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The Importance of "One New Thing"

Game Developer

Success criteria come in all shapes and sizes. This time, I talk about the need to offer players something unique, something they haven’t experienced before.

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Microsoft calls FTC unconstitutional

GamesIndustry.biz

Microsoft yesterday filed its response to the US Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint over its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, as reported by CNBC. The 37-page response covers numerous arguments Microsoft has already made in public or to other regulators, stating a lack of incentive to make Call of Duty exclusive, a desire to grow its minimal footprint in the mobile gaming space, and painting Sony's protestations as those of a dominant market leader looking to hinder disru

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ArtStation is hiding anti-AI artwork images on its platform

Game Developer

ArtStation continues to be embroiled in the controversy of AI artwork on its platform.

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ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area | Games of the Year 2022

GamesIndustry.biz

ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area is a game that's not concerned with heteronormativity or alienating audiences with its nearly entire cast of beautiful Black and Brown characters. It's my game of the year because it looks and plays like the games that I want; creative work that's unapologetically representative of its developers and audience.

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Game Developer's best of 2022: The events that defined the year

Game Developer

From Twitter's maelstrom to Stadia's death sentence to devs offering support to Ukraine, these are the events that shaped 2022.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Happy holidays! We have been enjoing Godot 4.0 betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time.

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Roundup: GamesIndustry.biz's Games of the Year 2022

GamesIndustry.biz

As 2022 wraps up, the GamesIndustry.biz editorial team found time to sit down and write about their own personal favourite games they've played this year. The caveat is that the games we choose don't have to be 2022 releases, just a game that took our fancy this year for one reason or another. Our individual pieces are now all live on the site to read now, but here's a handy roundup of all of our Games of the Year pieces.

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Game Developer's best of 2022: The trends that defined the year

Game Developer

From unionization efforts to pandemic cooldowns to mergers and acquisitions aplenty, these are the main trends of 2022.

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Gran Turismo series speeds past 90 million lifetime sales | News-in-brief

GamesIndustry.biz

Gran Turismo series speeds past 90 million lifetime sales Read more.

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Game Developer's best of 2022: The best games of the year

Game Developer

From Elden Ring to Immortality to Citizen Sleeper, these games were our editors' favorites in 2022.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Happy holidays! We have been enjoing Godot 4.0 betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time.

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Q&A: Colin Macdonald, director of Games Jobs Live on recruitment

Game Development News

Ahead of next 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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Christmas Opening Hours 2022

OPM Jobs

Wishing you a great Christmas and prosperous New Year! We will all be checking our emails periodically over the festive period, if your request is urgent please email officemanager@opmjobs.com and we will be able to help you. Opening Hours December 23rd – 08:30 – 16:00 December 24th – Closed December 25th – Closed December 26th – Closed December 27th – Closed December 28th – Checking emails December 29th – Checking emails December 30th – Chec

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TexutrePacker export settings with CocosCreator 3.6.2

Cocos

Hello, I tried to use the cocos2d-x preset, but I got a weird render for the SpriteRenderer. (I see that I have to disable the Trim for the Sprite component here: TexturePacker, the trim lost the positions ). The left sprite is a normal.png. The 2 others sprites are from texture packer. They are stretched and cropped. Packer.png. Thanks!

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Is Gaming Actually Bad for Students?

Game Wisdom

Is Gaming Actually Bad for Students? Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. Computer games have been around since the late seventies. They have gained immediate success, especially among the younger generation. At the same time, older generations have started raising their concerns about the negative impacts of gaming and their children’s unhealthy … The post Is Gaming Actually Bad for Students?

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How to use Cocos2dxOrientationHelper()?

Cocos

Well, you can edit this file, add some static method and call it from TS/JS via jsb or native according your CC version. But probably you will need a correct name of Activity to call method via jsb or native.

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What is Error Code 285 Roblox and How To Fix it Easily

Game Errors

You can experience error code 285 Roblox that prevents you from enjoying the game and it seems that only PC users have raised complaints regarding this issue for now. In this article, we’ll focus on this problem and talk about its causes as well as potential fixes. What is error code 285 Roblox? Client initiated disconnect (Error Code: 285) – this error might be brought by numerous factors, such as: Game servers are down or for maintenance.

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The Raptor Factor – Rana Rahman on B2B comms for games industry and media brands

Game Development News

Hatched during lockdown, Raptor PR has quickly found its happy hunting ground in B2B comms for games industry and media brands. Richie Shoemaker speaks to founder Rana Rahman about what the agency might get its teeth into next.

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Beacon of Neyda

Indie DB

IOTY success is celebrated for this rusty post-apocalyptic indie

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0 investment Paytm Cash Earning Games 2023

Artoon

Don’t believe in anything coming for free? What about real cash-earning games? […]. The post 0 investment Paytm Cash Earning Games 2023 appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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A Comprehensive Guide About Unreal Engine 5.1 Update

Juego Studio

The post A Comprehensive Guide About Unreal Engine 5.1 Update appeared first on Juego Studio.

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Get pixel color of an image

Cocos

Perhaps something has changed since then, but then I used this code, which is in the post above. This is not a cross-platform solution and only works in the browser.

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GAME OVER: June 2022

Game Development News

Summer Game Fest took over E3’s old spot once again in June.

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Prefab lost all references on the scene when I update it

Cocos

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Get pixel color of an image

Cocos

i have same problem. if got solution help me.

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