashes since the launch of the game. Basically, this dev 615 error code occurs in the game and can interrupt your gameplay while performing different actions.

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The Future of Blender in 2023

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com. The Future of Blender in 2023. Yesterday the Blender foundation released an article outlining the development priorities of Blender in 2023. These are all projects that are either finishing or under active development in 2023 and represent the major priorities of the development team. The fact something isn’t mentioned, such as sculpting or uv mapping, does … The Future of Blender in 2023 Read More.

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One Piece Odyssey Keeps Crashing and Freezing on PC [Fixed]

Game Errors

Many players have been enjoying One Piece Odyssey since Bandai Namco’s release on the 13th of January 2023. However, some players have reported having some difficulties playing the game. One Piece Odyssey keeps crashing and freezing on your PC? Don’t worry many players are also experiencing a similar problem. You are not the only one. The game reportedly crashes randomly, it might happen at startup, mid-game, on the menus, or simply just keep freezing.

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Upcoming Event: Level Up with NVIDIA: RTX in Unreal Engine 5.1

Nvidia

Join the Level Up with NVIDIA webinar series on January 18. Learn how to leverage the NVIDIA RTX technology in Unreal Engine 5.1 and ask NVIDIA experts. Join the Level Up with NVIDIA webinar series on January 18. Learn how to leverage the NVIDIA RTX technology in Unreal Engine 5.1 and ask NVIDIA experts about your game integrations in a live Q&A.

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Android Studio Setup - Cocos2d-x

Cocos

Hi @Sterfry did you solve your issues? I managed to get past that, but unfortunately didn’t get much further… Right now my Windows completely freezes when trying to compile cocos. At first I wondered that maybe this is Android Studio’s fault since it is not super reliable, but when I manually run gradle task externalNativeBuildDebug from command line, I get exactly same results.

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Fix Minecraft CE-34878-0 Error Crash on PlayStation 4 Easily

Game Errors

Playing Minecraft on PlayStation 4 comes with various updates made by the infamous game developer Mojang. Indeed, you can also run into game crashes with the CE-34878-0 error code. This type of error is a frequent problem that can happen in the well-known PS4 game Minecraft. It is important to note that this type of error is not exclusive to Minecraft and can also occur in other games as well.

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Anyone still using 3.17.2 Javascript?

Cocos

check your apk build if it not have file main.js or main.jsc.

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Hire Best Call Break Game Development Company For Your Business

Artoon

The Call Break card game is also commonly known as Spades, Call […]. The post Hire Best Call Break Game Development Company For Your Business appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Trail module in the particle system leaves a gap

Cocos

Reducing the physics simulation time step to a value much smaller than engine time step should solve your problem.

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Best 10 Key Benefits of iOS App Development for Business

Artoon

Despite being far behind Android in market share, iOS surpasses its competitor […]. The post Best 10 Key Benefits of iOS App Development for Business appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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How to integrate Admob to the game

Cocos

Hi, bro! First, publish your project to Android platform. Then a standard android project will be generated under the path of YourProjectFolder/build/android/xxxx. Since the android project generated by Cocos Creator did not as much as a normal android project does. So, just launch your AndroidStudio and import it. Integrate the SDKs whatever your want following the documentation of the ever SDK.

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How do community suggestions on official forums fare as unsolicited suggestions? We often see developers in a dialog with a community about various features. I know that Vermintide 2 made a major balance pass a few years back which was largely inspired by community feedback, but I don’t remember signing away any rights when creating accounts on various forums.

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ALT Feedback is different from content. When we act on feedback, we’re taking the things that players say they like and dislike and incorporating that into our own future designs. We’re not taking content (or specific ideas for content) that the users created and incorporating that into the game. It is similar to the difference between cooking something with our own recipe and adjusting our recipe based on someone who tastes it, as opposed to accepting food + recipe created by someone else.

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Physics and Nodepool

Cocos

Hello everybody, I submitted a post about a month ago concerning using Coco’s built-in stats and Chrome’s dev tools. Within the post, I mentioned occasional frame drops my game experienced. In the end, I noticed the game jerked whenever the physics time jerked as well. I changed the physics engine from bullet to built-in. While this lessened the amount. of frame drops, it still happens, especially on mobile.

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