Game Developer

JANUARY 4, 2023

As AI tools have quickly become a controversial topic in the game industry, modl.ai aims to make AI tools that support developers, not supplant them.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

What’s the difference between a good gameplay trailer and an award-winning gameplay trailer? Outstanding capture. Creating game trailers is no easy task; it’s a team effort that demands ingenuity and creativity at all stages. We have worked on trailers for games such as Alan Wake Remastered, Project Zomboid, The Ascent, and PUBG. Here's our top tips for getting great quality footage out of any game, regardless of your expertise.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Pentiment game director Josh Sawyer breaks down the design logic behind the games' brain-teasing murder mysteries.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups. If you have new appointments or transitions in your company that belong here, please send the names of the appointees, new role and company, and prior role and company to newhires@gamesindustry.biz. Game publisher Gameloft has appointed Alexandre de Rochefort as its new CEO.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Gearbox's purchase of Captured Dimensions marks the first game-related acquisition of 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. Federal Trade Commission has said there are currently no "substantive" settlement talks between the US government body and Microsoft over the latter's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. During a brief pre-trial hearing via telephone yesterday, FTC attorney James Weingarten said neither side had engaged in significant discussions over a possible settlement that would negate the need for a trial, Reuters report

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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 4, 2023

Automating repetitive tasks has revolutionized almost every industry by allowing workers to focus on high-value projects. For businesses that process massive amounts of documents, it is especially important to automate repetitive tasks. The financial industry deals with complex and large amounts of data hence accuracy and error-free operations are crucial requirements.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 4, 2023

No, Baldur's Gate III was not among the cancelled projects.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

Nvidia has announced that its cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, will come to vehicles. Hyundai Motor Group, BYD, and Polestar are the first car manufacturers currently working on the effort with the chip maker. The motor companies already use Nvidia's technology for their self-driving vehicles. Read more.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Kaylynn Castleman, of Unity’s Diversity Recruiting team, shares a recap of her team’s experiences at various conferences in 2022.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

Wizards of the Coast has reportedly cancelled "at least" five of its video game projects, leading to several layoffs. A Wizards spokesperson, who talked to Bloomberg , said the company is still "committed to using digital games" but "made some changes to our long-term portfolio to focus on games which are strategically aligned with developing our existing brands and those which show promise in expanding or engaging our audience in new ways.".

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 4, 2023

Game-Wisdom’s Best Executed Games of 2022 Awards Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. I’ve created a new category to give more spotlights to games. For this one, I’m honoring the games that didn’t blow up as a revolutionary take on the genre but were all around great games that did what they set … The post Game-Wisdom’s Best Executed Games of 2022 Awards appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2023

Most major American-based publishers shut down between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day. The only ones still working at those times are the on-call live teams and we try not to launch anything new during the holidays in order to keep things as stable as possible so as to make minimize their workload. ALT It is true that the holidays tend to be lighter days for us.

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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. The development team stated that players who attempted to log in from December 28 until December 29 received an error and were subjected to the problem. "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.

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Game Development for Beginners

JANUARY 4, 2023

Creating a virtual controller is very simple using the new input system if you already have an action map setup. If you have not already setup the new Input system then check out our tutorial on Getting started with Unity’s new Input system. Adding UI, accessing UI from script will be same as in the. Read more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

Gearbox Entertainment has announced its acquisition of 3D capture company Captured Dimensions. The firm has worked with entertainment companies such as Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, 2K Games, and EA. Captured Dimensions' services include 3D printing, prop scanning and cross-polarized texture photography. Read more.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 4, 2023

Error messages are often alarming as they imply that something could be wrong. Unfortunately, WV-109156-2 is one that a few users have had to contend with. This error code may be encountered when a player tries to access content from an EA game like Madden. This article will walk you through common causes and the most recommended solutions to these errors.

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The Art of the Game

JANUARY 4, 2023

After a very rough holiday season, I’m finally back to a place of dev. Back on Nov. 1st, my wife had the honor of being laid off from the same job that laid me off back in 2006, via a conference call, and right before the holiday season. To her credit, instead of spending a month of depressive TV watching and sleeping, she dove right into job hunting and (luckily) found a job doing the same thing, and for the same pay.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

Back in September, I introduced people to my upcoming card game, Spellstorm. The initial plan was to launch a Kickstarter in February of 2023, but back in early December I realized we were going to have to push that back. The original version of Spellstorm that we were working on for most of a year turned out to have a few fundamental problems. For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

ByteDance reportedly laid off hundreds of staff in China at the end of the 2022, affecting employees in its games branch among others. According to sources who talked to the South China Morning Post , the redundancies impacted TikTok's Chinese version, Douyin, as well as its gaming and real estate businesses. Chinese publication Jiemian reported that collaboration platform Lark (known as Feishu in China) saw 10% of its workforce cut as part of the layoffs.

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 4, 2023

Exploring the Most Popular Video Game Genres Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. These days it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t like video games. In fact, a lot of people that play them are over 18 years old , defying the notion that only children or teenagers play video games. It’s understandable. … The post Exploring the Most Popular Video Game Genres appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

Hi,bro. refer to this documentation Extending Build Process · Cocos Creator. I guess it’s the one Koei wanted to tell you.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 4, 2023

A retrospective of 2022 is released for this sci-fi immersive realism indie

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

Hi, how can we get a transparent canvas in an android build (cocos creator version 2.4.x)? i enabled cc.macro.ENABLE_TRANSPARENT_CANVAS = true and set alpha value of the camera (in background color) to 0, it works fine in web build, but in android build its not transparent.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 4, 2023

This underwater survival city-builder indie reveals some of its aquatic mechanics

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

I think you need not pause all the components such as camera unless you have any tween to it. Instead you can get the specific components that have update method, tween, animations and schedulers. But I am not sure what is the best way of doing this.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

okey, I found a solution which is creating a Rect for spriteA using the world position and then using.containPoint() for all 4 world space points of spriteB. #include "HelloWorldScene.h" #include "AudioEngine.h" USING_NS_CC; Scene* HelloWorld::createScene() { auto scene = HelloWorld::create(); return scene; } bool HelloWorld::init() { if ( !Scene::init() ) return false; Size visibleSize = Director::getInstance()->getVisibleSize(); Vec2 origin = Director::getInstance()->getVisibleOrigin()

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

stackoverflow.com. Operation Not Permitted when on root - El Capitan (rootless disabled). macos, osx-elcapitan. asked by. Mark Bourke. on 07:06PM - 18 Sep 15 UTC.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

Does any one have gpg, facebook, sdkboxplay v2.7.7.0 in his ~/.sdkbox/plugins folder？Would you pls help share them? much thanks.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

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

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

Thanks, your suggestions may help a lot in the future. Unfortunately, I could not find a way to pause particle systems.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

hi, Thanks @Koei , the issue is resolved now.

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

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

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Cocos

JANUARY 4, 2023

Yes the particle system will be paused but is not visible too.

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