January, 2023

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Nearly 20 ex-devs reportedly omitted from The Callisto Protocol credits

Game Developer

Almost two dozen developers at Striking Distance Studios say they weren't included in the credits of the studio's debut game, The Callisto Protocol.

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EU will reportedly object to Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal

GamesIndustry.biz

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard will face an antitrust challenge in the European Union, Reuters reported today. The news outlet's sources said the European Commission is preparing a statement of objections around the deal that it will send to Microsoft in a matter of weeks. It has previously set an April 11 deadline to make a decision on whether the acquisition can go through.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

We’re now just days away from the Release Candidate, working at full capacity on finalizing as many of the remaining high priority issues as we can. 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: Make AnimatedSprite’s playback API consistent with AnimationPlayer ( GH-71907 ).

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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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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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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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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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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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

With the end-of-the-year celebrations past us, we are ready to get back to work and continue our regular Godot 4.0 beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once.

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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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Getting Started with Unity Cinemachine

Game Development for Beginners

Unity Cinemachine was launched along with Unity 2017.1 and was immediately praised by developers. Unity Cinemachine made the Unity Camera smart and lot of camera tricks that required coding could be done with ease. But beginner Unity users still create these effects with code because they are not familiar with Cinemachine. In this tutorial, we.

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When Your Cute Little Game Business Suddenly Explodes

The Bottom Feeder

The most important thing to know about Dungeons and Dragons is that all the coolest art for it was made before 1980. The big, fun news in the gaming world recently was that it looked like Wizards of the Coast (WotC for short, owned by Hasbro) was going to drastically change the Open Gaming License for Dungeons & Dragons. WAIT! COME BACK! Yeah, I know.

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Tactical card battler Duelyst goes open source three years after shutdown

Game Developer

Developer Counterplay has implored the Duelyst community to "modify, extend, and remix to your heart's content.

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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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

With the first Godot 4.0 Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such 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 a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Fixes to CanvasItem draw methods to better handled lines of different widths and filled rectangles ( GH-41239 , GH-71623 , GH-71679 ).

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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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Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Insufficient Free Disk Space FIX

Game Errors

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a complex first-person shooter video game that is popular among gamers. As with any well-known game, many players encountered issues when launching it or during gameplay. If you’re on this article, you probably encountered Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Random “insufficient free disk space ” error when you are playing the campaign.

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Tutorial: First Person Camera and Controls

Cocos

First Person Demo.zip (3.3 MB) I’ve now updated the script to set the position of the player instead of using physics to move the player. Making the player control more conventionally. Use this for your player script: import { _decorator, Component, Node, game, input, Input, KeyCode, EventKeyboard, Vec3, CapsuleCollider, ICollisionEvent, RigidBody } from 'cc'; import { globalVars } from '.

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Wizards of the Coast responds to Dungeons & Dragons' OGL controversy

Game Developer

A week later, Wizards of the Coast speaks on the changes it originally planned to make for Dungeons & Dragons ' Open Game License.

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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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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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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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GTA 5 Not Launching / Not Opening File Download: How to Fix

Game Errors

Grand Theft Auto V has been released on PC and many players are encountering not opening issues that are preventing them from being able to play the game. Also, there are issues with GTA 5 mods on Xbox One. Some players are encountering GTA 5 not launching on PC and the game simply won’t start, they click Play in Steam and other launchers like Epic Games or Rockstar launcher.

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