January, 2023

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Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs  

iXie gaming

Newbies and developers have always found it difficult in building tools for game development without using programming. However, there are now several online game production tools that enable game developers to rapidly and easily build games. Also, different game development services are available on the web should you feel the need to outsource your work.

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Shocking: game devs still not that into blockchain

Game Developer

I'm shocked, shocked! Well not that shocked.

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Why Your Business Needs To Hire Expert Solitaire Game Development Company

Artoon

Ever seen MPL’s Solitaire game and appreciated the graphics and features? MPL’s […] The post Why Your Business Needs To Hire Expert Solitaire Game Development Company appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Blizzard staffer alleges that Proletariat studio culture isn't progressive

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A Blizzard employee alleges that the culture at Proletariat studio has not progressed since they joined in 2019. In a series of posts on Twitter , senior graphics engineer Benny Wilson explained that staffers were openly disrespected.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot 4.0 is coming out soon. It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings? Godot 4.0 improvements. Rendering. Godot 4.0 has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends.

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The deadline for MCV Women in Games 2023 has been extended

Game Development News

We’re extending the deadline for nominations for MCV Women in Games 2023.

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7 tutorials to help uplevel your Unity skills in 2023

Unity Blog

Have a Unity-centered New Year’s resolution? We’ve curated seven resources to help you conquer new skills or improve upon existing ones in 2023.

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Unity Line Renderer: Ultimate Guide

Game Development for Beginners

The Unity Line Renderer is a powerful tool that allows you to create and render lines in Unity. You can use it to create a wide range of visual effects, from simple lines to complex shapes and patterns. The Line Renderer component takes in an array of points for customizing the shape of the lines.

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The Last of Us Part 1 sales jumped 238% after TV show launch | UK Boxed Charts

GamesIndustry.biz

We have our first new No.1 in the UK Boxed Charts, and it is Nintendo with its turn-based strategy RPG Fire Emblem Engage. The title's launch sales are 31% lower than what its predecessor managed (2019's Fire Emblem Three Houses). The new game has a more anime-style look to the graphics, which may have limited its Western appeal slightly. Yet even so, it is still the second biggest launch for the series in the UK, ahead of cult 3DS hit Fire Emblem Awakening.

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C++ Packages for a custom Game Engine

That One Game Dev

A list of awesome packages that you most certainly will need when developing your own game engine. Make sure you check them out. The post C++ Packages for a custom Game Engine appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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CD Projekt Red settles Cyberpunk 2077 lawsuit for £1.55 million

Game Development News

The studio behind Cyberpunk 2077 has settled a class action lawsuit that was originally filed back in January 2021.

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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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Pathfinder publisher Paizo to introduce new system-neutral open RPG license

Game Developer

The company says the new license will be "open, perpetual, and irrevocable.

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The Mobile Games Industry In the Year 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Welcome to our annual, highly anticipated, prediction series. Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. And we spiced things up by voting on the likelihood of each prediction. The likelihood charts you’ll find at the end of each prediction are generated from responses from the Deconstructor of Fun community.

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Vox Media is laying off 130 staffers

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Vox Media is laying off 130 employees, 7% of its workforce today, a decision attributed to economic challenges. As reported by CNN , the news comes from a memo CEO Jim Bankoff sent out to staff.

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Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Nvidia

To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter.

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Playcraft Now Available

Indie DB

The Unreal Engine powered game creation platform Playcraft is now available.

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Everything you need to know about Memory Profiler 1.0.0

Unity Blog

Discover what’s inside the new Memory Profiler 1.0.0, which delivers improvements to the profiling suite, offers a more complete view of memory usage, and makes it easier to optimize performance or detect memory issues.

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Riot Games to lay off nearly 50 staff as part of "strategic shifts"

Game Developer

Layoffs are becoming a larger phenomenon in the industry, and Riot is no exception.

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Godot XR update - January 2023

Mircosoft Game Dev

Updates on various things XR in Godot as per January 2023. New Godot XR Tools, new documentation for Godot 4, new supported renderers and devices.

