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Diving into the nuance of "self-imposed crunch"

Game Developer

According to our State of the Game Industry 2023 report surveying game developers, nearly three-quarters of devs working more than 40-hour weeks said they felt self-pressure to do so.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

We’re getting dangerously close to the first Release Candidate for Godot 4.0, and focus on finalizing many of the remaining high priority issues. The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Add support for Unicode identifiers in GDScript and Expression ( GH-71676 ).

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Deep Dive: Behind the evocative medieval manuscript art of Pentiment

Game Developer

"It’s been so exciting to play in the space between printmaking and games and where they can visually overlap.

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How To Fix Skyrim Special Edition Errors, Not Starting, Crashes, Performance FPS Issues

Game Errors

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition was launched on Steam on 28th October, that’s two days ago, and by now a lot of players keep complaining, on forums and boards , about issues of the game. The new game is an enhanced and remastered version of the venerable Bethesda RPG. The following Skyrim Special Edition errors are making the game unplayable and a lot of players are currently complaining about them.

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Twitch promises easier revenue opportunities and ad placement in 2023

Game Developer

Twitch wants 2023 to be a year where streamers can grow their revenue and build upon the strength of their communities.

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The games industry isn’t in crisis. It’s a reality check | Opinion

GamesIndustry.biz

Another set of financials, another bunch of arrows pointing downwards and another batch of bleak-sounding headlines. What a difference a year makes. Last January saw three multi-billion-dollar acquisition announcements. First, Take-Two and Zynga. Second, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. And then sneaking in at the end, Sony and Bungie. Back then video games seemed like an unstoppable force.

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XCOM 2 Not Launching: How to Fix It [Easiest Steps]

Game Errors

XCOM 2 is a turn-based alien domination gameplay that keeps having launching issues for a while on different scenarios. Many players on the Steam Discussions Board are currently reporting XCOM 2 not starting. A lot of them are complaining about the fact that the game is poorly optimized and that it has freezes or launching problems on multiple platforms like Epic Games, Xbox One, and Steam Deck.

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4A Games is handing the Metro Exodus SDK over to players

Game Developer

The Ukrainian studio also detailed how the Russian invasion continues to impact the lives of its employees.

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Xbox Q2 revenues down 13%, but declines offset by Game Pass growth

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Despite increases in its overall revenue, Microsoft has posted declines from its Xbox division for the latest quarter of its financial year. While the company does not share specific revenue figures for each of its segments, it did report that gaming revenues were down 13% for the three months ended December 31, 2022, as were Xbox hardware revenues, with Xbox content and services revenues down 12%.

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Squanch Games CEO Justin Roiland exits studio after felony charges

Game Developer

The Squanch Games team will continue developing games following Roiland's departure.

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Justin Roiland resigns as CEO of Squanch Games

GamesIndustry.biz

Justin Roiland has resigned from his position as CEO of Squanch Games. In a tweet announcing the news, the High on Life studio said his resignation was received on January 16. Squanch Games added that it will continue to support High on Life, which released on December 13, 2022, and "keep developing games we know our fans will love.

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Xbox hardware and content revenue is in decline

Game Developer

Hardware revenue declined by 13 percent year-on-year.

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League of Legends source code exposed in Riot cyberattack

GamesIndustry.biz

Riot Games has received a ransom email after hackers stole source code for League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. The attack also targeted its legacy anticheat platform, the company said in a tweet explaining the incident. "Needless to say, we won't pay," Riot said of the ransom email. "While this attack disrupted our build environment and could cause issues in the future, most importantly we remain confident that no player data or player personal information was compromised.

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Finance Domain Apps Performance Testing With QASource

Rocket Brush Studio

Finance domain applications are generally considered as applications that provide financial services like banking, insurance, stock marketing, etc. Now, it becomes very convenient to access financial services like bank transactions, paying online bills, and buying stocks and policies. Based on the type of application, it may need different methods of implementation, design, and different types of testing considering the market of the application, functionality, and target audience.

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TIGA unveils Industrial Secondment Program

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Trade body TIGA has announced a proposal for an Industrial Secondment Program (ISP). The yearly initiative aims to enable 20 video game lecturers to work in game development part-time or full-time.

