Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 26, 2022
The Godot XR contributors are delighted to release our latest version of the Godot OpenXR plugin! This release contains several updates to provide Godot XR developers access to the latest and greatest XR APIs and features. Download. The plugin can be retrieved from the asset library. Requires Godot 3.4 or higher. Highlights. Updated XR Documentation.
Sirlin
JANUARY 26, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. Each character has three cards and you start with those in your deck. Each character has different strengths, so they push you in different directions when building the rest of your deck. To give you a taste of these characters, here’s just one card from each of them.
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Game Industry News
JANUARY 25, 2022
Hey all I’m back with a look at a topic I should really cover for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s all about Story vs Lore! Story? Lore? What’s the Difference?: Recently I saw something that really crystallized my feelings on why I had such issues with Destiny and it’s various updates prior to Forsaken. When I say Story I’m talking about the “story” told in-game experienced by the average person who just loads up the game and plays through the campaign and maybe the raid if they got lucky.
Filmustage
JANUARY 24, 2022
Every year the filmmaking industry experiences a very important and exciting season - the season of festivals and awards. For all film lovers & nerds this is a great opportunity to re-discuss the hottest novelties of the past years, as well as to finally find out which film, director, cinematographer, composer, etc. was the best. So every year we look forward to this period and wait with bated breath for the announcement of all the winners among the many nominations.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 24, 2022
This analysis is written by Laura Taranto , Niek Tuerlings , Ahmetcan Demirel , and Michail Katkoff. Opinions shared are personal and do not reflect those of their employers. Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. What we believe separates our market analysis from other great ones you have read is that the predictions are written by professionals working in gamin
Muha Games
JANUARY 18, 2022
Diplomacy Diplomacy is an integral part of the Master of Magic gameplay. It refers to the interaction between the Wizards. This interaction ranges from the initial meeting, to trade agreements, peace treaties, throwing out threats or joining an alliance, as even though there can be only one, sometimes it is… Continue reading.
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Radiator Blog
JANUARY 16, 2022
Darner's Digest is a series of blog posts about Yarn Spinner, a free open source Unity dialogue tree plugin. On December 21st, 2021, the Yarn Spinner project finally made its public YS v2.0 for Unity release. YS 2.0 has gone through six (6!) preview versions / betas over the last few years, with several debates and redesigns that have finally culminated in this version.
Game Industry News
JANUARY 21, 2022
Hey all this week for Retro Game Friday I’m back with the spiritual successor to the Pokemon Stadium games. It’s Pokemon Colosseum! Plot: Honestly the plot is not the greatest, but this is a Pokemon game, you don’t play it for the story. Gameplay: Unlike most Pokemon games there is no Random Encounters and you only gain party members by stealing them from your opponents.
Filmustage
JANUARY 17, 2022
What do people care about? This is a very general question, we understand. But after a little thought, you might hear the following: global warming, politics, economics, social justice, faith, etc. But no matter how you think about it, people will always be concerned with the question of truth. Truth has always been the basis of argument and debate.
Game Design Aspect
JANUARY 16, 2022
What a thrill to do this interview with Bisila Bokoko on Negocios TV , a business channel. Bisila Bokoko herself is a truly awe-inspiring woman and she has helped female entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. We chatted about different topics regarding the video game industry including how to help women break into the game industry and the importance of female game players.
Sirlin
JANUARY 15, 2022
The second community bank deck in Puzzle Strike 2 is Birthday Bash (the first is Grand Melee). Presents The main mechanic of this deck is opening birthday presents. It gets pretty crazy, but let’s start with the basics. Here are some cards that give “presents”: As you can see from the help text at the bottom of the cards, getting a present means you draw a card and play it for free.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 13, 2022
Godot 3.4 was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 have since been merged and are now ready for wider testing. So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds.
Digital Ephemera
JANUARY 12, 2022
[This is a continuation of content found in the book, Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language , featured in Chapter 11 and Chapter 12]. When working with ink, it can be tempting to make an entire project one long file. This can often lead to thousands of lines of ink code and complications with debugging. Trying to find the exact place where a problem is happening can be incredibly frustrating.
Game Industry News
JANUARY 17, 2022
Hey all I’m back with another entry in a Jackie Chan series for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s Rush Hour 3! Plot: The plot is mediocre, but frankly it’s a lot weaker than the previous two entries in this series. Actually the script is horrible. Casting: With Tucker and Chan being our main stars I expected better out of this when I first watched it. Looking back Rush Hour 3 was just not great, and even Jackie Chan couldn’t salvage it.
Designer Notes
JANUARY 10, 2022
In this episode, Soren interviews veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer, best known for his work on Icewind Dale , Fallout: New Vegas , and Pillars of Eternity. They discuss the purpose of grinding, the difference between viable and optimal characters, and why RPG players don’t welcome rebalancing their games. This episode was recorded March 24, 2018. Games discussed: Baldur’s Gate series, Icewind Dale series, Neverwinter Nights , Fallout series, Civilization series, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows , Neverw
Game Design Aspect
JANUARY 9, 2022
Hello! It's January 2022. Though I haven't been updating the blog, that doesn't mean I wasn't presenting or doing interviews. After SXSW and CIMFest , I participated in two MCM London Comic Con panels, "The Art of the Onomatopoeia" and "Creating Diverse Characters for Comics and More." I presented at SIEGE and Serious Play Conferences and was interviewed by Women in Games and Negocios TV.
Sirlin
JANUARY 8, 2022
I wrote an article about the design of Puzzle Strike 2, which you can find here. I’ll post several more articles about the game’s design, which will all appear on this handy index page that’s just for Puzzle Strike 2. Puzzle Strike 2’s Kickstarter page is here. Join in!