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Microsoft laying off 10,000

GamesIndustry.biz

Microsoft is conducting layoffs for the third time since July, as reported by CNBC. This round of cuts is the largest of the three, with 10,000 employees being let go, which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella characterized as less than 5% of the company's total headcount in a memo to employees about the layoffs. "I'm confident that Microsoft will emerge from this stronger and more competitive," Nadella said.

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Michael Blaker’s Movie Monday Featuring Rock of Ages

Game Industry News

Hey all, I’m back with a rock musical film for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s Rock of Ages. Plot: The plot follows a couple of newcomers to the rock music scene of Los Angeles in 1987. Honestly, the movie isn’t that great, but it did have the seventh highest opening ever for a film musical before its eventual disappointing sales at the box office.

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Godsworn

Indie DB

Economic mechanics for this fantasy RTS are revealed

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2022’s best tips from Unity developers on Twitter

Unity Blog

A selection of top tips from all five developer takeovers on Twitter in 2022, featuring everything from visual effects (VFX) to general Editor advice.

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New FTC proposal aims to ban non-compete clauses for all US workers

Game Developer

The FTC's new rule could greatly change the power that game developers have when transferring between studios.

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Brawl Stars Ditched the Loot Boxes - Was it a Good Move and Should Other Games Follow?

Deconstructor of Fun

On December 12th, just a few weeks ago, Supercell’s Brawl Stars shocked both their audience and the F2P devsphere by removing lootboxes. This wasn’t a small undertaking. Brawl Boxes had been there since the release of the game, and were an integral part of its progression and monetization systems. On top of that, lootboxes are considered one of the pillars of the F2P model both by its supporters and detractors.

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Legal trends for the games industry to watch in 2023 | Opinion

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox One year ago, we made some predictions on legal trends for 2022. Now it is time to look back and see where we have been right and where we have been wrong – and make some new predictions for 2023.

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Michael Blaker’s Bookish Wednesday: “Towers of Acalia Volume 1” by Atlas Kane

Game Industry News

Hey all, I’m back with a new series that is sort of a LitRPG. It’s “Towers of Acalia Volume 1” by Atlas Kane! Plot: The plot is pretty basic, but it mixes the LitRPG and Cultivation genres fairly well, but the elements from both genres are very much watered down. It sounds much worse than the actual result is, but this might very well not be your cup of tea.

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Dread Templar

Indie DB

A full release for this demon-slaying retro shooter indie is now here

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Best practices for mobile UI design – part 1

Unity Blog

In this two-part interview, we discuss best practices for mobile UI design with Outfit7’s Aleksander Gregorka and Maja Nadvešnik, Samsung’s Søren Klit Lambaek, and Unity’s own Benoit Dupuis and Stefania Valoroso.

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QA staff at ZeniMax Studios unanimously votes to unionize

Game Developer

That's one way to ring in the new year.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

After a short end-of-year break, and then a lot of heavy merging work prior to 4.0 beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! Our contributors could fix many of the new regressions quickly, and we merged another big batch of important fixes and improvements. As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing.

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Riot Games lays off 46 staff as part of "strategic shifts"

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Valorant and League of Legends firm Riot Games joins the growing list of companies to have made redundancies in the past few weeks. The layoffs were first revealed by esports reporter Jacob Wolf via Twitter , before Riot confirmed the news in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz sister site Rock Paper Shotgun.

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Michael Blaker’s Anime Sunday: “Eminence in Shadow” Episode 01 Impressions

Game Industry News

Hey all, I’m back with a look at a series from this past Fall for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s my “Eminence in Shadow” Episode 01 impressions. Plot: This first episode is an introduction to the main character who is a boy named Minoru Kageno (though his first name does change to Cid when he ends up reborn in an alternate world).

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Abacus AI

Indie DB

Take on the role of an accidentally-sentient robot in this FPS puzzler

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Unity and Google expand partnership to help creators accelerate the development and growth of their games

Unity Blog

Unity announces that it is renewing and expanding its partnership with Google to support studios in the development and growth of live games.

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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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