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AccuRIG — Auto Rigging Tool from Reallusion

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com AccuRIG — Auto Rigging Tool from Reallusion It would appear that Mixamo has a new competitor in the auto-rigging game, accuRIG from Reallusion (makers of Character Creator and iClone). It is a free download, available for Windows only, that is completely free, although an account is required to download. You can then import your own 3D model … AccuRIG — Auto Rigging Tool from Reallusion Read More The post AccuRIG — Auto Rigging Tool from Reallusion app

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EGMNOW has shut down

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Video games publication EGM NOW has been shut down. The announcement was made on Twitter by the site's associate editor Michael Goroff.

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How to manage Kinematic object and how to manage collisions

Cocos

oh that one, yes. I have my elements. But what i don’t know how to work is on the callbacks. How can i intercept and calculate the collision from a static and a kinematic body?

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An introduction to choosing colors in game VFX

GamesIndustry.biz

Video game effects are often remarkable for their intense explosions of color and bright, magical appearances. Trying to find that perfect combination of colors for your own effects can be difficult. We've taken the game FX design pipeline and broken down color into four major tips that you can use to help give your effects extra pop and cohesion. It might feel a little counterintuitive, but one of the best ways to make sure your colors will pop in the long run is actually to start with what mig

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It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

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In such situations, it’s important to figure out why professional players are able to realize so much more potential with a particular class/character/build/etc. while more casual players cannot. Generally, that means the additional performance must come from two things at the pro level - a high bar for execution (e.g. difficult timing or physical dexterity), and/or extraordinarily complex strategy that likely changes in real time (e.g. having a huge number of moves available at a given time and

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Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct Showcase reveals Tango Gameworks' Hi-Fi Rush

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox During the Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct Showcase, new exclusives and launch dates were unveiled. Among the announcements was Tango Gameworks' newest action title Hi-Fi Rush. The title is available via Game Pass on the Xbox Series X|S consoles and PC.

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How to Fix WoW Lag Spikes For Good [Quickest Steps]

Game Errors

Lag Spikes is one of the most frustrating issues game enthusiasts encounter while playing World of Warcraft(WoW), a popular online multiplayer game. When these random lag spikes occur, the game becomes uninteresting and unplayable. The game was launched in 2004 and is one of the oldest online multiplayer games. But despite being around for many years, players are still having to deal with WoW lagging for no reason.

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Game Changers | Tatiana Loktionova

GamesIndustry.biz

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Later that day, Tatiana Loktionova was in a bank in Cyprus sorting out some of the finances for her company, the games-centric recruitment agency Values Value, when she overheard another customer asking how they could donate €100 to help Ukrainians in need. Knowing Loktionova was from Ukraine, they asked if she could recommend some links to authorised fundraisers, which she did.

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XCOM 2 Keeps Crashing: How to Fix [PC, XBOX, PS4, PS5]

Game Errors

XCOM 2 is a highly popular and critically acclaimed turn-based strategy game that has been enjoyed by players on a variety of platforms including PC, Xbox One, PS4, and PS5. However, many players have reported that XCOM 2 keeps crashing, particularly when using mods. This can be a frustrating and disruptive experience, making it difficult to enjoy the game to its fullest.

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How to reduce drawcall, which actually not rendered?

Cocos

perfecto: there is another picture, 50 items in list with same sprites which in autoatlas but still more 100 drawcalls, where is Batching? Remove Label and see the magic. Label will cut auto-batching.

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Solar Sails

Indie DB

Take to the stars with a new ship in this space adventure indie

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Can't set active true false inside animation clip. Cocos Creator 3.7.0

Cocos

@pandamicro @iwae can you help here into this thread? How can I use Active inside the animation clip? Is it not possible anymore?

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Bob: A Thousand Lives

Indie DB

This dark platformer indie releases a new update

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Can I integrate Admob in Cocos Creator?

Cocos

Hello Everyone, I am new to cocos creator and I am trying to test admob in my small game. During my research, I found out SDKBox is used to use admob service. I am currently using Cocos Creator 2.4.8. I don’t know how to install SDKBox. I don’t see anything about admob or SDKBox in Cocos Manual. I searched them in Cocos Creator 3.5.0. I am not even sure it is still working or not.

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How to click object model3 events

Cocos

how to click object model3 events

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