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What can soap teach you about gaming?

Game Developer

This is a sponsored article by Dove, and you may well be wondering what on Earth we are doing cropping up on GameDeveloper.com. You may suspect it’s another brand trying to force its way into the gaming scene but it turns out, we’re on a bit of an important mission and if you have a couple of minutes to spare, we’ll tell you why you should care about it.

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Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”

PreMortem.Games

As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. That alone took him hundreds of hours and the whole project now sits at 7 years. But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. “The painting really comes down to uniqueness”, he says.

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How to Commission Music for Your Game

Game Developer

A well-crafted musical score has the power to completely transform the player's gaming experience, adding depth, mood, and emotional impact to the game's world.

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Microsoft confirms Game Pass cannibalizes sales

GamesIndustry.biz

The UK Competition and Markets Authority's provisional report on the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition includes an admission from Microsoft that putting games into its Game Pass subscription service cannibalizes sales of those titles. "Microsoft also submitted that its internal analysis shows a [redacted]% decline in base game sales twelve months following their addition on Game Pass," the CMA noted in its report.

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Report: Bobby Kotick to stay at Activision if Microsoft merger fails

Game Developer

Whether or not Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard, Kotick will remain a part of the publisher's tumultuous legacy.

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Hogwarts Legacy is the biggest Harry Potter game launch of all time | UK Boxed Charts

GamesIndustry.biz

Hogwarts Legacy has got off to a very big start at UK games retail, and is comfortably the No.1 game of the week (GfK data). It is the biggest launch for any Harry Potter game ever, with sales 64% higher than the previous best -- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone from 2001. In fact, the biggest week for a Harry Potter game wasn't a launch week at all, it was the second week of the Philosopher’s Stone (due to hype around the movie).

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Liz Prince on Amiqus sponsoring this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Women in Games 2023 Awards

Game Development News

We’ve taken the opportunity to talk to Liz Prince, business manager at Amiqus about the company’s thoughts on Women in Games and what more can be done for inclusion in the future

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How indie publisher Hooded Horse aims to do right by developers

Game Developer

Indie publisher Hooded Horse specializes in certain genres and takes a strong tact in marketing to niche players.

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Dark Souls 3 Keep Crashing on PC: How to Fix It For Good

Game Errors

Dark Souls 3 is developed by FromSoftware, and it continues to push the boundaries with the latest, ambitious chapter in the critically-acclaimed and genre-defining series. The launch of the game is not as good as everyone expected. A lot of players complained about Dark Souls 3 issues and bugs. The most encountered errors in the game are c rashes , mainly at the first bonfire and random crashes, technical issues with the controller support, and other graphics-related bugs.

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Avoiding nuclear disaster with the connectors & pedals of Atomik

Game Developer

Atomik gives players a complex series of buttons, connections, keys, and pedals to keep a nuclear reactor from melting down. Better read the manual quickly.

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Deus Ex Mankind Divided Crashing: Fix It Quickly

Game Errors

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has about 7.000 mixed reviews on Steam , and this is because of the issues that players are encountering. Like most of the new big game releases these days, the PC port comes with a fair share of errors and bugs. Players complained about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided issues like: Crashes : Crash at Shooting Range, Crash in TF29 elevator when bringing DSD back to Smiley, Crash during Subway Loading Scene (M14), Crash at the Train Station, after walk & talk with Vega Perfo

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Get a Job: Xbox, PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, and more are hiring now!

Game Developer

These game development companies are hiring designers, producers, engineers, and more now!

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Kotick will reportedly remain as Activision CEO if Microsoft deal falls through

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Bobby Kotick will reportedly retain his position as CEO of Activision Blizzard if the proposed acquisition by Microsoft is blocked by regulators or scrapped altogether. Sources familiar with the matter told Fox Business that even if the $68.7 billion deal falls through, Kotick "will absolutely remain at the gaming giant to run the company.

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Report: EA to sign $588 million licensing deal with the Premier League

Game Developer

The deal will ensure EA has exclusive rights to the league's electronic game license.

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US game spending down 5% to $4.3bn in January, says NPD | US monthly charts

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox During January, US consumer spending on games reached $4.3 billion, a 5% decline year-over-year, according to the latest NPD data. Software comprised most of the month's revenue (88%), with game content reaching $3.79 billion in January.

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How to Fix NBA 2K17 Crashing, FPS Drops, and Common Errors

Game Errors

NBA 2K17 is the 18th installment in the game franchise and is available on Steam and also for consoles. It is considered one of the best NBAs ever made. The game is available for some time now but because of some updates, you might encounter different issues from time to time. The most recent issues that players are currently complaining about are NBA 2K17 freezing, crashing, or FPS drops.