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 12, 2022
Welcome to a new Godot showcase developer interview to start off the new year! This time, we asked Justin Arnold about his experience developing and releasing his project RPG in a Box. This "engine within an engine" demonstrates that Godot is not only capable for game development, but also for creating applications with complex user interfaces.
Nvidia
JANUARY 4, 2022
The majority of esports professionals today tend to play on high-refresh-rate 240 or 360 Hz monitors, the bulk of which are available with 24 to 25 inch. The majority of esports professionals today tend to play on high-refresh-rate 240 or 360 Hz monitors, the bulk of which are available with 24 to 25 inch diagonal sizes and 1080p resolution. In the past, we’ve seen that higher refresh rates help aiming performance, particularly because of the lower system latency that comes with them.
Game Industry News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Hey all I’m back with the sequel to one of my more enjoyed novel’s this past year for this week’s Translation Necessary Thursday. It’s Fushi no Kami Volume 02 by Amakawa Mizuumi! Plot: The plot picks up shortly after the last entry with Ash and Maika headed to the local city where they attend the local academy and continue Ash’s plans to regain the comforts of his past life.
Grumpy Gamer
JANUARY 1, 2022
Well, it's 2022 and everything is turning out exactly as I predicted back when I was 7. Self-driving cars, space stations, the internet. Nailed it. Favorite TV show of 2021 was Only Murders in the Building. Favorite game of 2021 was Loop Heroes. Favorite book of 2021 was Einstein's Fridge. Favorite rediscovered joy of 2021 was reading physical books.
Harold Serrano
JANUARY 8, 2022
In this Youtube short, I share with you resources to help you integrate Multi-Player Gaming Support into your game or game engine. Thanks for watching.
Rampant Games
JANUARY 26, 2022
Yes, things have been quiet here. Due to hosting issues, and the fact that the writing thing has been taking off, and the day-job shifted into overdrive a while back that was nearly as bad as the games industry. We won’t speak of what’s been going on with 2020 and 2021. With all that, my own indie game development efforts have ground down to tinkering levels – mostly with Virtual Reality.
Smart Fox Server
JANUARY 12, 2022
We just released a small update for SFS2X 2.18 that addresses a bug and a couple minor issues we’ve found. You can read the release notes and proceed with the download from here. Please note : the patch requires SFS2X 2.18.0 to be already installed.
Catnip Games
JANUARY 10, 2022
Tiny Player version 1.5.2 is out now on iOS. This update contains two fixes: Always show IPv4 address for uploads (instead of mangled IPv6). Fix dark mode background color in player controls area. If you encounter any problems, please let me know.
Game Industry News
JANUARY 9, 2022
Hey all I’m back for this week’s Anime Sunday with a look at the upcoming season. It’s my Most Anticipated Winter 2022 Anime! Pupil of the Wise Man: So I was expecting this to air last season, as you might have noticed in my post a few months back, but it turns out I missed the announcement of it being set to air this season instead. This is a delightfully fun Isekai/LitRPG series that has a gender-bent main character because he wanted to make the “Cutest” avatar ever with a RMT item he had on a
Filmustage
JANUARY 10, 2022
It is no mystery that the goal of any film is to make the viewer believe in the fictional world on the screen. Of course, this is not true of documentary films, but believe us, there are genres of documentaries that blur the line between fiction and reality. But we'll talk about that some other time. The fact is that we don't even think about the path that each film takes during production.
Harold Serrano
JANUARY 20, 2022
Hey guys, In this live stream, I tried my best to answer all of your questions on game engine development. Thanks for watching.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 31, 2022
This prediction is written by Michail Katkoff and Buğrahan Göker. Access all previous predictions here. This report wouldn’t be possible without the help from our friends at Sensor Tower. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only.
The Bottom Feeder
JANUARY 18, 2022
You did this. YOU. I have a pair of interesting role-playing exercises for you. A pair of moral puzzles for your enjoyment. If you release any words or art in a public space, even if it’s just one picture or drawing or Twitter joke, the issues below should be of some importance to you. Situation Number One About 15 years ago, I wrote a humor piece called, "Helpful, Non-Threatening Quiz: Am I a Serial Killer?
Sirlin
JANUARY 13, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s base set includes 10 characters and two different community banks decks. Each bank deck changes the feel of the game. Those decks are Grand Melee and Birthday Bash: In this article, I’ll explain the thinking behind the Grand Melee deck. Think of Birthday Bash as a steak with a distinctive steak sauce, while Grand Melee doesn’t need the sauce; it allows the natural flavor of the meat to come through.
Game Industry News
JANUARY 5, 2022
Hey all I’m back with the latest entry in Jack and companies adventure for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s Island Jumper Book 04 by M.H. Ryan! Plot: This entry is pretty intense, and really gets our heroes into the thick of things with the mysteries continuing to pile up. Honestly it’s easily my favorite entry in the series thus far. Characters: We get introduced to a few new characters, but Lyra is probably my favorite of the newcomers.
Sky Betting and Gaming Technology
JANUARY 28, 2022
To put it lightly, performance is everything in a modern business. If you’re not doing it quick and efficient enough - someone else will. But lets not hang too much on that, this post is about changes we made and how we need to shout about those. Here at Sky Betting & Gaming, we create some spectacular websites and apps (but you already knew that).
Harold Serrano
JANUARY 4, 2022
In this Youtube shorts, I give my advice to new game engine developers on what to focus on first. Thanks for watching.
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