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Original Metroid Prime developers omitted from Remastered credits

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Metroid Prime Remastered is the latest title to be criticised for omitting developers from its credits – in this case, the game's original developers. Zoid Kirsch, who was a senior engineer on the 2002 Nintendo title, shared via Twitter that rather than including the full original game credits, it instead features the line: "Based on the work of Metroid Prime (original Nintendo Gamecube and Wii versions) developme

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Blender Gets VDM – Vector Displacement Map Sculpting

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Blender Gets VDM – Vector Displacement Map Sculpting Officially approved today, VDM or Vector Displacement Map is a new sculpting feature coming in Blender 3.5. VDM is a common feature in ZBrush and enables you to create sculpting brushes similar to height map, but with additional 3D depth information. Description from the official Blender Project page: Sculpt: Added … Blender Gets VDM – Vector Displacement Map Sculpting Read More The post Blender Gets VDM &

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OPMjobs has changed its name to One Player Mission

Game Development News

Nearly 25 years after launching as OPM Response, OPM have changed their name to One Player Mission

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Chinese regulators hand out 87 new video game licenses in February

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Chinese regulators approved 87 new video game licenses in February. South China Morning Post reported that Tencent and NetEase were among the companies that received a green light for titles.

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Unity SphereCast: Beginner’s Guide

Game Development for Beginners

Unity SphereCast function casts a sphere in the specified direction to the specified distance, and returns any object that was hit along the path. SphereCast works in a very similar way to Unity Raycast the only difference being the sphere which is cast in place of a ray. Unity SphereCast Syntax Input Number Function 1.

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EA reportedly seeking £488m deal with Premier League for post-FIFA football games

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Electronic Arts is reportedly close to landing a deal with the UK's Premier League that will secure the use of its team in the upcoming EA Sports FC games. Sky News reports that the 20 clubs that make up the league were briefed on Friday that the partnership was close to being finalised.

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OpenGL vs Vulkan

That One Game Dev

In this article I discuss the most important differences when choosing betwen OpenGL and Vulkan for your next game. The post OpenGL vs Vulkan appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Top Avatar Sessions at NVIDIA GTC 2023

Nvidia

Learn about the future of interactive avatars for gaming, the metaverse, and beyond at NVIDIA GTC 2023. Learn about the future of interactive avatars for gaming, the metaverse, and beyond at NVIDIA GTC 2023.

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Learning About Game Design in the Classroom

Game Wisdom

Learning About Game Design in the Classroom Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this perceptive podcast, I’m talking with Jeremy Yanofsky who hosts the Engage Show to discuss what does teaching game design and using games in the classroom look like today. Youtube channel Linkedin Profile … The post Learning About Game Design in the Classroom appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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I was recently replaying the Uncharted collection and I got to wondering why a studio/publisher would ever stop working on a successful franchise. Uncharted sold 4, 7, 6 (+5 for the legacy collection) million for the first 3 installments, then 15 million for the 4th. What data could they use to just drop the franchise (movie performance notwithstanding)?

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ALT When the studio leadership has a stellar record and wants to work on something else, publishing executives usually let them. Uncharted was a very successful franchise, but it wasn’t Naughty Dog’s first game franchise or first major franchise success. Naughty Dog was responsible for both Crash Bandicoot and the Jak & Daxter series before Uncharted, as well as the Last of Us games that ND built while working on Uncharted.

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Audiocontent not resumed after Touch/Gesture starting from Cocos 3.6 & 3.7

Cocos

After further investigation we found out that indeed it happens because the promise is not resolved, and it can be solved only on the Cocos engine level (not the game) Based on version 3.7.

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Dying Light Lag Fix: How to Stop Stuttering & Run Better

Game Errors

Dying Light bugs were reported by a lot of players after the game launched. The game is zombie apocalypse themed, and it was released on January 27th on the Steam Platform. The most common errors that users reported after they tried to play the game are Dying Light lag, FPS drops, and stuttering and all of these errors are making the game unplayable at this moment.

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Texture flushed when coming back from background

Cocos

Are you using a texture map or are they all individual images that’s moving in and out of cache could it be phone freeing up memory space while in background? I have not had this but I use Texture map one big image.

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Yorkshire’s Game Republic celebrating 20 years of supporting northern game development

Game Development News

It isn't just MCV that's marking a milestone birthday this year, with northern networking powerhouse Games Republic set to mark its 20th anniversary with a year of special events and celebrations planned.

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Texture flushed when coming back from background

Cocos

I use texturepacker and I have a few big 1024x1024 textures loaded with: SpriteFrameCache::getInstance()->addSpriteFramesWithFile. Then I use: initWithSpriteFrameName(); to assign them to Sprites. Nothing fancy. My game is tiled base and looking at the screenshot, I can see the tiles but their textures are pointing to a different texture it seems.

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Sims 4 Black Screen: How to Fix it Quickly

Game Errors

Sims 4 was published by EA Origin and has been made available on both Steam and Origin platforms. Lately, players of this game have complained of the game showing a black screen when they try to play. The black screen issue usually comes in various forms including Sims 4 black screen with sound, black screen with cursor, after loading, and so much more.

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Some ttf fonts are not rendered and not loaded

Cocos

Hi i have a bug importing some ttf and i give you here two fonts in a zip that not works fonts.zip (13.8 KB) When i try to import inside Editor as Label, it not render correctly and i have the default font system. Why ?

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Hogwarts Legacy Black Screen on Launch: How to Fix

Game Errors

Hogwarts Legacy black screen on launch has become a prevalent problem in the past few days. Luckily, we have featured the most successful methods to fix this problem. Users may have faced some other issues with this game. It includes Hogwarts Legacy’s crashing problem , stuck on the loading screen issue , or even low FPS problems. But, the black screen at the beginning of the game launch is the new addition.